Christmas parties are the perfect opportunity to bring friends and family together for some festive fun and laughter. Whether you’re celebrating with a group of close friends, family, or coworkers, one of the best ways to ensure your party is memorable is with a lineup of hilarious Christmas party games. These games will not only break the ice but also get everyone involved in the holiday spirit, creating plenty of laughter and good times.
In this article, we’ve compiled 45 hilarious Christmas party games that are sure to keep your guests entertained all night long, from silly activities to competitive games and everything in between!
1. Christmas Tree Relay Race
Objective: Assemble and decorate a mini Christmas tree as quickly as possible.
Materials: Miniature Christmas trees, ornaments, tinsel, and decorations.
How to Play: Split your guests into teams. Each team has a mini Christmas tree, and they must race to decorate it as fast as they can within a set time limit (e.g., 2 minutes). The team with the most creatively decorated tree wins. For added difficulty, make them do it while wearing oversized gloves or holding a spoon!
Why It’s Funny: Watching everyone rush to decorate the tree under pressure, especially if they can’t use their hands properly, will lead to hilarious results. Plus, seeing who can come up with the most creative (or chaotic) tree is guaranteed fun!
2. Christmas Cookie Face Race
Objective: Move a cookie from your forehead to your mouth using only facial muscles.
Materials: Round cookies (like Oreos), timer.
How to Play: Players place a cookie on their forehead and must use only their facial muscles to move it into their mouth. The first person to successfully eat the cookie without using their hands wins.
Why It’s Funny: Watching participants squirm and wiggle their faces to get a cookie from their forehead to their mouth is hilarious. The moment the cookie falls off is bound to get everyone laughing.
3. Elf Hat Toss
Objective: Toss small items into a large elf hat.
Materials: A large elf hat, small balls, or crumpled paper balls.
How to Play: Players stand at a distance and toss small items (like ping pong balls or crumpled pieces of paper) into a large elf hat or a bucket worn on a teammate’s head. The player who gets the most items in the hat wins.
Why It’s Funny: Seeing someone try to catch items while wearing an oversized elf hat on their head will definitely lead to some comedic moments. The challenge is harder than it sounds!
4. Holiday Movie Quote Challenge
Objective: Guess the holiday movie from a quote.
Materials: List of famous Christmas movie quotes (e.g., “You’ll shoot your eye out!” from A Christmas Story).
How to Play: The host reads out quotes from popular Christmas movies, and the players must guess which movie it’s from. Whoever gets the most correct answers wins.
Why It’s Funny: This game works best when people hilariously misinterpret the quotes or guess the wrong movie. Bonus points for reenacting the quote in the most dramatic way possible!
5. Reindeer Wrapping Contest
Objective: Wrap a teammate in wrapping paper to make them into a reindeer.
Materials: Wrapping paper, tape, scissors, ribbons, bows.
How to Play: Players team up in pairs. One person is the “reindeer,” and the other must wrap them in Christmas wrapping paper, leaving space for antlers, eyes, and a red nose. The most creative reindeer wins!
Why It’s Funny: The process of wrapping someone up as a reindeer can go hilariously wrong. Plus, the end result is sure to be a funny sight, especially if the person has a ridiculous antler or nose.
6. Christmas Carol Freeze Dance
Objective: Dance to Christmas carols and freeze when the music stops.
Materials: Christmas carol playlist, speaker.
How to Play: Play a Christmas carol while everyone dances around. When the music stops, everyone must freeze in place. If anyone is caught moving, they’re out. Keep playing until only one dancer remains.
Why It’s Funny: Watching people try to hold their pose during the freeze can lead to all sorts of hilarious positions. Plus, Christmas carol dance moves can get pretty outrageous!
7. Santa’s Sleigh Ride
Objective: Race to pull a sleigh filled with “gifts” to the finish line.
Materials: A sled or makeshift sleigh (can be a large box), various small items to fill the sleigh (presents, toys, etc.), a timer.
How to Play: Players must fill their sleigh with “gifts” and race it from one end of the room to the other. The trick is that they have to pull the sleigh while managing to keep all the gifts from falling out. The player who gets to the finish line with the most gifts intact wins!
Why It’s Funny: The chaos of trying to balance the gifts on a slippery sleigh makes this game both funny and challenging. Seeing gifts spill everywhere will make for a lot of laughs!
8. Christmas Tree Ball Drop
Objective: Drop ornaments onto a Christmas tree using only your feet.
Materials: A Christmas tree (real or artificial), Christmas ornaments, and a set of pillows or objects to use as a barrier.
How to Play: Players take turns dropping Christmas ornaments (using their feet!) onto the branches of a Christmas tree. They must aim carefully, as they cannot use their hands. The player who gets the most ornaments on the tree in one minute wins.
Why It’s Funny: The awkwardness of trying to use only your feet to place ornaments on the tree can lead to hilarious misfires. Plus, the randomness of where the ornaments land is sure to keep the game amusing!
9. Snowball Spoon Race
Objective: Transfer “snowballs” from one bowl to another using a spoon.
Materials: Plastic spoons, cotton balls or marshmallows, two bowls.
How to Play: Players must use a spoon to transfer snowballs (cotton balls or marshmallows) from one bowl to another without dropping them. The player who transfers the most snowballs in one minute wins.
Why It’s Funny: The balancing act of trying to move snowballs with a spoon can be trickier than it sounds. The race against time and the dropping snowballs make for a comical scene.
10. Christmas Tree Stump
Objective: Knock down a stack of cups with a snowball.
Materials: Plastic cups, snowball-shaped objects (ping pong balls, cotton balls), table or floor.
How to Play: Players must try to knock down a stack of cups using a “snowball” (ping pong ball or cotton ball). They throw it from a distance to see who can knock over the most cups in one minute.
Why It’s Funny: The challenge of aiming at a stack of cups and the random, often hilarious outcomes of each throw will keep everyone laughing. The harder the throw, the funnier the reaction!
11. Christmas Carol Lip Sync Battle
Objective: Perform a holiday song in lip sync style.
Materials: Christmas carol playlist, microphone or props (optional).
How to Play: Players pick their favorite Christmas carol and perform it without singing—only miming the lyrics and acting out the song. The more dramatic and over-the-top, the better! The audience votes for the funniest performance.
Why It’s Funny: Lip syncing to Christmas songs (and trying to be as expressive as possible) is guaranteed to bring a ton of laughs. The more exaggerated the performance, the funnier it gets.
12. Snowball Toss Challenge
Objective: Toss “snowballs” into a bucket from a distance.
Materials: Cotton balls (snowballs), buckets or containers.
How to Play: Players stand at a distance from several containers and must throw cotton balls into the containers. For extra difficulty, make the containers different sizes or place them at varying distances. The player with the most snowballs in the buckets at the end of one minute wins.
Why It’s Funny: The challenges in aiming at different targets, combined with the fluffy snowballs, make for a hilarious time. The cotton balls are light and tend to float or miss the target entirely, which leads to funny moments.
13. Christmas Hat Memory Game
Objective: Remember the items inside Santa’s hat.
Materials: A Santa hat, a selection of small Christmas-themed objects (e.g., candy canes, ornaments, small toys).
How to Play: Fill a Santa hat with small items and give players 30 seconds to memorize what’s inside. Afterward, they must write down as many items as they can remember. The player with the most correct items wins.
Why It’s Funny: The challenge of trying to remember a list of Christmas-themed items is amusing, especially as players try to recall the more obscure objects, leading to some funny and offbeat guesses.
14. Tinsel Tornado
Objective: Unwind as much tinsel as possible in one minute.
Materials: Tinsel garland.
How to Play: Give each player a long piece of tinsel wrapped around a spool or ball. They must unroll it and unravel the tinsel as quickly as they can within a minute. The person who gets the most tinsel unwound wins.
Why It’s Funny: The messiness of the tinsel, combined with players rushing to unravel it in a short time, will make this game both chaotic and funny. Expect some tangled-up players along the way!
These new Christmas party games are sure to create unforgettable memories and laughter. The mix of competitive challenges, festive spirit, and outright silliness will keep everyone entertained from start to finish. Whether you’re looking for quick activities or longer games, these ideas are bound to be a hit at your next holiday gathering!
