Coolest Christmas Party Ideas

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Get ready for sled-loads of Christmas party ideas! You can transform these ideas into a winter theme party or use them for fun Christmas party for kids or grownups. Just set your creativity loose...

Invitations

There are all sorts of cool Winter & Christmas party ideas and shapes for invitations. For instance, a Christmas tree, star, gingerbread man, reindeer antlers, candy cane, stocking, etc.

Check out this great site that lets you make impressive invitations and greetings using your child and family photos.

Create a cool stocking invitation by cutting out and gluing a stocking-shaped envelope. Decorate it with Christmas designs (there are lots of stamps you can use such as snowman, candy cane, etc.) Once the stocking envelope is ready, prepare a red or green card to put inside. Write with a silver pen something like:

"Twas just before Christmas and all through the (your family name) house there was lots of excitement, but it wasn't a mouse. Santa is coming, with Rudolph and elves - so make sure you all come and join us yourselves."

A winter party invitation can be in the shape of an igloo, snowman, snowflake, snowball, etc. Add white glitter for sparkle or cotton for "puff", and enclose snow-like confetti.

A cool idea is to draw (or find pictures and clipart) of snowmen. Cut out your family members’ faces from pictures, and then place them on the bodies of snowmen. The invitation can read: "Guess which snowman is waiting for you?"

More Christmas party ideas for an invitation can include a fun winter poem like:

I made you a snowball
It was perfect as could be.
And then I scribbled on it
Directions to my party.
I put it in this envelope and
Ran to buy a stamp
But when the mailman came
The envelope was all damp.

For a Winter party (in Florida or California :-), you can write something like: "It may not snow, not even a flake, but one thing's for sure, we'll all eat cake."

Thank You Cards:

Don't forget to snap lots of pictures and after the party you can send the best ones as thank you cards. If it's a Christmas party, one of the coolest Christmas party ideas is to have one of the elders dress up as Santa and get a picture of each child on Santa's lap. Or, you can also use this life-sized Santa cardboard standee that's a great party prop for picture taking.

Ask everyone to come dressed in green and red and when they arrive you can hand out red clown noses or paint noses red to resemble Rudolf. You can also give out reindeer antlers (just take pipe cleaners and put two antlers on a bow), or any of these inexpensive reindeer antlers and holiday hats.

Christmas Crafts and Decorations

For cool icebreaker activities and crafts, click over to our Christmas party ideas for crafts section...

There are so many great ideas for Christmas decorating, that we’ve also created a special section just for Christmas party ideas for decorations...

Christmas Party Ideas for Food

Put little signs besides the foods below so your guests appreciate the creative Christmas party ideas for food they're eating.

*Snowman Face Pizza - Covered with cheese and olives for the facial features
*Ice chips - Tortilla chips
*Reindeer Droppings - Chili con Carne
*Elf Soup - Prepare with miniature pasta shapes
*Snowman Face Crackers (cream cheese with olives for face)
*Pigs in a blanket (because pigs need those blankets in cold winter weather.)
*Rudolf's nose - meatballs in tomato sauce

Winter & Christmas Party Ideas for Drinks:

*Santa Juice - One bottle of 7UP or Sprite, one carton of Raspberry sherbet, and one can of frozen lemonade (no water added). Just mix and serve, no ice needed! This looks great in a clear punch bowl.
*Polar Ice Cap - You'll need Blue Kool-Aid (prepare as directed), ginger ale, vanilla ice cream, clear glasses and straws. Refrigerate the Kool-Aid and ginger ale. Fill a glass almost halfway with the blue Kool-Aid. Add ginger ale almost to the top of the glass. Drop in one big snowball (scoop of vanilla ice cream) and let the kids enjoy their "North Pole" drink with a straw!
*Hot Chocolate
*Snowman Soup - Pour hot chocolate into a cup and add 2 Hershey kisses 1 small candy cane, 3 marshmallow 'snow balls' and 1 ice cube. This is one of the kids' favorite Christmas party ideas for drinks!
*Hot Apple Cider
*Eggnog (Here's a great recipe...)
*Christmas Tea - A dainty little bowl of crushed candy canes make for a delicious substitute for sugar. A bowl of white sugar with flecks of red and green sugar is also tempting.
*Snowshake - Milkshake

Winter & Christmas Party Ideas for Treats:

*Ginger Bread Cookies
*Candy Canes
*S'mores - Use Graham crackers, Hershey candy bars and big marshmallows, and Microwave. YUM-YUM!!
*Assortment of Christmas candies
*Rice Krispie Treat Snowballs (include M&Ms for a colorful touch)
*Snow Balls- assorted marshmallows
*Reindeer Antlers - pretzel sticks
*Gumdrops

Christmas Cake

You can make snowball cupcakes and serve with mud and snow (hot cocoa and whipped cream). Homemade doughnuts rolled in powdered sugar can also serve as edible snowballs.

For a Snowman cake: Bake three cakes in round pans of different sizes and place them on a cake board in the form of a snowman. Use white icing. Fashion a top hat with a square cake covered with chocolate icing. Use candies for the face and buttons, twigs for the arms, and sprinkle edible white glitter around the cake for snow.

You can even put a small carrot on his face for the nose.

Here are some great homemade Christmas cake recipes and pictures that can definitely help you out!!

Here are fun Winter & Christmas party ideas for desserts the kids can take part in making:

*Pancake Snowman: Give the children three circle pancakes of different sizes. They make a snowman. Sprinkle them with powdered sugar. Add mini M&m's for buttons, raisins for eyes, red hots for mouth, etc. Then eat!

*Snowballs: Using vanilla ice cream, make "snowballs" ahead of time and place in the freezer to harden and maintain their shape. Then place a variety of different toppings on the table, such as sprinkles, nuts, mini-chocolate chips, and coconut, and allow the children to put whatever toppings they want on a small plate. They then roll their "snowballs" around in the toppings.

*Banana Blizzards (serves about 10 children) blend together one cup cold milk with two or three bananas in a blender. Ask the children to count aloud as you add ten snowballs (scoops of vanilla frozen yogurt) to the blender. Then invite the children to turn the blender on and off again to create the blizzard.

*Peanut Butter Snowballs - You'll need 1 small jar of peanut butter, dry milk, honey and shredded coconut. Empty the jar of peanut butter into a bowl. Add 1 to 2 TBS. of honey (depending on how sweet you want the mixture to be). Add 1/4 cup of dry milk and mix into the peanut butter. Keep adding small amounts of dry milk until the peanut butter has a "playdough-like" consistency. Have the children roll the peanut butter mixture into balls. Finally, roll the balls into the coconut. The children can also make snowmen and then eat them!

Party Favors

You can use the favor bags created in the Christmas crafts and activities section, described here..., or print out any of our free printable christmas favor bags or favor boxes.

Another one of the best Winter & Christmas party ideas for favors is to buy mugs, fill with cocoa and mini marshmallows and wrap in plastic tied with a ribbon. You can even get mugs with your family’s picture on it (a mug shot...) and something saying thanks for coming to the party.

Loot bags for the kids can be filled with funtoos, jingle bells, stickers, blowing bubbles, Christmas candy, pencils, erasers, snow stickers, holiday coloring books, snow globes, little bendable snowmen, homemade snowdough (here's how to make it...), candy canes, etc.

Games and Activities

If you are lucky enough to have snow piling up in your backyard, you've got so many fun Winter & Christmas party ideas for outdoor play: 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.

For those of you without snow, take a look at these pages filled with over 20 of the coolest Winter and Christmas party games and activities.

Keep warm and have the coolest party ever!