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 …
Materials
Scissors, a set of balloons for each team (Different colors to distinguish teams), paper, marker and trash bag to hold balloons.
Game Preparation
Write a Christmas Bible Verse or a phrase from a Christmas Carol on a piece of paper paper, then cut it up into a puzzle (however many pieces will determine how many balloons you will need). …
Materials
None
Game Preparation
Divide the youth into twelve groups of any size.
Game Play
Group everyone into 12 teams. Give each team one verse of the twelve days of Christmas song. They will be responsible for singing that verse of the song. As the teams sing their verse, they are to act it out (i.e. eight maids a milking, …
Materials
Stocking with Christmas objects inside
Game Preparation
Take a new pair of very warm, thick socks or a thick Christmas Stocking. Place objects you use or see around Christmas time, into the socks/stockings. More than one sock/stocking allows the game to go faster, but make sure you put identical things in each stocking. Use things like holly, scotch tape, …
Materials
List of items for each person
Find someone to sign his or her name for each item on a list. You can ask a person only one question. If the answer is no, you must go to someone else before returning to this person with another question. If the answer is yes, have the person sign your list next …
Materials
Digital camera for each team
Game Preparation
Set a time for groups to be back then send them off to the local mall or shopping center to get the Christmas Photos.
Activity
This is a photo scavenger hunt where participants must take a snapshot of the entire group that satisfies each description in the list. Add point values based …
Materials
A gift from each participant. Each person brings a wrapped unmarked gift. You may choose a cost limit or have them bring a white elephant gift.
How gifts are exchanged
A. Everyone sits in a circle and the gifts are placed in a pile in the middle. Write numbers from 1-??, depending on the number of gifts, on small …
“Dollar for dollar, we are able to buy more things and make more things for more of our people than any other society. Ours has been described by sociologists as ‘the’ consumer society. And we’ve got the goods and the dispositions to buy them to prove it….
Materials
A semi-circle of chairs with one chair for each participant
Game play
The group sits in a semi-circle. “Christmas” sits on one end of the semi-circle. At the other end of the semi-circle sits the “scrooge.” All the seats in between belong to different Christmas symbols, such as star, manger, shepherd. etc. You can assign the names or allow …
Materials
Heavy duty Christmas stocking that is big enough to put two persons feet into. One stocking for each team.
Activity
This is a normal three legged race, except a Christmas stocking is used to bind the two legs together. The two race to a destination and back. The next two persons on the team then put on the stocking …