My favorite Christmas game is the picture game. It is a game that has pictures and you have to figure what song the pictures are describing.

For example there would be a picture of a L with a line through it, and the answer would be Noel as the song Noel.

You get as many copies as you like and pass them out to party guest. I was introduced to this game when I was 15 from a teacher.
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When I was a kid there’s one Christmas game I enjoyed, we play this kind of games every December. Why always December?

Because we cousin only have time to visit each other every December, we enjoy playing this games. statue dancing — that dancing game where everybody should stop dancing and try not to move when the music stops playing.
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We always played Post Office. I still have fond memories of the game.

It has no real rules, and I think it was designed by my parents mostly for chaos control with a horde of excited children.

Each of us in turn got to be PostMaster, while everyone waited in a circle at their assigned “addresses” (like, at the desk, sitting on the sofa, etc.).

The PostMaster would select a gift from under the tree, read the tag silently to him/herself, and then “deliver” it with fanfare and name announced to the recipient. Read More »

My favorite game is “Chris Parent Chris Child”.

It is a game of making the Chris child find out who his or her Chris parent is and do the tasks assigned by the parent.

The tasks can be amusing and it can make the game quite hilarious.

This game is played for a few days till Christmas Eve when the suspense is broken to the child by announcing who the parent is.

After declaring himself or herself as the parent, the Chris parent gives the Chris Child a gift as well. Read More »

For years we have been playing Tripoli. Any amount of people can play, we usually around 8.

This game is played with a chips, regular cards and a game surface that show all the combinations of cards that you can win from.

Each person is given an equal number of chips. Then the cards are dealt one at a time, this also includes a dead hand , if someone get more cards then the other that’s okay, if anyone get a card that matches the playing surface, they get the chips in that section.

You can also play Poker, Michigan Hearts from this playing surface. Their are rules for each game. Read More »

My family has a traditional Christmas game called “Find the Christmas Pickle.”

I’m not sure where or how this game originated (it’s most likely European but I’m not positive) but it plays like this: the host or hostess of the Christmas party clears the room of all potential participants.

Then he or she hides the Christmas pickle (it can be of any size or material but it should be green) in the Christmas tree.

Once the pickle is hidden, the host or hostess calls the players back in to the room and the search for the Christmas pickle begins. Read More »

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 »