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Christmas Gift Exchange Game

by Linda
(South Carolina)

Christmas Gifts

Christmas Gifts

What is a fun way to exchange gifts?

We have used the same one every year, where you pick a gift and then someone can steal it or pick a new gift. I need something different. Any ideas?


Christmas Gift Exchange Response

Hi Linda!

I like the Christmas right left game. Of course, all the gifts would need to be suitable for all those attending. If there are kids and adults, I would make two separate circles for playing the game.

The right left game involves reading a story that has several rights and lefts in it. Each time the word left is heard, gifts are passed to the left. Each time the word right is heard, gifts are passed to the right.

Have your guests sit in a circle, each with a gift in their lap. Have someone read the story live or tape it beforehand if you want absolutely everyone to participate in passing the gifts. When the story is over each person gets to keep the gift they have at that time.

There are several Christmas right left games available online. There is a nativity story right left game available at http://www.diva-girl-parties-and-stuff.com/right-left-christmas-game.html.


Also, the following printable game package includes 3 Christmas right left games.



Christmas Gift Exchange Game Idea #2
Have everyone sit in a circle and start with a gift. Play a favorite Christmas carol on your stereo, while 1-3 dice are being passed around the circle (space them out). Each person rolls and then passes the dice. If they roll a six, they can trade packages with whomever they want. At the end of the song everyone keeps the package in front of them.

Christmas Gift Exchange Game Idea #3
Number each gift as it arrives. Then, give the person who brought the gift a square of paper with the corresponding number. Have the person write down one little known fact about him/herself and then fold the paper and throw it in a bowl, hat, gift bag, whatever. (This is great for getting to each other even better.) When the gift exchange starts, have the host draw a piece of paper and read the little known fact (do not mention the package number). The person to guess who is it first is given the package with the corresponding number. Once someone guesses correctly they are out of the game. The game continues till there is one gift left, which is of course for the host.

Wendy

P.S. There is a Christmas Auction idea someone submitted that sounds like it could also be a fun gift exchange alternative.

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Christmas Gift Exchange Game

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This game is fun
by: Anonymous

OK tell your guests to bring a present, and everyone gets in a circle. Put all of the presents in the middle. Then, get a hat and put all of your names in it. Someone picks a name, and that name gets to choose a present, put they have to be wrapped! Then, pick another name, and that person can either take a present from the middle, or someone else's present! Keep doing this until all presents are gone. You need about 10-15 players for this game, but it's worth it!! At the end, everyone opens their presents, and they get to keep them!
POTTERY
by: max111

I HAVING A PARTY TO GIVE AWAY 30 PIECES OF POTTERY I MADE TO 30 GUESTS. I DON'T WANT TO RAP THEM I WANT TO NUMBER THEM 1 TO 30 THEN DRAW A NUMBER CLAIM YOUR PIECE THEN THE NEXT NUMBER CAN TAKE THE PREVIOUS PIECE OR TAKE THE NEXT DRAWN PIECE ANY HELP OUT THERE???
iT WAS FUNNNNNNNNNNN!
by: Anonymous

This was really a blast fun game. We enjoy it!!!
right left game
by: Val

I have used the Thanksgiving and Christmas versions (2) of the right left game four times recently and everyone has a blast, including men and children. People keep asking for more. My problem is that I need a story for New Years eve and can't find one.
Christmas left right
by: Anonymous

I played this with two groups, ages 50 to 95. They had such fun, laughed until they cried. It made my holiday because I have a nephew in hospital, in a coma and has brain damage. Love it.
white elephant poem
by: Ruby

I could not find the poem
Please Help
by: gmarx

I really like the right/left gift card money game, but I am lost when it comes to the final game. Do you keep putting the $1 bills and a single $5 bill in envelopes and reading the same story, even for for final big pot of money
Toothpick game
by: Melissa

Every year we bring several wrapped gifts that are $5 and under (mainly fun $1 gifts)some are marked man, woman, girl boy, etc. We are then all given a circle card (just a circle cut out of thin cardboard about 3 in. in diameter) that has about 10 holes punched evenly along the edge of the circle, one of the punched out circles has a circle drawn around it with a marker (designates where to start). We are also given a toothpick which is placed in the starter circle. The whole group sits around the wrapped gifts that are in the middle. Count off the numbers 1 through 6 until everyone has a number. Each person takes a turn rolling the dice. They call out the two numbers rolled. Everyone with those two numbers gets to move their toothpick into the next hole (if it's the same number twice ex. 3 and a 3, then everyone with the number 3 gets to move their toothpick twice). Once you get your toothpick around the entire circle and back to the beginning you get to pick a present from the middle. DON'T open until all the gifts are taken. CATCH -if you roll your own number you have to go back to the start/beginning of your circle. (ex. I'm a 2 and I rolled a 5 and a 2--I have to move my toothpick back to the beginning and start over.) You can continue moving around the circle over and over, taking a present each time you make it back to the beginning until the gifts are gone. When there are no more gifts in the middle you can either open them or do a lightning (timed) round where you can steal other peoples gifts while you play.
Hope that made sense, it's alot of fun! :o)
DICED PRESENTS
by: LORI

EVERYBODY BRINGS A $10 GIFT AND PUT ON TABLE.
JUST BEFORE TH GAME STARTS PUT A STICKER ON ONE OF THE GIFTS.

RULES:
EVERYBODY PICKS A GIFT FROM THE TABLE.
DO NOT OPEN THE GIFT.
WE WILL THEN START ROLLING THE DICE.
LOOK CAREFULLY AT YOUR GIFTS WHOEVER HAS CHOSEN THE GIFT WITH THE______STICKER YOU START.

To make it fair depending on the size of group, you can go around the circLe twice or give each person 3 rolls.

1- Everybody Pass the Gifts left

2- Everybody Pass the Gifts right

3- Open the gift in your hand

4-Trade gifts with whomever you want.

5-Make someone else unwrap their gift

6-You get to keep the gift you have in your hand.

The only exception to 6 is if you have the gift you brought, in which case you would roll again.
Once everybody has had a turn rolling everyone should have a gift to keep.
Birth Year Gifts
by: Carol

Before drawing names for the office Christmas party, everyone had to write the year they were born. Then you had to find a gift for that person reflecting the birth year. It was hilarious to see when many very familiar items were "born". For example the person born in 1966 received a model of the Starship Enterprise. 1966 was the year Star Trek was first aired on TV.
White Elephant Poem
by: Anonymous

The "White Elephant Poem" at www.santalady.com is a lot of fun. The direct link is http://www.santalady.com/xmasgame/whiteelephantpoem.html. It's for a group of up to 50. If you have fewer than 50 just stop the numbers at the appropriate time. It was a blast and I highly recommend it.
GREAT IDEAS!!
by: Anonymous

Thanx for all the ideas!! I need to inject some fun into a family party!!
Rolling Dice Gift Exchange
by: Sandra

I was looking for instructions on how to play a gift exchange game that I played at a party about 15 years ago....

We had one die and when rolled each number meant something different like 1=open new gift if you don't have one, 2=pass your gift right, 3=pass your gift left, 4=take anyones gift, 6=pass the dice, etc.

Has anyone heard of this?
right /left gift card money game
by: Anonymous

I come from a large family of 10 so there are a lot of family members and it is impossible for me to buy everyone a Christmas gift. so for Christmas last year I told everyone to bring five $1.00 bills and I read the story of Right Family five times. now the twist to the game is I purchase 5 gift cards from food places. everyone has to put their dollar in a small envelope with the exception of one envelope having a five dollar bill so we had 25 people playing the game and once the story was over the one with the five dollar envelope won the gift card and the dollars were emptied into a pot. this went on for another 4 time so when all the gift cards were won the last game was played for the money totaling all the bills collected from every game so the winner ends up taking the total cash.. this was played by both kids and adults..very fun and all I had to pay was 25.00 for my gift cards..right/left game was fun.
Other Ideas
by: Anonymous

Our annual Christmas party is also looking for a revamp. However, the twist we have added to the traditional White Elephant these past years has been to make the presents difficult to open, and have a prize for most creatively wrapped present. We've had gifts hidden in food, scavenger hunts, math puzzles (to get a combination lock open), etc. It's been a lot of fun, and very interesting...
how my family plays it
by: cutie4573

everyone who wants to participate will have to bring a 10 dollar present and they will put it around the tree and they will put the number people who are playing and the people will pick a number out of a hat and that will be their turn. for example the 1st person will pick a present and open it. then the 2nd person will be able to choose to steal the 1st person`s present or open a new present then so on.
Great Games!
by: BigDaddy

Your ideas were incredible thanks for giving us some great options for hosting our work christmas party this year! Keep up the great work!!!!
my ideas!
by: Anonymous

i made up a lot of christmas present exchange ideas, too:
1) t-shirt trade
2) stocking presents
3) and more!
great
by: ac

I love these games. I intend to try them out this CHRISTmas. I have been needing some new & innovative ways to do gift exchanges & I believe I have found them.
Really good idea!
by: Marisa

This is a really good idea! I am going to use them if u dont mind =] There really good ideas i hope you give mor great ideas
other idea
by: Nicole

Zunker is the best gift exchange game. There are Christmas, Birthday, and Wedding Editions. You should definitely include it in this list!
Check out their website: www.zunkergames.com
merry xmas 2 everyone
by: emo_brokEn

hi..ur ideas here was great!
I love this a lot!
by: Rebecca

I love this! I'm having a Christmas party soon, so this comes in handy! thanks!

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