This is the year I'm hosting our extended family Christmas party! My sis and I take turns and we have been doing a theme and games for a number of years, to take the emphasis off gifts. We still do the Dirty Santa game, just not buying additional gifts for each other.
My theme was Reindeer Games! I asked everyone to wear reindeer gear, we had some great games and I made some special reindeer pops (dipped Oreos with added goodies to look like reindeer). It turned out great! Here's a few of our games:
My mother won the Best Costume prize with this cute sweatshirt she's actually had since 1988 - my sister painted it for her when painted shirts were popular!
We broke up into 4 teams for the games to make it move quickly and build comradery. This was the Ornament Challenge. They had 10 minutes to make an ornament given a bag of craft goodies with no instructions. I judged them based on creativity. It was a quiet game that everyone seemed to enjoy!
A cute one!
Ring Toss on the Reindeer Antlers! I bought this game at our local store and made more rings with pipe cleaners so all team members could toss at the same time. It was a fun one!
Finally we did the Reindeer Hooves game that seems to be all over social media this year, scooping cotton balls with our cup "hooves." It wasn't that easy!
We finished off the evening singing Christmas songs, especially the reindeer ones, and playing Dirty Santa! It was a fun party and I'm glad our family participates well. :)
Reindeer Pops!
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