Materials
Old Newspapers
Activity
Divide the room in half and mark it with tape or chalk. Give each team a stack of old newspapers. with an equal number of sheets. In a specified amount of time (3 minutes) the teams make as many snowballs as they can by wadding up a whole sheet of paper and throwing it at those …
Materials
Small numbered jars with the lids removed and filled with items to identify by smell. (Wrap them in red and green cloth to allow the smell to escape yet keep away prying eyes.)
Use things like: candy canes, ginger, candles, cinnamon, evergreen, egg nog, cookies, etc.
Activity
Fill small jars with items to identify only by smell. The object …
If I speak in the tongues of Christmas materialism and greed but have not love, I am only a tinny Christmas song or an out of tune choir.
If I have the gift of knowing what Aunt Agatha will give me this year and can even understand last year’s present, and if I have the faith that I won’t get …
Materials
A list of Christmas Carols written in groups of two or more on slips of paper.
(see Christmas Carol Pictionary for a list of some common Christmas Carols and songs.
Activity
1. Write the names of the Christmas songs on individual slips of paper (There should be at least 2 slips for each song or more–More is good for …
Materials
Christmas Cards (2 copies of each card)
Activity
Use this as an icebreaker / crowdbreaker to divide your youth into teams at a Christmas Party:
1. Select the front panels of several Christmas with different pictures and cut them into pieces. Use 2 identical Christmas cards for each group. Each group will have a different card.
2. Cut one …
Materials
Chocolate bar (wrapped in multiple layers of Christmas paper with lots of tape), dice, a knife and fork, and various items for youth to wear including heavy winter gloves, a santa hat, a broad black belt, a red santa coat and a pillow.
Activity
Place the well wrapped chocolate bar in the center of the table. Each person sitting …
No one can fracture a Christmas carol better than a kid. Unfortunately they sometimes get the words a little confused. Sing along with these new takes on old favorites:
Deck the Halls with Buddy Holly [Bows of Holly]
We three kings of porridge and tar [Orient are]
On the first day of Christmas my tulip gave to me [true love]…
Materials
A list of Christmas Carols and large sheet of paper paper, flip chart, or a whiteboard for each team.
Activity
Each team selects a person to draw. The person leading the game shows all those who are drawing the first Christmas Carol on his list. Each returns to his/her group and tries to get the group to guess the …
Materials
A variety of simple Christmas images. (e.g. Christmas Tree, a manger, a baby, etc) You can also use simple greeting cards for the design.
Activity
Form teams of six people. Instruct each team to sit in a line, one person behind another, and take a vow of silence for the duration of the game. Give the first person in …
If you saddled your six-legged droozle and rode
Toward the north, at a gallop, until you hit snow,
(And we all know a six-legged droozle can scoot
At one hundred and twenty when you give it the boot)
Anyway, on your droozle, you’d finally arrive
At a hamlet called Nazareth–this town has survived
Since the time that the Romans ruled …