Christmas Party Ideas

Christmas Day is a day for celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ and occurs on December 25th each year. However recently, there are increasingly many non-Christians who have also started celebrating this Holiday and partaking in Christmas festivities. Christmas is about spending time together with family and friends, a time of sharing, loving and caring – irregardless of what your religion is! Christmas Party Supplies

Christmas Party Plan

• Christmas Invitations
• Christmas Party Decor
• Christmas Crafts
• Christmas Dinner
• Christmas Cakes
• Christmas Games
• Christmas Favors

Christmas Party Invitations

• Candy Cane Invitation. Use traditional Christmas color card stock to make invitations. Use green card stock for the invitation and red color for the envelope. Stick on a candy cane in front and put your party information inside.
• Ornament Invitation. Use white card stock for the invitation write-up. Cut out a round circle out of colored card stock. This would be the ornament. Decorate with various shapes of card stock, gems, glitter, puff paint, etc. When the paper ornament is dry, punch a hole in one end, and tie on a pretty ribbon. Stick to the front of the invitation.
• Christmas Wreath Invitation. Cut out 12 mini circles out of green card stock. Arrange in a circle on a white card. Glue the circle in place to make a wreath. Stick on mini buttons as ornaments on the wreath. Tie off with a colorful bow.
• Snowflake Invitation. Get snowflake stamp and silver ink. Use a light blue card stock and fold in half to make a card. Stamp the outside with the silver ink and snowflakes design. Sprinkle silver glitter before the paint dries.

Christmas Party Decorations

• Welcoming Front Entrance. Decorate banisters and railings with garlands, ribbon and lights.  Add a festive wreath decorated with ornaments, bows and fresh greenery.
• Ornaments are your friend. Use ornaments to bring in color and set the theme for your table.
• Ribbons, Ribbons, Ribbons. Use a decorative ribbon and tie a glitter snowflake ornament to make a napkin ring. Use them on chairs, tie them around candle stems, around vases, wine glasses, water goblets, etc. They bring instant color and it’s an easy affordable way to tie in the color with your theme without having to buy items in a specific color.
• Unconventional Displays. Place unusually shaped ornaments as display on stands, candelabras, vases and trays.
• Lanterns are not only for Summer. Tie an ornament and pretty bow onto paper lanterns. Let them hang from the ceiling or chandelier.
• Gold Chargers. Use gold chargers with white plates to make the colors of the ornaments and decor pop.
• Plumage Galore. Place white feathers in a gold basket and place mini ball ornaments inside. Surround the basket with glass bird ornaments.
• Martini Holders. Use martini glasses as a holder for mini ornaments. Wash thoroughly if you will be using for drinks later in the evening.

Christmas Guest Arrival and Introduction

When guests arrive and kids are looking for something to do, give them some coloring pages and crayons to keep busy. For older kids, let them do a Winter Holiday Word Find. Play some soft Christmas music in the background and offer guests to try your new eggnog recipe.

Christmas Party Crafts and Activities

• Make an Advent Calendar. Get foam core, colored card stock, candy and scriptures to create a Christian Advent Calendar. More detailed Advent Calendar instructions.
• Make Scented Cookie Dough Ornaments. The fragrant dough is easy to handle and kids can use their creativity to make their own creations. After an hour in the oven the ornaments come out smelling very nice of spices. Complete Scented Cookie Dough Ornaments Instructions.
• Frosty The Snowman Salt-and-Peppahh! Make an easy inexpensive craft for every day use. These salt and pepper shakers are made as part of our class Holiday project. More detailed Frosty Salt and Pepper Instructions.
• Christmas Tree Centerpiece. Another easy affordable project that cost less than a cup of coffee! You need 4 pieces of green card stock, a piece of yarn and mini ornaments from the dollar store. More detailed Christmas Tree Centerpiece Instructions.
• Silver Votive Holder. This craft will show you how to turn an aluminum tray into a candle holder. All you need is one tray, scissors, a votive and a wooden skewer. Complete Silver Votive Candle Holder Instructions.
• Make Cinnamon Air fresheners. Use applesauce and cinnamon to make a dough. Roll out with a rolling pin and use cookie cutters to make shapes. Punch a hole with a straw. Let dry. Cinnamon Air Fresheners Instructions and Pictures.
• Colored Ball Ornaments. Get ornaments at craft stores to decorate. Purchase clear glass balls. Get few colors of acrylic paint. Open the top of the ornament. Squeeze a small amount of one color into the opening of the ball. Swirl around to coat the insides. Continue with different or the same colors. When done, reposition cap of the ball. Spray paint the outside of the ornament lightly with spray glue. Sprinkle fine glitter on the outside. Let dry. Tie with a pretty bow.
• Make Gingerbread Houses. Use graham crackers or make your own gingerbread from scratch. Use sturdy cardboard or foam core wrapped in foil as a base. Get lots of tubs of icing, various shapes and sizes of candy, graham crackers or gingerbread panels, and piping bags or ziploc bags. The key is to ice the sides of the house first and let dry. Continue with the roof. Add the decorations and candy at the end until the icing of the roof has hardened a bit.
• Make Cookies. Make a variety and freeze or give away as gifts.
• Make Food Baskets. Make food baskets for homeless shelters.
• Go Caroling. Go caroling in the neighborhood, nursing home or go visit family and friends. Bring a small tray of cookies with you to brighten their day and bring a smile to their faces.
• Go Green Tree Trimming Party. Decorate a mini live Christmas tree with natural ingredients that can be used as food for animals in nature. Use pine cones, nuts, popcorn garlands, cranberries garlands, dried fruits and rinds. Use paper grocery bags to make snowflakes and ornaments. Set up outside and watch the birds and animals enjoy their Holiday feast.
• Science Experiment Christmas Party. If you don’t get snow for the Holidays, make your own snow!
• Make a Snowman Kit. Let guests make their own snowman kit. Make an orange clay nose and fire in oven to harden, get some buttons for a mouth, cut out two large round pieces out of felt for eyes, go outside and collect branches for stick arms, use leftover scrap fabric to make strips for a scarf. Package in a pretty container. Tie with a ribbon. Let guests take home as a favor.
• Make a Yearly Christmas Album. Give each person an album and let them decorate the front with letters like “Jones Family Christmas Album”. Insert 5 Christmas Scrapbook paper in each. Let guests decorate each one and label each page for each year. For example, on the page for “Christmas 2008″ leave space for one picture and decorate the rest of the page. Leave notes like: (1) We spend Christmas with ……. (2) Things we did ……. (3) Most enjoyable events………… etc.

Christmas Party Recipes

• Elegant Christmas Dinner. Make a delicious Christmas dinner for your guests. Recipes for Beef Tenderloin and Roasted Shallots, Wild Rice Pilaf with Cranberries and Pine Nuts, Winter Salad and Ripe Pears, and Blushing Apple Butter.
• Cookie Exchange. Exchange cookies with recipes attached to them.
• Delicious desserts. Get together to make yummy desserts and give out recipes on pretty cards to guests.
  
• Hot, warm and yummy drinks. Have hot chocolate with whipped cream and chocolate shavings or hot apple cider with cinnamon sticks ready to keep guests toasty warm. Other optional drink stirrers – candy canes, chocolate mint stick, pocky stick, etc.
• Toasting a Merry Cheer. Recipes for Holiday mixed drinks.
• Christmas Wine Tasting Party. Consider hosting a Wine Tasting Party during the Holiday Season. Enjoy and relax while having fun savoring a few select wines.

Christmas Party Cakes

• Santa Claus Cupcakes. Ice cup cake with light peach icing. Use red icing to pipe top edge of the cupcake for the hat. Use white icing to pipe bottom half of the cupcake. This will be the beard. Pipe in white icing for eyes. Use 2 brown m&m candy as eyes or use 2 chocolate chips. Place them on the white icing for eyes. Place another brown m&m for the mouth. Pipe in the mustache. Make sure to cover part of the m&m. Use the rest of the peach icing to pipe in the nose.
• Snowflake Cupcakes. Use pale blue icing to ice the cupcake. Use white icing and pipe a straight line in the center of the cupcake extending from one edge to the other edge. Pipe another line intersecting the first line. Pipe a third line intersecting the two first lines. This will be your basic snowflake shape. Use the rest of the white icing to pipe in the rest of the snowflake pattern.
• Snowman Cupcakes. Ice half of the cupcake white and half light blue for the sky. Using a large tip, pipe in two round balls for the snowman’s body. Use black icing to pipe in the hat, eyes, mouth, and buttons. Use orange icing to pipe in the nose. Use chocolate icing to make branch arms.
• Christmas Wreath Cupcakes. Ice cupcake in white. Use tip 68 with green icing to ice a band of leaves around the edge of the cupcake. This will be the wreath. Use red icing to pipe in mini balls on the wreath and finish off with a red bow in the top center of the wreath.

Christmas Party Games

• Name That Christmas Song or What Lyrics Are Next? Play a few seconds of popular Christmas tunes and let guests guess the name of the song. For a different version of this game, play certain lyrics and stop the song at a certain point and let them guess what lyrics come next. The one who guesses any of the right answer, gets a prize.
• Santa Says. Played like the traditional “Simon Says” game but use Santa instead.
• Christmas Limbo. Play upbeat Caribbean Christmas song like Boney M Christmas Album and use a Christmas Garland as your limbo stick. Guaranteed to bring lots of giggles in children and adults alike!
• Christmas Bingo. Everyone loves Christmas Holiday Bingo! It’s easy, fun and all age groups can play! Print out your own version as many as you need. Just purchase and play!
• Christmas Charades and Pictionary. This will keep an entire group of adults and kids entertained for hours! Team up, or challenge the women against the men, adults versus kids, etc. in this fun game of Pictionary or Charades. Holiday Christmas Charades Game has all Christmas related words, including Christmas songs and Christmas movies!
• Christmas Jeopardy. This Christmas Jeopardy Game has 15 different categories from Christmas Trivia to Name That Tune. Comes with 3 Jeopardy boards.
• Classroom and Kids Games: Kids Winter Holiday Party Games
• Classroom and Kids Games: Kids Christmas Party Games for Non-Readers
• Classroom and Kids Games: Kids Christmas Party Games
• Classroom and Kids Games: Kids Christian Christmas Party Games
• Adult Party Games: Office Party and Adult Winter Holiday Games
• Adult Party Games: Office Party and Adult Christmas Games

Christmas Party Favors

• Mug of Warmth. Get a mug, fill with with a hot chocolate envelope, Hershey kisses and sticks of cinnamon. Wrap the entire package in clear cellophane and tie off with a gold bow.
• Unique Ornaments. Everyone loves ornaments so try to find ornaments to fit each person’s personality. If that is not possible, get simple ornaments and personalize by writing the year or the name of the receiver with a gold permanent marker or puff paint. Add a pretty ribbon and use as a hanger.
• Old fashioned candies. Put a variety of old fashioned ribbon candy, mints, taffy, etc. in a pretty box. Wrap in tea stained newspaper and tie with a red piece of yarn.
• Chocolate Christmas Tree. Make Chocolates with candy chocolates by melting chocolate and pouring into Christmas Tree molds. When cool, unmold and wrap in clear cellophane bags. Tie with pretty ribbon and an ornament. Add a label.

Other Christmas Party Related Posts

• Holiday Craft: How To Make an Advent Calendar
• Holiday Craft: Scented Dough Ornaments
• Holiday Craft: Snowman Salt and Pepper Shakers
• Holiday Craft: Cinnamon Air Fresheners Ornaments
• Holiday Decor: Easy Christmas Tree Centerpiece
• Holiday Games: Holiday Bingo for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Winter break
• Holiday Recipes: Winter Salad with Ripe Pears
• Holiday Recipes: Wild Rice Pilaf with Cranberries and Pine nuts
• Holiday Recipes: Beef Tenderloin with Roasted Shallots
• Holiday Recipes: Blushing Apple Butter