Whether you’re throwing a Halloween, Easter, Christmas party (or other) — Check out this list of 100s of the top holiday party games for kids, adults, & teens. Plan a party that’s sure to be the best ever with these suggestions for fun holiday party activities that will keep everyone entertained. Twist each simple game into something fun and unique with a twist of party game instructions and a list of themed party supplies.

Activities during a holiday season are part of tradition. Most everyone can claim a busy calendar filled with parties and activities during a holiday season. Bringing together low-cost party entertainment can be a bit of a challenge. Entertainment can feel quite costly and often absorbs most of the party budget. However, having a good time is actually quite affordable and planning for a holiday party can be just as fun as the actual party itself.

If you are on a party planning committee of one or part of a group of people to host a party, this blog post is for you! Spice up your next get-together with these fun party games and activities. Learn how to take simple party games and ideas and turn them into amazing holiday party games for adults or DIY party games for kids with just a simple twist of the theme and/or directions.

What games are usually played at a party?

It’s not too complicated to come up with games for a party. There are many classic games that have been played at your earliest party memories. However, if you want guests to have a ridiculously fun time, it’s important to come up with traditional party games only offering a twist. This makes a common game into a fun game you’ve probably never played before.

Good party game ideas incorporate everyone, create ice breakers and bonding amoung teammates and offer a little bit of friendly competition.  Good games create banter, laughter, and innocent fun.

A few games that are good for a party include…

• Twister

• Charades

• Truth or Dare

• Pin the Tail on the Donkey

• Musical Chairs

• Pictionary

• Trivia

• Bingo

• Piñata

However, the rules of everyone one of these common games can be used to turn into a new unique game you’ve never played before. When you take a good party game and turn it into something of your own, it creates a memorable time for party guests. Positive memories mean good times.

Now that we know of these fun party activities, let’s learn how we can turn them into incredibly awesome holiday party games for the entire year and any occasion and age group.

What makes a good party game?

A good game usually fits a themed party. Whether your hosting a holiday party, birthday party, or office party, create group games based on your party theme. Instead of reinventing the wheel, start with many of your classic and traditional games and add fun flare based on the type of party you are having. Next, consider your audience and their skill level and go from there. Many children’s games can be used for young kids or adapted into hilarious party games for adults who like to have fun!

It’s easy to create a good party game when you start with a simple game and gift it a twist. For example, if you are hosting a Christmas party, turn a limbo game into Santa Belly Limbo. Have participants wear a Santa hat, ugly sweaters and put a “Santa belly” under their shirt using a balloon (or pillows.) Use a roll of wrapping paper as a limbo stick and continue to follow the rules of Limbo, lowering the roll of gift wrap the game until you have one winner remaining. You turned a dull game into a perfect game for Christmas.

Classic Party Games

Let’s start by taking a look at these fun traditional party games. The goal is to take these classic games and turn them into something themed.

Scavenger Hunts

A scavenger hunt is a game in which a list of items or places are discovered. A scavenger hunt can use a checklist, where each item is crossed off the list when found or it can include a series of clues in which contests race to solve and discover new clues. Scavenger hunts are often holiday themed and can also be called treasure hunts as the end of the journey usually includes a price. Host scavenger hunts in teams of two, in groups, or as individual players playing against a clock.

Holiday Trivia

How did we even play trivia before the days of Google. Let’s all take a minute and thank Google for all if it’s factual knowledge. Whatever the occasion, begin to research your trivia. Take your theme and Google search (insert holiday name) trivia. Immediately, you can declare your self an expert in such and such holiday. If hosting a holiday party about a a particular someone, frame all the quiz questions around them. Drill them with questions before the event and find out who knows them best. Chances are every party as a certain hot shot that can’t wait to be called the trivia master.

Bingo

We know B-I-N-G-O is more than a dog. Bingo is a quick and easy game to unload a bunch of prizes. They are excellent for kids party games or can be use for adults too. For example, use these free Bingo Cards. Print and play. If hosting a party for kids, have a bunch of fun trinkets and party favors. Not only does it fill the party with plenty of positive energy, it keeps the kids occupied. If hosting a party for adults. consider mini cocktail bottles as party favors. They can be the catalyst or start to your drinking party games for later in the evening.

Charades

Charades can be played with any type of word or phrase. Words (and phrases) are placed on a card and drawn blindly from a hat or bag. A person from each team goes to the front of the room to act out the phrase while their teammates try to guess what they are silently acting out. There are two sets of rules for charades games. The game of charades tends to be funnier as the party goes on.

Pass the Gift

Pass the gift or pass the parcel is a great party game for teens, kids and even adults. There are many times of party games where a gift is passed along. This can include a white elephant gift exchange game. This game is usually played with dice and directions are given based on the number rolled on the dice. At the end of the game, each person goes home with a fun present. You can also play pass the parcel where small presents are on different layers of a gift wrapped in wrapping paper or cling film plastic wrap. You can insert small themed party favors, gift cards, trinkets and more.  Choose the layers to have themed goodies fitting for the holiday party you are throwing.

Board Games

When bringing board games to a holiday party, you need to consider the amount of guests that are invited. Board games are often limited by players. You can always extend the amount of players that can play by grouping up players. You also can host board games at various tables and locations in your home (or holiday party venue location.) A list of creative-thinking good board games for a party include Taboo, Scattergories, Jenga, Ticket to Ride, Clue, Apples to Apples, Chutes and Ladders, Uno, or Cranium.

Also take a look at our list of Family Game Night Game Ideas.

Lets look at some of these traditional party activities and turn them into party games for indoor and outdoor parties. With a bit of a twist, let’s make create them into holiday activities that will have guests engaged and having fun. Keep the good times rolling with these crowd-pleasing activities for a any year-round holiday gathering.

Christmas Party Games

Who doesn’t love a good holiday party for Christmas. From the office, to youth groups, to the classroom and neighborhood, Christmas is a great time for a holiday party with games. Grab a Christmas party theme, twist the directions for your traditional party games and roll with the party fun. If you are hosting an ugly Christmas sweater party, incorporate relay races into taking off and putting oversized ugly Christmas attire. If you are hosting a Christmas party with a winter wonderland theme, transfer all your games into a winter Olympic theme – cotton balls are snow balls, brooms and hockey pucks can be used for winter curling and more.

Ornament Spoon Relay

You’ll need: Spoons, ornaments
How to score: The winning team is the first group to have all teammates cross the finish line without dropping the ornament.

Just like an egg spoon relay. Divide teams into two for this relay. The first person in line has a spoon an ornament. Every other player has a spoon. Each person with a spoon and ornament must carry the ornament on the spoon to a designated spot and back. As soon as the player returns to the line, he or she passes the ornament to next person in line. Continue until everyone gets a turn. If the ornament drops, return to the starting line. Fastest team, wins.

Snowman Stack

You’ll need: Marshmallows

How to score: The winner will stack the most marshmallows in 60 seconds.

Each player gets giant marshmallows. Players must stack marshmallows on top of each other to resemble a snowman using one hand. Player that stacks the most in under a minute, wins.

Balloon Antlers

You’ll need: Pantyhose, balloons

How to score: Have the most balloons or the best looking antlers at the end of the Christmas game.

Split into teams with two or three players. Give give each team a bag of balloons and a pair of pantyhose. The teams must blow up balloons and stuff them into pair of pantyhose. When the team feels their pantyhose antlers are complete, one person from the team puts on the pantyhose. The team with the best reindeer antlers wins!

That’s a Wrap

You’ll need: Dice, ball of Saran wrap with small prizes

How to score: Everyone wins as they begin to unwrap small prizes.

Have a Giant roll of plastic wrap and a lot of small gifts. Place a small ball at the center and start wrapping the ball with plastic wrap. As you go, randomly add in small toys, gifts, candy or even gift cards. You will end up with a ginormous ball filled with fun! The game is played with dice. Sit in a circle and have one person rolling while the other starts unwrapping the giant ball. No ripping. As soon as the person rolling the dice rolls doubles, pass the gift (or the ball to them) and pass the dice to the left. The game continues. Whatever items you unwrap are yours to keep!

The Good List

You’ll need: Paper, pencil.

How to score: The player that gets the most points, wins.

The goal is to choose answers on The Good List (answers that MOST people would choose.) Have a slip of paper for keeping score. Call out a question and have everyone write down their answer. After everyone is done, hold up the answers. If 3 or more people answer they same they each get 3 points, 2 people 2, 1 person has the same answer, they each get one point. Example Questions Include: Name Santa’s favorite reindeer. The best dessert of Christmas. The ultimate Christmas Carol. The best color for Christmas. The best Christmas movie ever. Santa’s favorite drink? The number of reindeer that pull Santa’s sleigh. Etc.

Printable Christmas Games

Ready for a few Christmas holiday games to get you into the holiday spirit? Print these fun holiday party games you can play right away. The best thing about digital download games is that you can use them immediately and you will have many of the game supplies on hand…. from jingle bells, to hot chocolate, cookies, candy canes and more! Some of these fun activities are games that don’t need materials. Just grab a pencil and go!

• 17 Christmas Minute to Win to Games

• 19 Christmas Party Games

• Christmas Scavenger Hunt

• Treasure Hunt Elf on the Shelf Game

• Roll a Santa Dice Game

• Christmas Drinking Party Games

• Christmas Scattergories

• Pass the Present White Elephant Gift Exchange Game

• Name that Tune Christmas Songs

• Christmas Trivia Game

• Christmas Escape Room

• Christmas Bingo

• Christmas Charades

Thanksgiving Party Games

Falls is a great time to host Thanksgiving party games. It’s a perfect season for friends and family to gather. If you are hosting a Friendsgiving or having the whole family over for turkey, take a look at some of these Thanksgiving game ideas. Try out a Thanksgiving scavenger hunt, take a few football games outside or turn a traditional seasonal game for another holiday into something fun for November. For example, take a traditional Easter egg scavenger hunt and turn it into a turkey leg hunt. Fill large Easter eggs with a lot of treasures (candy, stickers, adult cocktails, etc.) Tape a white plastic spoon to the egg and using brown washi tape. This is your turkey leg. Hide turkey legs in the home or in the backyard and go on a turkey trot treasure hunt.

Bobbing for Apples

You’ll need: Apples, bucket, water

How to score: Retrieve your apple the fastest to win.

Fill a large bucket with water. Add apples in the water, which will float to the top. Each player has a set amount of time to grab as many apples as they can out of the water only use their mouth, hands behind their back. The player that gets the most in the time period, wins.

Harvest the Fields

You’ll need: Chopsticks, bowls, beans

How to score: The player that moves the most beans in time, wins.

Each player will have two paper bowls and a pair of chopsticks. One bowl will be filled with dried beans and the other one will be empty. On the start of go, the players will transfer their beans from one bowl to the other bowl using only their chopsticks.
They have 1 minute to see who has the most beans from their harvest at the end of time!

Thanksgiving Charades

You’ll need: Notecards, pen

How to score: The group that guests the most holiday charades cards correctly in time, wins.

Write down additional nouns (person, place or thing) on small notecards. Keep the nouns in a Thanksgiving theme or fit to the age group. Split teams in two. One person acts out what’s on the card. Each team guesses what the player on their is acting out. Team that guesses the most correctly, wins.

Potato Roll

You’ll need: Potatoes, tape.

How to score: First player to cross the finish line with their potato, wins.

Have a taped start and finish line on the ground. On the start of go, players must get down on their hands and knees and roll a potato across the floor using only their noses. The first one to the finish line without touching the potato with their hands is the grand champion nose roller. Talk about bragging right. You can also make this a group game by splitting players into teams for a team relay race.

Gobble, Gobble, Eat

You’ll need: Thanksgiving food, utensils, plates

How to score: The last player left in the game, wins.

This is a fun Thanksgiving dinner table game.  In this friendsgiving thanksgiving dinner party game, you must follow the conversation. During dinner, anytime you hear the words “gobble, gobble,” you take a bite of turkey. If you hear the word “thankful,” you take a bite of your favorite food. If you hear the word “stuffed,” you take a bite of stuffing. After you take your bite, say the “magic word” again and keep your fork in your mouth until everyone has done the same. The last person to take a bite is out. Play during dinner until one person (The winner) is left.

Printable Thanksgiving Games

Want these games in your hands? Being prepared for an upcoming celebration will allow you to pull off the best entertainment for Friendsgiving or Thanksgiving. Each of these Thanking Party Games printables (from Frugal Coupon Living) has a complete instructions and a list of supplies needed.

• 16 Thanksgiving Minute to Win it Games

• 12 Thanksgiving Party Games

• Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt

• Thanksgiving Charades

• Roll a Turkey Dice Game

• Thanksgiving Family Feud

• Thanksgiving Think Fast Trivia Game

• Who is most like the turkey?

• Thanksgiving pass the present game

Halloween Party Games

Halloween is the starting point to all the holiday party games and who doesn’t love a great Halloween party. Dress up in costumes and have fun playing some of the best Halloween party games for the holiday season. For these game ideas, take many of your common games and make them unique activities by adding in plastic spiders, candy corn, pumpkins and ghosts.

Hang the Glow Stick

You’ll need: String, glow-sticks with hooks, chairs

How to score: The winner is the team that hangs all their glow sticks the fastest.

In this glow party game, tie a string across the room in-between two chairs or other tall objects. Split players into two teams, each team with a set of glow sticks with hooks. When the game starts, the first player must pick up a glow stick with his/her mouth, run to the rope, and hang the hooked glow stick on the rope without using his/her hands. The player runs back so the next person on their team who then does the same. The team to hang all of their glow sticks on the line first, wins. (Optional: instead of using your mouth, tie hands behind your back to pick up and hang the stick.)

Mummy Relay Race

You’ll need: Rolls of toilet paper

How to score: Be the first mummy to cross the finish line without breaking your wrappings.

Split in teams of two. Use an entire roll of toilet paper and wrap your teammate up as a mummy, arms out. The mummy has to cross the finish line, keep their wrappings on and not tear them through to win!

Pumpkin Patch Stomp

You’ll need: String, orange balloons

How to score: Be the last player with a balloon tied to your ankle.

Tie a balloon to each players ankle with a piece of string. In the balloon is a prize (candy, sticker, etc.) Once everyone has one then start playing some music. While the music plays, people walk around. When the music stops, the aim is to burst each other’s balloon & protect your own. If you burst another, you get the prize inside. The winner is the last person left with a balloon

Spider Mover

You’ll need: Vaseline, plastic spiders, plates (or bowl)

How to score: In this spider race, transfer the most spiders from one plate to another in the time given.

In this fun Halloween minute game, add a bit of Vaseline to the tip of each contestants nose. Using only their nose, players transfer many plastic spiders as they can from one plate to the other. Player with the most at the end of one minute, wins.

Three Ghosts

You’ll need: Sharpie, white balloons

How to score: Be the team that keeps your balloons in the air the longest.

The goal of this game is to successfully keep three balloons (decorated like ghosts) in the air for one minute. Players can
only use one of their hands to do it! If a balloon falls, that team looses the round. Point awarded for who does it longest or without dropping a balloon.

Printable Halloween Games

Halloween is a great time to dress-up, clown around and be your silly self. If you are looking for a few printable Halloween party games, we have you covered with a few fun ideas. Put the play back in your party plan by being prepared with these spook-tacular Halloween games – print today!

• 16 Halloween Minute to Win it Games

• 19 Halloween Party Games

• Halloween Scavenger Hunt

• Halloween Riddles for Kids

• Halloween Family Feud

• Halloween Scattergories

• Halloween Candy Dice Game

• Halloween iSpy Game

New Year’s Eve Party Games

The way you bring in the new year is a huge indicator for how your new year is… who made up that lie?  However if that New Year’s Eve quote is a bit true then I want to be playing games. What makes NYE party games great is your can incorporate many ideas like Christmas games, winter Olympic games, and ball drop games. The possibilities are endless with these end of the year holiday ideas.

Christmas Clean Up

You’ll need: Christmas decorations, Christmas tree, storage bucket

How to score: Clean up the Christmas décor the fastest.

Are you one of those people who keeps your Christmas decorations up until New Years? Undeck the halls by removing the ornaments from the tree and getting all 30 into the storage bucket.

NYE Ball Drop

You’ll need: Ping-pong balls, bucket, chair, black felt top hat

How to score: The player with the most balls at the end of time, wins.

Players will stand on a chair in front of a black felt top hat. Teach player has to drop Ping Pong balls (one at a time) in the hat below.

Midnight Kisses

You’ll need: Hershey Kisses

How to score: Unwrap and eat the most chocolate kisses in the amount of time given.

Using one hand, players must unwrap Hershey kisses and eat them. The Player that unwraps and eats the most in time, wins.

The Final Countdown

You’ll need: SOLO cups

How to score: Move the stack of SOLO cups the fastest.

This Moving on Up classic one-minute game is renamed for the holiday season. Have 40 SOLO Plastic Cups. All the same color except one at the bottom. On the start of go, the player must move each cup through the stack first by removing the bottom cup and placing it in the top of the stack. In 60 seconds, the player must repeat this pattern for all 40 cups and end with the different colored cup back to the bottom.

Ice Capades Winter Games

You’ll need: Straw, ice, table

How to score: Blow your ice cube across the table the fastest.

In this one minute challenge, each player will push an ice cube on the table from one end to the other by blowing on it through the straw. No hands!

Printable New Year’s Eve Games

Grab these fun printable NYE games and gather with family and friends. These New Year’s Eve group games are excellent for counting down the final hour until midnight. The keep everyone laughing and engaging making that time fly… (that’s what we want, right?)

• 16 New Year’s Eve Minute to Win it Games

• New Year’s Eve Scavenger Hunt

• New Year’s Eve Conversation Cards

• New Year’s Eve Charades Cards

• New Year’s Eve Escape Room

Valentine’s Day Party Games

Valentine’s day is perfect for Galentine’s, classroom parties and significant others . Exchange love notes, candy hearts, and more. These Valentine holiday game ideas focus on chocolate, hearts, candy and more. You can’t go wrong with this collection of party games made with items you have in your home or budget.

Spaghetti Kiss

You’ll need: Paper plates, cooked spaghetti, candy hearts, spaghetti sauce

How to score: Find all your candy hearts first to win.

Similar to a group pie eating contest, only with a twist. For each player, a plate of cooked spaghetti with 6 candy hearts hidden inside. On the start of go, players race to find the candy with only their mouth. No hands. First player go get all 6 candy hearts, wins. To make it messier, add sauce!

Valentine Taboo

You’ll need: Valentine Taboo Cards

How to score: Be the team to have the most points at the end of hte game.

Split players into teams of 3-4 players. The first player begins the guess game by drawing one card and then reading the “guess word” to themselves. The word at the top of the card is the word/phrase they will be describing so the other players on their team will guess it. They also read the forbidden words or words they can not use when describing the word. The team gets a set amount of time to guess the word they are trying to describe. A point is awarded for each word guessed correctly.

Candy Heart Toss

You’ll need: Painters tape, plastic cups, candy hearts

How to score: Be the group that catches the most candy hearts.

In this game, players are split into teams of two. They each stand on opposite lines about 5 feet apart. Use painter’s tape to make your lines on the ground. In this game, one player tosses candy hearts, the other player catches the candy hearts with a cup (or bowl) on their head. The team that has the most hearts at the end of time, wins.

Face the Cookie

You’ll need: Cookies

How to score: Get the cookie to your mouth in the fastest amount of time.

Players must move the Valentine’s Day cookie from their forehead into their mouth within one minute. Players can not use their hands during the face the cookie game!

Tart Tower

You’ll need: Tweezers, chopsticks, Smarties candy

How to score: Stack and unstack your candy tower the fastest.

In this challenge, players must unwrap and re-stack an entire roll of Smarties Candy free standing on the table in 60 seconds or less. They can use hands to unwrap but must use chopsticks or tweezers to stack.

Printable Valentine’s Day Games

The season of love can be celebrated with the girls or with a significant other. Whether celebrating with the kids, a boyfriend or your girlfriends, these printable Valentine games are perfect! Filled with cupids touch, check out these holiday games for Valentine’s day including card games, 60 second challenges, worksheets, dice games and more.

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• 11 Valentine’s Day Party Games

• Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt

• 128 Valentine’s Day Taboo Cards

• Valentine Roll and Cover Candy Heart Dice Game

• Mash Game Printable

Easter Party Games

Looking for some Easter Games to add to your holiday tradition? These super fun and easy game ideas will keep kids of all ages entertained. Take many of your loved games and replace your supplies with something themed around the Easter holiday season. For example, instead of a bucket use an Easter basket. Take all of the traditional egg rolls games and turn them into team relay races perfect for all of your party guests.

Flying Peeps

You’ll need: Easter Peeps candy, Easter baskets, plastic spoons

How to score: Get all your candy peeps into the basket the fastest

Set an Easter basket ten feet from where the player will stand. Place a marker on the floor to designate where the player stands. In this challenge, each player will use a plastic spoon to launch Peeps into their Easter basket. Players must get six Peeps to land inside the basket to win the challenge. Complete your task in 60 seconds or less.

Backwards Egg Race

You’ll need: Eggs

How to score: The first team to get their eggs to the end of the row wins!

Divide the group into two teams and then divide the teams into pairs. This is a relay race that can be done indoors or outdoors. Each pair stands back to back with their arms linked at the elbow. The first pair of players for each team is given two eggs, one for each player. They carry the eggs in their hands. When the leader says go, the players race to the next linked pair in their team and transfer their eggs one at a time. The eggs continue to make their way from pair to pair until they are delivered to the last pair in the team. If an egg is dropped, the team races back to the start line (still connected) to get replacement eggs.

Chocolate Sculpture

You’ll need: Chocolate bars

How to score: Have the best looking chocolate sculpture in the set amount of time.

Each player is given a bar of chocolate. Set a timer for one minute. Players are challenged to create a sculpture of a specific Easter item (bunny, basket, chick etc.) using only their teeth. Players can hold the chocolate with their hands. The best chocolate sculpture wins!

Egg Roll Relay Race

You’ll need: Eggs, painter’s tape

How to score: Be the first to roll your egg across the finish line.

Have a taped start and finish line on the ground. On the start of go, players must get down on their hands and knees and roll a raw egg across the floor using only their noses. The first one to the finish line without touching the egg with their hands is the winner. Optional: use a hard boiled egg.

Easter Bunny Bluff

You’ll need: Blindfold

How to score: Guess the Easter bunny correctly.

Have all players stand in a circle. Choose one player to be IT and blindfold them. Place IT in the center of the circle and have them put one arm out, pointing in front of them. Spin them three times. Whomever IT points at tries to disguise their voice and says, “I’m the Easter Bunny.” IT tries to guess who said it. If they are correct, they switch places. If they guess wrong, they get to be IT again.

Printable Easter Games

Print these popular Easter games. These fun holiday party games are perfect for pairing with plastic eggs, carrots, small trinkets and more. They can be played with family and friends, in small groups or large groups. What makes Easter digital downloads great is you immediately have them in the palm of your hands making your Easter activity ideas, instant.

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• 7 Easter Party Games

• Easter Scavenger Hunt

• Easter Gift Exchange Dice Game

• Easter Would You Rather Game

• Easter Charades Cards

• Easter Family Feud

Other Great Party Games

The birthday party activities and entertaining party games do not end here. If you are looking for a list of fun things do for any occasion, enjoy some of these other great party activities and ideas.

There’s no shortage of daily calendar holidays. While some are quite common, others might be considered unusual holidays. Frugal Coupon Living’s party games can be used for all types of occasion including holidays you might consider party of your family traditions. Use these holiday party games for family game night, for a group party, and many of other special reasons.

More holiday party games include…

• St. Patricks’ Day Party Games

• Fourth of July Games

• Super Bowl Football Party Games

• Kids Birthday Party Games

• Back to School Games

Who can play holiday party games?

When creating holiday party games, ask yourself about the players and participants. Make sure you know your party guests when planning the entertainment for a holiday party. Consider their age, skill set, and your audience’s likes and dislikes.

Age

When creating party games, consider your age group. The will help you with your game directions and the tasks you want to accomplish.

To create good memories ask yourself is your age group expecting a prize/party favor? Preschool games might have small awards like candy or stickers. Adult games might need no prize at all as endorphins are created through positive exchanges and banter. Tiny treasures feed younger kids while older kids (aka adults) are rewarded through a good time.

Skill

Now that you know your age group, consider what tasks they can achieve in each contest. Make a game more challenging by adding a timer or extra steps needed to win. Make a game easier by pairing younger kids and older kids together.  Older children can not only explain the rules of the game but also help preschoolers and toddlers with more challenging tasks.

Audience

It’s important to know your audience’s likes and dislikes. In addition, the audience at a bar will look quite different form the audience inside of a classroom. Knowing your audience establishes what makes an appropriate or inappropriate games.

Where can you play holiday party games?

Holiday party games can be used as outdoor games or indoor games. There are plenty of settings they are perfect for. Use in the school, at an office, in an bar, at home or even in a church. Look at these places that are perfect venues for a holiday party with games.

Office

Loosen the tie, sit back and relax a bit and incorporate games into the next office party. These games can be used at a party venue. museum, park or even a bar. Based on how relaxed you want to go, consider using adult party games or even drinking games when pulling together games for the office.

House

“It’s gonna be a house party…” if you are hosting a party at home, any of these games can be enjoyed on the couch on your living room or incorporated into your backyard as outdoor games. At party at home or a party at a venue is the perfect place for good holiday games. Incorporate into a dinner party, slumber party, birthday party or as games for a small holiday gathering in the neighborhood.

Youth Group

Calling all youth group leaders. If you work at a youth center or church, these holiday party activities are perfect for youth. Not only do they keep the kids busy, they are great ice breaker games for bringing new names and faces together.

Classroom

The classroom is a great place for holiday party games. Teachers make sure to share these classroom activities with your homeroom moms and parents when planning your next holiday gathering.

Have a blast with these fun holiday party activities and games. Be sure to share in the comments, what are your favorite games and who was your audience when doing them?

Our Pinterest community and I would love to see how this worked out for you. Share your experience with these awesome holiday activities and fun game ideas.  Which holiday party games could you guys not live without? Leave a comment here or on Pinterest! Share to Facebook with a group of party guests going to an upcoming celebration.

Learn more about printing games at Staples and how to download digital files from the internet.

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Are you looking for insanely fun group games? Here is a huge list of the best team building activities. These include 100s of entertaining large group games for adults, youth, and kids alike.

Group games are a great way to get kids and adults interacting and engaged in activities together. They can promote teamwork, communication, and problem-solving skills. In addition, ice breaker games are great for building relationships while also being a lot of fun!

If you’re looking for proper group games to play or plan with a group, check out this list for games for holidays, parties, youth groups and more!

What are group games?

Group games are any type of game that is played by a handful of people. This can include anything from classic party games like Charades or Twister, to more structured team-building exercises. Group activities are a great way to get kids of all ages interacting and working together towards a common goal. These types of indoor and outdoor activities are perfect for youth group games, kids parties, holiday gatherings or even for the office!

Why have team building activities?

Team building is not a game. It’s a process of connecting people through enjoyable activities.  Reasons for using team building games will include helping individual learn about each other — how each person thinks, works, solves problems, and has fun! They foster connections and relationships and also improve communication and create camaraderie. Through enjoyable group games and team bonding, you can instantly turn a group of strangers into a group of friends.

Team group games are perfect for birthday parties for adults or kids. They are low-cost party entertainment and keep the party moving along. The will make a group of strangers into long lost friends by the end of the event. Use them for kids birthday parties, themed holiday parties, adult parties, in the school classroom and more.

In the office, these games can have many benefits. First, they instill positive company culture through great team building game ideas with colleagues. They also create creative thinking, creative problem solving and employee engagement. Use on the first day with new employees as the start of collaboration and working together. You can also use these group activities to refreshing a dull atmosphere when the morale is low.

100s of The Best Group Games Available

There are a ton of great group games out there for team fun. Gather your friends, get your supplies, give verbal instructions and split up into teams. Each group will work to earn points and be declared the winner in these fun team building activities.  Use a whiteboard, poster board or piece of paper. You can use markers and pencils to keep track of the wins. You can award a group prize to great teams or individual prizes at the end of the games.

To help you execute the best large group party activities, we have but we’ve compiled a list of hundreds of group games. These fun game ideas indoor, outdoor, kids party, adult party, holiday and minute to win it games for groups.

Let’s begin

Minute to Win it Party Games

Do you have a stop watch? Minute to win it games are fast-paced and excellent for keeping the activity moving along. These quick icebreakers are competitive and can be played as team vs team, in groups or as individual vs clock. Points are awarded to the team/invidudal who completes the 60 second challenge first or in the set amount of time. A moderator will begin with giving verbal directions. The game starts and the clock begins. Members of the group work together to accomplish a task. These quick ice breaker games can play over and over so each person gets a chance to play or move along to the next game for face pace action.

1 Face the Cookie

You’ll need: OREO cookie
How to score: First person who moves the cookie from their forehead to their mouth wins.

Also called cookie face. Each person is given a cookie. An OREO works great. Each player places the cookie on their forehead and has to get it into their mouth without using their hands and only movement. The winner that gets it done first. In one minute is through, the winner is the player with the cookie closest to their mouth. If the cookie is drop, you must start from the beginning forehead spot.

2 Penny for Your Thoughts

You’ll need: Pennies
How to score: Be the first to stack all 25 pennies with one hand.

Contestants must stack 25 pennies in under a minute using only one hand. Player who stacks the most (has the tallest tower) or gets 25 first is the winner. Use a timer, one player at a time, to find the fastest player or double the number of pennies to have a side by side challenge.

3 Ping-Pong Bounce

You’ll need: Ping-pong balls, plastic cups.
How to score: Be the firs to get a ping pong ball into six plastic cups.

In this game, players have to bounce ping pong balls into six cups. First to get a ball in each cup, wins. Or the person who gets the most in a set period of time, wins.

4 Moving On Up Cup Game

You’ll need: Plastic cups: 29 red, one blue.
How to score: One at a time move the cups from the bottom of the stack to the top. Be the first player to get the blue cup back to the top.

Each player starts with a stack of 30 plastic cups, with 29 red cups and one blue one at the top. Players must move the cups one at a time from the top of the stack to the bottom, continuing until the blue cup returns to the top of the stack. First one to reveal their blue cup wins! Use a timer, one player at a time, to find the fastest player or double the number of cups to have a side by side challenge.

5 Junk in the Trunk

You’ll need: Kleenex box, ping bong balls, tape.
How to score: The first player that shakes all the balls out of their tissue box wins.

Each player is given a rectangular empty tissue box with 8 Ping Pong Balls. The box is strapped around the player’s waist. A belt or tape works great. On the start of go, the participants try to shake the balls out of the Kleenex box using only movement. No hands. The first player with an empty box wins. You can play until there is one man standing if you want to award points based on first, second, third places, etc.

More Minute to Win it Games for Large Groups

Take a look at this huge list of Minute to Win it 60 second games for large groups. Choose that game that fits the season you are in.

• 18 Traditional Minute to Win it Games
• 18 Back to School Minute to Win it Games
• 16 Halloween Minute to Win it Games
• 16 Thanksgiving Minute to Win it Games
• 17 Christmas Minute to Win to Games
• 16 New Year’s Eve Minute to Win it Games
• 16 Valentine’s Day Minute to Win it Games
• 16 Easter Minute to Win it Games
• 16 Minute to Win it Water Games
• 16 Outdoor Minute to Win it Games
• 15 Football Minute to Win it Games

We have over 180 Minute to Win it Group games. That is a lot of team games! Which is your favorite?

Adult Party Games

Adult games can be played with or without adult beverages. Adult games are a mix of more challenging concepts and sometimes include adult drinking games. In places where alcoholic beverages are not allowed, like the office, any of these party games can be played by kids at heart (aka adults.) In fact, many of these group games for younger kids will be hilarious icebreaker games when played in the office by those in suites and ties or by those 21 and over having an evening gathering.

Never Have I Ever

You’ll need: Adult beverages.
How to score: One point for each person who takes a sip. The player with the fewest points, wins.

Never Have I Ever is a classic party game that is great for groups of all ages. Players take turns making statements about things they have never done, and anyone who has done that thing must take a drink. This group game is sure to get everyone talking and laughing!

Charades

You’ll need: Charades cards
How to score: Be team to guess the most words correctly during the game to win.

You can’t go wrong with a fun game of charades. To get things started, use the cards included in the packet for the game. You can also give each of your guests a few minutes to come up with some funny suggestions with the blank cards to personalize the game to your friend group. This game is all about creativity and using your imagination, so the more outrageous the charade, the better! Split teams in two. A team members acts out what’s on the card. Cards can be described by categories before the game begins. This includes movies, famous people, places and things. Each team guesses what the player on their team is acting out. The team that guesses the most correctly, wins.

Straight Face

You’ll need: Paper, pen
How to score: Be the last person standing (last person to keep a straight face.)

This game of skill is a challenge to see who can read the silliest sentences without cracking a grin. Each player writes a crazy sentence on a slip of paper and adds it to the basket. Players them take turns reading a sentence aloud while trying to not laugh or smile. Anyone who laughs, snickers, or grins is out. You can also up the punishment by making offenders take a shot or eat a yucky concoction!

Team Scavenger Hunt

You’ll need: Pen, paper and team scavenger hunt list (grab example list here or here.)
How to score: Be the first to finish the team vs team scavenger hunt.

Head to a public location with a a list of things to gather on the scavenger hunt. This can be a list of photos, a list of items, or a list of things to do. Make these ideas silly like a refrigerator box, coin from 1983, town clock, egg carton, deposit slip, take-out menu or even a photo of the entire team in a shopping cart.

Prosecco Pong

You’ll need: Plastic glasses, prosecco , ping-pong balls.
How to score: Be the first team to get all your balls into the opponents plastic cups.

This game is played like beer pong, only classier – with Prosecco! Poor a bit of Prosecco in 12 plastic wineglasses. Six glasses in a triangle shape on opposite sides of a table. Each team takes turn throwing a ping-pong ball into the other team’s cups. Once a ball lands in a cup, the cup is taken away and the opponent then drinks the contents of the cup. If both teammates hit cups, the balls are rolled back and they get to shoot again. there is no looser.

More Group Games for Adults

Take a look at this list of adult team games. Both drinking games and non-drinking games these games can be played in a bar, at house, party venue, or even at a baby shower!

• 17 Adult Party Games
• 21 Drinking Party Games
• 11 Beer Games
• 11 Wine Party Games
• 17 Bachelorette Games
• 20 Baby Shower Games
• Christmas Drinking Party Games

We have over 97 group games for adults. Does your favorite game idea include drinks?

Outdoor Team Building Games

Outdoor group games are great because the widen the play area. Bring the fun to the park, beach, lake, backyard and more with these outdoor team games. They can be fun for during the day or even at night. They also allow for a mess! No ruining that fancy carpet inside.

Pass the Water

You’ll need: Cups, buckets, water
How to score: Team that has the most water in the final cup/bucket wins.

Do you have what it takes to not spill a drop? Have teams line up in a row and give the first person in line a cup of water. Once “go” is said, the person holding the water cup full of water has to hold the cup over their hand and pour out the water into the empty cup of the person behind them. Do this until the entire team has done it and then see what team has the most water in the final cup/bucket!

Hula Hoop Pass

You’ll need: Hula Hoops
How to score: The first time to get the hula hoop down the line while staying on the arms, wins!

Split into small groups or teams. Grab a hula-hoop, hold hands, and see if you can get the hula hoop moving up and down the line of players. Be the fastest to move your hoop along.

Fire Tender

You’ll need: Blindfold, wood
How to score: Win if you find who stole your firewood while blindfolded.

In this blindfolded game, IT must try to figure out who is stealing his fire tender. Every time someone approaches, it must try to identify when his fire wood is taken from his campsite. This is a great group game for toddlers or game for younger kids… though we think adults will get a a fun laugh too!

Squirt Ball Relay Race

You’ll need: Beach ball, water gun
How to score: Be the first to get your ball across the finish line.

The quicker, the better. Grab a blown-up beach ball and a squirt gun full of water and see who can use the water from the squirt gun to push the ball across the sand to the finish line. Don’t worry, you’ll more than likely run out of water and have to run to the water and fill up during this time!

Glow in the Dark Capture the Flag

You’ll need: Flags, glow sticks, fabric
How to score: First team to capture the other team’s flag, wins.

Split into two teams. Add a glow stick color to each team to easily identify players. Assign a zone where each teams’ flags (fabric attached to a glow stick) will be placed. Designate a jail area for each team. Each team can create a strategy for defending their flag, freeing jailed teammates, and capturing the other teams flag. If during the game, a player is tagged by the other team, they go to jail. Their teammate can tag them to get out. The game ends when the flag is captured and brought to the opposite side.

More Outdoor Group Games

Put on your sneakers and get ready for some competitive fun. This is a good selection of outdoor group games for kids and adults. Play at a park, in the pool or even on your trampoline.

• 16 Outdoor Water Games
• 16 Trampoline Games
• 18 Backyard Games
• 18 Pool Party Games
• 13 Camping Games
• 17 Beach Games
• 19 Lake Games

Enjoy over 117 group games to play outside. Which location is your favorite?

Indoor Group Games

Indoor games are great for poor weather or doing activities in the youth group room or shared conference room. The game set up is determined by the square space you have to work. Supplies are often found within the home/office setting. Most indoor games can be taken outside as long as your game supplies can be relocated or substituted.

Balloon on a String

You’ll need: Balloons, string
How to score: Be the last one standing with your balloon un-popped.

Tie a balloon to each players ankle with a piece of string. Once everyone has one then start playing some music. While the music plays, people walk around. When the music stops, the aim is to burst another’s balloon & protect your own. The winner is the last person left with a balloon.

Potato Drop

You’ll need: Bowls, buckets, potatoes
How to score: Be the first team to drop the most potatoes in their bucket.

Split players into two teams for a relay. Have all players place a potato between their knees & race to a finish line where they have to drop it into a designated bowl or bucket. They run back to the start line to tag the next player. If the potato is dropped, or if hands touch it, they have to go back to the start and try again. First team to finish the race, wins.

Sticky Spider Web

You’ll need: Painters tape, newspapers (or balled pieces of paper), balloons, cotton balls, socks
How to score: Collect the most balls on your sticky spider web.

Use painter’s tape to make a web-like design on a doorway opening. Give your kids some newspaper to scrunch up and throw up at the web. Or get creative and use other light-weight objects like balloons, cotton balls, socks, etc. Points are awarded for how many items stick in 10 throws.

Cotton Ball Crawl

You’ll need: Bowls, cotton balls
How to score: Be the team that gets the most cotton balls in their group’s bowl.

Dump a pile of cotton balls on the floor in one room and place empty bowls on the floor of another room (one bowl per player). Set a timer for 4 minutes and have players move one cotton ball from one room into the bowl—using a spoon and crawling on hands and knees, then go back and get another. The cotton balls are so light, they’re likely to go flying. Player with the most balls in their bowl at the end of time, wins.

Pass the Parcel

You’ll need: Prize, small presents, bubble wrap or Saran wrap
How to score: Be the player to review the largest prize at the center of the parcel.

Wrap a present in several layers using wrapping paper, newspaper, bubble wrap, or saran wrap. Sit the players in a circle, play some music. While the music plays, everyone has to pass the parcel. When you stop the music, the player holding the package removes one layer. Repeat until the present is revealed. You can have small presents on various layers.

More Indoor Group Games

Is it raining? Is it too hot? Are you stuck in the car? These team games for indoors are perfect for kids and those stuck with the kids.

• Indoor Scavenger Hunt
• 17 Games to Play Inside
• 12 Car Games

Enjoy 30 fun indoor games to play in a group. Which ones are your favorite.

Holiday Games

Host a holiday party for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day and more. For themed holiday group games, take many of your classic games and add in seasonal candy and décor. For example, typical buckets can be replaced with Easter baskets. Or instead of using M&Ms and Skittles, use candy corn. Add a fun seasonal name to twist the style and theme of the game. We have dozens of holiday party games for the office and kids parties. They are great for those looking for special occasion group activities and games during a holiday season.

Masked Sticky Note Challenge

You’ll need: Post-It Notes
How to score: Cover your partner in the most sticky-notes during the set time.

Have a blast covering your teammates face in sticky notes sheets of paper. Team that uses the most sticky notes in one minute time is declared the winner.

Ornament Spoon Relay

You’ll need: Spoons, ornaments
How to score: Fastest team to get through all their players, wins.

Inspiration from the classic childhood game, egg spoon relay. Divide teams into two for this relay. The first person in line has a spoon an ornament. Every other player has a spoon. Each person with a spoon and ornament must carry the ornament on the spoon to a designated spot and back. As soon as the player returns to the line, he or she passes the ornament to next person in line. Continue until everyone gets a turn. If the ornament drops, return to the starting line. Fastest team, wins.

Turkey Leg Hunt

You’ll need: Plastic eggs, candy, plastic spoons, washi tape
How to score: Find the most turkey legs.

Fill large Easter eggs with a lot of treasures (candy, stickers, adult cocktails, etc.) Tape a white plastic spoon to the egg and using brown washi tape. This is your turkey leg. Hide turkey legs in the home or in the backyard and go on a turkey (leg) hunt. Fun for all ages.

Mummy Speed Wrap

You’ll need: Toilet paper
How to score: Be the fastest to wrap your mummy.

Groups wrap a player as a mummy in toilet paper. Time each team for start to finish. For each time the roll broke when wrapping the mummy, 3 seconds are added to the final time. Fastest time, wins.

Flying Peeps

You’ll need: Easter baskets, peeps candy, plastic spoon.
How to score: Get the most peeps into your team’s Easter basket in time.

Set an Easter basket ten feet from where the player will stand. Place a marker on the floor to designate where the player stands. In this challenge, each player will use a plastic spoon to launch Peeps into their Easter basket. Players must get six Peeps to land inside the basket to win the challenge. Complete your task in 60 seconds or less.

More fun holiday party games

Who doesn’t love a themed party? Are the pumpkins everywhere. Are you drowning in candy hearts? Whatever the special occasion, we have a great selection of holiday party games for groups. All of these hit a wide range of ages.

• 19 Halloween Party Games
• 12 Thanksgiving Party Games
• 19 Christmas Party Games
• 11 Valentine’s Day Party Games
• 7 Easter Party Games
• 11 Graduation Party Games

Enjoy 79 holiday themed games for every season! What’s your favorite holiday.

Kids Party Games

We have a huge birthday line up of games. Take on classic & simple games or even themed party games for boys and girls. If throwing an office party, choose a theme and grab one of these game sets.

Pass the Orange

You’ll need: Oranges
How to score: Team that passes the orange the fastest, wins.

Split teams in two or more. Get an orange and sit everyone in a circle, or stand in a line. The game is simple: you need to put the orange under the chin of the first person, who must then pass it to the next person and place it under their chin, without using hands. First team to finish, wins.

Donuts on a String

You’ll need: String, doughnuts, something to hang
How to score: Eat your donut the fastest

This is a twist to the apple bobbing game. Tie the string on the donuts (one for each guest) and hang them from a clothes line, curtain rod or anything that is available. Each player stands beneath a single donut. On the mark of ‘go’ the players begin to eat their donuts using only their mouth. The first player to finish their doughnut wins. The prize is, of course, the sweet treat!

Marshmallow Pong

You’ll need: Plastic cups, marshmallows
How to score: Be the first to get all your marshmallows into the opponents’ cups.

This game is played like adult beer pong, only kid-friendly, with marshmallows. Line Six cups in a triangle shape on opposite sides of a table/area. Each team takes turn throwing a marshmallow into the other team’s cups. Once a marshmallow lands in a cup, the cup is taken away and the opponent then eats contents of the cup (if not dirty.) There is no winner. Everyone is a winner for eating marshmallows

Sleepover Murder in the Dark Cards

You’ll need: Deck of cards
How to score: Solve who is the murderer

For this murder mystery card game, all you need is a deck of cards. Leave only the numbered cards in the pile, plus 1 ace and 1 face card. That’s it. Have everyone draw a card. The one who gets the ace card is the detective and the one who gets the face card is the murderer. The detective reveals themselves but no one else does. As no one is looking, the murderer has to wink at their latest victim in which that person quietly goes “out” and puts down their card. It’s up to the detective only to figure out who is needing to be charged with the crime.

Trampoline Air Ball

You’ll need: Tennis balls, trampoline
How to score: Catch the most balls in the ten jumps.

The goal of this game is to catch the ball mid jump. Every player gets ten tries to air catch. The person that catches the most balls with ten chances, wins! Keep eliminating players and rotating people in the trampoline until you get your final winner.

More Themed Party Games for Kids

We have you covered for all the parties. Sweet sixteen party, teen party, glow in the dark party, youth parties, unicorn parties even dinosaur parties. Download and enjoy all the group party games for kids!

• 17 Kids Party Games
• 16 Sweet Sixteen Party Games
• 17 Teen Party Games
• 16 Glow in the Dark Party Games
• 11 Sleepover Party Games
• 12 Animal Party Games
• 12 Lego Building Blocks Party Games
• Team Photo Scavenger Hunt
• 100s more themed group party games for kids

We can’t count. We give up. We surrender. Easily download up to hundreds and hundreds of kids group games to play at a party. There is a kids party game for every season.

How to Choose the Right Group Game

When choosing a group game, there are a few things you should take into consideration. Keep in mind the age of your crew, how many people you have attending the event and how competitive you want the games to be. There are many types of people who can enjoy group games.

Age of the participants

You’ll want to choose a game that is appropriate for the age group of the participants. If working with younger kids, you can pair older kids for harder games. In addition, make any game that is to juvenile a bit harder by adding extra steps or taking down the time to win.

Number of participants

Some games work better with larger groups, while others are more suited for smaller groups. Most of these games can be played in groups of 2 to 20. That’s a huge range. Adapt each game and team count based on the activity and the time you have. If you have a lot of people but some games require fewer people, take four people out of the team. Let them perform the game and then earn points for their team. On the next game, four different people can play. It create team work and gives all the players a crowd to cheer them on to success.

Level of competitiveness

Some people just want to have fun, while others are just wanting to win! The level of competitiveness does matter whenever you’re choosing a group game. In my opinion, the competition only makes it more fun. If you have toddlers or just adults that act like toddlers and can’t take the heat of a competitive, have a participation trophy or prize just for joining in on the fun.

Who are group games best for?

Honestly, there is no one group games are not best for. Group games bring all in into the fun. It eliminates the spectator sport and allows everyone in on the action. For those individuals who do actually enjoy watching and cheering on, drop them in a larger group. They can participate in one of the quickly paced group groups and cheer on their team for the rest.

The following types of groups are great for group games:

• Youth groups

• Workplace Team Building Event for Employees

• Guests at kids birthday parties

• Ice breakers for strangers

• Entertainment for adult parties

• Seasonal parties and group gatherings

Choosing the right group game can be the difference between a fun and engaging activity and a complete disaster. By taking into consideration the age of the participants, the number of people playing, and the level of competitiveness, you’ll be sure to choose a game that everyone will enjoy!

Where to get printable group games?

Ready to put the play back in your party plan? Save on party games and entertainment when you choose low-cost party games for groups. These group games are themed by type of party, type of game, location of games and more.

Visit our huge resource of group party games. Enjoy with games with a number of players including a 3 to 20 (or even more) size group. These are great for birthdays, the workplace, youth groups, neighborhood gatherings and more. These fun group games are timeless, so make sure you keep them on your social radar for years to come!

Download a Bunch of Group Games Printables for Kids, Youth and Adults

More Game Ideas for Fun

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Speaking of games, how about a scavenger hunt. Turn any setting (indoor or out) into a fun treasure hunt. Rhyming riddles provide clues that must be solved as you race to the finish line. Have small prizes along the way or one large present at the end of the race. Take a look at all of our printable scavenger hunts with 20 rhyming clues. Also look at these seasonal scavenger hunts for kids. which also include scavenger hunt checklist. Pin to Pinterest.

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