Christmas game old time

Just print it, cut the clues apart, and place it in a container so guests can pick one to act out. Kids love to decorate cookies, so turn it into a contest. Cookie-decorating can be a messy activity, it's an easy one that the kids can jump right into. Give out awards for the prettiest, most creative, most colorful, and best-tasting cookies—though everyone's a winner when they get to enjoy these sweet treats. Bingo is a fun game for all ages, but creating your own cards can be time-consuming, given that each of them have to be different.

Print out these printable bingo cards, and you'll have an instant Christmas party game that didn't cost you anything to put together. Set up a fun scavenger hunt in which the kids search for Santa's reindeer, which you've hidden around the party space. Depending on the age of the children you have at the party, hide the reindeer in easy-to-spot locations or tuck them away to make them more difficult to find. The game suggests hiding small reindeer figurines, but you can make reindeer for free by using printable reindeer coloring pages.

To play this game, fill a large stocking with items around the house, and then the kids guess what's in the stocking. The items in the stocking should be Christmas-themed, such as ornaments, pinecones, and bows. The guest who guesses the most items wins a prize. This Christmas party game for kids will help keep their minds sharp as they try to recall items that were placed before them.

There are two more variations to this game: One in which you ask specific questions about the items, and the other one in which you trick the kids into what exactly they were supposed to remember. This free printable game includes the face and a whole bunch of noses, so each child can have their turn. Pin the Red Nose on Rudolph from Untumble.

Santa Says is a fun take on that classic game Simon Says that's a great way to end a Christmas party for kids. Be sure to include things that Santa would do such as delivering presents, sliding down the chimney, and reading a Christmas wish list. Santa Says from The Resourceful Mama. Fill a coffee cup or small bowl heaping full of sand, rice, sugar or flour. Place a toothpick topped with a small flag on top. Each player tries to knock out a little sand or whatever the cup is filled with without making the flag fall.

The player who makes the flag fall must bow and concede defeat to the rest of the players. All players sit in a circle. If a player laughs or smiles, he or she is out. Play continues until only one player remains. This game requires a small, fluffy feather, a kleenex or a balloon. All players stand or sit in a close circle. One player throws the feather into the air then blows the feather to keep it in the air. The player that the feather comes closest to does the same, trying to prevent the feather from touching him or her or touching the ground.

If the feather touches a player, that player is out of the game. A player who allows it to touch the floor is also out of the game. The shareware version of Jetpack was a staple of my childhood thanks to its awesome level editor. I could only play the few levels available in the free version, but I spent hours building my own.

The Christmas version just changes out a few graphics and turns you into a jetpack-wearing Santa hunting for presents, but it's still a new set of free levels, and it's still fun. The level editor is, again, included. Amazingly, Jetpack actually got a modern, Kickstarted sequel, which you can get here. My Abandonware link. There were multiple holiday-themed Lemmings releases, but the version bundles up the previous levels into the biggest collection.

There's a nice layer of snow over everything. It's all very cheery, until you send all your Santa-dressed lemmings plummeting to their deaths. To make it more exciting, sides may be chosen, and each one of the three snowballs numbered, one being 5, the other, 10, and the third, If the ball numbered 5 goes through, it counts 5 for that player's side.

If it does not go through, it is a loss, and so on. The side scoring the most points is victorious. A small tree is placed on a table. The candles are lighted. Blindfold the players, one at a time, turn around three times, and allow each to take five steps toward the tree.

Then he must blow as hard as he can, endeavoring to blow out all the lights, if possible. The one who succeeds in extinguishing the most receives a prize. Another amusement is playing "The night before Christmas" like "Stagecoach. The hostess then reads the well-known story, "The Night Before Christmas. When she mentions Santa Claus, all change places, and she tries to secure a seat.

The one left out continues the story, and so on, until completed.