Draw Christmas Tree on Your Head Game

We made it to Kansas on Thursday night. We drove this time as we didn't really want to re-live our getting stuck at the airport in Dallas for 4 days experience from last year! 🙂

We spent part of yesterday with my mom and dad and my youngest brother and sister. My parents always buy a live evergreen tree with the root ball from a local nursery and then plant it after Christmas on their land (they live on 56 acres).

This means that they don't get their tree until right before Christmas, so our kids got to help decorate it last night.

Here they are putting the finishing touches on the tree with my youngest brother. He's 17 years younger than me and a senior in high school.

Silas thinks he's pretty much the coolest uncle ever — especially since he has a booming eBay business. Silas has been begging and begging to start his own eBay business since he's so fascinated by what Uncle Zachary does! 😉

And yes, my family strings their Christmas cards up around the living room. It's a tradition passed down from my great-grandma!

The Christmas Paper Plate Game

After the tree was decorated, we played some fun games, including The Christmas Paper Plate Game. I've seen this around the web over the past few weeks and had wanted to try it. We had so much fun with it.

Here's how to play the game…

Every one gets a paper plate and a pen. Every one puts the paper plate on their head and then are instructed to:

1. Draw a line for the floor.
2. Draw a Christmas tree on the floor.
3. Draw a star on the top of the tree.
4. Add 3 ornaments to the tree.
5. Draw a fireplace with a mantel next to the tree.
6. Draw a stocking hanging from the mantel of your fireplace.
7. Draw a fire in your fireplace.

Then, take your plate off your head and look at it — and, if yours looked like mine, die laughing at how terrible your drawing is!!

Then, score your drawing. You get:

• 2 points if the tree touches the floor.
• 2 points if your star is on top of your tree.
• 1 point if your star touches your tree.
• 1 point for every ornament that is actually on your tree.
• 2 points if your stocking is actually touching your mantel.
• 1 point if your fireplace doesn't touch the tree (it's a fire hazard!)
• 2 points if your fire is actually in the fireplace.

The person with the most points wins!

The Tissue Box Game

We also played another fun MINUTE TO WIN-IT game with tissue boxes that would be great for a holiday get-together — or really any get-together.

To play, break into teams and give each team a full box of tissues. The object of the game is to see which team can get all of the tissues out of the box the fastest — while only pulling one tissue out at a time.

I have no idea if this particular tissue game has been all over the internet (I haven't seen it before), or if my dad made it up on the spur of the moment. He's known for making up spur-of-the-moment games that leave us all laughing our heads off!

If you want to see us playing this game in action, you can watch the short video here. And yes, apparently I have a tissue-pulling talent I didn't know anything about! 😉

Both of these games are super frugal, would work with large groups of people of many different ages, and were so much fun!

Note: There were a few people on Facebook who were appalled at how wasteful the tissue box one was, but if you buy the boxes at the dollar store, it's a super cheap game and you can recycle everything. Or, feel free to save the tissues and use them for something else. 🙂

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