Then create a December calendar, adding one kind act for each day of the month. Provide students with a copy and remind them to stick to it! Have them journal or do a think-pair-share about the experience. Ask them to answer the following questions: What kind act did you do? Who did you do it for? How did it make you feel? Why is it important to remember to be kind to one another? What is Christmas like around the world?
Have your students do some research to find out. This interactive map is a good place to start. Kids simply click on one of the countries on the map to get a pop-up explainer of how Christmas is observed there. Have students write a paragraph comparing and contrasting Christmas traditions in two countries. Create emoji math puzzles for your students to solve.
Have students create their own emoji math problems for classmates to solve. Print this form, then hand out a copy to all your participants. Have each person fill out the form, then pass it back. Now shuffle the forms and pass them out to random people. If the person gets their own form, it's okay. Have each person now read aloud the form in their hand. The winner is decided by the most laughs or a designated judge. Everyone stands in a circle as one person begins a made up holiday story with one sentence.
Each person after them must recite what the previous player s said and add their own sentence. The story keeps building until only one person can recall all of the details and wins the game. Have participants pair off. The duos will then attempt to wrap a gift using their free hands.
Have an example gift for everyone to attempt to duplicate — the harder it is to create, the funnier. Give a time limit of 1—3 minutes and then have a judge pick the most accurate gift.
Print out this list of lyrics and song titles. Then have each team or person guess the song title. Whomever guesses the most correct answers wins. An alternative to printing the lyrics is playing the carol out loud to have people guess by ear. You can transform this classic into a Christmas game by asking players to think of three Christmas gifts. Two of the Christmas gifts must be gifts that the participant has actually received and one of the gifts is a lie.
One participant announces their three gifts in a random order and the other players then try to guess which Christmas gift is a lie. Some guests might want to know ahead of time so they can plan accordingly for their schedule. If you run through your Christmas party game ideas throughout the night, you can always break out a fun and challenging jigsaw puzzle as well to keep everyone entertained.
Adult Christmas parties call for a more complex game with a bit of competitive fun. Party games can be perfect when you have a wide variety of guests as well as guests at a Christmas birthday party. Some of the guests may not know each other so your game should serve as a means for individuals to easily interact with one another. When planning your Adult Christmas party game, follow these tips to entertain your guests:. The goal of your adult Christmas party game is to make sure your guests are enjoying themselves.
Make sure you choose light-hearted games that will be engaging and allow your guests to learn funny tidbits about one another. Choose Christmas game ideas that everyone will understand easily and that are suitable for medium to large groups.
Your Christmas party activities can include memory games, trivia, physical activities, and more. These large group Christmas games are more inclusive and are great for office and church Christmas parties. Some games can support more players than others, so keep that in mind while browsing for the perfect holiday game. Split into teams, setup a relay course with or without obstacles. With an ornament on their spoon, the first person will go through the course and return to pass it on.
You can only use your spoons when passing the ornament. If someone ever drops the ornament, that person needs to do the course again. Once the ornament is successfully passed off, it's the next person's turn until everyone has completed the course.
This game works a variety of group size, 5 to 50 people. Write down a famous Christmas character on a post it note, then stick them on each other's forehead. Once everyone has a post-it note on their forehead they try to guess what character they are by asking other people yes or no questions. The goal is to not be the last person to correctly guess who they are. This is a hilarious and fun game that calls for 2 to 3 representatives to serve as figurative Christmas trees.
Have everyone whether coworkers, family members, or friends guess how many ornaments are hung up on the Christmas tree. Give each person a piece of paper so they can write down their guess. Once everyone has submitted their guesses, the closest guess wins! Distribute papers with the alphabet written vertically on each paper. Teams must then compete to fill in the entire alphabet list with a holiday word for each letter.
The first team to complete their list wins. This game requires at least two teams with an equal number of participants. Originally from Yahoo. Directions: Have children sit in a circle. One child is chosen to be the snowman. With eyes covered, that child can sit or stand in the center of the circle.
Give a small carrot or a paper carrot to one child. Have the child hide the carrot behind their back.
All other children also have their hands behind their backs. Originally from Kidactivities. Directions: Set up your obstacle course and show the kids where they will go.
The first person in line must have a scarf tied around both their legs so they waddle like a penguin. That child then takes a spoon of snow spoon with a cotton ball through an obstacle course around the room and cannot not drop the snow or they have to start over. They must make it to the other side and add their snow to a bucket or boot. Once they are done, the next person gets their legs tied together and goes. This game can have teams or just everyone takes a turn.
Directions: Tie a piece of yarn or string across a foot playing area you could use 2 chairs to tie the sting to , about 1 foot above the floor. Divide the players into 2 teams of 4 and have them set up crab style face up, leaning on their hands and feet in their stocking feet on each side of the string. Use a coin toss to determine which team will serve first, then have 1 player on that team launch the balloon into the air for a teammate to kick over the string to their opponents.
The teams kick the balloon back and forth, taking all the hits they need to send the balloon to the other side. If one team lets the balloon touch the floor, the other team earns 1 point and restarts the game by serving the balloon from their side. The first team to reach 15 points wins. Originally from Spoonful. Directions: This game is similar to Hangman. Draw two identical snowmen on the board, each with parts, like two or three circles for the body, arms, buttons, eyes, nose, mouth, etc.
Divide the class into two teams. A player from each team spells a winter word, defines it, reads it, or answers a question about it; whatever you are working on is fine.
Play until one snowman has disappeared, or melted. If you start at the top, it would look more like melting, but that is not necessary. Directions: Kids are divided up into 2 teams of 4 — 6 players works best. Set them up at the starting line and hand the first player of each team a Snowball styrofoam ball and a spoon.
Christmas activities to do with your class. Then, cut a red, circular nose out of cardboard, and attach rolled up tape on the back. To play, divide your class into teams and explain that one member from each team will be blindfolded. Tip : Alternatively, have the whole class involved by creating noses for each student. To start, pre-teach Christmas symbols frequently seen on greeting cards plum pudding, stars, Christmas trees, the Nativity, snowflakes, bells as well as vocabulary for writing Christmas cards seasonal greetings, sign offs, and typical phrases that go within.
Students choose who their card is for, then write and decorate it with Christmas symbols that they may choose to draw, cut out of cardboard, or clip from magazines. A play on Simon Says, this activity targets verbs and action words: jump, run on the spot, touch your nose, hop, do a twirl, crouch down, etc.
Up the Christmas spirit by having Santa ask the class to repeat holiday activities with him decorate the tree, make Christmas cookies, go to church, eat pudding, unwrap presents, eat too much…. Create a grid with a number of Christmas-related statements. Tell your class that they must mingle as a group to ask each other questions to identify who matches each statement. For example:. Preteach any vocabulary that might cause problems and make sure students know how to form questions from the given statements i.
Afterwards, students can provide feedback on what they learned. Use an online word unscrambler tool to create a list of possible words, and set a time limit for students to work within.
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