It is is bos. Christmas gifts almost always come with a Christmas Bow. The wrapping paper, ribbons, and the bows are used to decorate and bring attention to the gift. It & # 39; s not the bow that is important, but the gift it adorns. Sod that so many people are enjoying all the wrappings of Christmas and the decorations, but they have forgotten about the gift - God with us - Emmanuel - the birth of Christ.
Games using Christmas Bows
- Christmas Bow Pass - In this game, teams race to pass the Christmas bows from one end of the line to the other side holding teams of 6 to 10 young people and have the teams line up side by side. At one end Give them the next instruction: "With your left hand, grab the right wrist of the person on your right." Teams must pass all If a bow is dropped, the team must retrieve it the remaining connected. If the chain breaks all the bows currently being passed must move move back to the beginning of the line.
- Pass the Christmas Bow Gift Exchange - Played like "hot potato" Pass the bows around the circle. When the music stops, whoever is holding the bow gets to pick a present from under the tree and places it in their lap or under their chair. If the music stops and someone is holding the bow who already got a gift it goes to the next person who has not had a gift yet.
- Christmas Bow Hunt - This is just like an Easter egg hunt - only with Christmas Bows! Hide all the bows in a room, or all around the house and have everyone search for them.
- Christmas Bow Fight - Place a long jump rope or string down the middle into the floor to divide the room into 2 equal hold of an equal number of bows. game starts, participants pick up the bosses and participants pick up the bosses and throw themselves and the other teams when the timer goes off, everyone drops all the bows and counts how many bows are on their team & # 39; s side. Whichever team has the least amount of bows wins.
- Taboo Word (Eg Santa) If anyone says the taboo word to someone else during the event, Everyone ends up trying to get other people to say the forbidden word. At the end of the event, the person with the most Christmas bows pinned to them, wins.
- Christmas Bow Tree Race One person on wach team is designated as a gift and stand on the opposite end of the room from his room. On go, one person at a time on each team must grab ONE bow from a basket and run to the "gift" and stick it on to his or her arms or head. The team that attaches the most bows to the gift in a given amount of time wins. Bows that fall off do not count.
- Christmas Bow Balance - Prepare two baskets of bows of various colors. As you call out a color, the next person on each team runs to his or her basket, and puts as many bows Call of the colors in random order. At some point call the game and the hand and back to his or her head. the team with the most bows wins.
- Christmas Bow Blow - Team two lines on the floor at the opposite ends of the room as goal lines. Teams blow the bows along the floor to the opposite goal and back. First team to complete the relay wins.
- Christmas Bow Grab - Play like the regular game of Spoons, but substitute Christmas Bows for the spoons. Place one less Bow than the number of players you have. Shuffle a standard 52 - card deck and deal 4 cards to each person Have everyone take one of their cards and discard it to their left, they are, they should not be one of their cards down on the table to start the discard pile, while the dealer picks up a new The first person to to the discard pile, so as to have a continuous influx of new cards. I have 4 of a kind (eg all 4 aces or all 4 nines) has to pick up a bow. Following this, all other players need to do the same, with the slow person left without a bow and out of the game.
- Pin the Bow on the present - In this Christmas version of the classic kids game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey, blindfolded kids try to pin the bow where the ribbons cross on a gift wrapped box.
- Christmas Bow Toss - Bows are tossed at wrapped Gifts boxes labeled with various point values. You can play with harder to hit targets which are worth more points.
- Christmas Bow Fan - Contrant from each team must stand behind a Christmas bow holding a gift box. Contestants and the gift box may not touch the bow at any time or the game The bow must come to a complete stop without exiting the designated end zone. (taped square on the floor) within the 60 - second time limit.
- Christmas Bow tennis - Youth split into two teams from from each other. The objective is to blow the end of a point.
- Christmas Bow Tag When you start the game, you give it to the clothespin. When you start the game, give every person two of the bows as they enter. When everyone has their Bows , tell them you & # 39; re giving them two minutes to get rid of their bows. to rid of the bows is onto pin them to someone else. Award a prize to the person with the least number of bows Icebreaker idea: After playing the game, each person must state one Fun Fact about themselves for each bow pinned to them. If they have no bows they only have to say ONE thing about themselves.
- Christmas Bow Target Practice - Have youth take turns trying to toss bows through the various size rings or hoops for points. The smaller the target the higher the points.
- Christmas Bow Collector - Each youth is blindfolded, given a large wooded spoon, and placed in a large gift wrapped box with the lid off and filled with Christmas Bows. They must also hold a similar box on top of their head. In the time given the blindfolded youth Many times, they will deliver emperor spoons to their heads and many times they will miss the box. When time is up, the youth with the most bows in the box on their head wins.
- Christmas Bow Nosedive - When you have a small bows, Petroleum Jelly (Vaseline), and Bowls. Set up the bowls a foot apart, with the bows placed in 1 bowl. When the clock starts, each contantant may dip their nose in petroleum jelly and Players may only apply petroleum jelly by dipping their nose in petroleum jelly. The player must deposit the Christmas bow into the end bowl directly from the nose without coming into contact with any other body part or object To complete the game, a player must be the first to transport 5 bows from the start bowl to the end bowl, with all 5 Christmas bows in the bowl concurrently.
- Christmas Bow Mind Meld - Put a Christmas Bow between two people & # 39; s foreheads and race to the finish line.
- Christmas Bow Toothpick Relay - Each youth holds a toothpick in their teeth and they must pass a Christmas Bow down the row of youth to the end of the line. First hand to pass the all the Bows to the end wins. No hands allowed.
TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
- Describe some of the Christmas Presents under your tree?
- How are they wrapped? What colors are the Bows?
- What are some things we need in order to wrap a Christmas Present?
- How worried about how to you would you like to get a bow for Christmas? Just a bow?
MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
- What are some things we think about when we think about Christmas?
There are Christmas lights, Christmas carols, Candy Canes, Angels, Nativity Scenes, Christmas Cards, Christmas Bows, Wrapping They are, Christmas is about the greatest gift - It is about Jesus.
It is sad that so many people are enjoying all the wrappings of Christmas and the decorations, but they have forgotten about the gift.
Read the Christmas story from the Bible:
Matthew 1: 18 - 25; Matthew 2: 1-12; Luke 1: 26 - 38; Luke 2: 1-20.
MAKE IT PERSONAL
How many of you never open your gifts at Christmas? You just leave them with all the wrappings on the tree, never to find out what is inside. Many people enjoy all the wonderful things about Christmas, but they have missed the Christ in Christmas. The gift of Jesus, of peace with God, of salvation is never received and remains just something to look at or just another decoration.
Without Jesus is received in our hearts the gift might be well well like an unoped gift under the tree.
Let your light so shine that people will know what the true gift of Christmas is not in all the decorations, but in Jesus.
