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These coooooool Winter & Christmas party games will make your party an unforgettable affair!

If you are lucky enough to have snow piling up in your backyard, you've got so many fun ideas for outdoor games:

Ride sleds, build snow forts and snowmen, make snow angels, have relay races, pin the carrot on the snowman, obstacle courses, tug of war, and just frolic in the snow.

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The Christmas party games below are mainly for the indoors.

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*Outdoor Snowball Fight (with no snow): You'll need to prepare the snowballs ahead of time. Take pantyhose, preferably white, and cut into sections. Tie one end of it and fill with flour, then tie the other end, there you have your snowball! Have two "bases" set up on separate ends of the yard, have the snowballs in a bucket or container and let the kids fire away. Warning: This does get very messy but the kids will play forever.

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*Colored Ice: Freeze a block of ice (1/2 gal. milk carton) and remove the ice from the carton. You may lay it on its side or stand it on end, put Ice cream salt on the top in several places. Then place a little food coloring (liquid or paste). Put a different color on each spot you put the salt and let it set. Watch the colors work their way down into the cake of ice. The children are fascinated by this.

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*Wrap the Snowman: Played the same way as wrap the mummy but with the name a bit different. Two teams wrap one player up with toilet paper until nothing is showing.

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*Sock Guess: For this game you need thick thermal socks. Put all kinds of objects into the socks (ornaments, a candy cane, holly, pinecones, bells, etc.) – best if you put around 20 different items in the sock. Then tie a rope or ribbon around the top of the sock (so that no one can see what’s inside). Pass the sock around and give each person a small amount of time to feel the sock and make their guesses to what’s inside the sock (give them paper and pen to write down their guesses). It would be best if you take two socks and put identical items in each so that more than one person can feel the sock and make their guesses (this will make the game go a bit faster). The people that make the most correct guesses are the winners.

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*Snowball Relay: Divide the kids into two teams. Give each kid a plastic straw and prepare a small box for each team's snowballs (cotton balls). Place a large box full of cotton balls about 8 to 10 feet in front of the kids. On the signal "Go", have the first two players run to the box of cotton balls and by drawing air through the straw, pick up a cotton ball and take it back to the team box. When the cotton ball is released into the team box, the next player goes. If a player drops the cotton ball while returning to the team box, he must pick it up with his straw (no hands), then continue to the team box. The first team to finish wins. Another variation is to have the kids blow the cotton ball to a specified point and then suck it up and return to the starting line.

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*Blizzard: You'll need a long area with no furniture in the way. The two ends of this area will be the goals. The kids are divided into sides. A white balloon is placed in the middle and each player is given something that can be used as a fan. The object is to blow the ball to the opposite goal to score a point. The kids can also blow with their mouths, fan with their hands, but can't touch the balloon at all. Decide how many goals or time to end.

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*Freeze Skating: Give each guest two pieces of wax paper or two paper plates to use as skates. You can prepare a skating rink from clear plastic spread on the floor. Play music in the background and have the kids skate. When you stop the music, the kids must freeze. You can also have them partner skate. Another idea the kids love is to spread shaving cream on the plastic and let them barefoot skate. They love the idea of taking their shoes and socks off! It's easy to clean and fun for all ages!

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*Snowball Pickup: Blindfold the kids, designate a time limit, and have them pick up cotton balls strewn across the floor, and put them in a bag.

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*Christmas Gift Maze: This can be a race between two or more people – while everyone else watches and motivates the players (this game can be very fun to watch!). Tie a prize to the end of a ball of string or yarn and then hide the prize somewhere in the room (inside the cushions of a sofa, in a cabinet, in a basket, etc.). Then unwind the ball of yarn passing it through objects in the room (under tables, chairs, around objects, etc.), all around the room. Then tie a pencil to the end of the ball of yarn (as it has unwound). Do this with another gift and another ball of yarn (do this as many times as you want players to play. Don’t worry about crisscrossing the strings – this can make the game more fun).

Give each player a pencil that is tied to the yarn (explain that a gift is tied to the end of the yarn). On the mark of “Go”, each player has to find their gift by following the yarn while winding it around the pencil. They each will get a prize at the end, but the winner is the one that gets to their prize first.

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*Penguin Race: Divide the kids into two teams. Have players at the start of the line put a ball between their knees and waddle to a designated spot and back. The next in line does the same until all kids have had their turn. If the ball is dropped, they must return to start and begin waddling again. The team that finishes first wins.

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*Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Penguin: Play this just like Duck, Duck, Goose only change the words. Players must waddle like penguins around the circle until they reach the empty spot and sit down.

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*Christmas Caroling: A very fun way for getting everyone and especially the kids into the Christmas spirit is Christmas Caroling. You can even go around the neighborhood or in a park and sing. Here are loads of lyrics to of the most popular carols to print out and give to each caroler.

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*Christmas Carol Group Game: Divide your group into two teams (try to keep it even between them). Let them draw out of a hat or rock/paper/scissors to see which team begins. One person from the first team is chosen. They get a piece of paper with the name of known Christmas Carol on it. They can’t show this to anyone – and just like in Charades or Pictionary they need to either act out (no words or sound) the name of the Christmas Carol or on an erase-board/chalkboard/butcher-paper on the wall - they need to draw out so that the team has to guess what Christmas Carol it is.

As soon as the team knows the song, they need to sing the Christmas Carol as loud as they can. Make sure to time them. Write down the time it took them as a group to figure out the Christmas Carol. The second team does the same (time them as well). Do this with 5 different songs for each and then add up their times. The group that has the smallest amount of time is the winner!

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*Melt the Ice Cube: Give each kid an ice cube. The object is to melt the ice cube first without putting it in their mouths. They can breathe on it, sit on it, hold it in their hands etc. (Have towels ready for the cold wet hands.)

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*Favorite Christmas Carol Singing: If you have a large group, choose a few at a time to participate. Tell the ones you’ve chosen to think of their favorite Christmas song. On the count of three, everyone sings their own song (all at the same time!). If someone messes up, they have to stop singing. The one who is still singing at the end of the game (and hasn't messed up) is the winner.

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