1.  Christmas and Winter Holiday Twenty Questions

The Teacher starts by choosing a Christmas or winter holiday related person, place, or thing. The teacher says, "I'm thinking of something". The children try to guess what it is by asking no more than twenty questions that can be answered "YES", "NO", or I DON'T KNOW". The student who guesses correctly goes next.

Example:

The Teacher thinks of person, place, or thing. The Teacher gives a clue then works their way around the room allowing each student to take a turn guessing until one student solves the case. The student who solves the case goes next.

Rudolph

Clue: I'm thinking of something that can fly
Clue: He loves to lead the way
Clue: His nose can light up the night sky

Clues should be appropriate for the knowledge of the children playing.

Don't Throw Away Those Old Christmas Cards

2.  Freeze
Supplies: Christmas and Holiday Music

How To Play: When the music starts, the children move and dance however they like and when the music stops, they must freeze in whatever position they are in at the moment.

 
3.  Blind Snowman Game
Supplies:8 1/2 x 11 Sheet of Paper
Pencil

How To Play: Give everyone a piece of paper and a pencil. Explain to them that they will close their eyes and you will tell them what to draw. DON'T tell them they're drawing a snowman!

Draw 3 circles on top of each other. Each circle gets smaller from bottom to top. In the middle circle draw three buttons going vertically down the center. In the top circle draw two eyes, a carrot nose, and a mouth. Draw a hat on top of the smallest circle. Draw stick arms on both sides of the middle circle. Draw a broom in one stick hand.

Open your eyes!!!

If playing with older children you might want to devise a point system, such as: 10 points for each circle that touches the other. Points for the hat touching the head, the eyes being in the top circle, etc.

4.  Scramble Christmas Words

Supplies: index cards, paper bags. 

How To Play: Choose a Christmas word such as: Christmas, Candy Cane, Santa Claus, Reindeer.  Write each letter of a word on individual index cards.  Put the set in a paper bag. Divide the students into teams. Give each team a bag. The first team to decipher what the word in the bag wins.  A variation of the game would be to divide into teams with the same number of students as there are letters in the word. Each student gets a letter and the team must arrange themselves in the right order to spell the word.

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas,

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas,

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas,