Christmas charades
Teams take turns acting out Christmas movies, songs and characters without talking. The generator hides each word until the actor taps it, runs the timer and keeps the score.
Christmas charades words + timer →21 Christmas games for family, kids and the office party, each with how many people, how long it takes and what you need. Most of them come with a free tool here that runs the game for you: a charades timer, a trivia host, bingo cards and caller, a White Elephant host.
Teams take turns acting out Christmas movies, songs and characters without talking. The generator hides each word until the actor taps it, runs the timer and keeps the score.
Christmas charades words + timer →The same idea with a pen: one player draws a Christmas word for their team in 60 seconds. No letters or talking. Works on a video call with paper held up to the camera.
Christmas Pictionary words →Movies, carols, traditions around the world and easy ones for kids, with the answer and the fact behind it. Host it from a phone or TV and the scores add up for you.
Christmas trivia + host mode →Every card different and numbered, called from a free online caller that checks winning cards by number. Sets for classic Christmas, Christmas movie clichés, carols (name-that-tune) and kids.
Free printable Christmas bingo →Everyone brings a wrapped gift and draws a number. Each turn you open a new gift or steal one already opened. The game host draws the order and tracks steals and frozen gifts on one phone.
White Elephant game host →Draw names weeks ahead so everyone buys for one person. The generator keeps couples apart and sends one group link: each person taps their name to see who they drew, and can add a wish list.
Secret Santa generator →Someone reads a Christmas story out loud. Every time it says LEFT, gifts pass to the left; every time it says RIGHT, to the right. You keep whatever you hold at the end.
Read-aloud Left-Right story →Write a Christmas character on a sticky note and put it on someone’s forehead without them seeing. Everyone asks yes-or-no questions (“Am I real?”, “Do I live at the North Pole?”) until they guess who they are. The Christmas charades list has dozens of characters to use.
Character ideas →Read a question, everyone picks a side of the room, and one person from each side argues why. A few to start: Would you rather be an elf or a reindeer? Open one present on Christmas Eve or all of them in the morning? Have a real tree that sheds or a fake one that doesn’t? Eat only Christmas cookies or only candy canes until New Year’s? Get a snow day every week of winter or have snow on Christmas Day only? Be stuck in a snow globe or a gingerbread house?
Free printable Christmas word searches at three levels and hand-clued Christmas crosswords, each with an answer key. Good for the kids’ table, waiting rooms and the quiet hour after lunch.
Christmas word searches →Hide a chain of clues around the house, each one leading to the next spot: the fridge (“where the milk for Santa stays cold”), the tree, the oven, a stocking, the bathtub. The last clue leads to the prize. For older kids, make the clues riddles; for little ones, draw pictures instead of words.
Everyone wears their worst holiday sweater. Vote on paper for categories so more people win: Ugliest, Most Handmade, Best Lights, Most Likely to Be Seen From Space. A free sign-up sheet can collect who’s coming and what they’re wearing.
Free sign-up sheet →Each guest bakes one kind of cookie, enough for everyone, and goes home with a tin of every kind. The sign-up lets each cookie be claimed once, so nobody bakes the same one.
Cookie exchange sign-up + calculator →One player, one minute, one silly task with things from the kitchen. Run them as a tournament: a timer on a phone, a point for each win, a candy cane for the champion. The charades team game timer works for these too.
Hold a candy cane in your mouth by the straight end. Use the hook to pick up as many candy canes from the table as you can in one minute, no hands.
Wearing oven mitts, wrap a small box in one minute. The neatest wrapped box wins; tape counts.
Tie an empty tissue box around your waist, opening facing back, with five jingle bells or ping pong balls inside. Shake them all out in a minute, no hands.
Put a cookie on your forehead. Move it to your mouth using only your face muscles, no hands. If it falls, start again with a new cookie.
Hold a spoon in your mouth and flick “snowballs” (cotton balls) into a bowl one by one. Most in a minute wins.
Build a pyramid of cups (or balance shatterproof ornaments) one-handed in a minute. Tallest standing tower wins.
Wrap small treats in layer after layer of plastic wrap into a big ball. Sitting in a circle, one player unwraps with oven mitts on while the next rolls the dice; on doubles, the ball moves on. You keep whatever falls out.
In teams, turn one teammate into a Christmas tree in three minutes. Everyone votes for the best tree.
Minute to Win It is the name of a TV game show; these are party games in its style, not affiliated with the show.
The Christmas potluck sign-up sheet sorts out who brings what, the cookie exchange keeps the cookies from doubling up, the party planning checklist covers the rest, and for gifts there’s the Secret Santa generator and a Christmas list people can claim gifts from.
Christmas trivia in teams, charades with the hard deck, White Elephant with three steals per gift, and Minute to Win It games with a small prize per round. All of them work for an office party too.
Bingo (every card different, one caller), White Elephant, the Left-Right game and team trivia all scale to 30 people or more.
Trivia (share the host screen), Pictionary with paper held up to the camera, charades, and a virtual White Elephant. Secret Santa works by link with gifts shipped.
Charades, Would You Rather, trivia from a phone and Who Am I? with scraps of paper. Bingo and word searches need a printer or phones.