Easy Christmas classroom party games and Christmas minute-to-win-it games kids and preteens will have so much fun doing.
Want some easy Christmas Classroom party games for kids (middle and elementary school)?
I created 7 of them, and you can get all the supplies (that you don’t already own) from Dollar Tree.
You'll find both Christmas and holiday or winter-themed games below.
Christmas Classroom Party Games for Kids from Dollar Tree
Create a fun reward for hard work or lead-up activity to Christmas break with these fun classroom Christmas party games for kids.
1. Candy Cane Table Hockey
Supplies needed: 1 full-sized candy cane per player, a ball of some sort (the white ping pong balls would work well, or a gumball), small red cups, and masking tape
Turn a candy cane upside down and what do you get? A hockey stick!
Play this candy cane game for kids by setting up the goal on the end of each table (tape one cup to each side of the table).
Give players their “hockey stick”, and let the game begin. One student can be a referee (release the ball in the center), and two students can play. Or just have two players at a time.
First person to 5 goals, wins.
2. Snowball Avalanche Catch
Supplies needed: white ping pong balls, an open section of the car race track, a bucket, and a timer
Put a bucket or container of some sort on the floor near a table (the older your players, the smaller the container).
Kids will take turns holding a section of a car race track up off the side of a table, and releasing a snowball down it. The goal is to get as many snowballs into the bucket as they can in 60 seconds.
What’s great about these Dollar Tree car tracks is that they’re very bendy – the further the bucket is away from the table, the more students will need to create slopes and hills to make it work!
Hint: the timer in each photo is this one.
3. Candy Cane Blind Taste Test
Supplies needed: 4 different flavored candy canes, blindfold, free printables (provided)
Have you noticed how many bajillion different flavored candy canes are now available?
I couldn’t believe I found 4 at the Dollar Tree on top of the original peppermint.
Get 3-4 different flavors, and make a game out of kids taste-testing them and guessing what the flavor is.
What a fun holiday candy cane party game!
Hint: do you think it’ll be too difficult for them to guess the flavor? Then provide the four different flavors on a sticky note, and have them guess which belongs to which candy cane.
4. Fill the Stockings
Supplies needed: a stocking, aluminum foil, four oven mitts (that go on a hand), and a timer
Students work in pairs for this Christmas classroom party game – each child has a set of oven mitts on.
One child will be in charge of opening the stocking, the other child will be in charge of putting the gifts into the stocking.
And the “gifts”? Both students work on balling up aluminum foil to make them.
Hint: the aluminum foil from Dollar Tree in the photo does not have the metal cutter in it.
How many gifts can they make and stick into the stocking in 60 seconds? The team that does the most, wins.
5. Shovel the Snowballs
Supplies needed: a bag of small marshmallows, container/bucket, and an oven mitt that fits over the hand
There’s been a blizzard! Your students are tasked with cleaning up the aftermath, one tiny snowball at a time.
Oh yeah, and wearing an oven mitt.
Lay out two bunches of small marshmallows on a charger plate or in an area, and have two people compete against one another to clean things up the fastest.
Hint: remind them, just one at a time!
6. Marshmallow Wreath Toss
Supplies needed: wreath, mini marshmallows, homemade catapult (big popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and an empty bottle cap from home), table clamp (or some way to hang/hold wreath in place), and a timer
Make the catapult.
Then prop the wreath up somehow (hang it from two chairs, or use clamps to clamp it upright on a table’s edge).
Each player gets 60 seconds to see how many mini marshmallows they can get through the wreath. The person who gets the most in 60 seconds, wins!
7. Light the Tree
Supplies needed: mini fake Christmas tree, a skein of yarn, and a timer
Who can wrap the tree in the most “lights” (rounds of yarn) in 60 seconds?
They’ll win this Christmas win it in a minute game for kids.
Hint: doing this with middle or high schoolers and need something more challenging? Have them string the “lights” with a pair of tongs.
Try one or two of these Christmas games for kids out in your elementary or middle school classroom, with the whole family, with a youth group, etc. They'd also make a great reward leading up to Christmas break. Your kids and students will thank you!
Amanda L. Grossman
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