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Each Christmas occasion demands games, not simply for youngsters, but for grownups as well! You have worked so hard at decorating, cooking and baking to occupy your home with Christmas cheerfulness so that kin and acquaintances might come together and share in the festivities of the time of year, so be sure to include special fun games or activities to keep the party light, festive and festive. Both your guests and you will savor the merriment after the long shopping and occasion prep work of the last few weeks.

Have fun playing this Christmas party games with your kin and acquaintances. White Elephant present exchanges are festive and easy and a special means to spice up a traditional gift exchange. Each guest who wants to take part must give a gift.
Everyone sits or stands roughly in a circle around the mass of gifts. Set up slips of paper equal to the amount of presents with understandably written numbers. Be certain to separate six from 9, one from seven. Every active invitee gets a number and carries onto that slip of paper. On the first round, the guest with paper slip #1 selects a present, opens it, and all admire it. On the next round, the invitee with paper slip #2 gets the choice of “stealing” any unwrapped gift (#1’s) or selecting a wrapped one. If #2 steals #1’s gift, then #1 must open a wrapped present. On the third turn, the guest with paper slip #3 gets the option of “stealing” any unwrapped present (#1’s or #2’s) or choosing a wrapped one. If a present is swiped from you, you can steal a gift, or open a wrapped one.
Regulations about “stealing:” A present cannot be instantly stolen back from the guest who just stole it.
The turn proceeds until a wrapped present is chosen thus the thieving stops. The 4th “owner” of a present gets to keep it. The present is “dead” after it has been swiped three times. “Owners” of “live” presents must keep them visible and hold them up when invited. The gift exchange ends when the last wrapped present is opened. Ordinarily, invitees are encouraged to perpetuate the gift thieving as long as there are “live” presents, but no one is obligated to do this.

Caroling is thought to have started out in England around the middle ages. As was the tradition on many holidays, those hoping for a donation of treats or cash sang songs as they traveled from home to household. Today, we carol with our neighbors and at holiday celebrations, as it forever fills one with the Christmas spirit.