Christmas Party for Children

Host a Christmas Party for Children in your neighborhood or your childs classmates. They'll enjoy getting to spend time together before the holidays.

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Gather all the kids in your childs play group together on a weekend afternoon in December.
Their parents will enjoy the chance to have a little free time to wrap gifts or catch up on shopping.

Invitation Ideas

Keep the invitations simple. You can use Christmas cookie cutters to draw shapes on construction paper. Let your child decorate one side. You cut out the shape and write the party information on them.

See a few samples of easy to make party invitations on this caroling party page. The samples were made for a caroling party but can be adapted for use here.

Decorating a Christmas Party for Children

Your house will already be decorated for the holidays so there won't be much decorating to do.

Set up an area for crafts to be made. Spread a red plastic tablecloth over a card table or other small table. They'll enjoy having it decorated and it'll save your table from spills.

Activities for a Christmas Party for Children

One or two quick games and a craft will be plenty of activity.

Tree Toss:

Cut out a large tree shape from poster board. Place this on the floor.
Give each child five pieces of wrapped candy. Children toss their candy one piece at a time onto the tree. Give 1 point for each one that lands on the tree.
For older kids, draw ornaments in various areas, paint them bright red and assign 5 points and 10 points to them. The candy has to land completely inside the ornament to get the points.

Stocking Search:

Use small stockings and have around 2-3 per guest.
Fill the stockings with a few pieces of candy and a small piece of paper with a number on it. Make one number for each stocking you have. So if you have 26 stockings, you'd have 26 pieces of paper each with a number from 1 to 26.
Yes it seems like a lot, but the gifts are small items like bottles of bubbles, coloring books etc.
Wrap all the gifts.
Hide the stockings in one room. The kids find the alloted number of stockings, two or three depending on how many you hid.
When all stockings are found, the person with the stocking that has the number one in it gets to go first picking a gift. The person who has the number two goes next.

Everyone should have two or three numbers so they will all get a turn picking a gift item.

Create Special Ornaments

Provide each guest with a plastic ball ornament.
Let them decorate the ornament with glitter, glue, pieces of ribbon and lace. Each ornament will be individual special creations.
Write the year and their name on the ornaments with a permanent marker.

For more fun Christmas crafts check out the Christmas fun page. It has crafts, crafting recipes, printable games and coloring pages for you to use.