Get a sleigh-load of cookies with a fraction of the work! Array of Christmas Cookies. Array of Christmas Cookies Photo by Meredith. Hot Chocolate and Cookies. Hot Chocolate and Cookies Photo by Meredith. Finalize the guest list and let everyone know how many people to bake for. Decide on party treats and drinks. To keep things easy, ask friends to bring some of the snacks, too.
Bake your cookies and store them in airtight containers or freeze them. Start making appetizers that freeze or store well. Write out a rough schedule for the party. You want everyone to socialize, but still have time to pack up cookies during the exchange.
Work on your party music playlist. Finish make-ahead appetizers. Here are a few of my cookie exchange ideas for large groups and small groups. Let me show you how easy it is to host an event that focuses on Christmas Cookies over the holiday season. Have you ever hosted a cookie exchange party?
Hosting a cookie exchange party can be a lot of work while at the same time a lot of fun. Why not plan one this holiday season with a few of your friends? After you read through this post, check out my Cookie Party Ideas as well for more fun tips. This post contains affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but I earn a commission when you shop through them. For more information, click here.
Ask each guest to bring their recipe written out on recipe cards to include with each package of cookies they bring for the exchange.
All gifts are placed under the tree and our preacher counts the number of participants, making strips of paper for the total count. Each person selects a paper with a number and the gifts are selected in turn. Each person opens and shows their gift. The next person has a choice of opening a new gift for their gender or selecting a gift from another person. If they take another persons gift, that person can select a new gift or take someone else's gift but not the one they had taken.
If a person obtains the same gift three times, they get to keep it. This is great fun and works best with groups of 30 or less. It can be time consuming as those who have gifts taken get to pick again before the next number is chosen to select their gift. A fun addition to the game rules is that once a gift has been opened by someone, it can later be selected by another participant of either gender.
Two truth's and a lie. Sent in by Donna Brashier This can even be played with friends that know each other well. Everyone writes down two truths and a lie about themselves. When everyone is finished, you go around the room and read the 3 things you've listed about yourself. One by one everyone guesses which is the lie. After everyone has guess your answer, you reveal which is the lie and you move on to the next person.
Each guest keeps a tally of how many lies they've detected. The person that guesses the most lies, wins. I'm hosting a cookie exchange and white elephant swap next weekend. I've really enjoyed the ideas shared on your site! Donna Brashier Hello Robin, I was reading through your website and found it to be very informative.
Anyway, I'd like to share a game with you to share with others who are interested in holiday party games. For Christmas parties: Ornament Name Game I use colorful round metallic tree ornaments with a safety pin attached instead of an ornament hook.
Also, using name tags with adhesive backing, I write a word associated with the holiday season on each tag; for example, Snowflake, Rudolph, Mrs.
I place the pinned ornaments in a decorative basket close to my door, along with another basket with the name tags. As my guests arrive, I pin an ornament to them and I have them pick a tag from the basket.
They place the name tag on and I tell them that this is their name for the duration of the party. I also tell them that they must pay close attention to all the other guests name tags because they must use the name on ones name tag when addressing them also. Once all the guests arrive, and although everyone is aware of their new names for the day; I get everyones attention and I still have each guest introduce themselves using their new name.
It is explained to everyone that whenever someone calls them a name other than the one on their name tag, they can take that persons ornament and pin it onto themselves. Also, if someone hears someone address "Janet" as "Janet" instead of her tag name which may be "Snowflake", that person may take the persons ornament only if "Janet" wasn't aware that she was just addressed by her real name. It's very simple and a LOT of fun. Also, if a person loses their ornament to someone, they are still in the game.
They must still address everyone by their tag name and they can still take someones ornament if they hear that person use a persons real name, etc. The person who has the most ornaments pinned to them at the end of the party wins a prize. In the movie "A Christmas Story", Ralphie's Aunt made him a very special gift that his Mom made him try on; what was it? In a famous Bing Crosby holiday song, what was Bing "dreaming of"?
In the classic "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town", what is the name of the school teacher that Kris Kringle takes for his wife? Who played Buddy in the movie "Elf"? Who wrote "A Charlie Brown Christmas" ?
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