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How to Plan Games for a Christmas Party

The annual home or office Christmas party can be a lot of fun for guests, but stressful for hosts. Many holiday-weary party planners are in need of simple ways to plan games for these events to avoid more stress. Here are some tips on party-game planning that will help you entertain after just a little stress-free preparation.

Things You'll Need

Santa photo
Internet access for more ideas
Candy canes
Miscellaneous Christmas items to hide

Instructions

Use Short Games as Ice Breakers
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  Use candy canes to make mingling easy and comfortable. When your guests arrive, hand them half of a candy cane. Throughout the evening, they must search for the other half of their cane and introduce themselves to the person holding it.
- 2
  Sing your favorite Christmas carol as a group. Each time a word is missed or lyric sung incorrectly, the guilty party has to stop singing. Whoever is left singing alone is the winner.
- 3
  Conduct a "Christmas purse search." Whoever has the most Christmas-related items in her purse wins a door prize.
Plan Games That Last Through the Evening
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  Turn a traditional scavenger hunt into a Christmas hunt. Hide Christmas items throughout your home and divide your guests into teams. Each team will be given a list of items to find, and the one that finds them all first wins.
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  Hand one of your guests a small picture of Santa Claus, and ask him to hide it in his pocket. Once all the guests are present, inform them that Santa is actually at the party and they have to guess who he is by the end of the party. The winner will be the person who unravels the secret Santa first. (Hint: each person only receives one guess!)

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