# 15 on my Christmas games list (posted on 12/14/09) is the ABC Christmas Game. This is as fun ( or funny) as you want to make it and is great for all ages (as long as they know their abc's). My 13 year old daughter and Big D love option #2...it must be their dramatic/creative side coming out.
#1 option:
Each person must write out a Christmas-ey word for each letter of the alphabet.
This can be a race, or you can judge for creativity and humor.
#2 option:
Improv Christmas game where each person takes turns making up a sentence that is creating a story but the the first word of their sentence must start with the following letter of the alphabet. It has to go super fast, so you might need to impose a referee to disqualify people who pause too long. The referee will also disqualify anyone who uses the wrong next letter.
Example:
All reindeer are certifiably insane.
Blitzen especially has issues.
Coal poisening can be blamed for his problem though.
Don’t try and make excuses for him.
Even Santa likes to party with him.
Far be it from me to criticize “the big guy” but he is getting a little senile.
Grandma got runover by Blitzen with Santa behind the wheel.
Hasn't she recovered?
I am sure she still has nightmares though.
Just during her mid-morning nap...
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Another favorite Christmas party game...
Mad Gabs always works at a party, so I compiled this Christmas-ey Mad Gabs list for my husband's annual staff/volunteer party. I must admit I wasn't for sure it would go over but it ended up being a big hit. Most are fairly easy...the fun is in forcing people on center stage to say crazy sounding phrases and, of course, the team competition. If you get stuck answering any of these, just let me know and I will bail you out with the answer key...except the last two which are still a mystery to me. By the way, my kids had alot of fun with these too!
1. Foresty Thus No Man
2. Oak Wrist Mystery
3. Sigh Land In Height
4. Rude Olive Their Head Knows Rained Ear
5. A Wayne Aim May Injure
6. Sill Verb Else
7. Folly Snuff Eat Add
8. Oak A Mocah Me Manual
9. Owe Calm Mall Leaf Hateful
10. Caw Dressed Deem Air Reach End Almond
11. Lid Dolled Rum Herb Poi
12. Joint Tooth How Hurled
13. Could Keen Gwen Senseless
14. Thug Wren Chews Toll Crisp Miss
15. Egg Wrist Mask Air Ill
16. To Us Thin I’d Beef Fork Wrist Miss
17. Thin Hut Car Rock Her Hand Them How Skiing
18. Thug If Tough Them Madge Eye
19. Elf Daze Huff Quiz Miss
20. Thermos One Her Fool Stay Huff Da Hear
21. Hole Lid Oh Tom Of Bed Lee Am
22. Awe He Chaw Lee Quiz Miss
23. Ache Hand He Gain
24. Cream Misses Ear
25. extra challenge: How Soft Thaw Hood In Cent Ahs
26. extra challenge: Age Eyelids Car Hissed Miss Sin Wells
1. Foresty Thus No Man
2. Oak Wrist Mystery
3. Sigh Land In Height
4. Rude Olive Their Head Knows Rained Ear
5. A Wayne Aim May Injure
6. Sill Verb Else
7. Folly Snuff Eat Add
8. Oak A Mocah Me Manual
9. Owe Calm Mall Leaf Hateful
10. Caw Dressed Deem Air Reach End Almond
11. Lid Dolled Rum Herb Poi
12. Joint Tooth How Hurled
13. Could Keen Gwen Senseless
14. Thug Wren Chews Toll Crisp Miss
15. Egg Wrist Mask Air Ill
16. To Us Thin I’d Beef Fork Wrist Miss
17. Thin Hut Car Rock Her Hand Them How Skiing
18. Thug If Tough Them Madge Eye
19. Elf Daze Huff Quiz Miss
20. Thermos One Her Fool Stay Huff Da Hear
21. Hole Lid Oh Tom Of Bed Lee Am
22. Awe He Chaw Lee Quiz Miss
23. Ache Hand He Gain
24. Cream Misses Ear
25. extra challenge: How Soft Thaw Hood In Cent Ahs
26. extra challenge: Age Eyelids Car Hissed Miss Sin Wells
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
#5 is my favorite Christmas party game...
Sure, I could make it number one on my list (previous post) but that is too obvious...
We did this in a couples setting two years ago, some good friends and others we were still getting to know better...and it is now legend!
The mystery auction game ended up being so much fun! By not telling anyone exactly what the game was and making it mysterious, I had the whole anticipation thing and the surprise factor of it. And the fact that they didn't have to shop but donated a couple bucks at the door was a positive too.
I bought and re-gifted a variety of small and cheap gifts (can of wd40, pens, etc) with some bigger, more expensive, funny gifts (huge pink bra with a roll of toilet paper, Christmas boxers). There were more presents then people. I wrapped all of them in plain brown paper. Each person had been given monopoly money ($11) at the door in an envelope with their name on it. Throughout the night, people could win different amounts for different things to add to their original amount. For instance, the first people to arrive and the last people to arrive received $5. The tallest elf and the shortest elf received $1 each, and so on.
After mingling and eating for awhile we circled up and we explained that the mystery game actually was an auction for the gifts which would take place after we gave the chance for a few more people to earn some more money. We then voted on the most merry outfit and least Christmasy outfit, the worst Christmas gift story, the most romantic gift, etc. And to top it off we played a guys vs. girls Catch Phrase with the winning team each getting $5. We pulled out the pile of gifts and put them in the middle of the floor and Big D served as our auctioneer (he and I didn't participate in the bidding since we knew what we had).
He played it up and described the gifts but wouldn't let them touch them. When a gift was finally bought, that person had to open it and show it off. At any time in the game, anyone could make an offer on that opened gift. Sometimes the offers were lower and other times higher so the original winner of the gift had potential to "make" money on it. And you could offer on as many gifts as you had money for, so potentially people could leave without a gift or with several.
Just one word of warning...be prepared for pranks. Our neighborhood now see's us in a whole different way.
We found our bush in the above state of dress after church on Sunday. It had been snowing so hard when I left that I had not even noticed it.
We did this in a couples setting two years ago, some good friends and others we were still getting to know better...and it is now legend!
The mystery auction game ended up being so much fun! By not telling anyone exactly what the game was and making it mysterious, I had the whole anticipation thing and the surprise factor of it. And the fact that they didn't have to shop but donated a couple bucks at the door was a positive too.
I bought and re-gifted a variety of small and cheap gifts (can of wd40, pens, etc) with some bigger, more expensive, funny gifts (huge pink bra with a roll of toilet paper, Christmas boxers). There were more presents then people. I wrapped all of them in plain brown paper. Each person had been given monopoly money ($11) at the door in an envelope with their name on it. Throughout the night, people could win different amounts for different things to add to their original amount. For instance, the first people to arrive and the last people to arrive received $5. The tallest elf and the shortest elf received $1 each, and so on.
After mingling and eating for awhile we circled up and we explained that the mystery game actually was an auction for the gifts which would take place after we gave the chance for a few more people to earn some more money. We then voted on the most merry outfit and least Christmasy outfit, the worst Christmas gift story, the most romantic gift, etc. And to top it off we played a guys vs. girls Catch Phrase with the winning team each getting $5. We pulled out the pile of gifts and put them in the middle of the floor and Big D served as our auctioneer (he and I didn't participate in the bidding since we knew what we had).
He played it up and described the gifts but wouldn't let them touch them. When a gift was finally bought, that person had to open it and show it off. At any time in the game, anyone could make an offer on that opened gift. Sometimes the offers were lower and other times higher so the original winner of the gift had potential to "make" money on it. And you could offer on as many gifts as you had money for, so potentially people could leave without a gift or with several.
Just one word of warning...be prepared for pranks. Our neighborhood now see's us in a whole different way.
We found our bush in the above state of dress after church on Sunday. It had been snowing so hard when I left that I had not even noticed it.
Monday, December 14, 2009
The Best Christmas Party Game List
I adore Christmas parties, and so I have gathered what I believe to be the top 17 game ideas. These are great for family gatherings as well as for friend's, couples, office, and kid parties. They are all very merry and good clean fun! All of these can involve prizes, can be played individually or in teams, and are easily tweaked to fit your own party's personality.
As there are 17 on my top list, I obviously can't post the directions for all of them on this blog. If you would like detailed instructions, feel free to let me know and I will email you the details. In addition, one or two come from bloggers who have requested their directions not be re-posted on other blogs and so I will honor that. But over the next days leading to Christmas I will post on my own personal favorites from the list and include the directions.
So drum roll please...The best Christmas/Party Game Ideas out there are:
1. Right Left Christmas Game Nativity Story...involves prizes/gifts
2. Crazy Christmas scavenger hunt
3. Christmas Gift Exchange/Guessing Identity Game Idea
4. Christmas Memory Game
(Get 10 to 20 small Christmas items and place on a tray...)
5. Mystery Auction ... not just Christmas, involves prizes
6. Christmas Feud Survey/ Results
7. "Are you ready for Christmas?"
8. Christmas Gift/Name Bingo
9. White elephant/Dirty Santa
10. Food tasting games
11. Design Santa’s New Hat
(Couples are given a base supply of materials to work with to design Santa a new look.)
12. Identify Items
(Teams identify from a list of “ingredients” or descriptions of various Christmas items.)
13. Christmas Trivia Game
14. Name That Song/Christmas Carol Game
(titles of carols re-worded)
15. ABC games, 2 options
(improv-style or individual icebreaker)
16. People Scavenger Hunt
(The Goal is to Find out who has done everything on the list First... or just use it as a Christmas Party icebreaker! Prizes are an option. List available to copy.)
17. Christmas-ey Mad Gabs
(Like the popular game...)
18. Elf themed party
(yep-based off the movie)
As there are 17 on my top list, I obviously can't post the directions for all of them on this blog. If you would like detailed instructions, feel free to let me know and I will email you the details. In addition, one or two come from bloggers who have requested their directions not be re-posted on other blogs and so I will honor that. But over the next days leading to Christmas I will post on my own personal favorites from the list and include the directions.
So drum roll please...The best Christmas/Party Game Ideas out there are:
1. Right Left Christmas Game Nativity Story...involves prizes/gifts
2. Crazy Christmas scavenger hunt
3. Christmas Gift Exchange/Guessing Identity Game Idea
4. Christmas Memory Game
(Get 10 to 20 small Christmas items and place on a tray...)
5. Mystery Auction ... not just Christmas, involves prizes
6. Christmas Feud Survey/ Results
7. "Are you ready for Christmas?"
8. Christmas Gift/Name Bingo
9. White elephant/Dirty Santa
10. Food tasting games
11. Design Santa’s New Hat
(Couples are given a base supply of materials to work with to design Santa a new look.)
12. Identify Items
(Teams identify from a list of “ingredients” or descriptions of various Christmas items.)
13. Christmas Trivia Game
14. Name That Song/Christmas Carol Game
(titles of carols re-worded)
15. ABC games, 2 options
(improv-style or individual icebreaker)
16. People Scavenger Hunt
(The Goal is to Find out who has done everything on the list First... or just use it as a Christmas Party icebreaker! Prizes are an option. List available to copy.)
17. Christmas-ey Mad Gabs
(Like the popular game...)
18. Elf themed party
(yep-based off the movie)
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