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Christmas Eve Games and Activities
from: Kyle BesserYou don't often think about playing games on Christmas Eve, but playing fun Christmas party activities can be a lot of fun, especially for children.
One fun game is ideally suited for anxious children, but could also be played by adults, if you want to add some fun for gift giving. For children, this is a way to make that "open one gift on Christmas Eve" rule a little more exciting and make it last a little longer.
You create a hunt with clues, so the children have to follow the clues to find their gift. Instead of the gift being under the tree, for example, you put it somewhere else, and the children will follow clues to find it. For this game, you can use anything to write your clues on such as extra Christmas cards in their envelopes, cut outs from scraps of Christmas paper, or you might use ornaments.
Whatever method you choose, write a clue on each of your items and place those around the house. You start by handing each child the first clue. It might say, "You sleep here every night" and the children will run to their beds. On their pillow you have placed another clue that might say, "Mom's eggs taste better with this" and the children head to the kitchen where they find another clue on the salt. Depending on the ages of the children and their tolerance, you may have only a few clues for this game or many more. The final clue will be the gift itself. To make it extra fun, have the gift under the tree. The children won't see that coming!
If you have a large gathering on Christmas Eve, try a circle game. Have everyone get in a circle and the first person will start with, "In my Christmas stocking there is an apple." The next person will add, "In my Christmas stocking there is an apple and an orange." Each person will continue on, remembering the previous items and the adding one of their own. If someone misses an item, they are out of the game. The winner is the person who successfully remembers all the stocking items over and over again each time they have to recite the items and add to the list. For a variation, the list could be recited in alphabetical order.
Musical chairs using Christmas music is another activity for a Christmas gathering. Use upbeat and well-known Christmas music. Use songs everyone knows and require they sing along and dance as they run around the chairs. This adds a fun element because you are likely to have at least one person who gets caught up in the music and dancing and they don't realize when the music stopped. This game is played like any traditional game of musical chairs with the loser being the one who doesn't get a chair when the music stops.
Since the big event on Christmas Eve is Santa's arrival, play a game of "where's Santa." In this game, everyone sits in a circle and one person is chosen to be Rudolph. That person leaves the room for a minute. A Santa is chosen among those left in the room. Rudolph returns and begins hunting for Santa. Rudolph should stand in the center of the circle and try to figure out which person is Santa. Santa, meanwhile, winks at other people in the circle. When someone gets winked at, they yell, "ho ho ho." Once Rudolph figures out where Santa is, another Rudolph and another Santa are chosen and the game continues.
By Christmas Eve, your Christmas cards have been on display for a few weeks, so maybe it's time to play a game with them. Have someone set up a laundry basket or a large gift box a few feet away (the distance depends on the age of the players and their ability). Have the players try to toss the cards into the box or basket. This may sound easy, but different cards of different weights and styles will react differently and can be harder than expected to get into the box or basket.
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