*Update – If you like this game, you will also like my fun Christmas Carol Game HERE, as well as my top favorite Christmas-themed Minute-to-Win-It Game Ideas HERE.*
Last year I posted about a fun Gift Exchange Game for you to play with your friends and families during the Christmas season.
You can check it out HERE. It’s amazing.
THIS YEAR…
I found an even more hilarious game.
All you need are sturdy paper plates (I got mine at Costco) and pens for each player.
The host tells the players to put their paper plate on their head.
Then the host will give a series of instructions for the players to draw on their paper plates (that are on their heads) without looking.
Here are the instructions:
1. Draw a line for a floor.
2. Draw a Christmas Tree. Add decorations if you feel so inclined.
3. Draw a star on top of your tree.
4. Draw a fireplace with a mantel next to the tree.
5. Draw a stocking hanging from the mantel of your fireplace.
6. Draw a present below the tree.
After the six steps have been given, let everyone look at their plates.
<<Insert lots of laughing and revelry as people share their ridiculous drawings.>>
Then have players count up how many points they received by following this rubric:
1. 2 points if the tree touches the floor.
2. 2 points if your stocking is touching your mantel.
3. 1 point if your star touches your tree.
4. 1 point if your star is above your tree.
5. 1 point for every Christmas ornament ball that is ON your tree, etc.
6. 1 point if your fireplace doesn’t touch the tree (it’s a fire hazard!).
7. 1 point if you actually drew something decorative on your stocking (or something cute, like a tiny kitten peeking out).
8. 2 points if your present is under your tree.
The player with the most points should receive a really awesome prize (such as Christmas Window Clings).
I had a neat opportunity to speak for a large group of super fun women at a local church’s ornament exchange last weekend.
I kicked my Happy Home segment off with this game.
Here are a few pictures of how it went…
What a fun thing to do at your next Christmas event! Or even just sitting around the table with your family after dinner one night.
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Merry Christmas Paper Plate Game-ing! 🙂
what a fun I idea I’m definitely pinning this this would be fun to play even iwth the little kids I’d love you to link this up to my what we wore party over at http://raegunwear.blogspot.com
sooooo fun! we will have to do that!
We played a similar game last year and it was so much fun. Everyone enjoyed!
Love this idea…
Georgia 🙂
I loved your ideas and want to thank you for sharing.
My sewing group is having it’s Christmas party tonite. We are playing this game!
Jeri! That’s so fun! I hope you all have a blast!
Love this idea! Will try it with teens at our library program this week.
Fun idea! I’d love to have you link up to my party if you get a chance at http://scrapbookingez.blogspot.com/2011/12/anything-goes-linky-party_08.html. Thanks for sharing!
Sooo doing this with family this yr!! Thanks!
Oh MY GOODNESS that is HILARIOUS!!!! We are going to have to do this one with our children…. I would love for you to share it here http://shoprubyjean.com/2011/12/sew-crafty-tuesday-linky-party1/
What a GREAT game! I love doing simple inexpensive things that are fun and truly memorable. We are going to absolutely do this some time over the holidays!
lol, how fun! i’ll have to tell my family about that one.
Thanks to you (and Pinterest!) we played this at our women’s ministry Christmas Party Saturday night. It was a blast! We had so much fun and I loved hearing all the laughter around the room!
We did something similar at my sisters baby shower. see how could draw the cutest baby and let mother to be choose which she liked best as winner. so much fun
We are using this game at our 4th Annual International Food Night TONIGHT!!
Thank you!
🙂
Kat, that is so great! I know you will have the best time!
it was a SUPER success! Thank you!!
Thank you for this game idea! We played it this afternoon at my son’s Christmas party. The kids LOVED it! I did everything as directed except when it came to figuring out points, I had the kids exchange their masterpiece with a neighbor. I figured that way the points would be more realistic as kids tend to be more generous with their own work. 🙂 That ended up being almost as fun as the game!
I want to play this on Valentine’s Day, with 9 year old kids…any ideas for different wording? 🙂
I am trying to sign up for your site and you keep telling me you have sent me a email to confirm it but I am not getting the email-thank you glenda
Sweet Glenda, I am not sure what the problem might be… I wish I was more tech-y in times like this!!!
Sounds fun! I am in charge of the activities for our adult Sunday school Christmas luncheon, and this is something we can let all their kids play too. We’ll have a prize for the adult winner and a prize for the kid winner.
I’m so glad I found your blog! I teach English in Japan and my English club will be having a Christmas party in a few weeks. I’ve been struggling to find games that will not only be fun, but also use their English skills. Both this and the gift exchange game will be perfect!! Thanks!
Played this with my ladies church group tonight and they loved it, and we had some great laughs. Thanks!
How could I do this game for a Halloween RS get together? I’m wondering what the drawing could be of?
W/a Smile, Tiana
We played this this summer at our painting retreat….our theme was Witches Weekend, so I changed it up a bit by making it a Halloween theme. Very fun and LOTS of laughs.
Going to use this at our work holiday party this year. Thank you!!!! Soooo funny to see the pics of everyone laughing.
What an awesome idea. I would like to share this with my first grade team. We can play this during our Holiday Luncheon. Thanks for sharing.
This is so fun! I sell pure romance and I do one similar at parties sometimes and the ladies always love it. it is funny to see the end images! I never thought about doing it for the parties at school though…super great idea. My baby is in kindergarten this year so I am not sure they can do it, but I pinned it for the future! I cant wait to see her class do it! Brilliant!! Shared on social media! 🙂
Jess
ps. Tomorrow at 10pm I host a link up on my blog. I would love to you come over and link up 🙂
Thank you for sharing. I just did this last night with a group of 60 women and everyone had a good laugh.
great idea!!!!!!! I will have to do this for my christmas party fo sho!
Thank you for the great ideas. Also found few good Christmas games here
This sounds so fun. We are playing it at our family Christmas party this weekend and can’t wait for all the laughter.
I used this for my Christmas party. It was great. And the roar that it created when the ladies looked at their drawings was well worth it all. Thanks for the idea. Going to tweak it this weekend for a coed party.
We played this game at our HPP holiday gathering EVERYONE enjoyed it!!!!!
That is awesome! Thank you for letting me know!
What would be a scene I could use for New Years Eve?
We are doing this tomorrow at work for New Years and came up with these ideas.
Draw a line for the floor.
Draw a clock on the wall showing midnight.
Draw a table.
Put some snacks and drinks on the table.
Draw 2 people at the party kissing.
Decorate for the party.
Our points are similar to the original posting. Points for: the clock on the wall and not touching the floor, the table on the floor, the snacks and drinks on the table, 2 people kissing, decorations at the party.
I can’t wait to hear all of the giggles tomorrow!! Good luck and hope this helps!
Awesome!!! It’s a stupendous idea…. I’m going to share this idea with my school team to play on All hands meet for staff and their families… I’m excited and delighted…i can’t wait to see the audiences laughing and giggling… Hurray!!!!
I am so doing this for our thanksgiving party! What ideas are there for how I can tweak this so it’s for thanksgiving instead of Christmas? or even anything winter themed would be great!
Great idea and will be using tonight, thanks!
That’s great, Tobin! Have fun! 🙂
Love this idea! I’ve been thinking about doing a fun game with the family after church and dinner on Christmas Eve.
I’m a teacher and I played this with my third graders. So much fun!! A perfectly simple and funny game that I was able to easily squeeze into our day. Thanks!!
Any suggestions on how to do this for a baby shower? What pictures could be drawn? The Christmas version are commonly drawn images….which makes it so great. I’m a little stumped on baby shower pics that most people can draw.
Any suggestions would be appreciated:)
My family loves this activity! We did it for Christmas with a large group and it was hilarious! Since then I have adapted it for a bridal shower and again it was a hit. Now I am adapting it to use at our family reunion in July. Can’t wait to see the results with an even larger group of people who probably have never heard of this activity. Thanks sooooo much for sharing.
Zoe – what fun! Will you share your creative twists? I would love to hear how you did that!
We did this at an office party, but didn’t have a way to score the drawings. (It was still fun. We just laughed at each other’s– and our own!) I wanted to play this at our family gathering, but was wishing we had a way to award points. Your scoring criteria is exactly what I needed! Thanks!
Thank you so much for this! We’re going to do it tonight at our school’s Christmas party for the moms. 🙂
Here is a cute twist to this game. Have everyone write their name on the inside of the plate before they start drawing. When done, one person collects all plates directly from the heads and shuffles them around. Lay it out on the table and everyone has to figure out which plate is theirs.
I really love these ideas & Will try it with teens at our library program this month.HAHah! my all family loves this kind of activities