Christmas Day games

mrswive

This is much more fun than it sounds!
You have a pile of small, wrapped presents - anything like a bar of chocolate, funny book, pair of socks, keyring etc; you'll need at least 2 presents per person, but they need only be really cheap things.
You take turns to throw a dice and if you get a 6 you pick a present from the pile, but don't unwrap it. When all the presents have been taken you go on to stage 2.
Set a timer, we do about 10 or 15 minutes but it doesn't really matter.
Again, take turns to throw the dice, but now if you get a 6 you get to take a present from someone else's pile. At the end of the timed period, you keep what you've managed to accumulate.
To add a bit more competetiveness (is that a word?), I get one really awful, naff present; much worse than all the others, and hint that it's something really good that I want to end up with. This gift becomes the one that everyone tries to pinch from whoever's got it. It backfired once though and I ended up with a box of 'Rumba Plums' which were the most disgusting thing known to man !!!
We do this every Christmas evening and everyone loves it.

mrswive

Just seen that Plumpmouse has posted the same game - sorry!

gildius

Oh yes, cranium is so good! It's a little bit of everything in one, word games, charades, pictionary, etc. Obviously the modelling clay is the best bit.

jenniemiller177

How about Taboo. We have played it loads of times and always seems a winner. Basically you have to describe a word without saying the a word from the list that of words that you most likely use to describe it!

Simple but great fun.

Charlotte1988_2

I'm also a fan of the 'stick a name to your forehead' game although I'm not very good at it. Last Christmas someone had the (not so great) idea of having our local icecream van man (everyone knows him) as one of the 'famous people'. He was sadly never guessed

Phoolgrrrl

Scattagories. You can print out tables, or just draw them. You can pre pick the catagories, girls names etc or ask everyone playing to pick one. Then some one picks a letter, or you can use scrabble tiles. We play it as 'stop the bus' everyone reaces against each other to get something for each catagory starting with the letter and when you have them all filled in you shout 'stop the bus!' and everyone has to stop writing. We give 10 points for an original answer, and 5 if more than one person gets it.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2314519_play-scattagories.html

Sezzagirl

A favourite game in our family is Hello Harry.

It always gets very silly, especially if those playing are a little befuddled :beer: by the time you start but I've never tried to write the way you play down so here goes!

Hello Harry

You will need a pack of those little paper sticky dots - any colour or colours

Everyone sitting round, roughly in a circle. It works sitting round a dinner table or sitting round in arm chairs after dinner

Person A says to Person B "Hello Harry"
Person B says to Person A "Yes Harry"
Person A says to Person B "Tell Harry"
Person B says to Person C "Hello Harry"
Person C says to Person B "Yes Harry"
Person B says to Person C "Tell Harry"

and so on and so on!

Seems very simple but it's easy to get muddled. So lets say

Person D says to Person E "Hello Harry"
Person E says to Person D " Hello Harry" This is wrong so a sticky dot is now stuck on Person E's forehead. Person E is now"1 Spot" instead of Harry so The exchange now goes like this
Person D says to Person E "Hello 1 spot"
Person E says to Person D "Yes Harry"
Person D says to Person E "Tell Harry

Person E says to Person F "Hello Harry"
Person F says to Person E "Yes 1 Spot"
Person E says to Person F " Tell Harry"

and so on!

Each time someone makes a mistake, they have another spot added to their forehead and must be refered to as 1 spot, 2 spot, 3 spot, 15 spot (that was a good evening!)

Each person has to look at who they are talking to or refering to and make sure they call them the right thing - teenagers are usually very good at calling out anyone who makes a mistake and needs another spot!

You could just play a "blank" round first for everyone to get the hang of it. It seems quite a tame game at the start when everyone is getting it right but it can get quite lively! It is so funny watching the people who are concentrating really, really hard on what they are saying and still get it wrong!:p

You could have a prize if there is anyone left as Harry when you have had enough of playing - or for the person with the fewest spots!:rotfl:

bubblegumcola

The after eight game...you just need a box of after eights.
You place one on your forehead and have to wiggle it down your face to your mouth without using your hands...it's messy, great fun and absolutely hilarious. The faces people pull trying to move the after eight by moving their forehead, etc...it really is funny.

Alton_Towers

Cut the cake, bag of value flour, pudding bowl, tray, wedding ring.

Fill bowl with flour, pack in tightly and level off top, place tray or board on top and flip over and remove bowl carefully so you have your cake. Place wedding ring or similar in the centre on top of cake. Players then take turns to slice off bits of cake, as it gets smaller if it collapses player has to use teeth to retrieve the ring! Really good fun and potentially messy!