28 Christmas Party Games and Secret Santa Dares

Christmas 2026 falls on Friday, 25 December, so you get a long weekend for parties. Below are Christmas truth questions and Secret Santa dares you can copy in one tap, then 28 easy party games with players, what you need and how to play.

Every dare here is safe for teens and the office: nothing rude, nothing that embarrasses anyone.

Christmas Truth Questions

For a truth or dare round at the party or in the family group. Copy one and send it.

• What is the best Christmas gift you have ever received? 🎁CopyShare
• What is the worst gift you ever got, and did you pretend to like it? 🙈CopyShare
• Have you ever regifted a present? Who got it? 🔁CopyShare
• Did you believe in Santa as a kid? When did you find out? 🎅CopyShare
• What is your favourite Christmas movie of all time? 🎬CopyShare
• Which Christmas sweet or cake could you eat every day? 🍰CopyShare
• What is your funniest Christmas memory from childhood? 😂CopyShare
• If Santa checked your list this year, would you be naughty or nice? 😇CopyShare
• What gift are you secretly hoping for this Christmas? 🤫CopyShare
• Have you ever peeked at your presents before Christmas? 👀CopyShare
• Who in this group would make the best Santa? 🧑‍🎄CopyShare
• Which Christmas song gets stuck in your head the most? 🎶CopyShare
• What is one Christmas tradition in your family that others find strange? 🏠CopyShare
• Have you ever fallen asleep at a Christmas party? 😴CopyShare
• If you could spend Christmas in any city, where would it be? ✈️CopyShare
• Who was your childhood crush at a Christmas party? 💘CopyShare
• What is the most you have ever spent on one gift? 💸CopyShare
• Have you ever forgotten to buy someone a gift and made one at the last minute? ⏰CopyShare
• Which relative asks you the most awkward questions at family parties? 🤭CopyShare
• What is one New Year resolution you already know you will break? 📅CopyShare
• If you were a Christmas decoration, which one would you be? ✨CopyShare
• Have you ever sung a carol with the wrong words on purpose? 🎤CopyShare
• What would you ask Santa for if money did not matter? 🚗CopyShare
• Who in this room would you pick as your Secret Santa, and why? 🎁CopyShare
• What is the silliest thing you have done at an office party? 🥳CopyShare
• Which Christmas food do you secretly dislike? 🥧CopyShare
• Have you ever cried while watching a Christmas movie? 🥲CopyShare
• What is the kindest thing someone did for you at Christmas? 💝CopyShare
• If you had to wear one Christmas costume all day, which would it be? 🦌CopyShare
• What did you write in your letter to Santa as a kid? ✉️CopyShare

Secret Santa Dares

Give one of these with the gift, or let the receiver pick one before opening. Clean, quick and office safe.

• Wear a Santa cap for the rest of the party. 🎅CopyShare
• Sing "Jingle Bells" in your best opera voice. 🎶CopyShare
• Open your gift using only one hand. ✋CopyShare
• Guess who your Secret Santa is. Three wrong guesses means one more dare. 🕵️CopyShare
• Do your best "Ho ho ho" laugh three times. 😄CopyShare
• Describe your gift like a TV shopping host for 30 seconds. 📺CopyShare
• Walk like a penguin across the room and back. 🐧CopyShare
• Give a 20-second thank-you speech like you won an award. 🏆CopyShare
• Act like a reindeer until your next turn. 🦌CopyShare
• Make up a two-line Christmas poem about the person on your left. ✍️CopyShare
• Tell everyone your most embarrassing gift reaction ever. 🙈CopyShare
• Wrap the person next to you in tinsel like a Christmas tree. 🎄CopyShare
• Balance a candy cane on your finger for 10 seconds. 🍬CopyShare
• Say "Merry Christmas" in three different languages. 🌍CopyShare
• Keep a Santa photo as your WhatsApp DP for one day. 📱CopyShare
• Set your status to "On Santa's nice list this year 😇" for one hour. 📝CopyShare
• Dance for 20 seconds to the next Christmas song that plays. 💃CopyShare
• Pose like a snowman until someone laughs. ⛄CopyShare
• Send a Christmas voice note to your family group, no explanation. 🎙️CopyShare
• Compliment every person in the room in one sentence each. 💬CopyShare
• Do an impression of your boss or teacher saying "Merry Christmas". 🗣️CopyShare
• Eat a cookie without using your hands. 🍪CopyShare
• Tell the group what you would buy if you were everyone's Secret Santa. 🛍️CopyShare
• Whisper your next sentence like an elf telling a secret. 🧝CopyShare
• Draw Santa on paper with your eyes closed. 🖍️CopyShare
• Hum a Christmas carol and let the group guess it. 🎵CopyShare
• Swap one accessory with the person on your right for 10 minutes. 🔄CopyShare
• Pretend to be a Christmas tree and let others hang "ornaments" (paper balls) on you. 🎄CopyShare
• Take a group selfie with everyone making a reindeer face. 🤳CopyShare
• Say one thing you are grateful for this year. 🙏CopyShare

Want the spinner to pick for you? Play the truth and dare game.

Christmas Games for the Whole Family

For a house full of cousins, parents and grandparents. They work for every age and need little setup.

1. Christmas Charades 🎭

Players: 6 or more, in two teams. You need: paper slips, a bowl, a phone timer.

1. Write Christmas words on slips and fold them into a bowl.
2. One player picks a slip and acts it out. No talking, no pointing at objects.
3. Their team has 60 seconds to guess.
4. Most correct guesses after five rounds wins.

Copy this word list for your charades bowl:

2. Christmas Pictionary 🖍️

Players: 4 or more, in teams. You need: paper or a whiteboard, markers, the word list above.

1. One player draws a Christmas word. No letters or numbers allowed.
2. Their team gets 60 seconds to guess.
3. Teams take turns. First to 10 points wins.

3. Hum That Carol 🎵

Players: 4 or more. You need: nothing.

1. One player hums a Christmas song or carol. No words.
2. The first person to name it gets a point and hums next.
3. Can't think of one in 10 seconds? Pass and lose a point.

4. Christmas Pass the Parcel 🎁

Players: 6 or more, great for kids and elders together. You need: a small gift, many layers of wrapping, music.

1. Wrap a gift in 8 to 10 layers. Put a chocolate or a dare slip between some layers.
2. Sit in a circle and pass the parcel while music plays.
3. When the music stops, the holder opens one layer and does the dare inside.
4. The player who opens the last layer keeps the gift.

5. Christmas Trivia Quiz 🧠

Players: 2 or more, solo or in teams. You need: the quiz below, paper and pens.

1. Read one question at a time. Players write their answer.
2. Reveal all answers at the end.
3. Most correct wins. Use it as one round of a longer quiz night.

Questions:

Answers:

6. Snowman Wrap Race ⛄

Players: 6 or more, in teams of three. You need: two rolls of toilet paper per team.

1. One player in each team is the snowman.
2. The others wrap them head to toe in toilet paper.
3. Add a paper "carrot" nose and two buttons.
4. First team to use both rolls wins. Best-looking snowman gets a bonus prize.

7. Christmas Bingo 🔔

Players: 4 to 30. You need: bingo cards with Christmas pictures, small candies as markers.

1. Make cards with pictures: tree, star, bell, gift, Santa, reindeer, snowman, stocking, candle.
2. Call out one picture at a time. Players cover it with a candy.
3. First to complete a line shouts "Ho ho ho!" instead of "Bingo!".

Christmas Games for Friends and Adults

Louder, sillier games for your gang at a Christmas night party.

8. Candy Cane Hook ⏱️

Players: 2 or more. You need: candy canes (wrapped), a bowl, a one-minute timer.

1. Each player holds one candy cane in their mouth by the straight end.
2. Using only that cane, they hook other canes from a bowl on the table. No hands.
3. Most canes hooked in one minute wins.

9. Jingle Bell Shake 🔔

Players: 2 or more. You need: an empty tissue box with a belt or string, 6 small jingle bells.

1. Put the bells in the tissue box and tie it at the back of the player's waist.
2. The player shakes and wiggles to get every bell out. No hands.
3. Fastest to empty the box wins.

10. Christmas Never Have I Ever 🙋

Players: 4 or more. You need: 10 candies or chips per player.

1. Players take turns saying "Never have I ever..." with a Christmas memory.
2. Anyone who HAS done it gives up one candy.
3. Last player with candies left wins.

Copy these to start:

11. Two Truths and a Christmas Lie 🤥

Players: 4 or more. You need: nothing.

1. Each person shares three Christmas memories. Two are true, one is made up.
2. The group votes on the lie.
3. Fool the most people to win.

12. Who Am I? Christmas Edition 🤔

Players: 4 or more. You need: sticky notes and a pen.

1. Write a Christmas character on a sticky note: Santa, an elf, Rudolph, a snowman, the Grinch, Scrooge.
2. Stick it on another player's forehead without showing them.
3. They ask yes or no questions to guess who they are.
4. Fewest questions wins.

Christmas Games for the Office

Short games for a lunch break or a Friday team hour. Most work over a video call too.

13. Chris Mom Chris Child 🤫

Players: 6 or more. You need: name chits, a week before the party.

1. Everyone draws a name. You are the "Chris Mom" of the person you draw, and that person is your "Chris Child". Keep it secret.
2. For a week, send your Chris Child small anonymous surprises: a chocolate, a note, a fun task.
3. On party day, everyone guesses their Chris Mom. Then the reveal.
4. Popular in Indian offices and colleges. Keep tasks kind and small.

14. Red and Green Dress-Up Day 👕

Players: the whole team. You need: a chat poll.

1. Everyone comes in red, green, a Christmas sweater or a Santa cap.
2. The team votes in a chat poll.
3. Prizes for "Most Festive", "Most Creative" and "Best Last-Minute Effort".

15. Desk Decoration Contest 🎄

Players: teams of 3 to 5. You need: paper, tinsel, fairy lights, a small budget.

1. Each team decorates one desk or corner with a Christmas theme.
2. Give them 30 minutes.
3. A guest judge or the whole office votes for the winner.

16. Christmas Movie Emoji Quiz 🎬

Players: teams of 3 or 4, in the office or on the group chat. You need: the quiz below.

1. Share the emoji quiz on screen or in the group.
2. Teams get 2 minutes to write their answers.
3. Most correct wins.

Quiz:

Answers:

Christmas Games for Kids

Gentle, active games for children under 10. Lots of running, lots of laughing.

17. Pin the Nose on Rudolph 🦌

Players: 4 or more. You need: a big reindeer drawing, a red paper circle with tape, a blindfold.

1. Stick the reindeer drawing on a wall.
2. Blindfold a child, spin them once gently, and point them to the wall.
3. Closest nose to the right spot wins.

18. Santa Says 🎅

Players: 5 or more. You need: one adult as Santa.

1. Santa gives orders: "Santa says hop like a reindeer."
2. Kids follow only when the order starts with "Santa says".
3. Anyone who moves without "Santa says" sits out one round.

19. Reindeer Ring Toss 🎯

Players: 2 or more. You need: a paper or felt antler headband, 6 rings (bangles or paper plates with the centre cut out).

1. One player wears the antlers and stands still.
2. Others toss rings from 2 metres away to land them on the antlers.
3. Most rings on in one minute wins.

20. Christmas Treasure Hunt 🗺️

Players: teams of 2 or 3. You need: 6 to 8 clue chits, a small prize at the end.

1. Hide rhyming clues around the house, each leading to the next spot.
2. The last clue leads to the prize, like a box of chocolates under the tree.
3. Start teams at different clues so they do not follow each other.

Secret Santa and Gift Exchange Games

Gift games for friends, cousins and offices. Set a budget first. Many Indian groups pick ₹300 to ₹1,000.

21. Classic Secret Santa 🎅

Players: 4 or more. You need: name chits or a free name-draw app, a budget.

1. Everyone writes their name on a chit and puts it in a bowl.
2. Each person draws one name. Draw again if you get yourself. That person is your gift receiver. Tell no one.
3. Buy a gift within the budget. Add a Secret Santa dare from the list above if you like.
4. At the party, gifts go under the tree and are handed out. Receivers try to guess their Secret Santa before the reveal.

22. White Elephant 🐘

Players: 6 to 20. You need: one wrapped gift per player, numbered chits.

1. Everyone brings one wrapped gift and draws a number.
2. Player 1 opens a gift from the pile.
3. Each next player either opens a new gift or steals an opened one. A player who loses their gift picks again.
4. A gift can be stolen up to 3 times, then it is frozen. No stealing back the gift just taken from you in the same turn.
5. The game ends when every gift is opened.

23. Yankee Swap 🔄

Players: 6 to 20. You need: one wrapped gift per player, numbered chits.

1. Everyone brings one wrapped gift and draws a number.
2. Each player opens a gift from the pile, then chooses to keep it or swap it with any opened gift.
3. When all gifts are open, player 1 gets one last chance to swap.
4. Names and rules vary by region. Many groups use "White Elephant", "Yankee Swap" and "Dirty Santa" for almost the same game, so agree on the rules before you start.

24. Left Right Christmas Story 📖

Players: 6 or more, in a circle. You need: one wrapped gift per player, the story below.

1. Everyone sits in a circle holding a gift.
2. One person reads the story slowly. On every "LEFT", pass your gift left. On every "RIGHT", pass it right.
3. When the story ends, you keep whatever gift is in your hands.

Copy the story and read it out:

25. Secret Santa Dare Exchange 🎁

Players: 6 or more. You need: wrapped gifts, dare chits.

1. Each gift comes with a folded dare chit taped on top.
2. Before opening, the receiver reads the dare out loud and does it.
3. Skip the dare and the gift goes to the next person for 5 minutes.

Christmas Games for WhatsApp and Video Calls

Send these to your group chat. First send the dare, then the answer after everyone has picked. For many more like this, see our WhatsApp dare games.

26. Pick a Gift Dare 🎁

Players: any group chat. You need: WhatsApp.

Dare:

Answer:

27. Which Christmas Character Are You? 🎅

Players: any group chat. You need: WhatsApp.

Dare:

Answer:

28. Christmas Song Emoji Quiz 🎶

Players: any group chat or video call. You need: WhatsApp or a shared screen.

Dare:

Answer:

Why Games Are a Part of Christmas

Christmas marks the birth of Jesus and is celebrated on 25 December by Christians around the world. In India it is a national public holiday, and many families of every faith join in with cake, carols, lights and a decorated tree.

Party games and gift exchanges grew around the idea of giving and time together. Secret Santa draws, office Chris Mom Chris Child weeks and family quiz nights all turn the season into something everyone can take part in, even on a small budget.

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