Xmas Party Games For Young Kids
When planning Christmas time games for young kids, the choices are almost endless. Make certain you provide room to run, do just a little planning and the youngsters are sure to have a great time.
Let us start with a couple of relay race options. Start off with a candy cane relay. Give each group 4 candy canes (and be sure to have several more in case a few break) and have the child who’s running hold the candy canes between their fingers, with the crooked part of the cane dangling over his or her fingers. But tell them to not use their thumbs. The canes ought to be just carefully perched in between their fingers.
The children run to their teammate, exchange the candy canes (again, only using fingers), and that teammate runs towards the opposite end and does the very same. The game is over when only one team still has candy canes that haven’t dropped on the floor.
A further fun relay that children love is pass the ornament. With this game, each team gets one ornament (a lightweight, basic thin glass 1 is fine) along with a straw. They must blow through the straw to get the ornament down the line, then the next child blows on their straw to get the ornament back down the line. Ensure each child has a fresh straw, as you don’t want everyone to get sick.
This next straightforward relay game could be played with just about anything that signifies Christmas. You could have the children pass a Santa hat (perhaps requiring them to wear the hat as they run down the line) or have them wear Christmas socks that they then need to take off and get to the next child during the relay.
“Santa Says” can be an enjoyable game that all children will know the best way to play because it’s just like “Simon Says”. Just before playing it, confirm that each child is familiar with “Simon Says” and then create a series of orders from “Santa”, like “Santa says, touch your toes”, “Santa says bend your knees” and so on. But occasionally leave the “Santa says” part off and trick the children. Always a well-liked game!
Young kids love the “freeze dance” which is typically played in preschool and kindergarten. Only in this game, you create a Christmas freeze dance: here you play some Christmas music, let the children do a bit dance, then turn the music off along with the youngsters must “freeze”. If there will be a number of sit-down games played at the party, this can be a wonderful way to let the children use some energy before they’ve to sit down and focus on the other games.
Young youngsters can play the “clue” game as long as the questions are kept to their knowledge of different things surrounding Christmas. The game is played like this: the teacher gives a series of clues about some thing Christmas related and keeps giving clues until somebody shouts out the answer. It may go some thing like this:
Answer: Santa’s sleigh
Clue: I’m thinking about some thing large
Clue: It helps Santa on Christmas Eve
Clue: It carries a lot of presents
Clue: It’s extremely quick
You keep offering clues until eventually the children figure out the answer. Since these are young youngsters, don’t give clues that are too hard or beyond their knowledge.
Youngsters like toss games, so why not create a snowball toss game at Frosty’s tummy? Get or make a large card board cutout of Frosty the Snowman and cut a hole in his stomach. You can make snowballs out of a number of things. Get plastic bags and put small marshmallows inside, or use Styrofoam balls. In the event you use the latter, don’t make the youngsters throw the “snowballs” really far since the Foam won’t go that far. Have the youngsters stand a length back from Frosty (you can figure out this distance based on the age of the children as well as the space you have available) and have them throw the snowballs into Frosty’s belly. First 1 to get all 3 snowballs in the tummy wins a prize!
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