As a kid, I played quite a few games with my family and siblings. Some of my favorites that we played each year were the Candy Cane Pass and Rudolph Dash.

The Candy Cane pass you needed at least 4 candy canes per team and a few extras in case they broke. Each player held 4 candy canes between their fingers and passed them down the line, teammate to teammate, without dropping.

If a person dropped it, they were out. We kept doing this until one person was left.

The other game, Rudolph Dash, all we needed was some Vaseline and we cut out circles from red construction paper. Our mom, or who ever was supposed to be watching us, would have each of us kids put a dab of Vaseline on our nose, and then choose the person to go first. Read More »

Scrabble is an oldie, but goodie and comes in many variations. There’s Super Scrabble, Scrabble Junior, a Champion Edition, and Scrabble Express.

If you really want to get tricky, you can even try Upwords and create words on top of words. Read More »

You’ll need: those two buckets, two Christmas stockings and a selection of stuff for the kids to transfer from the buckets to their stockings – oranges, candy canes, favors, whatever suits your fancy. Read More »

This game is similar to pin the tail on the donkey. Mom folks would take a large piece of poster board, and draw a big old Reindeer on it.

Then they would put the drawing on the wall, (minus the nose of course.) Then my mom would give each child a red “nose” with tape on the back of it. The nose was four or five cotton balls glued together with craft glue and painted red with red finger-paint type paint. Read More »

The name of my favorite game to play at Christmas is the Right and Left of Christmas preparation. I don’t even remember where I obtained my copy of the story or where I played the game, but I’ve had it for a long time.

I suppose the story could be written for any occasion, but I’ve only used it for Christmas. There’s no limit on the number of people who can play, but when you get over ten people the game seems almost out of control with confusion which can make the game no fun. Read More »

Game directions: It’s your Christmas Party and Santa’s been invited. How many drinks can Santa handle? Luckily Rudolph is driving tonight.

Use the mouse to balance upright, click mouse to catch the drink.
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Game instructions: The Christmas decorations have been cooped up in storage all year. They are so excited that it’s finally Christmas that they are bouncing out of the box. Unfortunately if they fall the ground they will break.

Help the Christmas decorations by bouncing them across the room to the Christmas tree. You will get another life every 500 points. Also watch out for power-ups. Stars give you another life. The stocking gives you more points but the lump of coal takes away points. Finally, a present makes the pillow bigger, but the fruitcake makes it smaller.
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Game directions: Follow the audio and visual clues to shoot as many correct presents as possible within the time limit. Incorrect shot will cost you one of your three lives.

Greater accuracy will improve your score.
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Game instructions: It’s a few weeks before Christmas and Santa’s using some of his ‘down time’ to chill out on his snowboard.

Help him jump the snowy Christmas objects. Use the arrow keys. Jump with Space key.
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Game description: Decorate the Christmas Tree the way you like. Use the left key of the mouse to grab, drag and drop Christmas tree toys.

Decorate the most beautiful Christmas tree.
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