The holidays are the perfect time of year to host a kid-friendly gathering. Christmas party activities can range from games to crafts; but the key is to keep things light and accessible to all ages. Read on for some great Christmas party activities you can include in your next children's holiday event.

Gingerbread Man Book Exchange This is a great Christmas Party activity for children because not only does it keep them entertained, but each child leaves with a gift. Buy enough inexpensive children's books for each of the children invited and gift wrap each one. Give each child a wrapped book and ask them to hold them in their laps while an adult reads the story of The Gingerbread Man. Every time the word "run” is spoken (Run, run as fast as you can; you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man!), the children turn to their right and pass their book to the next person, accepting a new book from the child on their left. At the end of the story, the children open and keep the book they're left with.

Santa's Sleigh Easy games are great as Christmas party activities. Santa's Sleigh requires all of the children to sit in a circle, with one child blindfolded. Another child is given a toy sleigh, and he or she recites this poem: Santa, Santa, where is your sleigh? Someone has come to take it away. Guess who, guess who? The blindfolded child gets three guesses; the child with the sleigh is the next to be blindfolded.

Christmas Word Find Word finds are more appropriate for slightly older children. The point of this Christmas par

ty activity is to find as many words-within-words as possible before the timer runs out. Give each child a list of Christmas-related words like sleigh, present, or candy and ask them to write down smaller words that can be made from the same letters. For example, the word Christmas can be turned into sit, is, his, miss, rat, tar, this, and math.

Christmas Crafts - Make a Holiday Ornament! Our list of Christmas party activities would not be complete without a craft. Let the children create their own beautiful Christmas ornaments using last year's holiday cards, lids from frozen juice containers, construction paper, scissors, ribbon and glue. The children can cut pictures out of the holiday cards and attach them to a circle of construction paper that has been traced from the juice can. An adult can then use a glue gun to attach the construction paper to the juice lid, and a paper clip to the back of the whole ornament. Slip a ribbon through the paper clip and hang their ornaments on the tree!

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