You can find some great Christmas gift exchange suggestions here to share with guests. Depending on your guests, you might want to add a theme to make gift buying more fun. It can also help people focus on specific gift options. If you choose a gift giving theme, be sure that information is on the invitation as well.
When choosing a Christmas gift exchange game for your party, consider your guests. The number and their ages can be important. A good rule of thumb is that the more complicated the gift exchange game, the fewer people should play. A gift exchange game with a lot of rules can be hard to coordinate with a larger group. Also, consider the ages of your guests.
Once they have a gift, they want to keep it. And maybe make it optional. Kids also sometimes have trouble following oral directions. Most kids can easily follow the starting and stopping of the music. Love these Christmas gift exchange games and want to save them for later? Be sure to pin it below. You can also find an assortment of other holiday game printables in our shop here. They are sure to make your holiday celebrating easy and fun.
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If you've got a small team, you could throw it back to the good old days with a game of hot potato. Start by tossing a gift around the conference room table to the beat — or beep — of a timer. When the timer stops, the person who is holding onto the gift gets to keep it. Continue playing until all your coworkers have a gift in hand! You'll be surprised how the anxiety of the dwindling timer brings concentration and laughs.
And hey, when you're out, at least you're out with a gift. Like Hot Potato, musical chairs is the low-stakes tension we need this year. Start playing as per usual: everyone circles a set of chairs as the music plays. For the first round, after the music stops and everyone tries to grab a seat, the person who's left standing gets to pick a present. Then, the person who gets out in each subsequent round gets the option of picking a gift from the pile or stealing someone else's gift.
The last person left has the benefit of seeing what everyone else has already picked, giving them the option to steal from anyone or choose the final unwrapped present.
Have a small-ish office? This could be the perfect game. All you need is a pair of dice and a rule sheet printout.
Have everyone come prepared with a gift, obviously. From there, roll the dice one at a time. The number you land on comes with instructions that dictate the fate of your present, like unwrap your gift or everyone passing your present to the left.
How well do you know your coworkers? This is a great way to find out — or learn a little fun fact about one of your cubicle-mates. Have your most enthusiastic coworker host. When everyone brings a gift in, it'll be marked with a number and you'll be given a paper with that same number on it. Write down a fun fact about yourself. The fact paper will go into a hat and the host will read off the facts.
Whoever guesses who the coordinating fact is about first gets the gift associated with the number! Similar to the numbers game, play a round of trivia with your office. It can even be tailored to your office, be holiday-specific trivia , or just general random facts. Subscribe for Updates! How to Play: 1. Cut out the cards and place them in the envelope 2. Place all the wrapped gifts in the middle of where you are playing 3.
Each person chooses a gift you can draw numbers to determine the order if necessary 4. They follow the instructions on the card example: swap gifts with someone wearing red 5.
Once the cards run out, everyone opens the gift that they have. Merry Christmas everyone! Comments Thanks for this! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.
Every guest brings a gift of a specific value. You should confirm upfront if these gifts will be White Elephant i. You can either play that each guest may only steal the gift from the person just before you, or that you can steal any gift but that each gift may only be stolen once or twice.
Just remember that playing this way will give the people who have a turn later in the game more gifts to choose from than those who go first.
The person who went first should be allowed to steal a gift after the last person has chosen a gift as well. You can download the White Elephant Gift Exchange Rules and print or email them with your invitation so that everyone knows how to play the game. You might want to consider some fun White Elephant or Dirty Santa gift exchange options or variations.
Heads you get to choose a gift to unwrap, and tails you must steal a gift from someone that has already opened a gift. In this version, if you want to steal a gift, you first have to challenge that person to a game of rock, paper, scissors. Instead of simply switching gifts as you choose, you play with a custom card designed with instructions on what to do.
Each card will instruct you what to do. You can download these Free Printable cards to play here. Swappy comes with a cute white elephant that holds 20 unique game cards. Instructions are funny and silly with a twist.
Using dice to determine what happens to your gift is a fun alternative to the traditional gift exchange game. Before your guests arrive, print out the Switch, Steal or Unwrap dice instructions. Get everyone to sit in a circle and distribute the gifts so that everyone has three random gifts in front of them. You will need three dice to play this game. If you decide to only play with two gifts, then you will only need two dice. The game ends when all the gifts are unwrapped, and then guests keep all three unwrapped gifts in front of them.
You will need a dice and a card with instructions on what to do when someone rolls a certain number of the dice. This player is basically out of the game. There are two possible endings to the game. Either the game ends when all the gifts have been unwrapped and kept i.
For example, once everyone has thrown the die twice, then guests get to keep the gift in their hands. Everyone stands around a table and takes turns rolling the dice. When someone throws doubles, they put on the oven mitts and try to unwrap the first gift. Instead of buying gifts, guests buy gift cards instead.
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