Party games for Christmas
Eaten all you can, had your afternoon snooze, well why not liven things up in the evening with a few parlor games. You might want to add in some festive cocktails and these funny Christmas party games are great for adult groups -- or keep them family-friendly and play with the kids!
Hidden Meanings
Give each person a piece of paper and a pen. Pass a dictionary around and let everyone choose several unusual words with unusual definitions/meanings. Get them to write down the correct definitions/meanings and make up two or three others, then take it in turns to read one of their words and definitions/meanings aloud and get everyone else to guess which is the correct one. The winner is the person who guesses the most correct definitions at the end of the game. www.sainsburys.co.uk
Alphabet Time
Ok ! you must divide everyone into two teams and ask each team member to write down a topic for conversation and put it into a hat or bowl. It could be anything from sports to food to eating out – anything.
The first team draws a conversation topic out of the hat and the other team gives them a letter of the alphabet at random. The idea is to start the conversation with a sentence beginning with the designated letter, and for each subsequent player to continue with a sentence or question beginning with the next letter of the alphabet, until you come back to the starting letter. For example, if the subject is sports and the letter is ‘F’, the conversation could start with ‘Fulham did a cracking goal on Saturday?’ ‘Goal scoring is great in football’ ‘Hockey is a much better sport. and so on through the alphabet until you arrive back at F’.
The winning team is the one to complete the alphabet talk in the shortest time. Everyone get a shot !!!
Drawing Time
Divide your guest into teams of two or more and get everyone to write down topics for the other teams to draw. Try to be challenging but not too complicated, for example: ‘An egg boiling’ or ‘Ball games’. Don’t have anything that doesn’t make sense it will take long to guess. So don’t include things like ‘A duck smoking a cig’ or anything else too bizarre.
It’s best if you have a flip chart or a roll of lining paper - something big enough for everyone to see at once. Let the teams take it in turns to draw as many of the ideas as possible within a minute or two while their fellow team members guess. The winning team is the one with the most correct guesses at the end of the game.
Who am I ?
Stick a sticky note with a famous person’s name written on it onto the foreheads of each of your guests, (they are not allowed to look at it) tell them they must guess who they are. They mustn’t have access to any mirrors and are not allowed to remove their notes to read who they’re supposed to be.
This is a good conversation starter, as each guest must chat to the others to gain clues as to who they are! The last person wearing a sticky note is the loser and wins a booby prize or has to do a forfeit http://www.northpole.com/.
Get each of your guests to write down three facts or anecdotes about themselves -- two true and one false. Take it in turns to read them out to the your guess.
The group then questions the reader to try to find out which one is the lie. Have a small prize for the best guesser and the best liar.
Prepare a tray with around 20 objects on it. Write the names of the objects on slips of paper, but with the letters all jumbled up as in an anagram. (It helps if the objects have fairly long names, such a ‘corkscrew’ or ‘penknife’ rather than ‘fork’!)
Fold the slips of paper and put them in a hat or bowl. Get each of your guests to pick a slip but not look at it until each person has one.When everyone’s ready, sound a bell or alarm of some sort to start the game. The first person to unscramble their word and find the corresponding object on the tray is the winner. Put the slips back into the hat or bowl, give it a shake and start the game again with the remaining players until everyone has found their object.