Materials
A Christmas gift wrapped in multiple boxes and multiple layers of tough tape. It helps to have several layers of wrapping paper and boxes within boxes to make the game more challenging. Make it as difficult to unwrap as possible, with as many layers as possible; pair of dice in a basket; numerous items of clothing including heavy gloves, tie, coat, Santa hat, winter scarf, snow goggles, or anything else silly. (The more items you have, the more difficult it is to unwrap the gift. Heavy gloves also make it more difficult)

Activity
The objective is to be the person who FINISHES unwrapping the present. Place the gift in the center of a circle of people. A basket with dice is passed around. When a person rolls double sixes, they run up to the gift, don the clothing, and then begin unwrapping the gift as quickly as they can. (The more items they need to put on the less they’ll be able to unwrap) The dice continue to be passed and as soon as someone else rolls double sixes, they put on the clothing items and then take their turn at unwrapping the gift. Play continues until the present is completely unwrapped.

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Materials
Sheet of paper and a tray or hard cover book for eack participant.

Activity
Everyone places a tray or large book on top their head with a piece of blank paper on it. They each have a marker and a page of christmas stickers (optional). Participant are to draw on the page resting on the top of their head, without looking, according to the instructions given.

Instructions might be:
1. Draw a Christmas Tree.
2. Draw a star on top of your tree.
3. Draw a Fireplace.
4. Stick a stocking sticker on the mantel of your fireplace.
5. Add 5 round ornaments to your tree.
6. Draw three boxes under the tree as gifts.
7. Add a bow to each box.

At the end of instructions, everyone removes the pictures from their heads. It can be very funny to see what they have drawn.

Scoring options
2 points for every line that crosses
1 point if your stocking is touching your mantel
1 point if your star touches your tree
1 point for every christmas ornament that is ON your tree
1 point for each gift that is under the tree
1 point for each bow on a present
ETC

Award the person with the greatest number of points the prize!

Variation
Instead of a Christmas tree scene, use a manger scene:
1. Draw a stable
2. one big star in the sky above it
3. Draw 5 smaller stars
4. Draw a donkey in the stable
5. Draw a manger
6. Draw Baby Jesus in the manger
7. And Mary and Joseph
8. Draw a shepherd
ETC

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Materials
None

Game Play
1. Each team chooses a representative who is sent out of the room while the remaining participants choose some reasonable subject or object related to Christmas.
2. When the representatives return they have twenty opportunities to ask questions and guess the identifty of the subject or object chosen.
3. They can ask anything they wish, but the only answer must be “Yes” or “No.”
4. If me questions are asked intelligently, even the most remote object, if it is a fair selection, can be discovered within the limit of twenty questions.

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Materials
Gifts, ribbon, wrapping paper, tape, etc.

Activity
Divide the group into pairs. Each pair stands hand in hand with their adjoining hands tied together. They are not allowed to use the hands tied together. With their free hands (one with the right hand and other with the left one) they must wrap up the package, bind the ribbon around it and tie it in a bow. The pair which finishes first is the winner. You might also reward the elves with the “best wrapped” gift. To keep in the holiday spirit, why not get gifts for needy children and use this activity as a fun way to wrap them up.

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Materials
Christmas Cards or various sizes and shapes and an open box wrapped to look like a Christmas gift.

Activity
1. Get 10 Christmas cards of various sizes and shapes.
2. Place the open box, wrapped like a Christmas present about six to eight feet away from the participants. (Vary your distance and size of the box according to the difficulty you desire for the game.)
3. Have each participant stand at a specific place and toss the Christmas cards into the box.
4. The person who gets the most cards into the box wins the game. This is more difficult than it first seems.

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Materials
Items for the creation of snowmen: You can use marshmallows, and a variety of candy corn, jelly beans, toothpicks, and other items.

Activity
1. Divide the group into teams and give each team supplies to build a snowman.
2. Each team must create their best “snow man.”
3. Award the best snowman.

You can also have other categories such as
“Most Creative”
“Biggest Snow Man”
“Most likely to survive the winter”
“Most unlikely to survive this meeting.”

Variations
1. Use Playdoh
2. Build the snowman in someone’s mouth
3. Play the “Snowball Fight” Game and then transform one of your team members into the best snowman. Use the wadded up newspaper to fill a couple white sheets wrapped around a person to make the snowmen round!

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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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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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