Materials
Stocking with Christmas objects inside

Game Preparation
Take a new pair of very warm, thick socks or a thick Christmas Stocking. Place objects you use or see around Christmas time, into the socks/stockings. More than one sock/stocking allows the game to go faster, but make sure you put identical things in each stocking. Use things like holly, scotch tape, ornaments, pine cone, etc. (See the Christmas Bingo game if you need other ideas for objects) Make sure you put about 20 to 25 different objects inside. Tie a ribbon or rope around the opening to make sure nobody peeks.

Game Play
Give everyone a piece of paper and pass the socks/stockings around and tell participants how many objects there are inside. Have them write down all they can feel. The person who correctly guesses the most objects is the winner. You might choose to award the stocking to the winner.

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Materials
Red Santa Hat or green elf hat for each participant

Game Play
This games takes place during the duration of the entire event.
1. Everyone must wear a hat.
2. At the start of the Christmas Party announce the simple objective: The objective is to NOT to be the last person left with a hat on.
3. There is only one rule: no one can take their hat off until you have.

Continue with the party activities. As time goes by, people will take their attention off you, and even forget about the game. Without drawing attention to yourself, remove your hat and watch as people catch on. Gradually the hats will come off, with snickering and smirks. Some unsuspecting person will be the last to notice, and much to every ones’ laughter, will be caught as the last person with his/her hat on.

Give them an appropriate forfeit, then put the hats back on and give the loser the chance to start the next round by taking his/her hat off first at a time of his choosing.

Variation
1. Put the group in a circle facing front to back.
2. One person is left without a hat.
3. The person without a hat is allowed to take the hat of the person immediately in front of him/ her in the circle.
4. In the style of musical chairs the game goes until the music stops.
5. Whenever a person loses his hat he takes one off the person in front of him.
6. The person without a hat when the music stops gets a forfeit or is eliminated from the game.

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Materials
Digital camera for each team

Game Preparation
Set a time for groups to be back then send them off to the local mall or shopping center to get the Christmas Photos.

Activity
This is a photo scavenger hunt where participants must take a snapshot of the entire group that satisfies each description in the list. Add point values based upon the difficulty of the photos. Collect the photos at the end for a wonderful slideshow or customised Christmas Cards.

RULES
1. One picture per item on the list.
2. 500 points off for each minute after 10:00pm you are late.
3. Everyone in your team has to be seen in each picture.
4. Words written on paper or drawings will not be counted if used instead of a place or object.
5. Be respectful in everything you do.
6. Sponsors have the authority to veto any picture situation for whatever reason.
7. Stay with your sponsor at all times and obey him/ her.
8. No collaborating with other teams.
9. Your sponsor is your official photographer.
10. Winners will be announced after the film is developed and be given special prizes.
11. For each non-group member in a picture, a bonus of 50 points is added.

ITEMS
(Assign points to these based on the difficulty to accomplish each)

Scavenger Hunt Items
* Picture of your team with everyone licking a candy cane.
* Picture of your team reading the Christmas story in their Bibles.
* Picture of your team in a snowy looking landscape- White Christmas
* Picture of your team with a guy on the team in a red or green dress
* Picture of your team all wearing hats and one wearing a Santa Hat
* Picture of your team with Christmas lights
* Picture of your team all wearing red and green ties
* Picture of your team with a snowman
* Picture of your team with a pet wearing a Christmas Bow
* Picture of your team with someone gift wrapped… bow and all
* Picture of your team with Santa in the background
* Picture of your team with someone sitting on Santa’s knee
* Picture of the team with red noses like Rudolph the rednosed reindeer and standing next to a reindeer
* Picture of your team around a Christmas tree with lights
* Picture of your team with a Christmas angel
* Picture of the team with everyone wearing shaving cream Santa beards
* Picture of your team with elves
* Picture of your team posing as a nativity scene
* Picture of your team with a Manger scene – The Real meaning of Christmas
* Picture of your team singing Christmas carols to a church member
* Picture or your team presenting a Christmas gift to a total stranger
* Picture of your team donating to a worthy charity.
* Picture of your team with the parent’s of someone on your team.
* Picture of your team with a church staff member
* Picture of your team with one member dressed up like Santa!
* Picture of a team member on Santa’s lap with everyone else crowded around
* Picture of your team with all the younger brothers/ sisters of someone on your team.
* Picture of your team with a church in the background
* Picture of your team all hugging each other
* Picture of your of one of your team members kissing a Christmas mannequin in a clothes store while the rest of the team looks on. Get permission first!
* Picture of your team spelling out the Word JESUS using your bodies.

See Conducting Scavenger Hunts for help, Hints, Safety Considerations, Rules, and other useful information to make your scavenger hunt a wild success!

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Materials
A gift from each participant. Each person brings a wrapped unmarked gift. You may choose a cost limit or have them bring a white elephant gift.

How gifts are exchanged

A. Everyone sits in a circle and the gifts are placed in a pile in the middle. Write numbers from 1-??, depending on the number of gifts, on small pieces of paper. Do not number the gifts. Fold the papers and place them in a hat or some other container. Each person randomly picks a paper (number) from the hat.

B. Start with the person holding number “1”. He/she picks a gift and opens it. Then the person holding number “2” can either pick a gift from the pile or take the gift away from number one. If a person has his gift taken away, he may immediately choose an unopened gift from the pile and open it.

C. “3” can either take a gift from numbers 1 or 2 or pick one from the pile to open.

D. There is no limit on the number of gifts one person can open if others continue to take the gift they have opened.

E. Each gift can only change hands three times through out the game. The person with the gift on the third exchange keeps it.

F. Each person ends up with only one gift. A person may end up with the same gift they brought.

Variation
Play the game without opening the gifts till the end when everyone has a gift in hand and all the exchanging is over.

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Materials
Large gold stars, preferably self-sticking; Hide the stars in various locations around the room.

Game Play
Tell the participants that there are stars hidden around the room. The person who comes closest to the correct number of stars (or correctly identifies the locations of the most stars) wins a prize.

Variation
Hide one star for each participant. Participants must find a star and place it on themself before thay can be seated.

Use this Christmas Game as an introduction to the wisemen who looked for the star in order to find Jesus.

Scripture
Matthew 2:1-11; Micah 5:2; Psalm 72:10,11,15

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Materials
A semi-circle of chairs with one chair for each participant

Game play
The group sits in a semi-circle. “Christmas” sits on one end of the semi-circle. At the other end of the semi-circle sits the “scrooge.” All the seats in between belong to different Christmas symbols, such as star, manger, shepherd. etc. You can assign the names or allow youth to choose their own. (Use the items from the Christmas Bingo game for ideas for various Christmas symbols)

Once everyone has identified the Christmas symbol for their seat, the game begins. The person sitting in the “Christmas” chair begins the game by calling out “Christmas” and then another Christmas symbol in the group (e.g “Manger”). The person sitting in the “Manger” seat then calls out “Manger” and another Christmas symbol in the group, (e.g. “Elf”) and so it continues.

There are a couple of types of mistakes that will penalize participants:
1. You don’t notice your symbol has been called and delay too long
2. You call the same symbol that just immediately called you
3. You call out a Christmas symbol that was not used in the group

The Penalty
If someone makes a mistake, they have to swap places with the person next to them, moving down towards the “Scrooge”. They then take on the Christmas symbol of the seat they now occupy, and the person who moves up a place takes over their Christmas symbol. The aim is to move all the way up to take the place of “Christmas.” “Christmas” then starts the next round until someone else makes a mistake.

Variation
Instead of calling out the names of the Christmas symbols, have participants create an action. The wilder the various actions, the more fun!

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Materials
Heavy duty Christmas stocking that is big enough to put two persons feet into. One stocking for each team.

Activity
This is a normal three legged race, except a Christmas stocking is used to bind the two legs together. The two race to a destination and back. The next two persons on the team then put on the stocking and race. The first team that completes the relay wins.

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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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