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Family Christmas Games – How To Have A Holiday Game Night

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Put on your Christmas PJs, have your holiday playlist ready and grab these great family Christmas games for a holiday family game night! Make memories, not plans.

Inside:Family Christmas Games – How To Have a Fun and Easy Holiday Family Game Night

There’s cookies to bake, presents to wrap, half the cards aren’t even addressed and your daughter just handed you a slip of paper informing you she needs an angel costume for the Christmas pageant in 3 days…Feeling those cozy holiday vibes yet?

There’s no doubt the Christmas season brings a whole new level of stress and crazy to the our already overflowing Mom Lives.  But in all the hustle and bustle, our hearts long for those deeper connections and slower moments that really make the memories our kiddos will treasure about home and the holidays.

That’s why in recent years, I started making a real effort to be intentional about quality family time at Christmas. It is truly one of the best gifts we can give our families during the most wonderful time of the year!

Now, I’m not proposing adding another big event to your already overflowing calendar. In fact, I’m thinking saying “no” to a few of those tempting, but exhausting holiday invitations. Instead, plan a night where everyone hangs at home in their Christmas PJ’s and have a holiday family game night.

I know, there are lights to hang, gifts to buy and that costume to create but ten years down the road, our kiddos aren’t going to care about our perfect holiday card or inflatable Santa on the front lawn; they’re going to remember the feelings of belonging and togetherness.

So here’s my easy idea: Grab a few fun family Christmas games like our Christmas DIY Jenga , mix-up our three ingredient recipe for Juicy Juice Jingle Juice and let the kids decorate some simple sugar cookies for a night of family memories!

Put on your Christmas PJs, have your holiday playlist ready and grab these great family Christmas games for a holiday family game night! Make memories, not plans.

3 Ingredient Jingle Juice

Our delicious and fruity Jingle Juice is a punch sure to please everyone. We like using Juicy Juice because it’s 100% juice with no added sugar and we drank at is kids, so it has lots of good memories for us.

Here’s what you need:

  • Lemon-lime soda
  • Your favorite red Juicy Juice flavors like Strawberry Kiwi or Berry
  • A scoop of vanilla ice cream
  • Holiday Sprinkles

Mix together the Juicy Juice and the lemon-lime soda in equal parts, pour into punch cups, add a small scoop of vanilla ice cream and then top with a few holiday colored sprinkles. To make the drink extra festive and fun, you can pre-prep the punch cups by dipping the rims in the soda and then some of the sprinkles, add a themed straw and you’ve got jingle juice that would make even Mrs. Claus proud. 😉

Holiday Family Game Night - Decorate some cookies, mix-up some festive jingle juicy, play some family christmas games and make some memories.

Super Simple Reindeer and Snowman Sugar Cookies

Next, we pulled out some pre-baked cookies and let the kiddos add some embellishments. We opted for everyone’s favorite reindeer and a cute snowman!

Here’s what you need:

  • Mini chocolate chips
  • Pretzels
  • Store bought icing
  • Assorted candies like M&Ms and Candy Corn

If you’d prefer to bake from scratch, we’ve got THE BEST EVER Sugar Cookie recipe that is also perfect for cut-out Christmas Cookies.

Mix-Up Some Jingle Juice, decorate some cookies and play some fun family Christmas games for the perfect holiday family game night.

Family Christmas Games

We are never too old to play games and it’s such a great way to connect with our kids. We can be silly and laugh and just enjoy being together. Having this time with us where they get our undivided attention is what they will really remember.

While your children will be happy playing any board games we have on hand, if you want to really get in the holiday spirit check out our DIY Christmas Jenga. 

We simply added some washi tape and a bunch of holiday themed questions, and now an old game has a whole new Christmas twist! {Sidebar: this makes an awesome gift for just about anyone, we’ve got a holiday and regular version that you can easily DIY!}

Christmas Games DIY Jenga

Another of our family’s favorite games is Spot It, which also happens to have a holiday version.

Both of these family Christmas games are great, because they are simple to play and work with a multi-generational group.

A few more family Christmas games you might want to check out include:

Family Christmas Trivia

Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer Christmas Journey

Christmas-opoly

Memory Challenge – Holiday Edition

Christmas Charades

Santa’s Sleigh Ride an Education Christmas Board Game

Christmas Scavenger Hunt

Christmas Bingo

Santa Claus Go-Fish

Wishing you and your family a calm and peaceful season filled with tons of family-time making Christmas memories that matter.

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Put on your Christmas PJs, have your holiday playlist ready and grab these great family Christmas games for a holiday family game night! Make memories, not plans.

Do you have any other favorite Family Christmas Games?

 

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About Michelle Myers

Michelle Myers is mom to four kiddos ranging from elementary thru high school, each with strong opinions and a flair for the dramatic. In other words, they're a lot like her. Former educator and lover of learning, she divides her time between carpool and Starbucks by reading voraciously and giving TED talks to herself at red lights. A Floridian for almost 40 years, Michelle loves the beach, making people laugh, and date nights with her hubby of 25 years...and yeas, they clearly married at age 7.
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