some suggestions were board games and building ginger bread houses. any other fun and enjoyable activities?
2007-12-07 16:44:07 · 5 answers · asked by teekay_33 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Set a date for your party.
As December moves on you, and everyone else will be more and more busy, so booking early is essential.
Send out invitations at the start of December, or if you prefer invite people over the telephone or by email.
Be clear that it's RSVP only, so you can gauge how many people to expect.
Plan your menu several days in advance.
Are you going to have a formal sit down meal, or a more relaxed buffet?
Write a shopping list and stick to it.
Prepare as much as you can the day before the party, avoiding any last minute panics.
Keep things simple and easy - the last thing you will want to be doing is slaving away in the kitchen while you're guests are having a good time.
Prepare the party area.
Make sure the area you are planning to hold your party is relatively clean and tidy.
Remove any items that you are worried might get broken or in the way, and remember to put out plenty of chairs.
Welcome your guests.
Greet your guests at the door.
Take their coats and see them through to the party area.
Make introductions if your guests are not acquainted with each other and start off the conversation.
Delegate arranging drinks to one of your guests, if someone is particularly shy this will be a great job for them as it's a real ice breaker.
Play music.
This is essential in setting the mood.
Have a few CDs at the ready but don't play them too loudly, people will want to be able to talk.
Host games.
Charades or another lively game is always popular at family get-togethers, whereas a more adult game will be suitable at a sophisticated get-together.
Have plenty of pens, scraps of paper and balloons at the ready just in case.
Have fun!
Being the host people will look at you to set the mood.
If you are looking stressed they won't relax.
Similarly if you lead the way in having fun - they will follow.
Christmas music makes the party fun!
To have a more enjoyable Christmas party ask your guests the type of Christmas food and candy they like.
Make sure your guests have plenty to drink.
If you plan to serve wine, you should have at least one bottle for every two guests but feel free to add a few more bottles, because it's Christmas!
Decorations are always a good idea.
It needn't be something expensive or time consuming - a few strings of fairy lights instantly create a festive atmosphere.
Bowls of nuts, oranges and brightly coloured sweets also look great and double up as snacks.
As an intriguing twist, arrange a few toys or Christmas crackers half hidden around the room.
These can be incorporated into a party game later on, or can simply be to entertain children - and big kids.
The more the merrier!
Things You'll Need
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Christmas food & candy
Christmas decorations
Christmas Music
Plenty of seating
Break graham crackers on the "break lines" (or leave them larger) and stack onto a plate or in a basket.
You can also use a warmed sharp knife to cut other shapes from the crackers.
A diagonal cut makes nice triangles.
However, for small children, just use the regular shapes from the box.
You can have those little cinnamon graham bears--like crackers that come in a box, if you want.
Spread some frosting/icing onto the cardboard surface.
This will be your "snow" and will provide the holding power for your foundation.
Take one rectangular or square graham cracker and press it flat onto the frosting for the floor of the house.
Spread a line of frosting around each edge of the floor, as well as a little over the top edge.
Put your 4 walls into place using this same method.
The frosting is your "mortar" that will hold all the crackers in place.
Put your roof on and you're ready to begin decorating.
Of course frosting on the roof is great for snow and it can be hanging off the edges.
You can make a nice door with the licorice strings, as well as windows and trim.
Use lots of candies and gumdrops to decorate the house walls and to make "shrubs" around the house.
You can make a little walkway with broken crackers so it looks like cobble stone, and miniature candy canes are cute to line the path or adorn the house.
Let your imagination soar and you will have fun with this simple yet effective project.
Maybe you would like to make an object other than a house, such as a train.
If you want to make it all from scratch, then you just need to back gingerbread instead of using graham crackers, but this really turns out nice.
It also makes nice little hostess gifts for those holiday get-togethers.
Have fun!!
At the end of the season, keep the photos of your house, then throw it away or eat it!
Sprinkling powdered sugar over the house and yard makes it look like it was snowing!
Keep it out of reach of your pets or you will find them "sampling" your house. This can be especially tragic if a little person in the house has his or her creation half eaten by the family dog!!
Things You'll Need
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graham crackers
small hard wooden tongue depressor sticks or standard case knife (for spreading frosting)
candies (jelly beans, licorice strings, candy canes, smarties, gummi bears, hearts, etc.) for decoration
cardboard (end of a box)
frosting (white is best)
colored sugars
1 oz almonds
8 oz currants
8 oz sultanas
8 oz raisins
1 oz glace cherries, quartered
2 oz mixed peel
grated lemon rind
grated orange rind
3 tablespoons of brandy
8 oz plain flour
1/2 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp mixed spice
1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1 oz brown sugar
1 tbsp black treacle
8 oz soft butter
4 eggs
The day before you plan to bake the cake, process the almonds (in a food processor) for about 10 seconds or until they are 'nibbed', and pour into large mixing bowl.
Add all the dried fruit together with the grated lemon and orange rind.
Pour over the brandy, stir well, cover the bowl with a cloth and leave to soak overnight.
Try to stir a few times while soaking.
The next day, place the flour, spices and sugar in the food processor's main bowl and processor.
Remember to take the pusher out of the feed tube to allow air in for 5 seconds to aerate them.
Add the butter (which must be very soft), treacle and eggs and process for approximately 5 seconds.
Stop and scrape down and process for a further 5 seconds or until the mixture has amalgamated.
Tip in the dried fruit mixture and push the 'pulse' button about 10 times to just mix in.
Preheat oven to mark 3 (325 F or 160 C).
Grease and line an 8" (20cm) round cake tin.
Spoon the cake mixture into the prepared tin, and spread it out with the back of a spoon.
Bake for 2 hours and then turn the heat down to mark 2 (300 F or 150 C) and bake for a further one and a half hours to two hours or until a skewer pushed into the center comes out clean.
Leave the cake in the tin a few minutes before turning it out onto a wire cake rack.
If you wish, some extra brandy can be soaked into the cake.
Remove the lining paper and make a few holes in the top with a small skewer and pour over several teaspoonfuls.
Wrap it well in double greaseproof paper and store in airtight tin ready for decoration.
Things You'll Need
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Food Processor
Large mixing bowl
8 inch round cake tin
Skewer (optional)
Greaseproof Paper
2007-12-07 16:54:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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You could play some other games like charades or pictionary, musical chairs set to Christmas music or the board game Balderdash (there are cards with words no one has every heard of before and each person makes up definitions for the word, then you each vote on which definition he thinks fits the word...it can be really funny). This site http://www.oldfashionedliving.com/parlour-games.html has some old-time parlour games that may interest you. If you like things like jigsaw puzzles or scrabble, that can be fun with a group. It depends on your tastes. Some people like Twister, too.
If you have a real fireplace, you could toast marshmallows or roast chestnuts.
You could have an anonymous pollyanna where each person brings one gift in a certain price range. You could exchange the gifts ala "naughty Santa Claus" game: each person takes a number, the first one chooses one of the gifts and opens it, then #2 can choose to either open a new present or "steal" the gift the other person opened (in which case #1 picks another present). It goes on like this until the last person has chosen, then #1 gets the option to switch his gift with any other person's gift. This can be a lot of fun, so long as people don't steal a gift that they know the person REALLY wants.
You could have everyone dress up (for instance, in Victorian style costumes or Christmas Carol costumes).
You could have hot chocolate after dinner and sing carols or watch a favorite movie.
You could each tell a story or read one out loud or you could have one person start a story, then the next must continue it until everyone has added to the story.
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