Elementary age christmas games

Blindfold one child and have another child hold the sleigh. The child with the sleigh calls out to the blindfolded child something like this: Santa, where's your sleigh? Someone's come and taken it away. Who has it? The blindfolded child has to guess who has the sleigh. Give the child 3 chances to get it right before giving the sleigh and blindfold to other children. For another sit down game, give each child a piece of paper and a pencil. Tell them to close their eyes and then tell them what to draw.

Give them the shapes, but don't tell them exactly what they are trying to draw though most children will figure it out. So, first tell them to draw three circles, with the largest being on the bottom and the smallest on the top. Then tell them to draw dots for eyes, and buttons for a coat. Keep going until you have described a snowman. Then have the children open their eyes to see what they have actually drawn. Award a prize for the drawing that most closely resembles a snowman. Well I saw the pictures of you playing guitar with the kids in your classroom.

I though that having Santa show your students simple tasks through the Internet about Christmas would allow them to learn the power of the Internet for all the right reasons. Welcome to Classroom 2. Win at School. Commercial Policy.

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When they get close to the item they are getting hotter. When they get farther away from the item they are cold. The farther they get away the colder they get. The closer they get the hotter they get…. Version 1: Show the items in the box to the children. Remove one or more items out of the box without children seeing you. Have the children guess what items are missing.

Version 2: For older children —put items on large tray or cookie sheet. Remove cover for seconds and then remove tray from room. Most correct answers wins! House, mouse, window, etc. Each item can have one or more playing with the same word-such as there can be two sleighs, etc.

When the reader mentions Santa or Santa Claus. The one left out. Supplies: Black board and chalk or Dry Erase board and markers. Slips of paper with a different Christmas song written on each one. A Christmas themed container or a stocking Timer.

Divide the group into teams. The player up draws a slip of paper from the stocking, reads it silently and hands to facilitator. The player must then draw clues as to what their song is—and try to get their team to say the name of the song. If the playing team guesses correctly, before the timer runs out, they get two points. If the playing team cannot guess correctly, before the timer runs out, the opposing team may take one guess. If the opposing team guesses correctly they get a point and the playing team loses a point.

Most points wins. No removing your own name tag to find out. If you ask, anyone will help you find out your identity. Supplies: Box filled with candy and that box wrapped many times with different paper. Children sit in a circle on the floor. When the music stops, one layer of wrapping paper is removed. The music begins again and the process continues until the box is completely unwrapped. The last player left standing is the winner and can then be the next leader Elf.

Avoid glittery cards. Place a large box or bin on the floor. Mark a place to stand some feet away from the box, depending on the age of the children. If you are playing with mixed ages, older children should stand further away than younger children. Each child takes turns tossing a stack of cards like a frisbee into the box. Count up the cards that land in the box….

Need: Index cards, Paper bags. Write the letters mixed up of the word on individual index cards. Do this two times, making two sets.

Put each set in a brown paper bag. Divide children into teams. Give each team a bag. The first team to decipher the word in the bag wins. Each child gets a letter and they must hold onto the card and stand in the proper order to spell the word for all to see. For a flat surface, instruct kids to place a book or something similar on their head.

Hold it in place with one hand. There is one point per correct drawing— one point if the tree is on the ground and one point if the star is on the tree and not in mid-air, one point for each present under the tree! You can also add ornaments on the tree…. Play the game from there! You could put in a snow globe, ornament, tinsel, tree light, Santa hat, etc. Put on some music and gently let the snow fall. This game can introduce youth to different languages.

Cut 36 pieces of tag board. On half write the countries-on the other half write the greetings. Quilt fashion—tack the countries on a bulletin board, wall or what will work for you. Put the greetings in a box. Following players have a choice. 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. 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. How fast can kids wrap a present?

You'll find out in this gift wrap relay. Split the group into teams, then have them race to wrap a present. The first round should be an easy-to-wrap present, such as a box. Gradually make the presents harder to wrap without ripping the paper. Here's another relay Christmas game for kids: Each child puts on a pair of mittens and then unwraps a small piece of candy while wearing them—it's harder than it sounds!