25 Hilarious Christmas Party Games You Have to Try
25 Hilarious Christmas Party Games You Have to Try
Here are 25 Christmas Themed Party Games for you and your family, friends, guests or co-workers to enjoy. I took the most iconic characters and moments in all of Christmas and turned them into their perfect party game.
The Naughty or Nice List
Rudolf's Red Nose
Factory Floor Elves
Grinchiest Grinch
DIY Home Alone
Die Hard-ly
Ebenezer Scrooge-ing
Frosty The Snowman
Little Drummer Boy
Stuff Your Stockings
O' Christmas Tree
Gift Wrapped
Bad Santa
Gingerbread Man
Nightmare Before Christmas
Snowflakes
Elf On The Shelf
Deck The Halls
Silent Night
12 Days Of Christmas
Ho Ho Ho
Christmas Karaoke
Christmas Trivia
Mistletoe
Jingle Bells
Hope you enjoyed these or they got you thinking of your own ideas. Merry Christmas!
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The Most Fun You’ll Have This Christmas
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The Ultimate List Of Christmas Party Games
Santa holding naughty list, but it’s games.
Hook:
Santa is coming to town and he’s bringing some party games, let’s go.
Santa lovesssss Christmas party games, and has personally told me that these are his top 25 Christmas party games of all time, (sleigh sparkles across screen sfx) He has one for each day in december until christmas day.
Use Calendar as visual progress. And Icons
Games Ideas:
The Naughty or Nice List
It’s only once a year that Santa graces us with his presents (stare), but that depends on whether you are on the naughty or nice list. And who better to determine just how naughty or nice you’ve been than the family and friends at your christmas party.
This game helps you find out which of your family and friends would end up on the naughty or nice list.
Give everyone papers and pens. Ask them to draw a line down the center of the paper. Mark the left column as “Naughty” and the right as “Nice”. Then ask questions like, “Of the people in this party, who is the worst driver?” Since it’s a ‘worst’ question, guests will write the name of a fellow party guest who they think is the worst driver in the naughty column. If the question is, “Of the people in this party, who is the best cook?”, then they write their answer in the nice column. After you’ve asked enough questions, you’ll start a tally to see who is the naughtiest and nicest. “By show of hands, who has Carol on their nice list? Two people? Okay, and who has Carol on their naughty list? Four people, okay.” So Carol’s current ratio is 2nice4naughty. You can do this for each guest and see who everyone thinks is the nicest and naughtiest at the party.
Sounds like Grandma will be getting coal this Christmas.
Rudolf’s Red Light
Pitch black a room. Give team a very faint red light. The other team hid objects around the room. They have to find as many objects without X time limit.
Rudolf with your nose so bright, won’t you guide my sleigh tonight. You know your boy Rudolf really came through for Santa in a tough situation, now it’s your turn to shine. This is a team game. Give a player from each team a flashlight that projects a red light. Turn off all the lights in the room so that it’s dark, then ask the players to find a specific object in the room. The two players from opposing teams will race to search the room for the specified object, the first person to find it wins a point for their team. Then they both hand off the flashlight to another player on their teams and another object is announced. Once everyone’s had a turn, y’all can count up the points and announce the winner.
It would be really rud-olf you if you didn’t.
Factory Floor Elves
Construct a toy. Get a few of those gundam or whatever toys that you have to build. First team to build wins.
Alright so you know how elves are basically factory workers who build toys all day. You would think that sounds like a fun job, but it’s tough work. And to show you just how tough it can be working in an assembly line, you and your team will be doing just that. Get two teams lined up on different sides of a table. Each team is given the full set of pieces and instructions to assemble the toy, however only one player at a time, from each team, may assemble the toy. They are given 1 minute to get as far into the construction as they can, and then must tag in their next team member to continue from where they left off. So every minute, two other players continue the assembly until the first team finishes fully constructing the toy.
Building something like this together might be tricky at times but you just have to believe in your elves.
The Grinchiest Grinch
Everyone has a sticky note that they decorate to look like a present. Stick the note on your own back. Big FFA where guests try to steal as many presents from other guests as possible. Whoever steals the most presents wins.
The Grinch loves to mess with Christmas and what better way to do that than to steal a bunch of decorations. Hang an ornament on the back of all the players, you can use their shirt tag or something. The game is to steal as many decorations from other players' backs while also trying to avoid your own decoration getting snagged. The game ends when all the players lose the decoration on their back, and the Grinch with the most decorations wins.
Did that not sound fun to you, or is that just your resting Grinch Face?
DIY Home Alone
Team brainstorm to come up with traps in the house. Don’t have to make it, just present the concept. Vote on winners.
Home Alone is probably the signature Christmas movie and what better way to honour it than to try to recreate the traps from the movie. Well, kinda. In this game, you’ll make a bunch of teams, at least 3, and each team will brainstorm the best trap they can for your house. At the end of the brainstorm, each team will showcase their idea and ultimately everyone will vote on their favourite idea. You can also have categories for winning, like most realistic, most creative, most dangerous, and so on.
Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
Die Hard-ly
Obstacle course. Army crawl, walk across legos, slide down staircase. End of each station has a nerf gun to shoot a target (elf on the shelf).
Die Hard is probably the signature Christmas movie and.. Wait a sec. Anyway. Let’s play Die Hard-ly. In this game, you make an obstacle course that resembles the difficult situations John Mclane had to endure. For example, the air duct. You’ll want to set up some kind of obstacle where the players have to army crawl through chairs or boxes. Or walk across shard of glass, but it’s just legos. Or slide down the stair railing, or maybe don’t cause someone will hurt themselves. Or hang ornaments of bad guys on the Christmas tree and shoot them off with a nerf gun.
Yippe-kay-yay mother
Ebenezer Scrooge Scrounge
Give everyone a dollar. Players have to convince others to give them their dollar. Player with most dollars at the end wins.
You know how those rich people are, just hoarding all the wealth, well now is your chance to do the same. Give everyone at the party a dollar. Their objective is to try to get as many dollars from the other players as possible. How you ask? Well that is entirely up to their creativity. They could refill their drink for a dollar, or give a back massage, or offer a ride home, the options are limitless. Ultimately, whoever gets the most dollars at the end of the timer, wins.
The few extra dollars you end the game with may not feel like generational wealth, but hey, it’s something.
Frosty The Snowman
Stack icecubes. Tallest ice tower wins. Top piece has to have a face.
Building snowmen in the backyard is cool, but is it as cold as ice cubes. In this game, teams will try to stack ice cubes to make the tallest ice-uh-snow man that they can. Now you might be thinking, stacking ice cubes? Is that even possible? Anything is possible Brenda, if you really believe, and maybe use salt as a glueing mechanism.
This activity can get a bit slippery, but stay frosty.
Little Drummer Boy
Make a beat. Opponent has to copy it or beat maker gets a point. Swap.
This song is a banger. Ba-rupa-pum-pum. Give each team a drum. One team will play some drum sequence that they make up and the other team has to try to copy the sequence. Then swap. This goes back and forth until a team is unable to copy the drum sequence. Now we don’t expect your guests to be performing any drum solos or this showdown looking like drumline, but..
This could be fun right? Or maybe this was a drum idea. Ba-dum-tsss.
Stuff Yo Stockings
Put something in the opponents stockings. They stick their hand in to guess. Points if correct.
Stockings are always interesting, they are little bonus presents, or side quests socks. Anyway, you always find the weirdest things inside stockings, and so this game is exactly that. Each team will stuff as many weird things into a stocking that they can find. Then when it’s time to play, one team will be blindfolded and each team member will take turns sticking their hand inside the other teams stocking and trying to identify an object. When they lock in their answer, they take that object out of the bag and can remove their blindfold to see if they are correct. The team gets a point for each correct guess. Then swap and the other team is blindfolded and has to try identifying.
If you can’t find anything to put in the stockings, you could say that you’re Out of Stock-ings.
O’ Christmas Tree
Use X number of decorations to decorate a tree. However, your team has to wear mittens is blindfolded and if any decorations fall, your team loses. X time.
Decorating the Christmas tree is always a lot of fun, but is it hilarious? Give each team a different colored set of decorations, and assign them opposite sides of the christmas tree. The first team to put all their decorations on the tree wins, however, each team member has to take turns doing it, AND they have to do it while wearing mittens. The hilarity of trying to hang ornaments with limited dexterity is hilarious, and then quickly taking off your mittens and passing it to the next member on your team as they rush to try to put on the mittens and do it themselves.
I’m completely s-mitten by this idea.
Presents
Team race, who can wrap the most presents in X time. Points for quality+quantity.
You think a lot of people judge you by the gifts you give, but really they are judging you by the way you wrap your gifts. Have teams of two. Teams are going to race to see who has the best gift wrapping skills. Equip each team with some wrapping paper, scissors and tape. But here is where it gets interesting. The two people in a team will have to work together to wrap the present and they do this by standing together, with the person in the back sticking their arms under the armpits of the person in front. The team member in the back will be the hands that wrap the gift, while the team member in the front will be the eyes and give directions to the team member in the back. At the end, all the teams can vote on the best wrapped gift.
That’s a wrap. Moving on.
Bad Santa
Have a santa who sits down. Players take turns sitting on Santa’s lap and whispering something to him based on a topic like, “Best Sex position”. Each player gives Santa their answer in a whisper without anyone hearing. At the end Santa has to choose someone to get a point for best answer. And NEVER share what that answer actually was. Will start a thread in the comments to add topic ideas, please join in!
You usually have a good experience when you go to sit on Santa’s lap, unless of course, it's a bad Santa. Have someone be Santa and sit on a chair. You’ll have a set of questions prepared beforehand. For example, “Best sex position”, then each guest, one by one sits on Santa’s lap and whisper in his or her ear their answer to that question. After Santa listens to everyones answers, he’ll award someone the winner of that round because he liked that answer best. BUT he cannot never share what was said, kind of like a priest or therapist. Keep going till you run out of questions. I’ll start a comment thread in the comments for ideas.
This game could get raunchy but try not to Claus a scene.
Gingerbread Man
Run, run, as fast as you can, you candy can’t catch me cause I’m the gingerbread man. Use candy canes to try to pick up a gingerbread man. If he falls and breaks a leg, you lose a point but can keep trying.
Run, run, as fast as you can, you candy can’t catch me cause I’m the gingerbread man. Except you can catch him with candy. Put some gingerbread man in a deep jar. Give the guests a long candy cane, and kind of like the UFO catcher arcade game, they gotta use the candy cane to try and fish out as many gingerbread men as they can before the time runs out. Both teams play at the same time with their own jars of gingerbread men with each team member taking a turn to fish out a gingerbread man. Whichever team retrieves the most before the time runs out wins, however for each gingerbread man that breaks in the attempt, they get a minus point on their tally.
This one is a lot of fun, but it can be tough so give it your best shot. Go out there and bake a leg.
Not the gumdrop buttons.
Nightmare Before Christmas
Use clay to tell a Christmas story. Make scenes, take a picture, then scroll through the pictures as you tell the story.
Claymation is tough, not just tough but it’s hardcore. You need years of practice to make something half decent, so hey, let’s see what some amateurs come up with. You’ll have at least 3 teams, and each team is tasked with using clay to tell a christmas story. They’ll mold their clay into whatever, take a picture with their phone, then remold their clay into the next part of the story. Once the time is up, they’ll present their story through the pictures on their phone and teams will vote on the best one.
I know it’s a little scary to do show and tell, but you should come out and clay.
Snowflakes
Make cut out snowflakes with paper. Drop a players snowflakes directly above them, they have to try and catch it with their tongue / mouth. Point if they do.
Ever catch a snowflake on your tongue? How about hail? In this game, each player will make their own custom unique snowflake. Then someone will stand on a ladder and drop that players snowflake from the ceiling. The player’s objective is to try to catch that snowflake with their mouth before it hits the ground.
This can be really difficult but your guests will have snow much fun.
Elf on the Shelf
Passive game. Hide the elf somewhere visible. If someone spots it, they write their name on the elf, then hides it themselves. At the end of the night, all players with a name on the elf get a point. Only point per player.
So we got a ton of ideas for active games, but passive games need some love too. These are the games that happen throughout a party in the background and this one is really special. Get an elf and put him on a shelf. Whenever a player spots the elf, they take a selfie with him, then they have to hide him somewhere else in the house in a reasonable place. Then when he is found again by another guest, they too take a selfie in the location they found him, and then also hide him in a new location. The elf will eventually make his way around the house and your guests will be getting a bunch of pictures on their phone. Whoever has the most selfies with the elf at the end of the party wins.
When you take a picture with an elf, it’s culturally appropriate to call it taking an elfie.
Deck The Halls
Passive activity. Chalk paint on some wall, allow guests to draw, doodle, sign, etc. Best to put it near the entrance as a guest book of sorts.
Another passive game. Really love this one too. Get some chaulk paint and paint a small wall near your entrance where your guests will be coming in and out. There, they can sign their name when they get in, or doodle throughout the party, or even treat it as a guest book telling you what a great time they had with all these games. If your having a great time with this video, hit that like button, hell the subscribe button is looking really good too right about now.
The game is called Deck the Halls so I was going to make a pun about decks, but I had to draw the line somewhere.
Silent Night
One team member is chosen. The other team has to try to make them laugh. If they make any noise, they lose. Swap.
Shhhh.. It’s a silent night. Two teams face off, where one team is tasked with making the other team laugh or make any noise for that matter. If one of the team members makes noise, they are eliminated, and the rest of the team has to try to keep the night silent. Once the time runs out, teams swap rolls.
Why did no one near the pterodactyl go to the bathroom? Because their ‘P’ is silent.
12 Days Of Christmas
Players take turns singing each part, instead of standard ‘doves’ etc, players choose their own word AND have to recite what previous players said.
And a partridge in a pear tree. Okay no one knows what a partridge is, and a pear tree is hardly related. So instead, we can make up our own things. Each player takes a turn changing the lyrics of what happens on that day of Christmas. For example, on the 4th day of christmas, my true love gave to me, 4 feral ferrets. But then as they continue the song, they have to remember what the other players said before them. 3 tacky tigers, 2 thirsty trolls, and a cartridge in a nintendo.
Hope you’re ready for 12 Days of Twerking.
Ho Ho Ho
Three player teams. Each team member has to say ‘ho’, the challenge is that the whole team has to sound like one person. Vote for best attempt.
The jolliest laugh there ever was, until you best it. Make teams of three. All three team members have to try to laugh like Santa where each player says ‘Ho’. But the challenge is that they have to all sound like the same person and get their ho’s in sync. Once teams are ready, they will perform their Ho ho ho’s and vote on the most convincing synchronisation.
If your team loses, you can tell them that you don’t want to be their Ho no mo
Karaoke
Challenge the opposing team to sing a ‘standard’ christmas song. They have to sing the lyrics accurately, if they do, they get a point. Swap.
Don’t say the word Karaoke or people get turned off, I don’t know what cause Karaoke is great but anyway. Make two teams, teams take turns challenging the other team to recite a ‘standard’ christmas song, like ‘Silent Night’. If the team can correctly recite the song, or at least the first 3 or so paragraphs, then they pass and then it’s their turn to choose a song for the other team to try to recite.
Sing a song of sixpence, pocket full of rhyme, wait.. That’s not right.
Trivia
Hardcore christmas trivia. Check out this link.
Trivia is a great learning opportunity at a party. It’s time for the X-mas nerds to drop some knowledge. Have two teams. Ask a question to both teams, the teams buzz in to answer the question. Whichever team gets the most correct answers wins. You can do a range of difficulty for the questions from where does Santa live all the way to wtf is a Yuletide?
What is a Yuletide?
https://conversationstartersworld.com/trivia-questions/christmas-trivia/
Mischievous Mistletoe
Blindfold couples, see if they can kiss without a miss under the mistletoe. No hands, just lips, if they connect, they get a point.
Mistletoes don’t miss when it comes to a sweet kiss. However, if you happen to be blindfolded, you might just miss. This is a game for the couples at the party. Blindfold both of them. Their challenge is to kiss each other on the lips without their eyes or hands to guide them. They’ll have to communicate to hit their target.
Fair warning. This game could be a headbanger.
Jingle Bells
Blindfold a player. Give all other players Jingle Bells around their necks. Blindfolded player has to catch other players using the sound of the bells.
Jingle all the way. One of the best Christmas movies, but this game is not related, I just wanted to share that with everyone. Anyway, so you blindfold one player. The other players have a necklace with jingle bells around their neck. The blindfolded player has to hunt down the other players by tagging them, and the other players have to be sneaky and try not to be despite those bells jingling as they move around. If you get tagged, you’re out and must remove your bells in dishonor.
But hey, before you took them off, you did look adore-a-bell.