5 Free Festive Fun-Time Activities

The holiday season is in full swing and at our WiseUp Base in Kent, we are totally feeling the festive vibes. Embracing the spirit of giving, here are 5 festive activities that are guaranteed to be enjoyed by family and friends. These can be played individually or in teams, and there are lots of different variations of each game.

1. Christmas Tree of Cups

Each person is given 15 or 21 cups which they must race to stack in the shape of a Christmas tree, before collapsing them down into a single stack. The first person to do so wins!

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2. Snowman Wrap

The aim of the game is to create the best human snowman! Use old jumpers, hoodies, scarves and shirts to bulk out someone to a snowman shape. Then wrap them in toilet paper until they resemble a jolly white snowman! This can be done as a race or competition to see which team creates the best looking. A variation is to create a human Christmas tree using tinsel, baubles and tissue paper.

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3. Christmas Cookie Face Off

Each person has a cookie or biscuit placed on their forehead and they have to get it into their mouths without using their hands. If the biscuit falls off, they have to start again with it on their forehead.

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4. Gift Wrap Grab

Begin with a tightly wrapped gift box on a table with players standing around it. One player starts wearing a pair of large oven mitts and attempts to unwrap the present while the person to the left of them rolls a dice. If a 6 is rolled, then the roller gets the mitts and present and tries to unwrap it while the dice moves one person to the left. The person who managed to completely unwrap and open the present gets to keep it!

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5. Baulbal Blow Out

Place 3 cups filled right to the top with water near the edge of a table and put a round plastic bauble floating on top of each. About 5cm directly in front of each cup, closer to the middle of the table, place another identical cup, also filled to the top with water. Players have to race to blow the bauble from each cup across the 5cm gap onto the water filled cup in front of it one at a time. Variations include increasing the number of cups, increasing the distance between cups or swapping players between baubles.

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Keep the fun going even after returning to school

WiseUp have a whole host of enjoyable activities to keep everyone engaged and active, especially in the winter months after the festive season has ended. Please take a look around our website for more information on events such as our Hub Challenge and Time Attack days.

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