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		<title>School Christmas Gift Exchange Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many public schools don't allow gift exchanges during the Christmas season, but some do and certainly many private schools do. Many fun games can be created to make the gift exchange really fun and f


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many public schools don&#039;t allow gift exchanges during the Christmas season, but some do and certainly many private schools do. Many fun games can be created to make the gift exchange really fun and festive for kids.</p>
<p>There are several activities you can impose to make the gift buying interesting. For example, you can declare that one of the rules of the gift exchange is that gifts must be handmade or put together in some way and not purchased. You can take this a step further by declaring that the gifts feature the school&#039;s colors in abundance. Perhaps they might also somehow incorporate the school&#039;s mascot.</p>
<p>Definitely in a gift exchange with children, there should be a low dollar limit on the gifts (such at $5).</p>
<p>But once the gifts are ready, there are many fun exchange activities and games that can be used to make this even fun and memorable for the kids.</p>
<p>You can use a &#034;white elephant&#034; gift exchange method; here the kids draw a number and choose their gift from the pile of gifts in order by the number they drew. They can exchange their gift for a different one if they choose. A gift can only be &#034;stolen&#034; three times and the person who drew the first gift can &#034;steal&#034; a gift at the end of the gift exchange if they like. Kids always get a kick out of the &#034;stealing&#034; aspect of the white elephant gift exchange.</p>
<p>Children enjoy buying gifts for other people, so having them draw names is an excellent activity for a gift exchange. To add a twist, make the gift activity interesting by telling the children they can&#039;t tell their recipient they are buying for them. Then create a fun activity during the exchange itself to play up the &#034;mystery&#034; element of the gift exchange.</p>
<p>In the mystery scenario, you can have each child open their gift, then try and figure out who it is from. If the children were asked to make a gift, this can be particularly fun, as some children might have drawing skills, or woodworking skills which might make it easier or harder for the other children to decide who have them a gift.</p>
<p>As the children open the gifts, have them guess who the gift is from. If they are wrong, they have to do a little dance or silly physical act before making another guess. This repeats until they guess the right giver of the gift they have been given.</p>
<p>Another fun activity for gift giving among children in a classroom is to have each child make a game piece for an unknown game board. Everyone brings a handcrafted game piece (there can be rules as to its size, for example, no larger than 2 inches high), to play with on the communal game board.</p>
<p>The &#034;game board&#034; can be nothing more than a large rug that&#039;s been fashioned into some sort of game, ideally a Christmas-themed game. Always popular is &#034;get Santa back to the North Pole&#034; played much like Chutes and Ladders or Candyland. Since most children know how to play these games, the learning curve is small and at the Christmas party, they can get to playing right away. To keep with the gift exchange idea, each child can be asked to bring their handcrafted game piece wrapped and the pieces can be exchanged as gifts before everyone plays on the big game board.</p>


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		<title>Adult Christmas Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all Christmas games have to be for children, or have to be serious. Good gracious, adults like to let their hair down and have a good, silly time too. Here are several games to get you started.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not all Christmas games have to be for children, or have to be serious. Good gracious, adults like to let their hair down and have a good, silly time too. Here are several games to get you started.</p>
<p>If this is a group that&#039;s not afraid of looking silly, here&#039;s just the game. Provide a pair of pantyhose for each team and a total of 8 balloons. When the game begins, the team should begin blowing up the balloons and the inflated balloons have to be put into the legs of the pantyhose. To make this game fair, the teams should be of equal number and the pantyhose not a petite size.</p>
<p>The game ends when someone gets all their balloons into the legs of the pantyhose, &#034;wears&#034; the antlers and sings the first verse of &#034;Jingle Bells&#034;. Be sure to make everyone finish the game, however, so you can get a great picture of everyone in his or her pantyhose antlers.</p>
<p>For a fun relay-type game, how about making a Santa beard? Make a big bowl of cotton balls and get a container of Vaseline. Put some Vaseline on the chins of each member of each team (ideally, 2 teams of about 5 people each). The first players in line run to the bowl of cotton balls and sticks their chin in trying to get as many to stick to the Vaseline as possible. They run to the back of their line, so the next player can have a turn.</p>
<p>When everyone on a team has a beard, that team wins. As with the other game, be sure to take lots of pictures of everyone wearing their Santa beards. Also have plenty of towels and water to get the Vaseline off.</p>
<p>This next game is great for a smaller group of people who are open to a more quiet game. This is about packing Santa&#039;s bag. You start by saying, &#034;I packed Santa&#039;s bag and in it I put pajamas.&#034; The next person continues with, &#034;I packed Santa&#039;s bag and in it I put pajamas, and toilet paper.&#034; Each person continues, each time adding a new item, but also listing the items that were added before. You are out of the game when you miss an item. Someone could be sitting outside the game keeping a list of all the items so if the game goes on for a bit, you will know if someone misses an item.</p>
<p>If you&#039;re having a Christmas party for adults, why not offer up a fun game that&#039;s sure to remind them of a childhood favorite? Create a Christmas scavenger hunt. You will tell people to create teams (about 4 people per team is adequate, but you might want to have larger or smaller teams depending on the size of your party). Make a list of items they need to return with.</p>
<p>If you choose to keep the searching local, either at your home or in the neighborhood, include items like a miniature light string, a piece of holly, a leave off a poinsettia plant, and the like. If you choose to have guests traipse all over town for items, you can have even more fun. You might require them to purchase a holly-decorated box of tissue, or have them provide photo proof that they went down your city&#039;s Christmas Tree Lane. Whatever it is, be creative and enjoy the process. People love this game, not only because it reminds them of childhood, but it helps people get to know other party guests they might know that well and it&#039;s a game that gets people working together, which can always be fun.</p>
<p>Everyone enjoys Hershey&#039;s kisses at Christmas. Divide your group into two teams and have two bowls of Hershey&#039;s kisses at the other end of the room. Give each team one set of oversized mittens or gloves. The first person in line runs to the bowl of kisses, and has to unwrap the kiss while wearing the oversized mittens/gloves and pop the kiss into their mouth. They run back, tag the next person in line, and exchange the mittens/gloves and the next person runs forward to get a chocolate kiss. The winning team is the one in which all members have enjoyed a kiss first.</p>


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		<title>Valentines Day Games Preschoolers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are planning a Valentine's Day party for children, games are essential. Here are some games appropriate for the preschool crowd.

Preschool-age children love to fish. You can create a fishin


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are planning a Valentine&#039;s Day party for children, games are essential. Here are some games appropriate for the preschool crowd.</p>
<p>Preschool-age children love to fish. You can create a fishing game with small toy fishing poles and hearts (as fish). Use an empty plastic tub as your &#034;lake&#034; and put into it red hearts cut out of construction paper or cardstock. Each heart is good for a prize. One might be good for a Hershey&#039;s kiss, or other small candy, another might be for a small plastic heart. Put magnets on the cardstock hearts and a magnet on the fishing pole. Then the kids can &#034;fish&#034; for hearts and win a prize at the same time. Each child should only be allowed to &#034;catch&#034; one fish each.</p>
<p>Preschoolers love balloons and you can create a heart target for them to aim their balloons at. Create a target out of cardboard or heavy cardstock and put it on the floor somewhere. You might want to have several targets on the floor. Give the kids balloons that have been blown up but aren&#039;t tied shut. Let them let go of the balloons in the direction of the target and see where their balloon lands. Be forewarned: kids will want to play this over and over again. So either have plenty of balloons ready to go (perhaps held closed with a clothespin) or have plenty of adults around who want to blow up balloon after balloon. You can also play a similar game by putting a heart target into a box or laundry basket and having the children try to hit the target with an inflated balloon. Be sure to provide prizes for everyone!</p>
<p>Preschool age children love a good game of &#034;Duck Duck Goose&#034; or &#034;Simon Says&#034;. For Valentine&#039;s Day, you can put a twist on these classic games. Have the kids play a game of &#034;Cupid, Cupid, Love&#034; instead of &#034;Duck, Duck, Goose&#034; or have them play &#034;Cupid Says&#034; instead of &#034;Simon Says&#034;. Be sure to add a smooch at the end of each order in &#034;Cupid Says&#034; or have the kids incorporate Valentine&#039;s Day activities, like &#034;Cupid says, give your neighbor a hug&#034;.</p>
<p>This is a game young children love. Have them &#034;throw smiles&#034; at each other. Sit them in a circle and show them how the game will work. Only one person in the group will smile first. He or she will smile wildly and widely for the whole group. The rest of the group will not smile, not even a little tiny smirk. Once the smiling person is done, they will literally &#034;wipe&#034; the smile off their face and pass it to the next person in the group, who will repeat the wide smile and hope nobody laughs. The kids that laugh or smile are out of the game (those who should be stone-faced anyway). The game can continue until only one stone-faced person is left. Be sure to provide every child with a fun prize just for trying.</p>
<p>Preschool teachers might want to encourage creative thinking with a little game of &#034;Valentine&#039;s 20 questions&#034;. The teacher can have a visual in mind, which might be a heart, or Cupid, or a card or something relative to the holiday. The teacher says &#034;I&#039;m thinking&#8230;:&#034; and the children must ask questions about what the teacher is thinking. The teacher can give tiny clues along the way especially if he or she is losing the interest of the younger children in the group. Whoever figures out what the teacher is thinking can be the next one to begin the next round of 20 questions. Be sure to ask the child what they are thinking before the next round begins or it could go on longer than it needs to!</p>
<p>Children love &#034;pin the tale on the donkey&#034; so why not &#034;pin the heart on Cupid&#034;? In this game, simply provide each child with a big red heart with his or her name on it. Have a big cutout of Cupid on a wall and blindfold each child, spin him or her around and have them stick their heart on Cupid (there should be adhesive of some sort on the back of the heart). Once everyone has stuck their hearts, let them look at where they ended up.</p>


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		<title>Boo Activitys</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to get your neighbors in the Halloween spirit, be sure to engage them in a little game known as "Boo!" It's a popular game in some parts of the country, while in others, nobody has hear


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to get your neighbors in the Halloween spirit, be sure to engage them in a little game known as &#034;Boo!&#034; It&#039;s a popular game in some parts of the country, while in others, nobody has heard of it.</p>
<p>You might live in a neighborhood where you think nobody will participate in a round robin type of event as this, but you might be surprised. Sometimes during the holidays people will step up and get involved where before they wouldn&#039;t. It&#039;s possible, anyway.</p>
<p>The game goes something like this, and then will be described in more detail later. You print up a few poems and instructions on colorful paper (likely, orange). You get a treat bucket, or bowl or something and fill it with candy. You can also &#034;Boo&#034; people with candles, Halloween socks, and really whatever your imagination comes up with. You &#034;Boo&#034; two people at a time, leaving the items anonymously on their doorstep. You leave it with the instructions and the poem and hope they &#034;Boo&#034; other neighbors. Once you are done, you tape up a large &#034;Boo!&#034; on your door so neighbors know not to hit you up again.</p>
<p>Specifically, here&#039;s how it&#039;s done. Start this game around the very end of September or very beginning of October. If you want until everyone is decorated for Halloween, you&#039;re probably too late. You want this to spread around the neighborhood and that takes time, so you want to start it right as the season starts (or a little before, perhaps) and just as people are starting to think about Halloween. If you start too early, however, you might be out of luck as far as being able to purchase items goes.</p>
<p>So, it&#039;s the right time of the year and you&#039;re ready to go. Find a &#034;Boo&#034; poem and photocopy it. There are many variations of the poem. Here is a sampling:</p>
<p>&#034;Boo!<br />
To our good friends on the street;<br />
Our homes&#039; locations made us meet;<br />
You now have been Boo&#039;d, but who would we be?<br />
We&#039;ll never tell, it&#039;s a secret, you see.<br />
We placed these goodies for you and yours;<br />
Then we ran fast, after knocking the door!<br />
Happy Halloween!&#034;</p>
<p>Or it might be a big longer, something like this:</p>
<p>&#034;The air is cool, the season fall<br />
Soon Halloween will come to all;<br />
The neighbors are after things to do<br />
In fact, a neighbor brought this to you;<br />
&#034;Boo&#034; is a sign of friendship power<br />
Just hang it up and watch it double by hour;<br />
On your front door is where it works<br />
It wards off solicitors and scary jerks;<br />
The treat that came with friendly note<br />
Are yours to keep; enjoy them both;<br />
The power comes when friends like you<br />
Copy this and make it two;<br />
Then others here among our friends<br />
Will give warm fuzzies that will not end;<br />
We&#039;ll all have smiles upon our face<br />
No one will know who &#034;boo&#039;ed&#034; whose place;<br />
Just one short day to share your Boo<br />
You must be quick so they don&#039;t know who;<br />
And don&#039;t forget a nifty treat<br />
Like something cute or something sweet;<br />
Please join the fun, let&#039;s really hear it<br />
And spread some &#034;Boos&#034; and neighborhood spirit!</p>
<p>Be sure to include a cute graphic of a ghost or something else that looks like it might say &#034;Boo!&#034; You might want to include some details on the flyer about what should be done next, in case you think the poem itself won&#039;t be clear enough. Then attach the poem to the goodie bag, basket, whatever you have created, and run out one night dropping your goodies on peoples&#039; doorsteps. If you are just getting this started in your neighborhood, be sure to do more than 2 houses. You might find that some people don&#039;t participate and in that case, you want to have &#034;Boo&#034;ed enough people that you will get adequate participation.</p>
<p>What you&#039;re striving for is a neighborhood full of &#034;Boo&#034; doors by Halloween night!</p>


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		<title>Christmas Day Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just because the gifts are opened and the paper strewn about the living room doesn't mean the fun of Christmas is over. Add some fun party games to Christmas day to extend the fun of Christmas.

If


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just because the gifts are opened and the paper strewn about the living room doesn&#039;t mean the fun of Christmas is over. Add some fun party games to Christmas day to extend the fun of Christmas.</p>
<p>If you have a large gathering on Christmas day, have fun with the hat game. When they arrive, give everyone a Santa hat. These are inexpensive and can be purchased for $1 at the dollar store, or even less in bulk, if you plan ahead. As everyone goes about their business of getting food, chatting with others and the like, the room will look very festive with everyone wearing their Santa hats.</p>
<p>However, the object of this game is to not have your hat on. As people forget about the hats, the object is to get rid of your hat and not be the last one wearing a Santa hat. Inevitably there will be one person so wrapped up in a conversation or the buffet table, they forget to take off their hat and will be left the game&#039;s loser. This is a game that can be played again and again as you head forward with the day&#039;s festivities.</p>
<p>One fun memory game that kids particularly like is to make everyone pay careful attention to all the gifts that are opened on Christmas day. After the gifts are removed from the room (or you remove yourselves from the gift room) have everyone try and remember every single gift everyone got. Include stockings and any food gifts. Tell people they only have to remember the items that were opened that day, not any gifts they received and opened prior to Christmas day. This can be a fun game that&#039;s particularly popular with kids because they love to relive the gift magic. In addition, if they were so immersed with their own gifts they didn&#039;t notice anyone else&#039;s this is a good chance for them to educate themselves about what everyone got that day.</p>
<p>If you need a game to keep everyone busy before dinner, try the &#034;guess me&#034; game. Buy some large heavy socks, not low-rise, but the type that are worn outdoors in the winter that are thick and come at least to the calf. Put several items in the socks. Make sure identical items are in each sock. These items should be related to Christmas in some way. You might include a small ornament, scotch tape, a pinecone, a Hershey&#039;s kiss, and the like. Have each person feel the socks (having two socks just makes the game go faster, but you can play with just one sock), and write down their guesses about what&#039;s in the socks. Be sure to tell everyone how many items are in each sock. The winner gets, you guessed it, one of the socks!</p>
<p>If you have a bunch of wanna-be performers in your group on Christmas day, how about playing a little game of &#034;Christmas Idol&#034;? Set up a small table for the &#034;judges&#034; and have teams of 2 people (or individuals, if they want) sing a Christmas carol. Tell them to have a lot of fun with the song, and even add a Santa hat or other dress-up items if they wish. The winners can take home a CD of Christmas music. This game is particularly fun if just the children want to perform and be judged by the adults, or if, conversely, the adults perform and are judged by the children.</p>


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		<title>Pin The Beard On Santa Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to silly party games, it seems unfair that birthdays get all the attention and Christmas none. It's time to bring back some silly party games for Christmas, and "Pin the beard on Santa


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to silly party games, it seems unfair that birthdays get all the attention and Christmas none. It&#039;s time to bring back some silly party games for Christmas, and &#034;Pin the beard on Santa&#034; is as good a place to start as any.</p>
<p>To begin this game, you need a cardboard cutout of Santa. This can be purchased at some party stores, or even little gift shops. It doesn&#039;t have to be large, but it should be a big face of Santa. You can also find these at educational supply stores, or teacher supply stores, in the section of other cardboard decoration items that teachers put on classroom walls.</p>
<p>Once you get Santa&#039;s face home, cut off his beard. That&#039;s right, cut if clean off. There&#039;s no point in pinning Santa&#039;s beard on him if it&#039;s already there, right? The beard you sliced off can either be thrown away or keep it to tape back up later, if you want to use Santa&#039;s face for another game or as decoration.</p>
<p>Now, you can create several beards out of different items. It&#039;s easy to take a piece of thick cardstock and cut the beard out of that, or you can use foam with adhesive backing. You can simply peel the backing off right before it&#039;s used. You could also make the beard out of crumpled white paper, simply computer paper or the like. If you want to get a bit more elaborate, create Santa&#039;s beard out of cotton balls or a large piece of cotton pulled and shaped into the semblance of a beard.</p>
<p>If you have 5 people playing this game, you&#039;ll need 5 beards. 10 people? 10 beards. You get the idea.</p>
<p>You play &#034;pin the beard on Santa&#039; exactly as you play &#034;pin the tale on the donkey&#034; and similar games. Spin the person around, make sure they are blindfolded and then have them try to replace Santa&#039;s lost beard. Self-adhesive foam works well because once they place it on the picture of Santa, it&#039;s not going to move, so they can&#039;t change their blindfolded mind and change the position once they pick a position. It&#039;s there for the duration.</p>
<p>No, you can add several variations to this game. For example, you can buy a full-size cardboard Santa (again, the party stores often have these, or school supply stores, or you can make one of your own without much effort). You might have people pin the boots on Santa, pin the hat on Santa, or pin a red button nose on Santa.</p>
<p>One fun (adult) version of this game is to pin the chest hair on Santa. Create a fun cardboard Santa with his suit unbuttoned. It&#039;s a big macho for Santa, but also a bit fun. Then fashion &#034;chest hair&#034; out of yarn, threads or fake fur. Attach some sort of adhesive to the back (foam stickers work, or heavy-duty double-stick tape) and have people try and pin the chest hair on Santa the same way they attached his beard or might attach his boots.</p>
<p>Any good game offers a prize for the winner, and this one is no exception. You could always offer Santa to the winning &#039;pinner&#034; or you could have something more elaborate like a Santa goodie bag, filled with Santa pencils, Santa erasers, a Santa coffee mug, and Santa-themed candy.</p>


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		<title>Family Thanksgiving Activities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're hosting a family thanksgiving, you want to create a fun family environment that helps children understand the importance of thankfulness and reminds the adults of  this as well.

Since Th


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#039;re hosting a family thanksgiving, you want to create a fun family environment that helps children understand the importance of thankfulness and reminds the adults of  this as well.</p>
<p>Since Thanksgiving comes just before what many refer to as the &#034;greedy&#034; season, activities designed to remind people of the bounty in their lives are useful. For example, you might help children understand that while they don&#039;t have everything they want, they do have everything they need.</p>
<p>How do you do this? Several ways. One is to help children create a cornucopia, which will sit on the Thanksgiving table. There are a variety of ways to do this. You can make a papier-m?che cornucopia using a balloon as the base to help you get the shape started. You can simply take large piece of poster board and shape them into a cone and fill those with whatever you like. As an extra activity, you can have the children decorate the cornucopia before it gets filled.</p>
<p>Since the idea of the cornucopia is to celebrate a bounty and appreciate that bounty, you can fill it as is traditionally done with squash, corn and the like. You might also ask each member of the family to bring something that represents their personal bounty in life. A new mom might bring a baby blanket to put in the cornucopia while a newly retired grandpa might add a picture of his family, since that&#039;s what&#039;s most important to him. You can discuss the items in the cornucopia basket at the dinner table while enjoying your Thanksgiving feast.</p>
<p>Another family activity that kids like is the thankfulness jar. When each person arrives at dinner, they place a note with something they are thankful for in the jar. Ideally, each person will add more than one item to the jar. At dinner, someone (ideally, the matriarch of patriarch of the family) reads the notes. Everyone tries to figure out who wrote which note. The items can range from the serious (someone who struggled with an illness in the previous year might be thankful for life, quite simply) to the silly (the new mom might be thankful there&#039;s a Starbucks within 5 minutes of her home). Kids enjoy adding their own touches to the thankfulness jar and their responses are often a surprise to the adult family members.</p>
<p>Some families have several tables set about at Thanksgiving. Many people buy professional floral arrangements to decorate the tables. You can make a game out of it to figure out who&#039;s going to get to bring home the table arrangement to their home. You can do the old wedding thing and simply put a number on the bottom of the centerpiece and have someone&#039;s chair match that number or you can make a game and perhaps create a trivia game out of Thanksgiving facts. For example, questions might look like this:</p>
<p>*How many turkeys are cooked on Thanksgiving throughout the US?</p>
<p>*Why are turkeys called turkeys?</p>
<p>*Which president set aside the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving?</p>
<p>Be sure you research and know the answers and then quiz everyone. This is a great way to pass the time while everyone is waiting for the feast to be ready. Just tell the winners they can&#039;t take the centerpieces until dinner is over!</p>
<p>You can have a similar game before dessert. Create a family trivia game and quiz family members before dessert. Only the people who get the answers right get to have their dessert. Everyone else has to keep trying until they get their trivia question right. Questions can range from the silly to the sublime. They might look something like this:</p>
<p>*Who got popcorn stuck in her braces at 12?</p>
<p>*Which man here wore boots with big holes in them until he was 20 and could buy his own?</p>
<p>*Whose grandparents immigrated to the US from Ireland?</p>
<p>*Which boy here got suspended from school for riding his bike into the classroom?</p>


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		<title>Dress Santa Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are willing to put a little time and energy into a Christmas game, this one is surefire hit. It's called "dress Santa" and it's funny and silly and worth having a camera round to record the


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are willing to put a little time and energy into a Christmas game, this one is surefire hit. It&#039;s called &#034;dress Santa&#034; and it&#039;s funny and silly and worth having a camera round to record the fun. You might even want a camcorder as well.</p>
<p>Here&#039;s how it works. Create a dress-up box with a Santa costume and other items that Santa might or might not wear. You want to have a full-bore Santa costume, so you can either rent one or purchase one if you think it will get used years after. They can be found for around $100 or maybe a little less if you buy one at a costume shop that&#039;s used.</p>
<p>You&#039;ll put the Santa suit in a large suitcase or trunk. Be sure you have as many Santa items as possible; for example, you want to have a pair of boots, gloves, a big belt, etc. Then in the trunk or suitcase, mix in other items, like jewelry, hats, socks, shoes and feather boas. It&#039;s probably obvious where this is going.</p>
<p>At the Christmas party, someone volunteers to play the game. Ideally, you&#039;ll have several volunteers so you can time people and award a prize for fastest or most interesting, or whatever works based for your party.</p>
<p>The chosen person gets blindfolded and stripped down to their bare essentials. No, it&#039;s not that kind of game, but if a woman is wearing a sweater over a T-shirt and shoes, the shoes and the sweater can be removed, so she has less on her to begin with. Once the person is blindfolded, begin timing them. Tell them they must dress Santa as quickly as possible in his Santa suit only, nothing else. To spice up the game and make it more interesting, be sure to include some items in the trunk that might feel like Santa items, but aren&#039;t. For example, you&#039;ll have Santa&#039;s black gloves in the trunk, but also include a pair or two of garden gloves, and Santa has a belt, but you could include other belts as well. Be sure to include several hats (even a princess hat, which might feel like a Santa hat to a disoriented participant).</p>
<p>Once Santa is dressed, stop the timer and take the blindfold off. Everyone can get a good laugh at the result. Santa might have his suit on, but he might also be wearing a robe. Or he might be in his suit, but with garden gloves, a rhinestone belt and a princess hat. Be sure to take pictures of your good sport and move to the next participant. It&#039;s better if the other players aren&#039;t in the room, since many might remember the various items in the trunk and make mental notes about what to ignore and what to use.</p>
<p>After the Santas are done with their dressing and the requisite pictures have been taken, decide on a winner. Is the winner the Santa who dressed in 45 seconds, or the one that wore the garden gloves, princess hat and rhinestone belt combination? It&#039;s a tough call, but a winner must be crowned, so to speak. You can award prizes (Santa hats filled with candy are fun) or you can keep this all in fun and let the good sports know the fun is in the silly playing.</p>


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		<title>Fun Office Gift Exchange Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are dozens of fun office gift exchange games people can play during the Christmas season. Officemates might have a "secret Santa" gift exchange or a popular "white elephant" gift exchange. A


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are dozens of fun office gift exchange games people can play during the Christmas season. Officemates might have a &#034;secret Santa&#034; gift exchange or a popular &#034;white elephant&#034; gift exchange. All are popular and always fun, provided the rules are clear and everyone understands them.</p>
<p>One of the most popular office games involving Christmas gifts is the &#034;white elephant&#034; gift exchange. The rules can vary depending on the office and participants, but generally it works something like this. Each person participating purchases a gift not to exceed a certain dollar amount (determined in advance and might range from $5 to $20, again depending on the group). The object here is a fun gift, so anything particularly practical is not welcome. You&#039;re looking for unusual and interesting, perhaps funny, and something other people will want.</p>
<p>Everyone who&#039;s participating in the exchange gets a number (the number should be the same as the number of presents). The numbers should be they drawn out of a hat or something else (perhaps a Santa hat, in recognition of the season?). So, the person who draws number &#034;1&#034; goes first and picks a present. They open it and keep it. The second person can either pick a different present or they can &#034;steal&#034; the first present. They can&#039;t open a present until they are sure they are keeping their choice and not picking the first gift. This continues until everyone has a present. Any present that&#039;s been opened can be subject to stealing, but a gift can only be stolen three times.</p>
<p>At the end of the game, the person who was the first to open a present can steal a gift if they choose, since they didn&#039;t have an opportunity earlier.</p>
<p>In this game there&#039;s always one gift that everyone wants and will steal over and over again. What makes it fun is trying to figure out who is going to get the most coveted gift. In some cases, people can end up with the gift they brought.</p>
<p>Originally the &#034;white elephant&#034; gift exchange was a way for people to &#034;regift&#034; or give someone a gift they themselves received and don&#039;t want. For a fun twist, you could ask people to bring something from their home like that, or you can require they purchase something (with the aforementioned limit on spending).</p>
<p>There are many varieties of the Secret Santa game, which is so popular in offices, but one option that&#039;s fun involves putting a dollar limit on the purchase and having participants actually make &#034;Santa lists&#034;. Here&#039;s how it works: Those participating create a little list for &#034;Santa&#034;. There should also be a dollar limit placed on this gift exchange, so if that is $10, then people should only list items on their Santa list that can be purchased for $10 or less.</p>
<p>Everyone who is participating draws a list out of a hat, or some other object, and sets about shopping for that person. They know who they are shopping for, but the recipient doesn&#039;t. On exchange day, the Secret Santas must deliver the gifts to their officemates&#039; desks without being seen. Those participating can decide if they want people to sign the cards attached to the gifts, or if the secret should stay a secret. If they choose the latter, gift giving can be interesting, since it&#039;s anonymous, but many people choose to have cards signed so in the end, people who to thank for their gifts.</p>


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		<title>4th Of July Games</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#039;re hosting a 4th of July party, there are hours and hours to fill before the highlight events of the day begin &#8211; the fireworks. You&#039;ll want to have plenty of activities and games planned to keep everyone busy and entertained.</p>
<p>There are a variety of games you can plan that have a patriotic theme.</p>
<p>Balloon pass &#8211; This game involves relaying a balloon down a line of people. Use balloons that are red, white and blue and tell the participants they will be using their hands and their legs to pass the balloon down the line. Create two teams of people, and line them up in straight lines. Give the first person a balloon and tell them to put it between their legs, passing the balloon to the next person in line with their legs only. That person will take the balloon and pass it to the next person by putting it over their head. That third person will put the balloon between their legs and pass to the next person like that. The game continues until the balloon has passed all the way down the line. If you have a small group, require that the balloon get passed down the line and back again before declaring a winner.</p>
<p>Chalk it up &#8211; Pick a panel of judges (the oldest members of the family are the obvious picks) and have them become the official judges for a chalk contest. Break your guests into two teams (or more, depending on how many people are at the party) and give them each one or two containers of sidewalk chalk. Tell them to create a sidewalk picture that shows something patriotic, and tell them the flag must be included in the picture. Give them a time limit (depending on your group, this time limit might range from 10 minutes to 45 minutes) and then have the judges declare a winner after they have carefully examined all the artwork. You could have art-themed prizes for the winners.</p>
<p>Parade &#8211; One fun 4th of July activity that just screams &#034;4th of July!&#034; is a parade with decorated bikes, scooters and the like. Ask everyone who comes to the party to decorate their bike or scooter or other item in patriotic garb. You can have people bring them to the party already decorated and have a contest for &#034;best bike&#034;, etc., but also fun is to have a decorating party within the party. Have all the items on hand to decorate the bikes and scooters and skateboards. You might have streamers, banners, flags, and ribbons. The children and adults can decorate their bikes and scooters as a party activity.</p>
<p>Guessing Game &#8211; These games are always popular for just about any occasion. Fill a large jar with peppermint candy (the red and white striped kind) and decorate it with blue and red ribbon. Have people guess how many candies are in the jar (which of course means you count as you place the candies in the jar). The winner, or the person who comes closest to the number without going over, gets the jar of candy.</p>
<p>Fireworks &#8211; If you&#039;re having fireworks at your home, you might have a big box of assorted fireworks. Everyone has their personal favorites and people might have clear ideas of what they want to see and hear. You can play a game to determine who gets to pick the next firework to go off next. You might ask trivia questions (why are there 13 stars on the flag?). Or you can have a dance off. While music plays in the background, each person who really wants to pick the next firework to go off has to dance the craziest, silliest dance they can come up with. Someone who&#039;s been designated a judge will decide who won the dance off and that person gets to pick the next fireworks item. Unless there are more fireworks than people, each person only gets to pick once.</p>


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