Equipment: All sorts of Christmas themed items (at least one per player) – socks, Christmas cards, baubles (preferably not breakable), tinsel, holly, pine cones, gloves, hats, wrapping paper, carrots, empty mince pie boxes; large cardboard box; 4 markers (eg empty plastic bottles, cones).
Space: Large room or outside area; ideally square or rectangular
How To Play: Put all the Christmas items in the centre of the playing space in the large box. Place each marker in the corner of the playing space. Divide the players into 4 equal teams and send a team to each corner to stand by the markers.
On the word ‘Go’ each player takes turns to run to the box and take an item from it back to their marker. When all the items have been collected, the leader of the game times 1 minute for players to take items from the other teams. A player can only take 1 item at a time. The team with the largest number of items at the end is the winner.
Variation: Give each item a value. The winning team is the one with the greatest value of items. You can also keep the values of the items hidden so players have no idea which items are worth more.
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