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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Materials
None

Activity
One team takes turns to ask a person in the other team a question e.g. What do you stir your coffee with? The person is only allowed to answer ‘Christmas Trees’ and they musn’t laugh or smile. A team gets a point for each question they can answer without laughing. If they laugh, each person in the opposing teams gets to ask a question and get a point for each laugh.

Variation
Sit in a circle. One person in the center asks the questions. Whoever laughs goes to the center of the circle.

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Materials
A Christmas gift that has been wrapped in multiple boxes and multiple layers of wrapping paper with instructions in between each layer.

Game Preparation
Wrap a small gift in a small box. Either use multiple boxes or multiple layers of wrapping paper or a combination. With each box or layer, you will write a message and tape it to the outside of that box or layer. The final box or layer will also have a message on it. (The message on the final big box should read something like this: “This gift goes to the person standing closest to the Christmas tree”. That person receives the gift, opens it and finds the next layer with a message that could say something like this: “So sorry! This present goes to the person who is sitting next to you on the left!” That person then gets the gift and opens it and finds the next box which has a similar message. This continues until you get to the last box which will have the final message designating who actually gets the gift.

Variation
Include challenges as part of the messages. An example: “This gift goes to the first person who runs to you and correctly identifies the three gifts the wisemen brought to Jesus.”

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Materials
None

Game Play
Played like the traditional “Duck, Duck, Goose.” In this game, participants sit down in a circle facing each other. One person is “it” and walks around the circle. As they walk around, they tap people’s heads and say whether they are a “wiseman” or a “Jesus”. Once someone is named “Jesus” he/she must get up and try to chase “it” around the circle. The goal is to tap that person before they are able sit down in the spot emptied by Jesus (The Stable). If Jesus is not able to do this, he/she becomes “it” for the next round and play continues. If he/she does tap the “it” person, the person tagged has to sit in the center of the circle. Jesus then becomes it for the next round. The person in the middle can’t leave until another person is tagged and they are replaced.

Variation
Santa, Santa, Reindeer.

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Materials
Candy canes, pie tins, whipped cream.

Santa lost his candy canes in the snow and has asked his reindeer to sniff them out.

Game Play
Each team chooses a reindeer as a representative. Each reindeer is given a pie-tin or tray of whipped cream. In each, lie two hidden pieces of candy canes. The aim is to sniff for the candy canes without the use of hands. If you use a tray, two teams can compete on the same tray. First group to sniff out the candy canes and come up with it in their teeth is a winner.

Read about the significance of the Candy Cane to the Birth of Christ in the “Legend of the Candy Cane”

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Materials
Nativity scene with multiple individual pieces.

Game Play
This is a scavenger hunt type game. Hide the pieces from the nativity scene around the room. Some should be easy to find and some more difficult. Place one on the snack table, one could be in with the presents, one in the tree, and so on! Give each person a piece of paper and a pencil, the goal is to be the first person to locate all the items of the nativity scene and correctly write their locations on the paper.

Variation
Help Santa find his reindeer. 8 people (or 9) to find Santa’s Reindeer will win a prize.

See Conducting Scavenger Hunts for help, Hints, Safety Considerations, Rules, and other useful information to make your scavenger hunt a wild success!

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