Class Christmas Party Ideas Kids Will Actually Enjoy

• Discover fun new Christmas games to delight your students.

• Get creative with Christmas themes like disco, casino, Hollywood, celestial, and confetti themes.

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It’s almost time to deck the halls and bring lots of holly jolly fun to elementary students all over the country! Christmas time is the most fun for young kids, and teachers can add a ton of joy to this time before winter break starts.

Everyone knows how to throw a standard Christmas party, but what if you want to shake things up? Pick a fun and unique theme, and combine it with your Christmas decor! These classroom Christmas party decor and activity ideas are perfect to get your young students excited for the holidays!

Christmas Casino Theme

Casino games can be a lot of fun for adults, but we can also make them kid-friendly and Christmas-themed! Here are some class Christmas party ideas for kids’ casino games that use candy, chocolates, or small toys as prizes instead of money:

• Snowball Dice Roll: Students take turns rolling two large foam dice. Match the total to a holiday chart that says how many chocolate coins or cotton “snowballs” they receive.
• Jingle Bell Bacarat: This game is better suited to older elementary students who are more proficient in simple addition. Two playing cards are flipped for the “Santa” hand and two for the “player” hand. Face cards have a value of 10. Students bet small bells on which hand will be closer to the value of 9.
• Holiday Bingo: People of all ages love a good game of bingo! You can purchase holiday bingo sets, or print your own from the web. Holiday chocolates make good bingo markers and candy canes make great prizes!

Add some casino-themed decorations to your space to really sell this classroom Christmas party idea.

Christmas Disco Spin

We love getting creative with new ways to celebrate the holidays. A disco spin on your class Christmas party ideas is a great way to get kids moving and grooving. Here are some fun games for this theme:

• Candy Cane Limbo: Turn down the main lights, turn on the string lights and music, and decorate your limbo stick to look like a giant candy cane for a retro limbo contest.
• Reindeer Freeze Dance: Use upbeat holiday music from the 70s or classic hits like “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” for kids to dance to. When the music stops, they'll need to freeze in their best reindeer poses.
• Snowball Disco Sweep: Split the class into teams. Sprinkle cotton “snowballs” across the floor and let players use brooms decorated with metallic paper or glow sticks to see who can sweep up the most snowballs. Don't forget to play some groovin’ music while they sweep!

To decorate for your disco Christmas classroom party ideas, we recommend mixing Christmas items with disco and glow party decor from Ultimate Party. Be sure to use plenty of glow sticks, a disco ball, and colored Christmas string lights to make your classroom extra special this season!

A Celestial Christmas

Kids look to the skies in wonder, trying to catch a glimpse of Santa in his sleigh flying by with his team of reindeer. The three wise men followed the star of Bethlehem to the new baby Jesus. Here are some celestial class Christmas party ideas for a fresh take on the holiday:

• Pin the Star on the Bethlehem Sky: On a large poster board, create a nighttime manger scene with the Bethlehem Star high in the sky. Use star cutouts and two-sided tape for a version of "Pin the Tail on the Donkey."
• Musical Constellations: Tape star-shaped cutouts onto the floor, and make sure there is one less than the number of players for this version of musical chairs. Play Christmas music, and when it stops, players must jump onto a star. Keep removing stars one by one until you have one winner.
• Quietly Connect the Constellations: Using pieces of paper covered with little stars (either printed or black construction paper with star stickers), call out Christmas shapes, such as a Christmas tree or a candy cane. Ask students to connect the stars like a constellation as you call out shapes.

Your classroom is sure to look truly unique within your school when you decorate for a celestial Christmas. Explore Ultimate Party’s mylar balloons for Christmas balloons and metallic star-shaped balloons. Hang white string lights across the ceiling for a beautiful “starry” sky.

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A Confetti Christmas

If you’re willing to do a little clean up for a lot of ooohs and aaahs, then a confetti class Christmas party is a poppin’ good idea! Here are a few creative games and activities you can do with students that feature confetti for the Christmas season:

• Hot Potato with Confetti Balloons: Arrange students in a big circle and play Christmas music as you pass around a confetti-filled balloon. When the music stops, the person holding the balloon is out and must pop it by squeezing it or using a pin. Keep passing out new balloons until only one winner is left.
• Confetti Catch: Give a small group of kids either Christmas stockings or open boxes that are made to look like Christmas presents. An adult will sprinkle confetti around while the kids try to catch as much confetti as they can.
• Blow the Snow: On a table, place a small pile of white or silver confetti. Give a student a candy-cane-striped straw and ask them to blow the “snow” across a finish line. The student who blows their confetti the furthest or fastest wins.

Explore Ultimate Party’s balloon collection for pre-filled confetti balloons. We also have colorful confetti decorations and party supplies to pair with our Christmas decorations.

Christmas in Hollywood

Roll out the red carpet, hang the gold stars, and get ready to combine the glitz and glam of Hollywood fame with Christmas magic. This theme lets you place the focus on famous Christmas classic movies and characters. Here are some fun ideas for a Hollywood class Christmas party:

• Christmas Red Carpet Walk: Ask kids to come to school dressed as their favorite Christmas movie character. Roll out a red plastic table runner or two, and snap photos of the kids as they do their best red-carpet walk and poses.
• Name that Christmas Movie: Play brief clips of Christmas movie theme songs or famous lines and let the kids guess what movie it belongs to.
• Prop Mystery Box: Fill a box with movie props. Let the kids pick an item and guess what movie it is from. For example, you could use a bottle of maple syrup from ‘Elf’, or the red nose and reindeer antlers that the Grinch used on his dog.

Combine your classroom Christmas party decor ideas with items like large cutout stars, sparkling gold and silver garland, and other unique decor from Ultimate Party’s Hollywood party supplies.

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