25 Family Christmas Minute to Win It Games for Parties

Are you looking for hilarious family Christmas party games? Then you've found it! Everyone in your group will love these fun Minute to Win It Games for Christmas parties.

Christmas Minute to Win It games are fast challenges that are completed in 1 minute, which families can play competitively or just for fun. This edition has all the Winter and Christmas-themed game ideas.

The best part is that the 60-second games are enjoyable for all ages, making it the perfect Christmas game for kids, teens, and adults.

Not only can you play them at your family holiday party, but they are also great for white elephant parties, ugly sweater parties, classroom parties, and family game nights over winter break.

Check out our list of the Best Christmas Minute to Win It Games for families and be ready for an unforgettable holiday party.

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Fun Minute to Win It Games for Christmas Parties Edition

Funny Minute to Win It Christmas Party Games the Whole Family will Love. Easy and quick games kids and adults can play together at family holiday parties, family game nights and school parties. Best part you probably have all the supplies at home already! Make this your new family Christmas tradition!

Are you ready to have a blast with family and friends playing these awesome Minute to Win It Christmas party games? It's the perfect addition to any Christmas or Holiday party to add some excitement to your night.

Who knows, it may even become your new Christmas family tradition.

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How to Play Minute to Win It Christmas

To play the game, players are given a series of challenges that they need to complete in 1 minute. You can play this game in large groups or in small groups for families.

Decide on Teams or Individuals

First, decide if players will compete as a group or individually. This really depends on how many people you have playing the game.

If you decide to have groups, you will now pick who is on each team. Sometimes it's easier to assign the groups ahead of time so there is no fighting.

Decide Which Games to Play & Supplies

Decide which games you want to play and make sure you have all the supplies ready. Supplies are listed with the games below.

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Competitive Or Not

Now, determine if you want it to be a competitive game or a friendly game. Players can simply try to beat the 1-minute timer or play to beat the other teams.

If you choose to be competitive, make sure you have a chart to write down each player or team's times. This will help you keep track of who won each game.

How to Win

The team member who completes the Minute to Win It challenges in 1 minute wins the game. If you are playing on teams or competitively and two or more players complete the challenge, then the fastest player wins.

25 Christmas Minute to Win It Party Games

Here are our favorite Christmas Minute to Win It Games to play this Christmas season. There are 25 different games to choose from for your holiday party, with a mix of individual games and group games.

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Fun Christmas Minute to Win It Games with 42 printable Christmas game cards with instructios, supply list, scorecard and game strip ideas. Fun Christmas party games with 60 second challenges for kids, teens and adults.

1. Gift Wrap Challenge

Fun Gift wrap challenge is a funny Minute to Win it game to play at Holiday parties with kids and adults.

Supplies Needed - gift boxes, wrapping paper, tape, scissors

How to Play - Give each player a stack of shirt gift boxes and wrapping paper. See how many boxes they can wrap in 1 minute.

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Tip: To make it harder, use different-sized boxes so it's more challenging to wrap. Just make sure there are similar sizes for each player.

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2. Snowball Drop

Easy Minute to Win It Game for Families Drop in the Cup. Make it a Christmas party game with ping pong balls as snowballs and red solo cups. A fun addition to any holiday party.

Supplies Needed - Red solo cups, painter's tape or masking tape, white ping pong balls

How to Play - Set up by taping 5 red solo cups to the edge of the table for each player. Have players stand at the other end of the table, across from their set of solo cups.

Each team can have two players working together or choose one individual to compete for each team.

Players or Team members are given 10 ping pong balls. If you buy white ping pong balls you can draw a face to make it look like a snowman.

When the timers start, players have 1 minute to get as many ping pong balls in the cups as they can. If they drop balls on the ground and there is still time, they can pick up the balls and keep going.

The winner has the most ping pong balls in their cups.

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3. Christmas Junk in the Trunk

How to Make Junk in the Trunk Minute to Win it Christmas Party Game for Kids. Turn this classic minute to win it game into a Christmas theme with wrapping paper. It's a hilarious game everyone in your family will have a blast playing. Make it your new Christmas family tradition.

Supplies Needed - Empty tissue boxes, Belt, 10 ping pong balls or marshmallows, Christmas wrapping paper

How to Play - This game is Junk in the Trunk Holiday version. The first thing to do is make your holiday box. I wrapped my tissue box in Christmas wrapping paper to make it a holiday game.

To make your box, first wrap a Kleenex box in Christmas wrapping paper, making sure to leave the area where you pull Kleenex tissues out unwrapped.

Next, cut two slits on the opposite side of the box opening. Then have the belt go through the slits.

Lastly, add to the box 10 ping pong balls and place the box around a player’s waist with the belt.

Players then have 1 minute to shake out all their ping-pong balls. This is hilarious to watch!

4. Hershey Kiss Challenge

Supplies Needed - Large bags of Hershey Kisses

How to Play - See how many Hershey Kisses players can unwrap in 1 minute. Kids & adults love this game because they can eat all the chocolates they unwrap.

5. Jingle Bell Gift

Wrapped gifts with different quantities of jingle bells. Players need to put the gifts in order of the most to least jingel bells in the Christmas gifts in under 60 seconds.

Supplies Needed - 6 gift boxes, wrapping paper, jingle bells.

How to Play - Fill 6 boxes with different quantities of jingle bells. Wrap each box and add a number to the box. Have players shake the boxes and listen to the bells. Then put the boxes in order from the least number of bells to the box with the greatest number of bells.

6. Balloon Keep it Up

Fun Holiday Party Game Keep It Up. A Minute to Win it Game perfect for Christmas parties for families. Kids and adults will have a blast playing and trying to keep the balloons from touching the ground.

Supplies Needed - Red & Green Balloons

How to Play - Give each player 3 balloons. When the timer starts, players need to keep all the balloons in the air for 1 minute. If any balloons touch the ground,d the player is out.

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7. Christmas Song Mash-Up

Supplies Needed - Snippets of Christmas songs to play and paper & pen

How to Play - Create a Christmas song mash-up with short clips of several Christmas songs. Players need to identify what the title of the Christmas song is correctly for all the songs you play to win.

If no one names all the songs correctly, the player who names the most correctly wins.

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8. Snowman Stack

Christmas Party Game Marshmallow Snowman Stack Minute to Win It Game. Perfect for family Holiday parties for kids at school or home.

Supplies Needed - Bag of Marshmallows & Chopsticks

How to Play - Each player is given 4-5 marshmallows and a set of chopsticks. Players then have one minute to use the chopsticks to stack the marshmallows without them falling over.

9. Snowball Toss

Holiday Minute to Win It Party Game for Families. Snowball toss is a fun party game to play in groups at family Christmas parties.

Supplies Needed - Bag of Large Marshmallows & red solo cups

How to Play - Have each player pick a partner on their team. Have the partners stand 2-4 ft across from each other, each holding a red solo cup. Give one of the partners a marshmallow to hold.

When the timer starts, the players need to toss the marshmallow into their partner's solo cup. The winning team has the highest number of throws that make it into the cup in 1 minute.

Tip: If you want the game to be harder, get the miniature marshmallows to throw.

10. Christmas Wreath Toss

Toss an ornament through the Christmas Wreath for a fun 60 Seconds Game.

Supplies Needed - A large wreath, ribbon or string to hang the wreath, fake snowballs, or plastic Christmas ornaments

How to Play - Hang a wreath over a doorway or from the top of a railing. Give each team fake snowballs or plastic ornaments and see how many they can throw through the wreath before 1 minute is up.

11. Pipe Cleaner Pick Up

Quick Minute to Win It Game Pipe Cleaner Pick Up. A fun Christmas Party games for families.

Supplies Needed - Red and Green Pipe Cleaners, Hardware Nuts (not the food)

How to Play - The objective is for the player to get all the nuts (5-6) onto a pipe cleaner within a minute. Players can only use one hand to thread the pipe cleaner into the nuts. If you have more than one player the first person to move all the nuts wins.

Tip: To make it easier for younger kids, wrap two pipe cleaners together so it doesn't flop as much.

12. Suck it Up

Fun Christmas Minute to Win it Game Suck it Up. Quick party game with M&Ms or Skittles, a straw and paper plates. Kids will love the challenge of this fun Holiday game.

Supplies Needed - 2 paper plates per player, straws, and Red & Green M&Ms or Skittles

How to Play - Each player has two plates in front of them and a straw. On one paper plate add 10 -12 M&Ms. Players need to use the straw with one hand to suck up an M&M at the end and transfer it to the other plate.

The first player to move all their M&Ms before the timer is up wins.

13. Candy Cane Race

Slide the candy cane down a string in this fun Christmas Minute to Win it Game.

Supplies Needed - String and a box of candy canes

How to Play - Cut long pieces of string and give each team 1 string. You'll have teams of two and each player will stand across from each other and hold one end of the string.

When it's time to go, the team will try and get a candy cane to slide across the string from one team player to the other player. The first team to do this in under 1 minute wins.

14. Trim the Tree

Challenge friends and family to add as many Christmas ornaments as they can to a small Christmas tree before the 1 minute timer is up. A hilarious Christmas Minute to Win It Game for parties or family game nights.

Supplies Needed - Fake mini Christmas trees & small round ornaments (I bought these all at Dollar Tree or the Dollar Store)

How to Play - Give each player a Christmas tree and 20 tree ornaments. When the timer starts, see who can hang all the ornaments on the tree before the 1-minute timer goes off.

15. Find Rudolph's Red Nose

Supplies Needed - Pie tins, whipped cream, and cherries

How to Play - Fill pie tins with whipped cream and 1 cherry for each player. Place the whipped cream pie in front of the players and have them place their hands behind their backs. Players have 60 seconds to use their faces to find the cherry.

16. Holiday Cup Stacking Race

Easy plastic cups stacking game. A fun Mintue to Win It game to use at Christmas parties.

Supplies Needed - 42 Red solo cups

How to Play - The first team to play will be given 42 plastic cups in a single stack. When the 1-minute timer starts, the player will need to stack all 42 cups into a pyramid without it falling down. Then take apart the pyramid and return the plastic cups to a single stack.

17. Holiday Push

A 60 second Christmas challenge to use Christmas boxes to push a Christmas ornament across the room first. A fun Christmas party games for kids, teens and adults.

Supplies Needed - Holiday gift box folded down, round ornaments, painter's tape

How to Play - Create a start and finish line with painter's tape on the floor. Make the lines 6-12 ft. apart. I like to use painter's tape so it won't leave a mark on your floor.

Give each player a folded-down gift box and a round ornament. When the timer starts, players use the box as a fan to roll the ornaments across the floor to the finish line.

Players can not touch the ornament with the box. They can only use the wind to push it across the floor. The first player to cross the finish line in 1 minute wins.

Tip: Make sure you get shatterproof plastic ornaments so they don't break on your floor.

18. Christmas Cookie Face

A funny Christmas Minute to Win It Games using your facial muscle to play cookie face moving the Oreo cookie from your forhead to your mouth. A quick 60 second challenge for Christmas parties.

Supplies Needed - Christmas cookies that are small & round like Chris t mas Oreos.

How to Play - Have the team member playing sit in a chair with their head facing up on the back of the chair. Then place a Christmas cookie on a player's forehead in the center, but not touching their eyebrows. When the timer starts, players try to get the cookie into their mouth by using their facial muscles.

Players can not use their hands or toss the cookie into their mouth; they can only use facial movements.

19. Reindeer Toss

Supplies Needed - Reindeer Antlers & rings

How to Play - Each team will need two players for this game. The first player will wear the Reindeer antlers. The other player will stand on the other side of the room with the 5 rings.

When the timer starts, they have 1 minute to see how many rings they can get hooked onto the reindeer antlers.

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20. Hula Hoop Toss (group game)

Supplies Needed- Hula Hoops and Red Pompoms

How to Play - This is a fun team game. Lay out a hula hoop on the floor for each team. The team members will all line up in a single file at the starting line across from their hula hoop.

When the timer starts, the first team member will try and throw a red pom pom into the hula hoop. When they get one in the next player on their team tries to get a pom pom into the hula hoop. Keep going like this until the timer goes off.

Have each team count the number of pom poms they got into the hula hoop. The team with the highest number of pom poms wins.

21. Candy Cane Pick Up

Fun Christmas Minute to Win It Game challenge players to pick up Candy canes using their mouth to hook 5 candy canes in 60 seconds.

Supplies Needed - Candy canes and empty bowls

How to Play - In an empty bowl, add 5 candy canes lying on the side of the bowl. Players will each be given 1 candy cane that they will put between their teeth.

When the timer starts, they need to use the hook side of the candy cane to try and pick up the candy canes in the bowl and take them out.

22. Snowball Pick Up

Fun Minute to Win It Christmas game called Snowball Pick Up. A funny christmas game moving cotton balls between bowls using a plastic spoon between your teeth. Try and finish the challenge before the 1 minute timer is up.

Supplies Needed- cotton balls or white pompoms, plastic bowls, and plastic spoons

How to Play - Each player is given a plastic spoon, 1 empty bowl, and 1 bowl filled with white pom poms or cotton balls. The player will put the spoon between their teeth and use it to try and scoop the cotton balls out of one bowl and add them to the other bowl.

Tip: When done, let the kids use the cotton balls for an indoor snowball fight.

23. Holiday Candy Divide

See how quickly you can divide a bowl of red and green M&Ms in a Christmas Minute to Win It Game.

Supplies Needed - Red & Green M&Ms or Skittles, plastic bowls

How to Play - Give each player 1 bowl filled with red and green M&Ms and two empty bowls. The players need to separate the red and green candies into two separate bowls.

24. Snowball Relay Race (group game)

Supplies Needed - Large Cotton Snowballs and large wooden spoons

How to Play - This relay race is another fun team game. All the team members get into one line. On the other side of the room, place a chair. The first player in line will get a large snowball to place on their wooden spoon.

When the timer starts, the first player races to go around the chair and back to their teammates, trying not to drop the snowball off the spoon. If they drop the snowball, they have to go back and start over.

The first player will then pass the spoon and snowball onto the next player in line to do the same race. When the timer goes off, the team that has had the most players make it back to the finish line wins.

25. Christmas Card Drop

Challenge friends and family at Christmas parties to blow over the Christmas cards in this Christmas Minute to Win It Game. A fun Christmas party game for kids, teens and adults.

Supplies Needed - 8 Christmas Cards

How to Play - Line up 8 Christmas cards on the edge of a table. Have the player stand on the opposite side of the table and give them 1 minute to blow the 8 cards over the edge of the table. The player who blew over the most cards in under 60 seconds wins.

Tip: If the table is rectangular, use the shorter sides for this game.

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Christmas Charades & Pictionary Game

When you play Charades and Pictionary, players only have 1 minute to guess what their partner's word is. So I think this could also be a fun Minute to Win It game for families.

Supplies Needed - Free Printable Christmas Charades or Free Printable Christmas Pictionary Words List

How to Play - For Christmas Charades, players will act out holiday-themed words and have their teammates guess in one minute what word they're acting out.

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