This Christmas, families around the world will exchange gifts. This is an ancient tradition. However, this Christmas may have to be different, you won’t be able to rely on really amazing gifts like before. Normally, the present itself is at the center of the excitement of the holidays. However, what do you do when you can’t get the exact toy your child wanted? This is where a great Christmas gift exchange game can play an important role. Gift sets make it more fun to open the gift than to have it. It focuses on the importance of giving and spending time with family rather than receiving the latest article on TV. A Secret Santa game can do more to make the holidays magical than the best gifts ever made. Here are some fun games you can play with Christmas gifts this year.
The first game is Unwrap the presents. It’s like a modern version of Musical Chairs. Each gift is purchased within a set budget of typically around $10 to $20. A gift is then selected at random. As in musical chairs, a song or music is played while the gift is passed. When the music stops, the last person to receive the gift removes a layer of wrapping paper. The process is repeated until all the gifts are unwrapped. The person who removes the last layer of wrapping paper gets the gift.
The next gift set is Dirty Santa. For this game, everyone buys a gift with a fixed budget. It would be a good idea to make it affordable so everyone in your family can play. Then everyone can start playing. The first person chooses a gift and then the people after them have the choice when it is their turn to choose a gift from the pile or steal a gift from one of the people who preceded them. If a person’s gift is stolen from them, they can choose a new one from the pile. This continues until everyone has received a gift. The fun of the game is trying to anticipate which wrapped gift is the best. In a way you can say that it is like the game show Deal or No Deal. The point is to protect the gift you think has the most value.
There is also a game you can play with stocking stuffers. Get a traditional Christmas stocking and fill it with little toys and other goodies. It is then the responsibility of each participant to accurately guess as many items as possible. Each item the player hits they keep.
Another game to play is Present Poke. You basically play for the gifts. The rules are simple, you can play whatever form of poker your family knows best. A small selection are gifts that are used instead of tokens. You then play the player who wins the entire game and gets the most gifts, while anyone who folded to keep his winnings gets to keep what he won before folding.
Something special you can do for your children is for them to receive a letter from Santa. This is a great opportunity to do something that will add a little magic to your children’s Christmas. Each letter can be personalized and comes with Santa’s signature.