Materials
A list of items commonly associated with New Years and large sheet of paper, flip chart, or a whiteboard for each team. Classified ads also work if you use a broad tip marker.
Activity
Each team selects a person to draw. The person leading the game shows all those who are drawing the first item on his list. Each …
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After twenty years of shaving himself every morning, a man in a small Southern town decided he had enough. He told his wife that he intended to let the local barber shave him each day. He put on his hat and coat and went to the barber shop, which was owned by the pastor of the town’s Baptist Church.
The …
Materials
strips of cloth, prepare two bags full of old clothing items, such as hats, large pants, shirts, scarves, socks, glasses, gloves, jackets, and large pairs of shoes. Make sure that both bags contain the same items. The wackier and more out of style the items, the better. Place each bag on a chair.
Setup
Form pairs. Give each pair …
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‘Twas the night before Christmas and Santa’s a wreck
How to live in a world that’s politically correct?
His workers no longer would answer to Elves,
Vertically challenged they were calling themselves.
And labor conditions at the North Pole
Were alleged by the union to stifle the soul.
Four reindeer had vanished, without much propriety
Released to the wilds by …
‘Twas the night before Christmas and one thing was clear–
that old Yuletide spirit no longer was here
inflation was rising; the crime rate was tripling;
the fuel bills were up, and our mortgage was crippling;
I opened a coke as I watched TV,
where Donny sang “O Holy Night” to Marie;
the kids were in bed, getting sleep like …
Materials
Three pairs each of two different colors of Christmas stockings or clean socks. As a backup you can cut stocking outlines from colored paper.
Game Preparation
1. Number the stockings from 1 to 6 for each color.
2. Hide the stockings around the room
3. Inside stockings 2-5, (or on the back if you use paper ones) place a …
St. Augustine said, “What difference does it make that Christ was born so long ago in Bethlehem, if he be not born in me?”
I have no doubts that the angels of God come to us with the same offer they gave to Mary. Maybe we do not have big angelic visions, and maybe our angels come to us in …
Materials
1. Choose a Christmas related word or phrase such as: Christmas, Poinsettia, Candy cane, Bethlehem.
2. Timer
Game Play
Participants are to create as many little words as possible before the timer runs out using only the letters in the chosen word or phrase before the timer runs out.
Example: Christmas
Words: sit, is, his, miss, rat, tar, this, …