Materials
Old Newspapers

Activity
Divide the room in half and mark it with tape or chalk. Give each team a stack of old newspapers. with an equal number of sheets. In a specified amount of time (3 minutes) the teams make as many snowballs as they can by wadding up a whole sheet of paper and throwing it at those on the opposite side of the room. At the end of the time limit, the team who has the least number of snowballs on thier side wins.

Variation
For younger children use cotton balls or white styrofoam peanuts instead of newspaper. Snowballs can be made of a variety of different materials. Cut each leg from a pair of white nylons into three or four pieces, fill each with fiber fill stuffing, and knot the open ends. You can also use rolled-up socks, toilet paper, etc.

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Materials
Small numbered jars with the lids removed and filled with items to identify by smell. (Wrap them in red and green cloth to allow the smell to escape yet keep away prying eyes.)

Use things like: candy canes, ginger, candles, cinnamon, evergreen, egg nog, cookies, etc.

Activity
Fill small jars with items to identify only by smell. The object is to see who can identify what’s in the jar. The participant that correctly identifies the most scents wins.

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Materials
Chocolate bar (wrapped in multiple layers of Christmas paper with lots of tape), dice, a knife and fork, and various items for youth to wear including heavy winter gloves, a santa hat, a broad black belt, a red santa coat and a pillow.

Activity
Place the well wrapped chocolate bar in the center of the table. Each person sitting around the table takes a turn at rolling the dice. The 1st person who rolls a six gets to start eating the candy bar — but only after he puts on a pair of heavy winter gloves, the santa cap, the santa coat stuffed with the pillow and held in place with the black belt, and finally runs once around the table singing “Jingle Bells” can Santa start on the chocolate; Then with only with a knife and fork he must remove the wrapper and cut and eat the chocolate one square at a time. Add or remove whatever steps you want to make the game easier or more difficult.

While Santa is getting ready (according to the instructions above) to eat the candy bar, the group keeps taking turns rolling the dice. If someone rolls a six, then the person who rolled the six before him relinquishes his right to the candy bar, and the 2nd person becomes the new Santa and must try to eat the candy before someone else rolls six. The game is over when the candy bar is finished.

Application
While this game is very difficult, it is not impossible. Yet for us to go to heaven based on our works IS impossible. That is why Jesus was sent to us as the greatest gift, as the Savior of the world.

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Materials
A list of Christmas Carols and large sheet of paper paper, flip chart, or a whiteboard for each team.

Activity
Each team selects a person to draw. The person leading the game shows all those who are drawing the first Christmas Carol on his list. Each returns to his/her group and tries to get the group to guess the name of the carol by DRAWING ONLY. No Speaking, No sound effects, especially no humming, and no gestures are allowed. As soon as the group knows the song, they must sing it as loud as they can. After singing, they send a new person for another song. They get a point for each song guessed correctly by a team.

Here are some of the common Christmas Songs and Carols:
Adeste Fideles, All I want For Christmas, Angels We Have Heard On High, Away in a Manger, Calypso Carol, Carol of the Bells, Chestnuts Roasting Over an Open Fire, Deck the Halls, Do You Hear What I Hear?, Feliz Navidad, The First Noel, Frosty The Snowman, Go Tell it on The Mountain, God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, Hallelujah Chorus, Handel’s Messiah, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Here We Come A-Wassailing, Holly Jolly Christmas, I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, I’ll be Home for Christmas, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bell Rock, Joy to the World, Let It Snow, Little Drummer Boy, Little Town of Bethlehem, Mary’s Boy Child, Nutcracker Suite, Mr. Grinch, O Christmas Tree, O Come, All Ye Faithful, O come O come Emmanuel, O Holy Night, Once in Royal David’s City, Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Silent Night, Silver and Gold, Silver Bells, The Twelve Days of Christmas, We Three Kings, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, What Child Is This?, White Christmas, While Shepherds Watched, Winter Wonderland

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Materials
A variety of simple Christmas images. (e.g. Christmas Tree, a manger, a baby, etc) You can also use simple greeting cards for the design.

Activity
Form teams of six people. Instruct each team to sit in a line, one person behind another, and take a vow of silence for the duration of the game. Give the first person in each line a pencil and a piece of paper. Then show the last person in each line a simple image of a Christmas object. That person must use his or her finger to draw the object on the back of the person in front of him or her. This continues until the drawing reaches the first person in line. He or she must draw it on the piece of paper. Have judges determine which team’s picture closest resembles the original picture. If time permits, play more rounds, letting team members change positions if they wish.

Application
Things get distorted the farther we get from the source, especially when we have our backs turned on God.

Debrief
1. What Christmas traditions have become distorted over time?
2. How can we get back to the true meaning of Christmas? What is the true meaning?

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