Christmas Party Mini Games

GAME ONE

Head, Shoulder, Knees, CUP!

Supplies: Solo cups

How to Play:

Pair up: Have each player find a partner. 

  1. Place cups: Put a cup on the floor between each pair of players. 

  2. Choose a leader: A leader stands in the middle and calls out body parts and "cup" at random. 

  3. Follow instructions: When the leader calls out a body part, players put both hands on that body part. When the leader calls "cup", players race to grab the cup. 

  4. Rotate: Rotate players so they don't face the same person all the time. 

  5. Continue: The winner of each round finds another winner to play against. The player who loses each round follows the winner and cheers them on. 

  6. Keep going: Continue until there's only one player left.

GAME TWO

Spoons: could play with candy canes to make it more festive!

Supplies: Spoons or candy canes, deck of cards

How to Play:

Choose a dealer 

  1. The dealer shuffles and deals four cards to each player 

  2. The dealer draws a card and discards it face down in front of the player to their left 

  3. Players take turns picking up and passing cards to the next player 

  4. The last player discards their cards into a discard pile 

  5. Players continue to swap and discard cards until someone has four of a kind 

  6. When a player has four of a kind, they shout "Spoons" and everyone tries to grab a spoon from the pile in the middle of the table 

  7. The player who doesn't grab a spoon gets a letter 

  8. If a player spells out "S-P-O-O-N", they are eliminated 

  9. The last player standing wins

GAME THREE

Christmas Oven Mitten Game

Supplies: Hershey kisses + oven mitts

How to play:

each player wears mitts and tries to unwrap 10-15 Hershey kisses, whoever unwraps first wins.

GAME FOUR

Candy Cane Pick up

Supplies: Candy Canes, Baskets or trays

How to play:

  1. Place a pile of candy canes on a table and give each player a candy cane and a tray or basket. 

  2. Players put the candy cane in their mouth with the hook facing down. Using only the candy cane hook, players must pick up other candy canes and move them to their basket. 

  3. Set a time and The player with the most cady canes wins!

GAME FIVE

Collect the Snowballs

Supplies: Large marshmallows, red solo cups

How to play:

  1. dump a few bags of large marshamallows on the floor or a table.

  2. supply players with two solo cups

  3. set a timer, whoever has collected the most “snowballs” by the end wins