Materials
1. Choose a Christmas related word or phrase such as: Christmas, Poinsettia, Candy cane, Bethlehem.
2. Timer

Game Play
Participants are to create as many little words as possible before the timer runs out using only the letters in the chosen word or phrase before the timer runs out.

Example: Christmas
Words: sit, is, his, miss, rat, tar, this, math, chair, rim, ETC

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Materials
List of items

Game Play
Divide everyone into two or more groups and give them a time limit with which to find the items on the list. The first group that returns with the all the items or the most items on the list within the limited time wins.

Christmas items related to the Biblical account:
Star, Gold, Gifts, Herod, Shepherds, Manger, Frankincense, Flocks, Tax, Savior, Bethlehem, Myrrh, Peace, Angel, King, Jesus, Wisemen, Joseph, Mary, Joy, Inn, Gabriel, Immanuel, Swaddling Clothes, Christ, Nativity peices, Advent

Christmas items NOT related to Biblical account:
Christmas Card, Wrapping paper, scotch tape, paper snowflake, fake snow, scissors, bow, Gift for the needy, a bathrobe, Christmas napkins, Christmas cups, Candy Cane, St. Nick (Santa), Snowman, Candle, Plum Pudding, Poinsettia, December 25th, Reindeer, North Pole, Stocking, Holly, Mistletoe, Wreath, Rudolph, Dancer, Prancer, Dasher, Vixen, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Toy, Gingerbread Man, Sugar Plums, Nutcracker, Ornament, Elf, Bells, Sleigh, Christmas Tree

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Materials
Based on the classic beach game of “limbo”. Try using a string of twinkle lights, or a strand of sparkly garland as a replacement for your limbo stick.

Game Play
Start the garland at a height that everyone can limbo under. Then progressively lower it until you have a single winner.

Variation
You can make the game a little more challenging by adding a Santa Stomach to each student as they take their turn. For this, you need to provide a couple of oversized shirts, and some fluffy pillows to stuff them.

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The answers follow the letters of the alphabet from A to Z with the answer to #1 starting with an A and #26 starting with a Z.

1. The first witnesses to the miracle of Christmas
2. Heard in churches on Christmas day
3. Used in both decoration and illumination
4. What little girls may like to find under the tree
5. What we all do too often at Christmas
6. Where the stockings should be hung
7. What everyone should have for everyone else
8. Traditional Christmas decoration
9. We like real ones outside and artificial ones on the tree
10.Santa is supposed to be this
11.What a German child calls Santa Claus
12. Christmas parcels, when mailed. should always be
13. Girls like to stand under it
14. They get cracked during the Christmas baking
15. We gather around it to sing carols
16. St. Nick carries it
17. When kids are waiting for Santa they are
18. There are supposed to be eight of them
19. The old guy himself 20. The main course at dinner
21. At Christmas, it’s a lucky child who has a rich
22. Beside turkey, we like a variety of
23. We hang it on the front door
24. Abbreviation for Christmas
25. In England, they always brought one home for Christmas
26. The way some folks walk after an overdose of Christmas spirits

ANSWERS:
1. angels 2. bells 3. candles 4. doll 5. eat 6. fireplace 7. gift 8. holly 9. icicle
10. jolly 11. Kris Kringle 12. labeled 13. mistletoe 14. nuts 15. organ 16. pack
17. quiet 18. reindeer 19. Santa 20. turkey 21. uncle 22. vegetables
23. wreath 24. Xmas 25. yule log 26. zigzag

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Materials
1. Sheet of Paper for each participant
2. Pencil for each participant

Game Play
Give everyone a piece of paper and a pencil. Explain to them that they will close their eyes and you will tell them what to draw. DON’T tell them they’re drawing a snowman!

Instructions
1. Draw 3 circles on top of each other. Each circle gets smaller from bottom to top.
2. In the middle circle draw three buttons going vertically down the center.
3. In the top circle draw two eyes, a carrot nose, and a mouth.
4. Draw a hat on top of the smallest circle.
5. Draw stick arms on both sides of the middle circle.
6. Draw a broom in one stick hand.

Scoring
5 points for each circle that touches the other.
5 points for the hat touching the head
3 points each for the eyes being in the top circle
5 points for the nose in the right circle
4 points for the mouth in the right circle
5 points each for each arm correctly placed
10 points for the broom stick touch the hand.
Etc.

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Materials
Recording of the Song: “All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth”

Game Objective
Don’t Laugh!

Play this game while listening to the song:”All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth”

Game Play
1. Everyone sits in a circle.
2. From this point forward, you may not show your teeth.
3. To speak, you must pull your lips inward around your teeth to hide them.
4. A question is started, related to the Christmas holiday. For example, “Would you like some socks for Christmas?”
5. The person asked then replies “I don’t know I’ll have to ask my neighbor.” He then asks the neighbor the same question without showing his teeth.
6. This keeps going around the circle.
7. When someone’s teeth show due to laughter, he or she is out. Once it goes all the way around the circle, the next person gets to change the question. Smiling is permitted provided the teeth don’t show.
8. The choice of questions can be a source of laughter so question choice is important.
9. When asking or answering, contorting the facial muscles may be used to try to make the person next to you laugh.
10. If a question is vulgar or suggestive, the person is removed from the game.

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Materials
Bowl of Cotton balls, something sticky like honey or vaseline.

Game Play
On one side of the room put a couple big bowls of cotton balls. Then have the participants line up coat thier own chins with vaseline or honey. The bolder they are the more they will cover. The objective of the game is to run to the other side of the room stick your face in the bowl of cotton so that it sticks and forms a Santa beard and then run back so the next person can go. The winning team is the one who has the most cotton balls in a specified period of time, or the first to empty the bowl.

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Materials
A box of Christmas tree tinsel

Activity
Divide the group into pairs and give each pair a piece of tinsel. One person in each pair holds the piece above the other’s head. On the signal to begin, the person with the tinsel drops the piece of tinsel, and must pick it up if it hits the floor. It is the job of the other partner in each pair to blow air at the tinsel, always keeping it above the floor while moving it across the room. No hands allowed. After the pair crosses the room, they switch places and blow the piece of tinsel back to the starting point. First team to have all members complete the relay wins.

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