A fun thing to do on Christmas would be playing Christmas music and have a singing talent show. Get three people to volunteer as judges. Let everyone take a turn singing a song and then let the judges give them a score from 1 to 10.
You could also have two different groups, one group of children where the adults would be the judges and then let the adults sing and the children would be the judges. The winner gets to take home the music CD.
Another fun activity is to sit around in a circle and have everyone compare their best gift ever and then their worst gift ever. Just be sure the person you got the worst are from isn't sitting in the circle.
You could also compare the best handmade or most interesting present you've ever got. Once everybody has shared their stories it's time for dessert.
Make a batch of sugar cookies a couple of days before Christmas and cut out Christmas shapes. On Christmas day bring out three or four different colors of icing in different sprinkles and small candies.
Let all the kids make a few cookies each. Tell them to be as creative as possible and make some silly and some fancy.
When you are unwrapping the gifts be sure to save all the paper. Have fun with the kids (and the adults if they want to) by sitting around the table.
Now have some kid safe scissors, tape, ribbon and a few small Christmas ornaments on the table. Have each kid take the paper and accessories and design a hat.
Let them make any design they want, then be sure to get pictures of everybody with their hats on separately and together as a group. What a great addition to your Christmas scrapbook.
Family Gift Exchange
If your family is growing and you have now have got too many members counting grandchildren, nieces, nephews, your own children and your parents, you may want to consider doing a gift exchange.
The way to do this is put everybody's name into a hat, and then have each person draw one name that they will buy a gift for. You will want to put a price limit on it on the gift so that everybody knows not too go over.
Now when you have your family gathering for Christmas, everyone can pass out their gifts and be sure that everyone gets one.
Another fun thing to do is have a white elephant gift. This is where everybody buys a gift and then number all the gifts.
Next each person picks a number out of the box and that is the gift they get. Now everyone opens their gifts.
Now the person that had number one can look around the room at everybody's gifts and if they want somebody else's gift instead of the one they got, they can change it by taking someone else’s and giving them there gift.
Next continue this with each person until everyone has had a chance to steal a least one gift. Now just to make it even more fun, go around the room one more time and let everyone have another turn.
This can be a lot of fun as you may steal a gift you want and then somebody can come and steal it from you. Maybe on your second turn around you might be able to get it back.
Another fun game with gifts would be to buy a $1-$2 gift for each person in the family and then let each member go through and shake and feel the gifts and see if they can guess what it is. The first one you guess right is the one you can keep.
You will need to number these and write a list of what is in each one so you will know when someone gets it right.
You could also have two different groups, one group of children where the adults would be the judges and then let the adults sing and the children would be the judges. The winner gets to take home the music CD.
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Another fun activity is to sit around in a circle and have everyone compare their best gift ever and then their worst gift ever. Just be sure the person you got the worst are from isn't sitting in the circle.
You could also compare the best handmade or most interesting present you've ever got. Once everybody has shared their stories it's time for dessert.
Make a batch of sugar cookies a couple of days before Christmas and cut out Christmas shapes. On Christmas day bring out three or four different colors of icing in different sprinkles and small candies.
Let all the kids make a few cookies each. Tell them to be as creative as possible and make some silly and some fancy.
When you are unwrapping the gifts be sure to save all the paper. Have fun with the kids (and the adults if they want to) by sitting around the table.
Now have some kid safe scissors, tape, ribbon and a few small Christmas ornaments on the table. Have each kid take the paper and accessories and design a hat.
Let them make any design they want, then be sure to get pictures of everybody with their hats on separately and together as a group. What a great addition to your Christmas scrapbook.
Family Gift Exchange
If your family is growing and you have now have got too many members counting grandchildren, nieces, nephews, your own children and your parents, you may want to consider doing a gift exchange.
The way to do this is put everybody's name into a hat, and then have each person draw one name that they will buy a gift for. You will want to put a price limit on it on the gift so that everybody knows not too go over.
Now when you have your family gathering for Christmas, everyone can pass out their gifts and be sure that everyone gets one.
Another fun thing to do is have a white elephant gift. This is where everybody buys a gift and then number all the gifts.
Next each person picks a number out of the box and that is the gift they get. Now everyone opens their gifts.
Now the person that had number one can look around the room at everybody's gifts and if they want somebody else's gift instead of the one they got, they can change it by taking someone else’s and giving them there gift.
Next continue this with each person until everyone has had a chance to steal a least one gift. Now just to make it even more fun, go around the room one more time and let everyone have another turn.
This can be a lot of fun as you may steal a gift you want and then somebody can come and steal it from you. Maybe on your second turn around you might be able to get it back.
Another fun game with gifts would be to buy a $1-$2 gift for each person in the family and then let each member go through and shake and feel the gifts and see if they can guess what it is. The first one you guess right is the one you can keep.
You will need to number these and write a list of what is in each one so you will know when someone gets it right.
Fun Activities for Christmas
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