Materials
A red ball (Rudolph’s nose) that is easily thrown, but made out of a soft material similar to a nerf ball or other material that would not hurt a person who was hit by it.
Game Preparation
1. Divide the group into equal teams made up of five or more youth
2. Choose one team to go first by being “Santa and his Reindeer”.
3. Reindeer form a line by holding the waists or the shoulders of the person in front of them. They may not let go. This will leave only the front person with his hands free. This person is designated Rudolph.
4. Only Rudolph is able to block the red ball (Rudolph’s nose).
The person at the other end of the reindeer team is Santa.
5. All other teams join together to form a large circle around Santa. Leave room for Santa and his reindeer to move about inside the circle.
Game Play
1. The idea is for the people in the circle to try to hit Santa with Rudolph’s nose.
2. Once hit, that person leaves the sleigh team and sits out until either time is up or everyone has been eliminated from the sleigh.
3. When Santa is eliminated, the next person in line becomes Santa. Only Santa can be eliminated when hit.
4. The strategy for the reindeer is to hide or protect Santa by moving around and having the lead person try to block throws so Santa doesn’t get hit.
5. Set a time limit (2 minutes?) and count the number of Reindeer left in the sleigh team at the end of the time.
6. Let each team take a turn at being Santa and his Reindeer. The winner is the team who had the most reindeer attached to the sleigh.
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Materials
Large bag of candy appropriate for the holiday and a roll of paper towels. For Christmas, use Christmas related candy like small candy canes of different colors.
Game Preparation
1. Form two teams and assign each team one or two colors of candy. For a Christmas, one team will be assigned green, and other team is assigned red. You can have as many teams as you have colors of candy.
2. On the floor at one end of the room, unroll a several foot long strip of paper towels. Spread the candy randomly over the entire length of paper towels and then have the teams line up at the other end of the room.
Game Play
1. The objective is to be the first team to remove all the candy of their assigned color.
2. One at a time, team members rush to the paper towels, and bend down and use their teeth to pick up one piece of candy (team colors only and no hands allowed).
3. Once they have a peice of candy in thier teeth, they stand back up, run back to their team.
4. They must then show the candy in their mouth to the next person in line, who shouts out the color. If the color’s wrong, the person must eat the candy and then go back and get another peice of candy of the correct color.
5. When the color is correct, the person eats his/her candy and the next person goes to the paper towels and repeats the process.
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Game Play
Each person in the group writes answers to four Christmas questions. Three of the answers are to be true and one is to be a hoax. Questions should center around Christmas.
For example, the following are suggested questions for Christmas:
1. What is the most unusual Christmas gift you ever received?
2. What is the most meaningful thing that happened to you during a Christmas Holiday?
3. What is your favorite Christmas food?
4. What is your favorite Christmas tradition or symbol?
ETC
Each individual reads his or her answers to the group. The others guess which one is a hoax. After all have guessed, the person tells which answer was the hoax.
Variation
Toss all the answers in a bowl and have people read the responses, guess the person and guess the answer which is a hoax.
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Materials
A real Christmas tree with an equal number of real ornaments and a star for each group.
(It is best to use unbreakable ornaments)
Activity
One at a time, each team member runs to the tree, attaches an ornament, and returns to the team. First group getting all ornaments attached to the tree wins!
Variation
Use stars and blindfold the participants. The team with the star closest to the correct position on the tree is awarded.
You can also award the best looking tree.
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Activity
One team takes turns to ask a person in the other team a question e.g. What do you stir your coffee with? The person is only allowed to answer ‘Christmas Trees’ and they musn’t laugh or smile. A team gets a point for each question they can answer without laughing. If they laugh, each person in the opposing teams gets to ask a question and get a point for each laugh.
Variation
Sit in a circle. One person in the center asks the questions. Whoever laughs goes to the center of the circle.
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Materials
A Christmas gift that has been wrapped in multiple boxes and multiple layers of wrapping paper with instructions in between each layer.
Game Preparation
Wrap a small gift in a small box. Either use multiple boxes or multiple layers of wrapping paper or a combination. With each box or layer, you will write a message and tape it to the outside of that box or layer. The final box or layer will also have a message on it. (The message on the final big box should read something like this: “This gift goes to the person standing closest to the Christmas tree”. That person receives the gift, opens it and finds the next layer with a message that could say something like this: “So sorry! This present goes to the person who is sitting next to you on the left!” That person then gets the gift and opens it and finds the next box which has a similar message. This continues until you get to the last box which will have the final message designating who actually gets the gift.
Variation
Include challenges as part of the messages. An example: “This gift goes to the first person who runs to you and correctly identifies the three gifts the wisemen brought to Jesus.”
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Materials
Scissors, a set of balloons for each team (Different colors to distinguish teams), paper, marker and trash bag to hold balloons.
Game Preparation
Write a Christmas Bible Verse or a phrase from a Christmas Carol on a piece of paper paper, then cut it up into a puzzle (however many pieces will determine how many balloons you will need). Use the same number of pieces for each team. Place each puzzle piece into a separate balloon (you probably will have to roll the puzzle piece up), blow the balloon up, and then put the balloons in a trash bag for holding and preventing them from getting mixed up.
Game play
Pick teams and give each participant a balloon (with a puzzle piece in it) In this relay race, particpants run down to a chair and pop balloon and retrieve the puzzle piece. When the team has collected all the pieces, they must put them together and find the special message… First team finished is the winner.
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Game Play
Played like the traditional “Duck, Duck, Goose.” In this game, participants sit down in a circle facing each other. One person is “it” and walks around the circle. As they walk around, they tap people’s heads and say whether they are a “wiseman” or a “Jesus”. Once someone is named “Jesus” he/she must get up and try to chase “it” around the circle. The goal is to tap that person before they are able sit down in the spot emptied by Jesus (The Stable). If Jesus is not able to do this, he/she becomes “it” for the next round and play continues. If he/she does tap the “it” person, the person tagged has to sit in the center of the circle. Jesus then becomes it for the next round. The person in the middle can’t leave until another person is tagged and they are replaced.
Variation
Santa, Santa, Reindeer.
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Santa lost his candy canes in the snow and has asked his reindeer to sniff them out.
Game Play
Each team chooses a reindeer as a representative. Each reindeer is given a pie-tin or tray of whipped cream. In each, lie two hidden pieces of candy canes. The aim is to sniff for the candy canes without the use of hands. If you use a tray, two teams can compete on the same tray. First group to sniff out the candy canes and come up with it in their teeth is a winner.
Read about the significance of the Candy Cane to the Birth of Christ in the “Legend of the Candy Cane”
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Materials
Nativity scene with multiple individual pieces.
Game Play
This is a scavenger hunt type game. Hide the pieces from the nativity scene around the room. Some should be easy to find and some more difficult. Place one on the snack table, one could be in with the presents, one in the tree, and so on! Give each person a piece of paper and a pencil, the goal is to be the first person to locate all the items of the nativity scene and correctly write their locations on the paper.
Variation
Help Santa find his reindeer. 8 people (or 9) to find Santa’s Reindeer will win a prize.
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