Christmas Party Ideas

Spread the holiday cheer with these Christmas Party ideas!

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Piņatas Snowman Present - decorated in red or green wrapping paper Christmas Ornament   Invitations Cut out a snowflake from white paper and glue it to a card of blue. One the front write: You’re invited to a Winter Wonderland or Glide through the snow to our home for a Christmas party.  Or use one of these printable Christmas invitations.   Cakes Frost a cake with white frosting. Put large (clean) plastic snowflakes on the cake and lightly sprinkle with blue sugar, then carefully remove the snowflakes to reveal the snowflake pattern. Decorate a square cake to look like a present Candy Cane Cupcake Cake Snowman Cupcake Cake   Decorations Blue and white for colors or blue and silver or the traditional red and green Snowflakes dangling on strings from the ceiling Make a snow scene centerpiece - Styrofoam ball snowmen covered with white glitter for snow Santa hat centerpiece Lay out batting and sprinkle with silver glitter to make it look like sparkling snow

Costumes/Dress up
Santa hats
Elf hats

Games and Activities
Snowman Dress Up Race (ages 3-10)
Split the guests into two teams and dress one of the team members like a snowman. Dress in a puffy coat then wrap in toilet paper or white sheets, then put on oversized mittens, hats, scarfs, etc. Take lots of pictures.

Build a Snow Turtle (ages 3-12)
If you have snow, but it’s not good packing snow, try this activity for your Christmas party. Just pile a bunch of snow and form it into the shape of a turtle, a large shell, head and four small legs. Younger guests will have fun climbing and sliding down the turtle as you make it, ha ha. Provide spray bottles with coloring for the guests to color the turtle. HINT: Use warm water and a packet of lemon-lime punch mix without the sugar in the spray bottles. It takes too much food coloring to get a good coloring for the snow.

Cotton Ball Fight (ages 3-12)
I have yet to meet a group that doesn’t enjoy party games involving throwing things at others. My children enjoy it even when there is no party. Give everyone a handful of cotton balls and then let them throw them at each other, gather up fallen cotton balls and continue the snowball fight. Warning: Although it does vacuum up nicely, the cotton makes a horrid mess on carpet so do this activity last at your Christmas party, or do it outside if you live someplace warm.

Gifts for Others (ages 4-16)
Wrap presents for a family in need, or an Angel Tree, or one of the other many local charitable organizations you may have.

Build a Snowman (ages 5-16)
Just like it says. Go outside and build a snowman. Be sure to have something warm inside when the activity is done, like hot cocoa or warm cider.

Sled Relay (ages 7-16)
Split the guests into two teams and race, taking turns pulling each team member on a sled on a specific course around the yard.

Snow Sculpture Contest (ages 8-16)
Instruct the guests to create a snow sculpture. Provide tools such as butter knives, cups and buckets. Provide spray bottles with coloring for the guests to color their sculpture. HINT: Use warm water and a packet of punch mix without the sugar in the spray bottles. It takes too much food coloring to get a good coloring for the snow.

Christmas Word Search (ages 8-16)
Search for the familiar Christmas words in the word search puzzle. Or use the religious Christmas word search puzzle.

What’s the Next Line? (ages 8-16)
Fill in the next line of the Christmas song. Better watch out. Some carols have several "next lines."

Crafts
I Love You in ASL Mittens (ages 3-12)
Share the joy with this craft at your Christmas party. Stuff knit mittens with batting. Fold down the middle and ring ringer and use hot glue to hold down these fingers so the mitten is saying “I Love You” in American Sign Language. Tie with a ribbon and bow at the bottom.

S’more Snowmen (ages 3-12)
Make snowmen s’mores by placing a graham cracker on bottom, followed by a square of chocolate bar and three marshmallows on top. Chocolate chips for eyes and white frosting for glue. Pretzel sticks for arms. Use a strip of fruit roll up for a scarf. This was a popular craft at our Christmas party with the kids and the adults.

Jingle Bell Necklace (ages 3-16)
String some bells and beads to make a necklace or bracelet.

Candy Land (ages 3-16)
Make a candy scene. Turn ice cream cones upside down and decorate with green frosting and small candies to make Christmas trees. Build a sleigh with graham crackers, frosting and candies. Build a gingerbread house. Have fun!

Stained Glass Windows (ages 3-16)
Create stained glass windows. Sprinkle crayon shavings between two sheets of wax paper, tape edges together. Then place between newspaper or a brown paper bag and use a hot iron to melt the crayon shavings. Be careful to not burn the shavings or the creation will simply turn a nice shade of brown.

Another option is to use bits and pieces of colored tissue paper between two sheets of  clear contact paper. It's tricky, so only use with older guests. You can lay an outline under the contact paper and use a black marker to trace over the lines on the sticky side of the contact paper. Fill in with bits of tissue paper and very carefully place another sheet of clear contact paper over the top, sticky side to the middle. Then trim the edges. Hang in a window.

Mini Snowmen (ages 4-12)
Make snowmen from Styrofoam balls of various sizes. Use toothpicks to hold the balls together, cover with white glue and white glitter (not clear or silver glitter—white). You can even make an entire snowland scene at your Christmas party with these fun Christmas crafts.

Make a Snowman Kit (ages 5-16)
Before the party cut out the pieces needed for each guest: 2 eyes, 6 pieces of coal for the mouth, and 3 buttons. Cut large circles for the eyes and buttons and small circles for the coal pieces from 1” thick plywood. Drill a hole in the back to glue in an 8” long dowel rod. Purchase carrot noses from a craft store, take out the leafy greens and glue in a dowel rod. Have the guests use acrylic paints to paint their snowman eyes, coal mouth pieces and buttons. Then they can take them home to build their own snowmen, just add a hat and a scarf—and maybe a bit of snow.

Cut Out Snowflakes (ages 5-16)
Here's a classic Christmas party craft. Have the guests fold paper and cut out snowflakes. Try it with colored papers. Make a montage of the snowflakes in your front window. 

Fleece Scarves (ages 8-16)
Provide strips of fleece and have the guests use pinking shears to cut a fringe at either end of their scarf. You may need to borrow a few scissors from neighbors. Or, cut the fringe with regular scissors and knot each fringe.

Fleece Pillows (ages 8-16)
Turn your Christmas party into a slumber party with this craft. Cut two matching squares of fleece and cut a fringe around the pillow (so the size of the uncut part of fleece matches the pillow filling). Then tie the fringes of the two squares together with the pillow batting in the middle.

Refreshments
Hot cocoa and doughnuts

Hot cider

Hot dogs—Sorry, I was on a roll with the “hot” theme

Choose any of your favorite Christmas goodies. Red and green candies, cookies. etc.

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