That means you don't have to go out and spend your hard-earned cash on items you probably won't ever use again. The kids will love this Christmas party game in which they race to recreate a stack of gifts. All you need to play is some empty boxes, leftover gift wrap, and two chairs. Participants split into two teams and race against each other to carry stacks of gifts between the chairs without dropping any presents.
Playground Parkbench. This Christmas party game for the kids challenges them to toss jingle bells into colorful cups. You can easily modify this game for kids of all ages by varying the distance of the cups from where they throw. Growing a Jeweled Rose. You'll just need a few supplies, which you probably already have on hand for this Christmas party game: white cups, construction paper, and rolled-up socks. Decorate each cup with a snowman face and then stack them in a tower.
The kids take turns throwing the rolled-up socks to the tower to see how many snowmen they can knock over. Snowman Slam from Growing a Jeweled Rose. Put a Christmas spin on a basic game of charades by making all the phrases about Christmas and the holiday season. This free printable will help you out with quite a few ideas for Christmas charade clues. 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. Santa Says. S says "Santa says hop". All students hop. S says "Stop". Students should continue hopping on until "Santa" says "Santa says stop". TP: F: actions, commands. Scramble Christmas Words. Supplies: index cards, paper bags. Write each letter of a word on individual index cards. Put the set in a paper bag.
Divide the students into teams. Give each team a bag. The first team to decipher what the word in the bag wins. A variation of the game would be to divide into teams with the same number of students as there are letters in the word. Each S gets a letter and the team must arrange themselves in the right order to spell the word.
TP: F: Spelling. Secret Santa Gift Exchange. Set this up weeks before the class party. Write each person's name on a slip of paper, then have students draw a name from a hat. They can't get their own name.
Students must buy a present for the person whose name they chose, but set a low price limit. Students bring the wrapped present, with the recipients name on it, to the party have a few extra presents on hand if anyone forgets, or in case of other emergencies so everyone can get one. The teacher or Santa! Snowball Frosty the Snowman. Draw a snowman on the board with target points e. Make wet balls of using tissue. Sts throw the wet 'snowballs' which stick to the snowman who also slowly melts!
Ask qus for points. TP: V: snowman, snowball, throw, points. Fold a piece of paper until it is quite small. Then cut small holes in the folded paper.
Open up - a snowflake! TP: V: Snowflake, paper, fold, cut. F: weather. Spelling Banner. Prepare two banners that say whatever you want them to say, ie Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings, etc.
Also prepare a set of letters for the same words cut out in two different colors hidden randomly around the room.
Divide the class into 2 teams with two captains--the captains sit and wait for their teammates to bring the letters for their banner. The first team to cover their banner letters wins.
TP: F: spelling. Who am I Santa? Blindfold one student. The other students stand in circle around the blindfolded student. S says "Ho ho ho. Who am I? Students create a standing, 3-D Christmas tree. Kindness with Santa's Beard A Christmas activity that encourages kindness! Santa's beard has 12 acts of kindness. Students complete one act of kindness each day and trim Santa's beard after completing. Each day has a random act of kindness idea for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students to complete.
Christmas Ornament A template to help students create an octahedron Christmas ornament. A glyph activity is included. You might also like these other tips and activity ideas for celebrating Christmas in upper elementary classrooms. Make copies, find a fiction book, and you'll be ready for any emergency that comes your way! You must be logged in to post a comment. Free Christmas Literacy Activities Christmas in the United States Close Reading 3 reading passages the same passage on 3 different levels to help you differentiate on Christmas in the United States, and questions to help you assess student comprehension.
Free Christmas Activities: Just for Fun Christmas Party Ideas A variety of Christmas party ideas so that every 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teacher can find something that will work for them! Comments 2.
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