Christmas is a season of joy and laughter. There may be difficult to find Christmas games for youth group can be challenging, especially when there is a significant age gap. There are plenty of Christmas party games that everyone can participate in and have a great time.
These exciting Christmas-themed games to try at your next youth group Christmas party during the holiday season.
1. Blindfold Christmas Paper Tree Creations
What you’ll need: Stickers, sequins, or other colorful small pieces of paper ready in a dish or plate ready for decorating with two-sided tape or glue.
How to play: First, blindfold a player, then give them a green piece of paper and have them tear it into three triangles (small, medium, and large) to form a Christmas tree. Next, get them to lue them together to form a tree and then use the stickers or other items to decorate it.
Players must complete this task in only two minutes and afterward judge which person has the most decorated tree that looks realistic. Players can play one at a time or simultaneously if they have enough blindfolds.
2. Giftwrap a Youth Leader Relay Race
What you’ll need: Gift wrapping paper, masking tape, bows, ribbons, and assorted items to act as pylons to run around.
How to play: First, each team of youth members must wrap their leader up in Christmas wrap, complete with bows and ribbons.
Once the leader is complete, they must go through a racecourse from one side of the room to the other, weaving between pylons or around them in a figure-8 formation to make the race harder. The first leader to arrive at the finish line on the other side with the wrapping paper still intact wins.
3. Christmas Charades
What you’ll need: A bowl, slips of paper with an assortment of Christmas season songs, movies, characters, and books written on them.
How to play: Break the large group into two teams. Use a large bowl to put folded slips of paper with Christmas items on them to choose from. One person selects a piece and acts out the thing without saying a word for their team to guess.
4. Pin the Nose on the Reindeer Games
What you’ll need: A large paper on the wall with Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer drawn on it without a nose. Red paper circles or red pompoms, double-sided tape or glue, and a blindfold.
How to play: Blindfolded players use a red paper circle or pompom for red noses with tape or glue to position it as close to where Rudolf’s nose belongs on the paper. The person who is closest to the proper spot wins the game.
5. Christmas Act of Kindness Paper Chain
What you’ll need: Red, green, and white strips of paper, a stapler, a pen.
How to play: Each youth member will use different colored slips of paper to write simple acts of kindness they can do on their own for someone. Next, staple all the slips in circles in a chain formation as a Christmas decoration to take home.
Each day, they can remove one chain link and complete the random act of kindness that they wrote on the slip for someone that day.
6. Cotton Ball Santa Face Race
What you’ll need: Vaseline, cotton balls, paper plates.
How to play: First, players will smear Vaseline on the bottom of their chin and face at one station. Next, they will run across the room to another station where cotton balls are out on a paper plate. Finally, they must stick their face into the plate, trying to get as many cotton balls to stick to them as possible without using their hands.
Finally, they run back to the station and remove all the cotton balls into an empty plate. The youth member who has the most cotton balls retrieved wins.