Top Christmas 2025 Party Games Everyone Will Love

🎁  Pass the Present (with a Twist!)

This classic game is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for all ages. Wrap a small gift in multiple layers of wrapping paper. As festive music plays, players pass the parcel around in a circle. When the music stops, the person holding the gift removes a layer. The person to unwrap the final layer wins the prize! Read more

2025 twist: Add a challenge or silly dare between each layer (e.g., “Sing a line from a Christmas carol” or “Do your best Santa laugh”).

🎶 Guess the Christmas Tune

Play short clips of Christmas songs—from chart-topping hits to classic carols—and have everyone guess the tune as quickly as they can. You can use a playlist or a music trivia app to make things even easier.

Top tip: Mix in some newer Christmas songs from 2025 to keep everyone on their toes!

🔢 Christmas Bingo

Christmas Bingo is a festive twist on the traditional game, perfect for kids and adults. Create bingo cards filled with seasonal icons like Santa, snowmen, candy canes, and reindeer.

How to play: Call out the items (or use pictures) and the first to complete a row, column, or full card shouts “BINGO!”—and wins a prize, of course!

🦌 Reindeer Antler Ring Toss

All you need is an inflatable reindeer antler hat and some rings. One person wears the hat, and others take turns trying to toss rings onto the antlers from a distance.

Perfect for: Kids, teens, and grown-ups who don’t mind looking a little silly!

🎅 Who Am I? – Christmas Edition

Write the names of Christmas characters on sticky notes (e.g., Buddy the Elf, The Grinch, Mrs. Claus, Kevin from Home Alone) and stick one on each player’s forehead. Players take turns asking yes-or-no questions to figure out who they are.

2025 suggestion: Add a few pop culture characters from the newest Christmas movies!

🍪 Christmas Cookie Decorating Contest

Turn your kitchen into a sugary wonderland with a cookie decorating challenge. Give everyone the same plain cookies, some icing, and toppings—then set a timer.

Make it extra fun: Have a blind vote for categories like “Most Creative,” “Most Christmassy,” or “Most Likely to Be Eaten First.”

📸 Christmas Photo Scavenger Hunt

Create a list of festive things to find and photograph—like someone wearing a Christmas jumper, twinkling lights, or a snowman. Play indoors or out, solo or in teams.

Perfect for parties or family walks, and you’ll end up with lots of fun memories captured!

🤫 Silent Night Charades

A Christmas version of charades, but here’s the twist—no talking allowed at all, even for the clues! Act out Christmas songs, movies, or traditions using just gestures.

Extra fun: Use only Christmas-themed prompts and set a timer for added pressure.

🧝 Elf Spy

In the days leading up to Christmas, hide a little elf doll around the house each day (like Elf on the Shelf, but with a game twist). Leave a clue or challenge wherever the elf is hiding.

Great for kids—but honestly, adults love joining in too!

📝  Naughty or Nice – The Truth Game

Have everyone write down one “naughty” and one “nice” thing they did this year. Shuffle the notes, read them out loud, and guess who wrote each one.

Hilarious and heartwarming—especially after a mulled wine or two.

🎭 Christmas Pictionary

Just like classic Pictionary—but all the clues are Christmas-themed! Think “Santa stuck in a chimney” or “ugly Christmas jumper.” All you need is a whiteboard or some paper and pens.

🧦 Stocking Fill-Up Race

Divide into teams and give each a large Christmas stocking. Set a timer and have players race to fill the stocking with wrapped items using only kitchen tongs or oven mitts!

📦 The Saran Wrap Ball Game

Wrap small prizes, sweets, or trinkets in a giant cling film (Saran wrap) ball. Players take turns unwrapping as fast as they can while the person next to them rolls dice—when they roll doubles, the ball passes on!

🧊 Freeze Like a Snowman

Play music and let everyone dance like crazy—when the music stops, everyone must freeze in their best snowman pose. Anyone who moves is out!

💬 Christmas Movie Emoji Quiz

Create a quiz where players have to guess the Christmas movie based on a string of emojis. (Example: 🎅🏠😱 = Home Alone)

🎤 Finish the Christmas Lyric

Play a line from a Christmas song—then stop the music and let players try to finish the next line. Bonus points for singing it with confidence!

🧠 Christmas Would You Rather?

A great icebreaker! Ask festive “Would You Rather?” questions like “Would you rather have tinsel for hair or baubles for earrings?” or “Would you rather ride in Santa’s sleigh or get stuck in a snow globe?”

🕵️ Christmas Detective

Hide small clues around the house that lead to a hidden present or prize. Players must work together to solve the festive riddles and find the treasure!

🧁 Candy Cane Hook & Grab

Place a pile of candy canes in a bowl. Each player gets one candy cane in their mouth and has to hook as many as they can out of the bowl in 60 seconds—no hands allowed!

🧝‍♀️ Pin the Hat on the Elf

A Christmas spin on "Pin the Tail on the Donkey." Blindfold players and have them try to stick a paper elf hat on a poster of an elf. Closest wins!

🪙 Snowball Toss

Set up buckets or boxes labeled with different point values and have players toss “snowballs” (white pom-poms or balled-up socks) to score points. Great for kids and adults alike!

🎄 Build a Human Christmas Tree

Split into teams. One person is the “tree” and the rest must decorate them using tinsel, baubles, paper stars, and whatever else you can find. Most creative tree w

🎯 Christmas Target Practice

Stick Christmas-themed pictures (like Santa, Grinch, or a Christmas pudding) to a wall or board, and give players foam darts or beanbags to hit the targets. Score for accuracy!

🎲 Roll a Christmas Story

Each player rolls a dice, and based on the number, they must add a sentence to a growing Christmas story. It gets funnier—and weirder—with each roll!

👃 Christmas Scent Guessing Game

Blindfolded players try to guess festive smells like cinnamon, pine, peppermint, or gingerbread. Perfect for sensory fun and a bit of a challenge!

⛄ Snowman Stack

Use marshmallows or plastic cups to stack as many “snowmen” as possible in one minute. Tallest tower that doesn’t topple wins!

🎶 12 Days of Christmas Sing-Off

Assign each person or pair a day from the song “The 12 Days of Christmas”. Go around the group, building the song one line at a time—each person must sing their part with confidence, memory, and flair! If someone forgets the words or messes up the order, they’re out (or have to do a festive forfeit!).

Fun twist: Use props for each “gift” to act it out!

🧁 Christmas Taste Test Challenge

Blindfold your players and serve them a variety of festive treats—mince pies, Christmas pudding, candy canes, fruitcake, gingerbread, etc. They have to guess what they're eating using only taste (or maybe smell too!).

📝  Christmas Alphabet Game

Go around the group and name a Christmas-related word for each letter of the alphabet—A is for Angel, B is for Bauble, C is for Candy Cane... If someone gets stuck, they’re out!

👂 Santa Says (Christmas Simon Says)

“Santa says touch your toes!” It’s the same as Simon Says, but festive. Great for younger kids or warming up a group with some laughter and movement.

💌 Christmas Compliment Circle

End your game night with something warm and fuzzy: sit in a circle and take turns giving a genuine compliment or sharing a kind memory about the person to your left. It’s a great way to close out the evening on a meaningful note.