14 Funny Christmas Games for Family and Friends
Christmas games are the best way to bond and celebrate Christmas with family. If you are bored with the same old games and want to an exciting Christmas party, I have for you some fun Christmas games for family. These fun holiday games are easy to play and works for all age.
Find the Christmas Treasure
This game is full of riddles, hidden clues, and small surprises leading to a final Christmas prize. To play this game you need to have a fun Christmas prize that everyone needs to find with help of clues. Marke around 8 to 10 Christmas-themed clues like ” go to Santa entrance” which means the mantel and there the next clue will be hidden. Each clue around the house, will lead to the next location, till the final clue of the Christmas prize.
This game can be played individually, in pair or team. Use fun holiday rhymes and puns to make clue more exciting and challenging.
Christmas Family Feud
This is lively, know you family better kind of game. But all things holiday. Before the gathering ask your family some questions or you can find some online. Based on these make a list of question that you can each team. The questions can be “Name something you put on a Christmas tree,” “Name a popular Christmas song”. The team or player with the higher-ranking answer chooses to play or pass. Everyone tries to guess all the top answers untill they miss to find a matching answer. Thats when the other player gets the chance.
The Ornament Relay
This is a fun game to play that will make everyone excited. Divinde everyone in teams and give each player a spoon and each team an ornament (non-breakable). Each player takes turn to pass the ornament to the next till they end of the race without using hands.
12 Minutes of Christmas
This is a fun and fast-paced game fille with mini challenges. There will be 12 quick tasks or games that must be completed in 1 minute time. Each task carry one point and the team or person who gets the most point wins this game. It can be as simple as wrap a small gift using only one hand or Balance an ornament on your head for 1 minute. Here are 31 One Minute Party Games for Family that you can try.
Another fun way to play this is like playing 1 each day for 12 days of Christmas and give a winner prize on the final day.
Santa’s Spy Mission
This is a fun and mystery adventure game. All the players in this game are Santa’s secret agents, trying too find who stole the Naughty and Nice List. All the players will pick a paper slip, one of which will mention “Christmas Thief.” The host will start the game by saying “Someone in this room has stolen Santa’s List. Your mission is to find out who!” Everyone start asking questions or share their reasoning on who is the thief. The whole team must agree to a name or a majority. If they are right they win if not the group is out of the game and remaining continue to play.
Family Christmas Roast
This is a fun lighthearted family, perfect to play after dinner party. Everyone “roast” each other. You can inform the family members to prepare for it in advance. Communicate clearly that jokes should be about funny habits, not personal topics and kids-friendly and loving. They can also share a funny Holiday incident. Each person gets around 5 minutes to cover all the family memebers at the gathering.
Christmas Gift Exchange
Make gift exchange on Christmas more fun with some exciting way to share gifts. You can ditch the simple secreat santa style of gift exchange and play some games to exchange gifts. It can be Christmas Gift Auction or Chew your Gift. I have a fun list of 15 Christmas Gift Exchange Games with instructions to play. And some are no prep, yet fun-filled.
The Candy Cane Thief
This is a sneaky and fun Christmas game. One person secretly becomes the “Candy Cane Thief,” and everyone else must figure out who’s stealing candy canes. Scatter 20–30 candy canes around the room. You can put some on tables, shelves, tree branches, etc. The theif will steal them and hide them from everyone. You can start the game at the begenning of the gathering and conclude at the end. Everyone share their suspect and give reasons.
Christmas Cookie Showdown
This game is a Christmas twist to card game, instead of chips you have cookies . Everyone have same number of cookies like 10 or 15 that they trade. Keep a bowl in the middle, everyone put 1 cookie from their side to it. Shuffle the cards and give 1 to each faced down. The player with the highest rank card wins the round and gets all the cookies. You can decide if it will be 5 round game or more before the game.
Christmas Movie Charade
A classic game to play at family gathering without any preparation. List Christmas movie titles on small slips of paper, fold them and place in a bowl. Each team take turns to enact silently the movie name. You can set the timer to 1 or 2 minutes for each to guess. Rule are simple no talking, humming or sounds to lead to the movie name.
Christmas Treats Pair
This is a sweet and simple matching game, where you need to guess the treat sequence. Hold a large box, horizontally so that the blocked side faces the player, place each Christmas treat 4 to 5 are enough to play. Each player get a chance to come up and put the treats aboev the box, if it forms a pair with all the treat they win; or else the host informs the player, they got 1 or 2 correct without mentioning the name of treat. And the next player continues. Till someone makes all pair correctly.
Christmas Bingo
The classic bingo game that everyone loves to play. Make a bingo card with Christmas items like items like candy canes, wreaths, snowflakes, and gingerbread men. The host call out one and all the players must strike it out. When someone completes a line, they Ho Ho. Instead of calling out items you can make it more intresting by hinting the item with a riddle or clue. You can get my free Chritmas bingo printable to play this game.
Christmas Family Trivia
This is a light hearted family quiz around Christmas and holiday season. That will lead to sharing family stories. Eevryone can gather around with hot drinks and snacks and play this for a fun-cozy time. Make a mix of Christmas questions and family traditions like What color are mistletoe berries?, Whats dads favroite Christmas treats?, In Home Alone, where was the McCallister family traveling to? Each answer is a point for the team. Try to keep the questions more around family Christmas traditions and stories.
Christmas Never Have I Ever
This is a festive twist to classic never havae I ever. Everyone gather in a circle with 10 treats like chocolate or marshmallows. And each person makes statement like “Never have I ever fallen asleep during a Christmas movie,” or “Never have I ever regifted a present.” If anyone has done it, they will give their 1 treat to the person saying the “Never Have I Ever” statement. The one with most treats at the end wins.
Hope these family Chiristmas games gave you some ideas to plan games to play at your next Christmas dinner.
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