Snowman Slam from Growing a Jeweled Rose. Put a Christmas spin on a basic game of charades by making all the phrases about Christmas and the holiday season. This free printable will help you out with quite a few ideas for Christmas charade clues. Just print it, cut the clues apart, and place it in a container so guests can pick one to act out. Kids love to decorate cookies, so turn it into a contest. Cookie-decorating can be a messy activity, it's an easy one that the kids can jump right into.
Give out awards for the prettiest, most creative, most colorful, and best-tasting cookies—though everyone's a winner when they get to enjoy these sweet treats. Bingo is a fun game for all ages, but creating your own cards can be time-consuming, given that each of them have to be different. Print out these printable bingo cards, and you'll have an instant Christmas party game that didn't cost you anything to put together.
Set up a fun scavenger hunt in which the kids search for Santa's reindeer, which you've hidden around the party space. Depending on the age of the children you have at the party, hide the reindeer in easy-to-spot locations or tuck them away to make them more difficult to find.
The game suggests hiding small reindeer figurines, but you can make reindeer for free by using printable reindeer coloring pages. To play this game, fill a large stocking with items around the house, and then the kids guess what's in the stocking. The items in the stocking should be Christmas-themed, such as ornaments, pinecones, and bows. The guest who guesses the most items wins a prize. This Christmas party game for kids will help keep their minds sharp as they try to recall items that were placed before them.
There are two more variations to this game: One in which you ask specific questions about the items, and the other one in which you trick the kids into what exactly they were supposed to remember. This free printable game includes the face and a whole bunch of noses, so each child can have their turn. Pin the Red Nose on Rudolph from Untumble. Santa Says is a fun take on that classic game Simon Says that's a great way to end a Christmas party for kids.
Be sure to include things that Santa would do such as delivering presents, sliding down the chimney, and reading a Christmas wish list. Santa Says from The Resourceful Mama. How fast can kids wrap a present? You'll find out in this gift wrap relay. Split the group into teams, then have them race to wrap a present.
The first round should be an easy-to-wrap present, such as a box. To play, ask three students to sit at the front of the class with their backs to the whiteboard. Set a maximum number of questions per student say, 10 and play until one student is left, or until students have used up all their questions. Repeat with new students and characters. Mix in Southern Hemisphere Christmas vocabulary as well.
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Back Topics. Grammar tips Teaching tips Life as a teacher. Santa Says A play on Simon Says, this activity targets verbs and action words: jump, run on the spot, touch your nose, hop, do a twirl, crouch down, etc. Find someone who Create a grid with a number of Christmas-related statements.
Word find Students work in teams to find as many words as they can, hidden within Christmas words. Try: Christmas: air, has, ham, its, mat, miss, it, is, rim, cat, car, hats, cash, star Roast turkey : you, yes, use, rye, out, our, your, tusk, user, tyre, task, sure, soya, sour, take, trek Candy cane : dye, any, end, can, den, and, acne, dance, canned Use an online word unscrambler tool to create a list of possible words, and set a time limit for students to work within.
Next, distribute the lyrics and teach new vocabulary. Prepare a cloze exercise; choosing to remove all nouns, prepositions, adjectives or other part of speech. In my experience, church attendance goes up around Christmas while Sunday School participation is sometimes weak. One way to combat that is make sure kids are excited about coming the following week.
Why not have a special game time maybe 10 minutes long as an incentive for children to come? They might even bring some friends. This post will point out some fun game ideas from around the Internet that you can use for Christmas games in Sunday School.
As always, Shawn Howell shares some fun games for kids. These include the games in the video above plus 7 more.
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