Christmas Party Games For Children- Relay Race Ideas
When planning Christmas games for young children
, the options are endless. Make sure you provide room to run, do a little planning and the kids are sure to have a good time.
Let's start with a few relay race ideas. Begin with a candy cane relay. Give each team four candy canes (and be sure to have a few more in case some break) and have the child who's running hold the candy canes between their fingers, with the crooked piece of the cane hanging over their fingers. But tell them not to use their thumbs. The canes should be just carefully perched between their fingers.
The children run to their teammate, exchange the candy canes (again, only using fingers), as well as that teammate runs to the other end and does the same. The game is over when only one team still has candy canes that haven't dropped on the floor.
Another fun relay that kids love is passes the ornament. In this game, each team gets one ornament (a lightweight, simple thin glass one is fine) and 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.
Make sure each child has a fresh straw, as you don't want everyone to get sick.
This next simple relay game can 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 must take off and get to the next child during the relay.
"Santa Says" is a fun game that all children will know how to play because its just like "Simon Says". Before playing it, confirm that each child is familiar with "Simon Says" and then make a series of orders from "Santa", like "Santa says, touch your toes", "Santa says bend your knees" and so on. But sometimes leave the "Santa says" piece off and trick the children. Always a popular game!
Young children love the "freeze dance" which is frequently played in preschool and kindergarten. Only in this game, you make a Christmas freeze dance: here you play some Christmas music, let the children do a little dance, as well as then turn the music off and the children must "freeze". If there will be several sit-down games played at the party, this is a great way to let the children use some energy before they must sit down and focus on the other games.
Young children can play the "clue" game as time consuming as the questions are kept to their knowledge of various things surrounding Christmas.
You keep giving clues until the children figure out the answer.
Since these are young children, don't give clues that are too difficult or beyond their knowledge.
Kids love toss games, so why not make a snowball toss game at Frost's belly? Get or make a gigantic cardboard cutout of Frosty the Snowman and cut a hole in his stomach. You can make snowballs out of several things. Take plastic bags and put mini marshmallows inside, or use Styrofoam balls. If you use the latter, don't make the children throw the "snowballs" very far since the Styrofoam won't go that far. Have the children stand a distance back from Frosty (you can determine this depending on the age of the children and space you have available) and have them toss the snowballs into Frost's tummy. First one to get all three snowballs in the tummy wins a prize!
by: Michael SeoVida Francis
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