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Christmas Drama Games for Children
Game: If I Could Be a Christmas Toy…
Age: 3 years +
Minimum number of participants: 2
Resources needed: Clear space.
Benefits: This game stimulates creativity. It helps the children to move and to get into different roles.
Instructions: Each child in the circle takes it in turn to say for example: “Hi, my name is Anna, and if I could be any Christmas toy, I would be a football because…” The children should be encouraged to come up with unusual toys. They could also comment on and respond to the other children’s choice of toy. At the end, the teacher can get the children to imagine that they are in the toy shop and then they walk around the clear space pretending to be their chosen toy.
Christmas Drama Games for Children
Game: All I Want for Christmas Is…
Age: 4 years +
Minimum number of participants: 5
Resources needed: Clear space.
Benefits: This game stimulates the imagination and is very good for focussing on memory skills. It is also an excellent listening game.
Instructions: Everyone sits in a circle. The teacher starts by saying something like: “All I want for Christmas is a doll…” The child next to the teacher follows by first repeating what the teacher said and adding an item to the list: “All I want for Christmas is a doll and a PlayStation…” The next child continues by saying something like: “All I want for Christmas is a doll and a PlayStation and a guitar.” The game continues, with each child repeating what the previous children have said and adding one item to the Christmas list. If a child makes a mistake, then they are out of the game. The list continues until there is only one child left in the game.
Christmas Drama Games for Children
Game: Follow the Reindeer
Age: 4 years +
Minimum number of participants: 3
Resources needed: Clear space.
Benefits: This game also improves reaction and observation skills.
Instructions: All the children stand in a circle and they start walking on the spot. The teacher/volunteer is the reindeer. The reindeer makes a gesture and the children copy it, for example, waving their left hand. Then the reindeer shouts out the name of one of the children in the group and they must change or add to the action, for example, waving their left and right hands. The game can continue until everyone in the circle has had a chance to add or to change an action.
Christmas Drama Games for Children
Game: Santa Claus’s Glasses
Age: 4 years +
Minimum number of participants: 5
Resources needed: Clear space, glasses.
Benefits: This is an effective listening game. It can also be used to improve concentration skills.
Instructions: One child is chosen to be Santa Claus. Santa Claus puts the glasses on his head and faces a wall at one side of the clear space. The other children in the group must go to the other side of the space. They must try to creep up on Santa Claus and take his glasses. Santa Claus can turn around suddenly at any time. If he sees anyone moving that child must start again from the beginning.
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The Littlest Xmas Tree Play for Children
