Hosting a Christmas party can often seem exciting and fun when we first suggest it, but as we get nearer to the festive period many of us begin to wonder how we can keep so many people entertained for a few hours.
Well, fear not. If you’re willing to put in a little bit more preparation, then there are plenty of ways to have festive fun at your party and make sure that all your guests leave filled with Christmas cheer. This short article presents a few different ideas for you to choose from.
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Gingerbread House Build-Off
This one is great fun and works especially well if you have enough guests to form teams. Each team will need some Christmas gingerbread and a variety of icing for putting them together, as well as some other edible treats for decorating them. Usually, the idea is simply to build the most lavishly decorated gingerbread house possible within the time allowed, but if you want to make it even more challenging and competitive you could ask people to build the tallest instead.
Once it’s all over your guests will love eating their delicious creations, or you could keep one of the houses to help decorate your home over the festive period.
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Christmas cocktail contest
If you want to do a creative activity that’s a bit more grown-up than gingerbread houses, then a Christmas cocktail contest is a great one. You’ll need to prepare a variety of different drinks for your guests to work with, and you could also ask them to bring something of their own. In order to keep it Christmassy, try to use mainly green, red, and gold coloured liquids. The aim of the game is just to see who can make the most original and best-tasting Christmas cocktail.
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Ornament guessing game
Rather than having just one or two games as the central activities of the evening, you could spread some smaller games throughout the night too. The ornament guessing game is a great one for when your guests first arrive and it requires very little preparation. As your guests enter your home, ask them to quickly guess how many ornaments are hanging from your Christmas tree. Don’t give them a chance to count, and remember to keep a record of the answers. At the end of the night, you can give the person who guesses closest a small gift as a prize, or let them open their presents first.
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Santa hat game
This is another smaller game that goes on throughout the party. When the evening begins, all of your guests should be given Santa hats to wear. One person is then designated as “the leader,” which means that when they take their hat off later in the night, everybody else should follow suit. The last one wearing their Santa hat is the loser and has to do a forfeit.
Conclusion
While classic Christmas games like charades will always have their charms, there are plenty of other ideas that you can use to liven up a Christmas party. You can’t go wrong with a Christmas-themed creative contest, but little games throughout the night are a good way to add in some fun too.
