Fun family games for christmas

[HelenLime]

We love a game we play with playing cards and wrapped gifts. Get a selection of cheap novelty things to wrap up (tiger, primark etc are great for this) and try and wrap them in a way that doesn’t make the content obvious (eg put a Maltesers reindeer in a bubble wrap in a shoe box and wrap the shoe box). You need a few more gifts than players.
Deal out a stack of playing cards to those playing and then shuffle another deck of cards and turn over the second pack 1 by 1.
When your card comes up you choose a gift from the middle, once all gifts have gone from the middle if your card comes up you need to steal a gift from another player.
It’s great fun and hilarious to watch grown men fight over a big parcel containing a pack of novelty tissues.

[Guest]

Originally Posted by HelenLime

We love a game we play with playing cards and wrapped gifts. Get a selection of cheap novelty things to wrap up (tiger, primark etc are great for this) and try and wrap them in a way that doesn’t make the content obvious (eg put a Maltesers reindeer in a bubble wrap in a shoe box and wrap the shoe box). You need a few more gifts than players.
Deal out a stack of playing cards to those playing and then shuffle another deck of cards and turn over the second pack 1 by 1.
When your card comes up you choose a gift from the middle, once all gifts have gone from the middle if your card comes up you need to steal a gift from another player.
It’s great fun and hilarious to watch grown men fight over a big parcel containing a pack of novelty tissues.

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I like the sound of this but how does it end?

Do players have only one card each, or do they have an entire pack between them?

Say for a group of 6 people, how many presents would you do?

[Guest]

Head bandz and speakout are our go to post dinner games. But marshmallow / spaghetti towers sounds good too.

[HelenLime]

Originally Posted by FamilyGWales

I like the sound of this but how does it end?

Do players have only one card each, or do they have an entire pack between them?

Say for a group of 6 people, how many presents would you do?

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You split the whole pack so players have multiple cards and presents keep getting stolen as the game progresses . Ends when the last card is drawn.
For 6 people I’d probably do 8-10 gifts

[Guest]

Thankyou!

[HFJohnson]

Originally Posted by HelenLime

We love a game we play with playing cards and wrapped gifts. Get a selection of cheap novelty things to wrap up (tiger, primark etc are great for this) and try and wrap them in a way that doesn’t make the content obvious (eg put a Maltesers reindeer in a bubble wrap in a shoe box and wrap the shoe box). You need a few more gifts than players.
Deal out a stack of playing cards to those playing and then shuffle another deck of cards and turn over the second pack 1 by 1.
When your card comes up you choose a gift from the middle, once all gifts have gone from the middle if your card comes up you need to steal a gift from another player.
It’s great fun and hilarious to watch grown men fight over a big parcel containing a pack of novelty tissues.

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This is a great idea - think I'll try it on New Years Eve when there are 10 or 11 of us.

[Twin mummy]

Originally Posted by hermione25

This is my go to game for Christmas party day in school too - works well with a big foam dice so it’s easily read too.

Last Christmas Eve I split everyone into teams. Gave each team a pack of spaghetti and a big bag of marshmallows. The challenge was to build the tallest tower - it got really competitive (The trick is to build triangles ) We also had a prize for the tower that held the most weight

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Love that idea, might steal it. Yep I've done the chocolate game at school too!

[Twin mummy]

My Mum always used to do a game where she wrapped up everyday objects, numbered them and then you guessed what they were. Person with most correct on the list won.

[mandco]

I've picked up the 5 second rule game this year not tried it yet but it looks fun and gets good reviews

[Vanillapod]

What about the flour in the pudding basin game? You have to try and get a piece of chocolate off the top of the moulded flour with your teeth