Children's Christmas Ice Breaking Party Games

Here are three ice breaker games you could try atnot repeat it.
your children's Christmas party...Finally, when the message gets to the last child in the
Christmas Treeline, this child has to say the message out aloud for
The group sits in a ring with the host or play leader ineveryone to hear.
the centre.There aren't any winners or losers, its just lots of fun
The host labels the children with one of the followinglistening to garbled messages. If you have only a few
(making sure there is a minimum of 2 of each)children don't divide them into teams.
Star, Bauble, Tinsel, Angel, SnowflakeChristmas Pictionary
The host now calls out one object. For example -Preparing the game - Have 20 cards with a Christmas
Snowflake. All the snowflakes must now jump up anditem written on each. For example: Christmas Fairy,
exchange positions with other snowflakes, the gameRoast Turkey, Holly and Ivy, Santa's Sleigh, Christmas
continues in this way with the host calling out differentTrimmings, Christmas present label...
objects and the children exchanging places withHow to play
objects of the same kind.Divide the children in to two teams. Each team takes it
If 'Christmas Tree' is called out, all of the children mustin turns to play rounds. To play a round, one child in the
jump up and exchange places with other objects.team must be chosen to be the drawer for that round
This game is fast and furious and energetic and usually(The drawer changes for each round played) The
very well received by older and younger children alike.drawer takes a card from the top of the pile and
It breaks the ice by mixing the children up and sittingreads it without speaking.
them next to new people.The drawer then has tree minutes to draw what was
Christmas Theme Chinese Whisperswritten on the card. However, the drawer must write
An old game that can be given a Christmas twist,letters or words and they must not speak.
simply divide the children into two teams and arrangeThe rest of the drawer's team must try to guess what
them to sit in two lines.was written on the card from the drawings, all within
Have ready some (previously made) cards withthe tree minutes. A point is awarded each time a team
festive sentences written on them, but make sure thatguesses correctly (word for word) what was written
the sentences are out of the ordinary.on the card.
For Example - Rudolf likes Christmas pudding onThe first team to collect 4 points is the winning team.
Mondays, but Prancer likes plum pudding on MondaysThis game can be difficult for younger children.
and Christmas pudding on Wednesdays.Ice breaker games help to introduce the children at the
To begin the game, give the two children at the frontparty to one another. Once everyone has had a
of the lines the festive sentence to read.chance to speak to a few new people, it paves the
The children then have to whisper the sentence to oneway for more party fun and everyone will have a
another until it has passed up the line. Remember: Eachgreat time.
child my only whisper the sentence once, they may