Christmas Games?

Edinburghlass_2

Feel free to stop me when you have enough

loopy-loo73

stations ... everyone has a seat & is called a station name. 1 person in the middle calls out the name of 2 stations. the stations have to swap seats & the person in the middle has to get into one of the seats. can also shout 'All Change' when everyone has to swap.
helps if you have a lunatic father & uncle playing

farmyards ... red lentils or rice or pasta or something similar is hidden round the house. split into teams & team leader given a pot. each team called a animal, cows, pigs, ducks etc ... each team has to find the most food but only the leader with the pot can collect it so you have to moo or snort or quack until they collect it ... but of course then everyine else hears you and a mad race ensues ... again helps to have slightly bonkers people in your family

Tesscha

COR BLIMEY Edinburghlass you must have fun in your house at Christmas? Please keep em coming...some of the games bring me back to my childhood.

kaja86

Edinburghlass wrote:

Right out a list of say Christmas Song (although any theme will do) two bits of paper per person, one with the song title on and the other bit to draw the song title on.

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Thanks for this idea. We tried it out at tea-time tonight (but we did TV titles) and it worked well. Definitely going to do this at our New Year do!!!

troll35

Consequences....Each person has a sheet of paper. The game follows a basic story, each person writing an answer folding over their sheet and passing it on for the next person to write the next bit in..eg -

name of a woman............ met
name of a man................
where?..........................
why?............................
she was wearing.............
he was wearing...............
she said........................
he said.........................
she did.........................
he did..........................
the outcome?................

The story can be as long and have as many questions as you want and you will end up with lots of little stories that will have you wondering whether you need to buy some tenalady:rotfl:
eg. Great aunty ethel .........met Brad Pitt .........next to the frozen spinach in tesco's. .....They were going to a barn dance...... She was wearing a see through catsuit........ He was wearing a clown's suit. ....She said ' I wish I was wearing my thermals'. ......He said 'I'm impotent'. She jumped for joy......He pirouetted down the road.......The outcome was a score of flattened hedgehogs.
The stories are usually very bizarre as each small section is written by a different person.

tinselfairy

Games we have played at our Christmas get togethers

Stand on a chair and drop marshmallows or cotton wool buds into a small bowl placed just in front of the chair.

Place 20 items on a tray. Let everyone look for 1 or 2 mins then take away and see how many can be remembered by listing them.

Ask everyone to bring their thick winter gloves. Give them sweets to unwrap, more difficult than it sounds!

Sit on a dining chair, take off socks and then using toes only transfer as many dried peas or marbles from one bowl to another as you can in 2 minutes.

Divide everyone into 2 teams. Pop lots of popcorn. Set in a large unbreakable bowl on the table. Set two more empty unbreakable bowls at the other end of the room. Team members must dash to the popcorn in relays with a serving spoon, ony pick up one scoop and then dash back to fill up their empty bowl. First team to fill up bowl wins. There will be lots of cheating and lots of popcorn everywhere I guarntee it!

Even number of people needed for this one. Write down a selection of animals on pieces of paper. Each one must either be a mummy or baby. So mummy cow and baby cow, mummy dog and bay dog. Mix them up and let everyone chose a piece of folded up paper. Play music for a few seconds whilst everyone walks around a circle of chairs set ut in the room. When the music stops they have to make the sound of their animal, find their partner and then the mummy animal sits on the chair first and baby on her lap. Helps if you have mixed ages and sizes! Also entertaining if your divorced parents happen to be a matching pair like mine the other year!

Draw a reindeer face minus the nose and let everyone try to pin the red nose on the reindeer with red pieces of card.

In team of two roll a ping pong up one sleeve and down the other, need to know each other well for this one I would think.

Dress two similar sized people in loose clothing too big for them. We has my cousin and nephew who are 12 and 13 dressed in their dads jogging bottoms and sweatshirts. Divide rest of people into 2 teams. They then have 2 minutes to shove as many blown up balloons into the clothing as possible.

We made this the last game when everyone was exhausted. It's called Gigglebelly. Clear the floor. One person lays on the floor and the next lays with their head on that person's tummy, so ends up at a 90 degree angle to them, next person lays with their head on that person's tummy and so it goes on across the floor. This game has to begin in silence. The first person then says 'ha' then second 'ha ha' the third 'ha ha ha'. Everytime someone laughs or does the wrong number of 'ha's' you have to start again. We tried managed to get through it after a dozen or so attempts as everyone just gets the giggles.

And we always sing this. Numbers 1 to 12 go in a hat and then everyone out a number and they sing that particular part. Of course evryone joins in on the 5 onion rings.
http://www.christmasjokes.co.uk/carols/12daysfastfood.html

arnie&caseysma!

One Christmas we played I can go Through the Garden Gate. Basically you need one person to be the 'Gate Controller' and everyone sits in a circle with play passing to your left.

Person 1: "I can go through the garden gate because I am wearing (pick a colour or item of clothing/jewellery etc)".

Controller: "You can go through the Garden Gate" or "You cannot go through the garden gate"

Person 2: "I can go through etc etc etc etc".

Hopefully you will play it with a group that has never played it before and you should pick something that the person next to play is wearing to be allowed to go through the gate. If you are denied access then you are "out". It can get a bit difficult to get a winner as people cotton on to get through the gate and more often than not it is guess work to start with as you start looking at others to find something to say (hopefully the person next to play so you can stay in!).

Does that make sense? Obviously the last person "out" is the winner.....it gave us a good laugh tho.....

Got plenty more but they revolve around a lot of alcohol!

bobbadog

I went to a party last year, where they had two beer cans, different colours, with string attached and pencils to the end, and you have to wrap the string as quickly as possible around the pencil to get the beer can to you, first. No cheating like. Get everyone yelling about widgets and the what not!

Pooky

We always used to play a game which involved a plate full of flour - made into a mound, on top of the mound, place a coin or a ring and try and take it out with your mouth without getting covered in flour....always a good messy one.

Pictionary always goes down well - you can make up your own cards with words on and get people to draw them rather than having to buy the real thing.

We used to play hunt the matchbox/thimble too -- all the kids were sent out of the room and the matchbox was hidden within the room - kids came in quietly and had a look around - when they knew where it was they had to leave the room and write down where they'd seen it (I think this was to keep the game a bit quieter and calmer)

Playing board games, ludo, snakes and ladders etc in teams is always good too - very competitive.

We hired a couple of the interactive dvd games last year too - a music one and the telly addicts one - a big hit on new years eve after a few drinks.

asile21

Hi,
We always play a game named the present game.

To start you buy about 20-25 small presents (cheap things e.g car air freshner, pack of cards, small toys, soap etc all depending on the age of the players) - (Or use up some of your freebies that you have colleceted through the year!!)
Wrap them all up individually.
You will need two packs of cards - firstly you deal out one pack to all of the paople that are playing (you will need one person to be dealer and not play - usually the person who has organised the game)
The dealer then goes through the second pack and calls out the card - whoever has the matching card from the first pack gets a present, which they unwrap and put on the floor/table in front of them so everyone can see it.
When all the presents are gone you continue to go through the pack but when a player has the card they get to 'Take' one of the presents from the table.
The person holding the last card gets to take the best prize.
To make the game really interesting have one prize that is a lot better than all of the rest (we have been known to use a £5 or £10 note!!) Its great fun to watch everyone taking the prizes and at the end the end everyone has got something to take home!!:T

We have done adult versions of this in which you can use minitures of alcohol, toiletries etc and the best prize a bottle of wine/spirit. :beer:

HTH
Elisa