Planning a Christmas party for your family and friends? Add a bit of spice to this year’s event with festive party themes and game ideas! Whether you’re hosting the family get-together, planning the office Christmas party or having the gang over for some Holiday cheer, you’ll find the perfect party plan here!

Get Creative!

Deck the Halls with Christmas Balls! It’s a make-your-own-ornament party. Set-up a table with styrofoam balls, fabric paint tubes, sequins, glitter and all the decorative trimmings. Each guest can make their own ornament to take home. Take secret ballot votes for the best homemade Christmas ball, winner get a prize!

Decorate your own Holiday cookies party. Have tubes of colored icing, a variety of sprinkles, cinnamon candies, gum-drops and coconut (for Santa’s beard) setup on a table or work space. Bake a batch of sugar cookies and let the fun begin! Any cookies will do but Christmas themed cookie cutters make great cookies for decorating.

Trim the Tree Party. Necessary items — tree decorations and one bare tree. This one is a blast that leaves you with an interesting tree and one less Christmas chore! Have all the ornaments, tinsel and tree trimmings visibly laid out and let your guest put them where they may (hopefully on the tree!).

Wrapping Races. Say that fast three times. Setup a wrapping table with gift wrap, ribbons, bows, tape and a few oddly shaped boxes or items. On your mark, get set, wrap! Your guest will race each other to see who can wrap their box first. How about prizes for the best and worst wrapping?

Yummy! This one’s a twist on the cookie decorating theme. Instead of cookies your guest will build a gingerbread house! Make the gingerbread molds for one large house or a few smaller houses. Set out all the trimmings and icing and let the fun begin! This is great for gourmet-type friends and family gatherings.

Something for the Guys! Teed Off Christmas Party. This one is great for all those golfers who are sidelined during the winter months. Setup various miniature golf “putting greens” for a rousing round of indoor golf. Use plastic balls and creative putting green “holes”. Make it competitive — every guests who makes a hole in one guests a prize!

Poker-night with a Christmas twist. It’s regular poker night but this game is played for a good cause.. Your guest will play for their favorite charity. The winnings for the night will go to the chosen charity. This party theme is perfect for a large group or organization who want to make a charitable donation during the season. All the winnings can be pulled for one or more charities.

Scrooge’s Feast. It’s a past, present and future party! This one is great for couple groups. Each couple hosts a different stage of the dinner. The hors d’oeuvres are at one house, the entree’s at another and the desert yet to come at the final destination. If you’re smart about planning this you can invite three groups of friends and skip any meal preparations.

Family Fun! All together now. It’s a Christmas caroling party! You and your guest will traipse through the neighborhood singing their favorite carols. Best to get approval from your neighbors first. Maybe some of them will invite you in for a bit of Christmas punch. This is another great charitable activity for organizations. Caroling in nursing homes or hospitals will bring some grateful merriment to the receiver and giver alike,

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! It’s a snow party! This one is for the kids and kids-at-heart. Know a perfect hill for sleigh riding in your neighborhood? Or maybe a great spot for building snowmen? Have your guests bring their own sleigh or have a few on hand. Setup sleigh races, a best snowmen contest and a best snow angel contest. Take pictures with your digital camera during the fun. Head inside for a warm cup of cocoa and share the pictures with your guests. There’s sure to be much laughter at their snow antics.

Christmas Puzzle Party. How about a Christmas puzzle party. Do you have a group of friends that like to solve puzzles or mysteries? . Send each guest a piece or two of a puzzle. When they arrive the puzzle is partially put together. The guest take guesses as to what the end puzzle will be and have to find where their pieces fit. This is great for groups who may not know each other well. This theme is sure to get your guest interacting. Great for guest who may not know each other well.

Got Milk? It’s a cookie exchange Christmas party! Each guest brings 6 dozen of their favorite holiday cookie along with 12 copies of the recipe. Other food is to be served since the cookies are not for eating but for exchanging. When the exchange starts, each guest introduces themselves and their cookie and tells any story about the recipe such as “My grandmother’s, grandmother passed this recipe down….” or “I burned the first two batches, then switched recipes…”After the introductions each guest circles the table picking out 2 to 3 cookies from each batch. Everyone leaves with a container full of different cookies. This is great fun and a great way to find new cookie recipes.

There you have it! Twelve Holiday party themes for a fun and festive party full of Christmas party games and merriment! So put up the mistletoe, make the guest list and get the party started!

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Christmas party games and ideas are easy to plan with a festive mindset. Think fun! Whoever is heading to your house for the holidays, make it a Christmas to remember. These ideas are a breeze to plan and will inspire the joys of the season for you and your guest to share.

With all the hype and consumerism that has taken over the pleasure of Christmas, don’t forget that nothing can replace the joys of a simple celebration at home with close friends and family. Think of Christmas past – the smell of fresh baked goods, the sparkling luminous tree, Christmas carols playing on the stereo, much talking and laughter throughout the house. This is the stuff of a true Christmas where the joys of the season can be found. It is also the simplest of celebrations to plan.

The smell of fresh baked goods coming out of the oven is an irresistible holiday memory. Even the family “scrooge” can’t resist the temptation to indulge in Christmas treats and sweets. Don’t spend all your time baking, a simple cookie recipe or two is all it will take to get your guests into the kitchen. Consider a holiday baking party with a few close friends, everyone shares their best Christmas cookie. How about a cookie decorating party? Cookie decorating is fun for kids, big kids and kids at heart. These recipes will bring the joys to your kitchen:

White Rolled Christmas Cookies

– 1 c. powdered sugar
– 1 tsp. cream of tartar
– 1 tsp. soda
– 1 c. butter (margarine may be used)
– 2 c. flour
– 1 egg, well beaten
– 1 tsp. vanilla
– 1 tsp. almond extract, if desired

Roll out dough a cut with cookie cutters. Dough can be rolled and re-rolled as often as necessary for cutting desired shapes. Frost with favorite powdered sugar icing and decorate. Also may be rolled in balls and pressed flat to 1/4 inch. Bake at 300 to 350 degrees for 8 minutes.

Christmas Fruitcake Cookies

– 1 c. butter, softened
– 1-1/2 c. sugar
– 2 eggs
– 2-1/2 c. flour
– 1/2 tsp. salt
– 1 tsp. baking soda
– 1 tsp. cinnamon
– 2 (8 oz.) pkgs. pitted dates, chopped
– 3 c. pecans, chopped
– 1 (8 oz.) pkg. candied pineapple, chopped
– 1 (8 oz.) pkg. candied cherries, quartered

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, beat well. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Add the rest. Drop on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 13 minutes.

How about Christmas movie night or nights. A great past time for families who want to create a holiday tradition to do every year. There are a number of wonderful holiday movies that will become family favorites. Try some of these for your family holiday movie night:

– It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – The top all time favorite every year as George escapes the clutches of evil Mr. Potter and realizes he’s the richest man in town. Thanks, Clarence.

– Miracle on 34th Street (1947) – Did Macy’s just hire the real Santa Claus? Hearts young and old still melt as Maureen O’Hara (and a very young Natalie Wood) finally see that “faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”

– A Christmas Story (1983) – Ralphie schemes and dreams his way to his one and only Christmas wish, the official Red Ryder air rifle.

– A Christmas Carol (1951) – The all-time best version of the Dickens classic starring Alister Sim as Scrooge and a definite must for any holiday DVD collection.

– The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) – Tim Burton’s original stop-motion masterpiece about a bunch of ghouls who just don’t get Christmas “…and they call him Sandy Claws!”

– The Santa Clause (1994) – Comedian Tim Allen’s only successful big screen performance to date as a hapless divorced dad begins to put on weight and grows a long white beard.

– Polar Express (2004) – On track to becoming a classic with Tom Hanks as the conductor on the early morning run to the North Pole.

Nothing says Christmas like Christmas carols. The tried and true classics are still the favorites. How about a tradition of caroling with family and friends. A rousing rendition of “Deck the Halls” is sure to get your group and your neighbors in the holiday mood. This list of carols are perfect for your caroling adventure:

– The 12 Days of Christmas
– Christmas Tree
– Come All Ye Faithful
– God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
– Tattenbaum
– Hark The Herald Angels Sing
– Silent Night
– The First Noel
– It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
– We Wish You A Merry Christmas
– Jingle Bells
– Joy To The World
– Three Kings

Create some holiday magic with your family and friends The scents, sounds and traditions from seasons past makes a great backdrop for a season of festivities, laughter and fun. Start a few new traditions your gang will want to do year after year. A bit of planning and a lot of love will create traditions enjoyed by the young and the young-at-heart. A little Christmas party games and fun will make the season merry bright and memorable. Happy holidays!

Terri Hunziker founded GamesAndLetters.com. Games and Letters provides hundreds of print-and-play games — Christmas party games, bridal shower games, baby shower games,and more! For immediate access to hundreds of fun games and ideas for your next party, visit, http://www.gamesandletters.com.

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