Looking for Christmas party games that’ll get your whole family laughing, competing, and making memories? You’ve just hit the jackpot! These Minute to Win It games are about to become your secret weapon for holiday party success.
Here’s why we’re obsessed with Minute to Win It games for Christmas: They’re fast (60 seconds!), they’re funny (get ready for some hilarious fails), and they work for literally everyone – from your competitive Uncle Bob to your shy 8-year-old niece. Plus, most use supplies you probably already have lying around your house.
Whether you’re hosting your annual family Christmas bash, planning a classroom party, or just want to add some excitement to a cozy family game night during winter break, these 28 games are guaranteed to bring the fun. Let’s dive in!
How to Play Christmas Minute to Win It Games
Before we get to the good stuff, here’s your quick game plan for hosting an epic Minute to Win It party:
Set Up Your Teams Decide if players compete individually or in teams. Got a big crowd? Teams work great. Smaller gathering? Individual challenges create more action for everyone.
Gather Your Supplies Check the supply list for each game you want to play. Pro tip: Hit up Dollar Tree for most of your materials – you’ll find everything from red solo cups to jingle bells without breaking the bank.
Choose Your Style: Competitive or Just for Laughs You can go full competition mode (keep score, crown winners, hand out prizes) or keep it casual where everyone just tries to beat the 60-second clock. Both ways are a blast!
Winning Rules The player or team who completes the challenge within one minute wins. If multiple people finish in time, the fastest one takes the crown. Simple as that!
Now let’s get to those games…
1. Gift Wrap Frenzy
Think you’re a gift-wrapping pro? This game will put that to the test! Get ready to watch everyone frantically wrap boxes like it’s Christmas Eve at 11:59 PM.
Best for: All ages, individual or team competition
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Small gift boxes (shirt-sized boxes work perfectly)
- Wrapping paper
- Tape
- Scissors
How to Play:
1. Give each player an identical stack of small boxes, wrapping paper, tape, and scissors.
2. When the timer starts, players race to wrap as many boxes as possible.
3. The player who wraps the most boxes completely (no peeking corners or loose tape!) in 60 seconds wins.
Pro Tip: Want to make it more challenging? Use different-sized boxes so players have to adjust their technique. Just make sure each competitor gets the same mix of sizes to keep it fair!
Indoor Christmas Scavenger Hunt Printable for Kids
25 ready-made clues = zero stress for you – Just print, hide, and watch kids stay engaged for hours while you actually enjoy your coffee
Instant download, works today – Get it in minutes, print on regular paper, create Christmas magic in under 15 minutes of setup
Saves Christmas on bad weather days – Perfect indoor activity when kids are bouncing off walls and you need them happily occupied
One purchase, use it every year – Blank templates let you customize for different ages or create new versions as kids grow
Outdoor Christmas Scavenger Hunt Printable for Kids
Gets kids outside and active – Burns energy while solving 25 riddles and challenges around the yard (lifesaver when they’re hyped on holiday sugar)
Instant download, 15-minute setup – Print, hide clues, done. Perfect last-minute activity that looks like you planned for weeks
Works with your yard decorations – Turns your Christmas lights and lawn decor into part of the adventure kids will beg to do again
Reusable every year – Blank templates let you customize for different ages or add new challenges as kids grow
Difficult Christmas Scavenger Hunt Printable for Adults – Twelve Days of Christmas
Actually challenging puzzles for adults – 30 clever clues including ciphers, logic puzzles, and cryptic riddles that will genuinely stump your smartest friends
Print and play in minutes – Download, print, hide. Setup takes less time than wrapping gifts, but creates hours of laughter and memories
Flexible for any group – Pick 12 clues for a quick adventure or all 30 for an epic night. Customize with blank cards for personal inside jokes
2. Snowball Drop Challenge
This game looks deceptively easy – until you realize getting a ping pong ball into a cup from across the table is way harder than it seems!
Best for: All ages, great for pairs
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+ (can work in pairs)
What You’ll Need:
- 5 red solo cups per player
- Painter’s tape or masking tape
- 10 white ping pong balls per player
How to Play:
1. Tape 5 red solo cups to the edge of a table, spacing them a few inches apart.
2. Have players stand at the opposite end of the table from their cups.
3. Give each player 10 ping pong balls (bonus points if you draw snowman faces on them!).
4. When the timer starts, players try to drop or toss as many ping pong balls into their cups as possible.
5. If balls hit the floor and there’s still time left, players can grab them and keep trying.
6. The player with the most ping pong balls in their cups when time’s up wins!
Fun Variation: Make it a team effort! Have two players work together – one tosses while the other catches missed balls and hands them back.
3. Christmas Junk in the Trunk
This is hands-down one of the most hilarious games you’ll ever play. Watching your family members shake their hips to get ping pong balls out of a tissue box? Comedy gold.
Best for: Teens and adults (though brave kids will love it too!)
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Empty tissue boxes (one per player)
- Belts
- 10 ping pong balls or marshmallows per box
- Christmas wrapping paper
How to Play:
1. Wrap each tissue box in festive wrapping paper, leaving the opening uncovered.
2. Cut two slits on the opposite side of the box opening and thread a belt through the slits.
3. Load 10 ping pong balls into each box.
4. Have players strap the box around their waist (it should sit at the lower back).
5. When the timer starts, players must shake, jump, dance, and wiggle to get all 10 ping pong balls out of their box – no hands allowed!
6. First person to empty their box wins, or whoever gets the most balls out in 60 seconds takes the title.
Pro Tip: This game is an absolute must-record moment. Your family will be laughing about this for years!
4. Hershey Kiss Speed Unwrapping
Finally, a game where eating chocolate is part of the challenge! Your chocolate-loving family members are about to have their moment.
Best for: All ages
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Large bags of Hershey Kisses
How to Play:
1. Give each player a pile of wrapped Hershey Kisses.
2. When the timer starts, players race to unwrap as many kisses as they can.
3. The player who unwraps the most chocolates in 60 seconds wins.
4. Best part? Players get to eat everything they unwrap!
Fun Variation: Make it extra challenging by having players wear winter gloves while unwrapping. Suddenly those little foil wrappers become your worst enemy!
5. Jingle Bell Mystery Boxes
This game is all about trusting your ears! Players will shake, listen, and guess their way to victory in this clever Christmas challenge.
Best for: All ages
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- 6 small gift boxes
- Wrapping paper
- Jingle bells (different quantities for each box)
- Number labels (1-6)
How to Play:
1. Before the party, fill each box with a different number of jingle bells (for example: 2, 5, 8, 12, 15, 20).
2. Wrap each box and label them with numbers 1 through 6.
3. When it’s game time, have players shake each box and listen carefully to the bells.
4. Players must arrange the boxes from least number of bells to most within 60 seconds.
5. Whoever gets the order exactly right (or closest to correct) wins!
Pro Tip: This is a fantastic quiet game for when you need to bring the energy down a notch before dinner or another activity.
6. Balloon Keep It Up
Simple premise, chaotic fun! This game turns into absolute mayhem and we’re here for it.
Best for: All ages
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Red and green balloons (3 per player)
How to Play:
1. Give each player 3 inflated balloons in Christmas colors.
2. When the timer starts, players must keep all 3 balloons in the air for the full 60 seconds.
3. If even one balloon touches the ground, that player is out.
4. Last player standing with all their balloons still airborne wins!
Fun Variation: Want to make it harder? Add a fourth or fifth balloon. Want pure chaos? Have everyone play in the same space where they can accidentally interfere with each other’s balloons!
7. Christmas Song Mash-Up Challenge
This one’s for your music lovers! Get ready to test just how well everyone knows their holiday classics.
Best for: All ages
Time to Play: 1 minute (or however long your mash-up is)
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Pre-made audio mash-up of Christmas song snippets (5-10 second clips)
- Paper and pens for each player
How to Play:
1. Before the party, create a mash-up of 10-15 short clips from popular Christmas songs.
2. Play your mash-up for all players.
3. As it plays, players write down the names of the songs they recognize.
4. The player who correctly identifies the most songs wins!
Pro Tip: Mix in some classic tunes like “Jingle Bells” with modern hits like “All I Want for Christmas Is You” to challenge all generations. Bonus points if you throw in a super obscure carol to really stump them!
8. Snowman Stack
Who knew building a snowman with chopsticks would be this hard? This game requires a surprisingly steady hand and a whole lot of patience!
Best for: Ages 8+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Bag of large marshmallows
- Chopsticks (one pair per player)
How to Play:
1. Give each player 5 marshmallows and a pair of chopsticks.
2. When the timer starts, players use only the chopsticks to stack their marshmallows vertically.
3. The stack must stay standing for at least 3 seconds to count.
4. The player who builds the tallest marshmallow tower in 60 seconds wins!
Fun Variation: Use mini marshmallows for an extra challenge, or let players use the chopsticks to add mini chocolate chip “eyes” and “buttons” to their snowman for creativity points!
9. Snowball Partner Toss
Teamwork makes the dream work! This partner game is all about trust, coordination, and trying not to laugh when your teammate completely misses the catch.
Best for: All ages, must be played in pairs
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 4+ (pairs)
What You’ll Need:
- Large marshmallows
- Red solo cups (2 per pair)
How to Play:
1. Have players pick a partner and stand 3-4 feet apart from each other.
2. Each person in the pair holds a red solo cup.
3. Give one partner a handful of marshmallows.
4. When the timer starts, that partner tosses marshmallows one at a time, trying to land them in their partner’s cup.
5. The pair with the most successful catches in 60 seconds wins!
Pro Tip: Want to up the difficulty? Have partners take a step back every 10 seconds. Or use mini marshmallows instead of large ones for an extra challenge!
10. Christmas Wreath Ring Toss
This classic carnival game gets a festive makeover! It’s trickier than it looks, and that’s what makes it so addictive.
Best for: All ages
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Large Christmas wreath
- Ribbon or string to hang the wreath
- Fake snowballs or plastic Christmas ornaments (6-10 per player)
How to Play:
1. Hang a large wreath from a doorway or railing at about chest height.
2. Have players stand 4-6 feet away from the wreath.
3. Give each player 6-10 items to toss (snowballs or ornaments work great).
4. When the timer starts, players take turns tossing their items through the center of the wreath.
5. The player who gets the most items through the wreath in 60 seconds wins!
Fun Variation: Make it competitive by having players go head-to-head, or create a point system based on distance (closer throws worth fewer points, farther throws worth more).
11. Pipe Cleaner Pick Up Challenge
This game is way harder than it sounds! You’ll be amazed how tricky it is to thread nuts onto a pipe cleaner using just one hand.
Best for: Ages 10+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Red and green pipe cleaners
- Hardware nuts (not the food kind – the metal ones, 5-6 per player)
How to Play:
1. Give each player one pipe cleaner and 5-6 metal nuts.
2. Players must hold the pipe cleaner in one hand only.
3. When the timer starts, players thread the nuts onto the pipe cleaner one at a time using only that one hand – no help from the other hand!
4. First player to get all their nuts threaded wins, or whoever threads the most in 60 seconds takes the victory.
Pro Tip: For younger kids, twist two pipe cleaners together so it’s stiffer and easier to handle. For adults? Use smaller nuts to make it wickedly difficult!
12. Suck It Up
This game looks ridiculous and feels impossible at first – which is exactly why everyone will want to try it!
Best for: Ages 8+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Paper plates (3 per player)
- Straws (1 per player)
- Red and green M&Ms or Skittles (10-12 per player)
How to Play:
1. Set up each player’s station with one plate filled with M&Ms and two empty plates.
2. Give each player a straw.
3. When the timer starts, players place the straw in their mouth and use suction to pick up one M&M at a time from the full plate.
4. While keeping the M&M stuck to the straw, they move it to one of the empty plates and release it.
5. Players can only use the straw and one hand – no using the other hand to help!
6. The player who transfers the most M&Ms in 60 seconds wins.
Fun Variation: Have players sort red M&Ms to one plate and green to another for an extra challenge!
13. Candy Cane Slide Race
This team game is pure excitement! Get ready to watch candy canes slide across strings while everyone cheers them on.
Best for: All ages, must be played in pairs
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 4+ (pairs)
What You’ll Need:
- Long pieces of string (6-8 feet per pair)
- Candy canes (1 per pair)
How to Play:
1. Cut strings to about 6-8 feet long.
2. Have pairs stand across from each other, each holding one end of their string.
3. Hook a candy cane onto the middle of the string.
4. When the timer starts, the pair must tilt and maneuver the string to slide the candy cane from one person to the other.
5. The candy cane must make it all the way to the other person without falling off.
6. First team to successfully slide their candy cane across in under 60 seconds wins!
Pro Tip: This game requires serious communication and coordination. The pairs who stay calm and work together always beat the ones who panic!
14. Trim the Tree Speed Challenge
Who can decorate a Christmas tree faster than Santa’s elves? Let’s find out!
Best for: Ages 6+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Small tabletop Christmas trees (one per player – Dollar Tree has these!)
- Small round ornaments (20 per player)
How to Play:
1. Give each player a small bare Christmas tree and a pile of 20 ornaments.
2. When the timer starts, players race to hang all their ornaments on the tree.
3. The first player to get all 20 ornaments on their tree wins, or whoever hangs the most in 60 seconds takes the crown.
4. Ornaments must stay on the tree – if any fall off, players have to rehang them!
Fun Variation: Add a “style points” category where you judge not just speed but also how evenly distributed and pretty the ornaments look. This is great for mixing competitive and creative players!
15. Find Rudolph’s Red Nose
Fair warning: This game is messy, hilarious, and absolutely unforgettable! You might want to have towels ready.
Best for: All ages (with parent supervision for younger kids)
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Pie tins (one per player)
- Whipped cream
- Maraschino cherries (one per player)
How to Play:
1. Fill each pie tin with whipped cream.
2. Hide one cherry in each tin of whipped cream.
3. Players put their hands behind their backs (no hands allowed!).
4. When the timer starts, players use only their face to search through the whipped cream to find Rudolph’s red nose (the cherry).
5. First player to find and extract their cherry wins!
Pro Tip: Play this game outside or in a kitchen with easy-to-clean floors. Also, have your camera ready – these photos will be priceless! This is definitely one for the memory books.
16. Holiday Cup Stacking Pyramid
This game looks simple until you’re actually trying to stack 42 cups into a perfect pyramid while the clock ticks down. Pressure, much?
Best for: Ages 8+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- 42 red solo cups per player
How to Play:
1. Give each player a single stack of 42 plastic cups.
2. When the timer starts, players must build a complete pyramid with their cups.
3. The pyramid should have 9 cups on the bottom row, then 8, then 7, and so on up to 1 cup at the top.
4. Once the pyramid is built, players must carefully take it apart and restack all cups into a single tower again.
5. First player to complete the full cycle – build the pyramid AND restack into a single tower – wins!
Fun Variation: For younger kids, use fewer cups (21 makes a smaller pyramid with 6 cups on the bottom). For pros, require the pyramid to be built, dismantled, and rebuilt twice!
17. Holiday Push Challenge
Get ready for one of the most frustratingly fun games ever invented. You’ll be fanning that ornament like your life depends on it!
Best for: Ages 8+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Flattened gift boxes (one per player)
- Round plastic ornaments (one per player – must be shatterproof!)
- Painter’s tape
How to Play:
1. Use painter’s tape to mark a start line and finish line 8-12 feet apart.
2. Give each player a flattened gift box and place an ornament at their start line.
3. When the timer starts, players get down on their hands and knees.
4. Using only the box as a fan to create wind, players must push their ornament across the floor to the finish line.
5. Players cannot touch the ornament with the box – only the wind from fanning can move it!
6. First player to get their ornament across the finish line in under 60 seconds wins.
Pro Tip: This game is hilarious to watch and surprisingly exhausting to play. Make sure everyone has enough space so ornaments don’t crash into each other!
18. Christmas Cookie Face
This is the game that’ll have everyone dying laughing. Watching people contort their faces trying to move a cookie is comedy at its finest!
Best for: Ages 10+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Small round Christmas cookies (Christmas Oreos are perfect!)
How to Play:
1. Have players sit in chairs and tilt their heads back to look at the ceiling.
2. Place a cookie in the center of each player’s forehead.
3. When the timer starts, players use only their facial muscles to move the cookie from their forehead into their mouth.
4. No hands allowed! No tilting your head forward to drop it! Only facial movements count.
5. First person to get the cookie in their mouth wins.
Pro Tip: This game is 100% guaranteed to produce the most ridiculous photos. Seriously, have someone on camera duty because these faces need to be documented!
19. Reindeer Ring Toss
This partner game brings carnival fun to your Christmas party! One player becomes the reindeer, and hilarity ensues.
Best for: All ages, must be played in pairs
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 4+ (pairs)
What You’ll Need:
- Reindeer antler headbands (one per pair)
- Rings or ring-toss hoops (5 per pair)
How to Play:
1. One player from each pair wears the reindeer antlers.
2. Their partner stands 6-10 feet away holding 5 rings.
3. When the timer starts, the partner tosses rings trying to hook them onto the reindeer antlers.
4. The “reindeer” can move their head to help catch the rings, but can’t use their hands.
5. The pair with the most rings on the antlers after 60 seconds wins!
Fun Variation: Make the “reindeer” player spin in a circle or do silly movements to make it extra challenging for the ring tosser!
20. Hula Hoop Pom Pom Relay
This team game brings everyone together for some relay race action! It’s perfect for getting a big group involved.
Best for: All ages, team game
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 6+ (teams of 3-4)
What You’ll Need:
- Hula hoops (one per team)
- Red pom poms (20+ per team)
How to Play:
1. Lay one hula hoop on the floor for each team.
2. Have teams line up single file at a start line across the room from their hula hoop.
3. Give each team a pile of red pom poms.
4. When the timer starts, the first person in line tries to toss a pom pom into their team’s hula hoop.
5. Once they get one in, the next teammate takes their turn.
6. Teams continue rotating through players, seeing how many pom poms they can land in the hoop.
7. When time’s up, count the pom poms in each hula hoop – most wins!
Pro Tip: Adjust the distance based on age groups. Little kids can stand closer, while teens and adults should be farther back for a real challenge!
21. Candy Cane Hook Challenge
This game requires some serious coordination! Using a candy cane to pick up other candy canes is way trickier than it sounds.
Best for: Ages 8+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Candy canes (6 per player)
- Small bowls (one per player)
How to Play:
1. Place 5 candy canes in each player’s bowl, laying them on their sides.
2. Give each player one additional candy cane to hold between their teeth (hook side out).
3. When the timer starts, players use the candy cane in their mouth to hook the candy canes in the bowl and lift them out.
4. Hands must stay behind the back the entire time!
5. The player who removes the most candy canes from their bowl in 60 seconds wins.
Fun Variation: Once players master the basic version, add a requirement that they must drop each hooked candy cane into a second bowl placed a foot away!
22. Snowball Spoon Transfer
This game tests your steady hand and patience! One wobble and your snowball is rolling away.
Best for: Ages 8+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- White pom poms or cotton balls (10 per player)
- Plastic spoons (one per player)
- Plastic bowls (2 per player)
How to Play:
1. Set up each player with one bowl filled with cotton ball “snowballs” and one empty bowl.
2. Give each player a plastic spoon to hold between their teeth.
3. When the timer starts, players use the spoon (held only in their mouth – no hands!) to scoop up cotton balls one at a time.
4. They must transfer each snowball from the full bowl to the empty bowl.
5. The player who transfers the most snowballs in 60 seconds wins!
Pro Tip: This game is surprisingly challenging! The key is moving slowly and steadily. Speed demons always lose their snowballs!
23. Holiday Candy Color Sort
Think you can sort candy quickly under pressure? This game will test your color-recognition speed!
Best for: Ages 6+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Red and green M&Ms or Skittles (mixed together, 30-40 per player)
- 3 plastic bowls per player
How to Play:
1. Give each player one bowl mixed with red and green candies and two empty bowls.
2. When the timer starts, players must sort all the candies by color into the two empty bowls.
3. Red candies in one bowl, green candies in the other.
4. The player who correctly sorts the most candies in 60 seconds wins!
Fun Variation: Add a third color (like brown or yellow) to make sorting more complex. Or require players to use only one hand for an extra challenge!
24. Cotton Ball Snowball Relay
This relay race gets everyone moving and laughing! The big wooden spoons make balancing these “snowballs” hilariously difficult.
Best for: All ages, team game
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 6+ (teams of 3-4)
What You’ll Need:
- Large cotton balls or cotton ball “snowballs” (one per team)
- Large wooden spoons (one per team)
- Chairs (one per team)
How to Play:
1. Have teams line up single file.
2. Place a chair on the opposite side of the room for each team.
3. The first player on each team gets a large wooden spoon with a cotton ball balanced on it.
4. When the timer starts, the first player races to go around their team’s chair and back without dropping the cotton ball.
5. If they drop it, they must stop, pick it up, return to the start line, and begin again.
6. When they make it back successfully, they pass the spoon and cotton ball to the next teammate.
7. The team that gets the most players through the course in 60 seconds wins!
Pro Tip: This game gets competitive fast! The key is finding the right balance between speed and steadiness.
25. Christmas Card Blow Down
Get ready to huff and puff! This game is simple to set up but surprisingly challenging to master.
Best for: Ages 8+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- 8 Christmas cards per player
- Table
How to Play:
1. Line up 8 Christmas cards along the edge of a table for each player, standing them upright.
2. Players stand on the opposite side of the table from their cards.
3. When the timer starts, players must blow the cards off the edge of the table using only their breath.
4. No touching! Just powerful blowing.
5. The player who blows the most cards off the table in 60 seconds wins!
Pro Tip: If you’re using a rectangular table, set up players on the short sides so they don’t have to blow as far. This game is more exhausting than it looks!
26. Ornament Stack Tower
Balance is everything in this nerve-wracking stacking challenge! One wrong move and your whole tower comes tumbling down.
Best for: Ages 8+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Round plastic Christmas ornaments (10-12 per player – must be shatterproof!)
How to Play:
1. Give each player a pile of identical round ornaments.
2. When the timer starts, players must stack the ornaments vertically to build the tallest tower possible.
3. The tower must stay standing for at least 3 seconds to count.
4. If the tower falls, players can rebuild and try again.
5. The player with the tallest standing tower after 60 seconds wins!
Fun Variation: Use ornaments of different sizes to make stacking even more challenging, or require players to alternate colors in a specific pattern!
27. Christmas Bell Shake & Catch
This game combines coordination, rhythm, and a bit of luck! It’s trickier than it looks and so satisfying when you nail it.
Best for: Ages 10+
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 2+
What You’ll Need:
- Jingle bells (5 per player)
- Small buckets or large cups (one per player)
- String or ribbon (2 feet per player)
How to Play:
1. Thread 5 jingle bells onto a string for each player.
2. Players hold one end of their string in one hand and their bucket in the other hand.
3. When the timer starts, players must shake and maneuver the string to slide the bells off one at a time.
4. As each bell slides off, players must catch it in their bucket.
5. Bells that fall on the floor don’t count!
6. The player who catches the most bells in their bucket within 60 seconds wins.
Pro Tip: This game requires serious hand-eye coordination. The key is finding a rhythm with your shaking rather than going full chaos mode!
28. Stocking Stuff Relay
This team challenge brings holiday chaos in the best way possible! It’s like wrapping presents, but faster and funnier.
Best for: All ages, team game
Time to Play: 1 minute
Players: 6+ (teams of 3-4)
What You’ll Need:
- Christmas stockings (one per team)
- Small wrapped gifts or small toys (10-15 per team)
- Large bags or buckets to hold items (one per team)
How to Play:
1. Hang a Christmas stocking for each team on the opposite side of the room.
2. Place a bucket filled with small wrapped items at the start line for each team.
3. Teams line up single file at the start line.
4. When the timer starts, the first player grabs one item from their bucket and races to stuff it into their team’s stocking.
5. They race back and tag the next teammate, who does the same.
6. Teams continue rotating through players.
7. The team with the most items stuffed into their stocking when the timer goes off wins!
Fun Variation: Make it extra challenging by requiring players to hop on one foot, spin three times before stuffing, or balance a book on their head while racing!
Bonus Round: Classic Games as Minute to Win It Challenges
Want even more fun? These two classic party games work perfectly as 60-second challenges!
Christmas Charades Players have just 60 seconds to act out holiday-themed words (like “building a snowman”, “decorating the tree”, or “wrapping presents”) while their team tries to guess. The pressure of the ticking clock makes this classic game even more exciting!
Christmas Pictionary Give players one minute to draw holiday words while their teammates shout out guesses. It’s amazing how hard it is to draw a reindeer when you’re racing against the clock!
Your Christmas Party Game Plan
There you have it – 28+ incredible Minute to Win It games that’ll transform your Christmas gathering into an unforgettable celebration! The best part? Most of these games use supplies you already have at home or can grab cheaply at Dollar Tree.
Here’s our recommended game plan for your party:
Choose 5-8 games from this list based on your crowd size and age range. Mix in individual challenges with team games to keep the energy dynamic.
Prep your supplies the day before so you’re not scrambling. Trust us, future you will be grateful!
Start with an easy, silly game like Balloon Keep It Up or Hershey Kiss Unwrapping to get everyone comfortable and laughing.
Save the messy games (looking at you, Find Rudolph’s Red Nose) for the middle or end when everyone’s loosened up.
Have prizes ready if you’re going competitive – but honestly, the laughter and memories are the real prizes here!
With these games in your hosting toolkit, you’re absolutely ready to throw a Christmas party that your family and friends will be talking about until next year. Get ready for an epic celebration filled with laughter, friendly competition, and memories that’ll last a lifetime!
Now get out there and make this your best holiday party yet!
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