I'm a room mom and helping with dd's class Christmas party. I forgot about a game until today. She's in first grade.

I've been googling ideas. But what I was wondering is if anybody has ideas for games that they've used that were really fun for that age.

Thanks for your help.

By Dramamamma on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 11:09 pm:

Bingo is always good for that age, Brendan loves it... Also you could do pin the nose on Rudolph or hat on Frosty (something along those lines). Musical chairs with Christmas music.

I'll keep thinking, I'm sure you'll get some great ideas.

By Tayjar on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 09:37 am:

We play a christmas pictionary game. We divide the class up into boys vs. girls and then a room mom randomly calls one boy and one girl up to the board. She whipsers a Christmas or winter idea into their ears and then they have to draw it. For example, they have to draw a reindeer snow skiing down a hill. The first team to guess what it is wins a point. The losing team has to sing a Christmas song to the entire class or something along those lines.

By Bellajoe on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 09:14 pm:

my ds's 1st grade Christmas party is tomorrow we have two games.

1. this one is sort of like hot potato, you get a small gift and wrap it in a box several times. Play hot potato with it, when the music stops the child holding the gift unwraps one layer of wrapping paper, this goes on and on till the last layer is opened. The child who unwraps the last layer gets to keep the gift.

2. pin the nose on Frosty. I bought a poster board and drew frosty on it and cut out a bunch of orange 'carrots'. I assume you know how to play pin the tail on the donkey, it's just like that. I plan on doing this and then giving each child a candy cane when they are done.

You could also put a bunch of candys in a jar and have them guess how many are in there. Whoever gets closest wins the candy!

have fun!

To fill time you can also read a Christmas or holiday book to the kids.