Do you love playing in the snow? If so, you’ll want to try this fun Christmas Relay Game with your family! Be sure to dress warm and you may want to wear ski pants to stay dry.

This relay game is fun with a large group of people. It’s a great game to play when all of your company is over on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. You can easily set these games up in your own backyard or at a local park. I’ve also included the game on a free printable so that you can bring it along with you.

Split your group into small teams of 3 – 5 people. Each team will work together to complete the challenges listed below. The first team to successfully complete all of the challenges must run through the finish line first. You can create a festive finish line with Christmas garland between 2 shovels stuck in the snow. You’ll want to assign at least one player (who is not assigned to a team) to be a referee.

You’ll need a few supplies for this game. Your local dollar store would be a great place to shop for inexpensive game supplies.

Christmas Relay Game – Challenges:

Build a Snowman: Each team can be given a small bucket of supplies to build their own snowman. This bucket could include items such as a scarf, a carrot nose, black coal or rocks, a hat and a measuring tape. Upon the referee ringing the starting bell, teams must work together to build a snowman of a specified height. When they think they are done the challenge, they have to call over the referee to measure the height of the snowman and get approval to move onto the next challenge in the Christmas Relay Game.

Snow Angels: Teams must choose 1 person to complete this challenge. One team member from each team must successfully make 5 snow angels in the snow before moving onto the next challenge.

Write a Message to Santa in the Snow: Using a squirt bottle filled with water and food colouring, teams must write a special message to Santa in the snow. On the free printable Christmas Relay Game, you can write down what message you would like the teams to leave for Santa.

Sled Jump: Team members must use snow to build a ramp (of a specified height) and then pull one team member over the ramp on a small sleigh. The team member on the sleigh must not fall off the sled during the jump.

Snow Ball Fight: Team members must knock down plastic bottles partly filled with water (to give the bottles a little bit of weight). The team must knock over 5 bottles before moving onto the next Christmas Relay Game challenge.

Find the Buried Treasure: Team members must dig through the snow to find a missing treasure. You could hide small plastic Christmas ornaments in the snow for team members to find. Make sure you have at least 1 ornament per team hidden.

Which Christmas Relay Game challenge do you think you’d do the best at? What is your favorite outdoor activity?

Looking for more fun & free printable Christmas games? Check out our Holiday Fun page and scroll to the bottom to the Christmas section. Happy Holidays!

*Digital paper design by Pixel Paper Prints.

This Christmas Dress Up Game is a silly game perfect for kids and adults of all ages. This one is sure to create a lot of laughter and it’s one that you’ll want to have your camera ready for.

Basically, you’ll have a list of Christmas-related items that you’ll have to dress up a team member to resemble. For example, if you choose a “snowman” you could wrap your teammate in toilet paper and tape on some eyes & buttons cut out of black construction paper. I’ll provide a free printable list of dress up ideas below.

For this Christmas Dress Up Game, you’ll need to set out some supplies in a separate room. These are the supplies that teams will use in order to create their Christmas-related character. Some great ideas for props are:

• various colours of tissue paper
• various colours of streamer paper
• balloons
• strong tape
• pipe cleaners
• construction paper
• scissors
• head band
• empty rolls from paper towels or wrapping paper
• string
• old wire hangers

Christmas Dress Up Game – Instructions:

You’ll want to split your party into 2 separate teams. Each team should have at least 3 players. Team A chooses 1 person as the “model” and at least 1 person as the “creator” (you can have more than 1 “creator” if you have large teams). Team A’s “creator” randomly draws one sheet of paper from the bucket of dress up options (click here for the free printable).

Team A’s “model” and “creator” go into the separate dressing room and have 2 minutes to dress up the “model” to resemble the Christmas-related item they chose (for example, a snowman). They can use any of the props found in the dress up room.

When 2 minutes has passed, the team must come back into the playing area and their team gets 1 minute to guess what the “model” is dressed up as. Neither the model or the creator can talk or act out what the “model” is supposed to be. The model can hold a pose, just not act out the item like they would in a game of charades.

If Team A gets it right, Team A wins one point. If Team A doesn’t guess correctly within one minute, Team B gets one chance at guessing the correct answer. If Team B guesses correctly, Team B gets one point.

Christmas Dress Up Game – Dress Up Options:

Here is a listing of dress up options for the game. Simply print the free printable and cut out these options. Place these options into a bucket and each team will take turns randomly selecting one to dress up as.

• Snowman
• Santa
• Candy Cane
• Christmas Tree
• Reindeer
• Elf
• Snow Monster
• Gift
• Gingerbread Man
• Gingerbread House
• Snowball
• Tree Ornament
• Roll of Wrapping Paper
• Mug of Hot Chocolate
• Fireplace
• Christmas Stocking
• Mistletoe
• Tangled Ball of Christmas Lights
• Bow
• Wreath

Have you ever played a Christmas Dress Up Game? We tried one once where you have two teams competing against each other to turn a teammate into a reindeer using a pair of nylons and balloons. It was hilarious!

Looking for more fun & free printable Christmas games? Check out our page on Holiday Fun Ideas and scroll down to the bottom for the Christmas section.

*Digital paper design by Pixel Paper Prints.

Do you know the names of all Santa’s reindeer? In A Christmas Story, what was the one item on Ralphie’s Christmas list? If you can answer these questions, then you’ll have fun with this free printable Christmas trivia game!

Click the picture above to access the free printable. The answers have been included on the free printable game as well.

Printable Christmas Trivia Answers:

1. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph
2. His hat
3. Whoville
4. A Red Ryder BB Gun
5. Buddy
6. Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
7. Elvis Presley
8. Eleven Pipers Piping
9. Twice
10. Underneath the mistletoe

So, how many answers did you guess correctly?

Here at Moms & Munchkins, we love Christmas! We have so many more fun & free printable games to share with you. Simply visit our Holiday Fun page and scroll to the bottom to the Christmas section. There you’ll find links to many more Christmas games like scavenger hunts, charades, word scrambles, word searches and plenty of original games perfect for the entire family!

Happy Holidays!

*Digital Paper Design by Pixel Paper Prints.