Preparation
Download, print and cut up the Christmas Charades Cards.
There are 75 Christmas Charades Cards in this printable.
For additional Christmas Charades phrases, you can use our Christmas Pictionary cards.
How to Play Christmas Charades
Divide into two teams of roughly equal number of players.
Each team can have just two players, but it will be more fun with more players.
Teams take turns to send one player to pick a Christmas Charades Card.
Without speaking, that player must act out the word or phrase on the Christmas Charades Card while his or her teammates try to guess the correct answer within a given time.
(Usually 3 minutes, but you may vary this according to the age and skill level of your players.)
If they get it correct within the time limit, the team scores 10 points.
Play for a pre-determined number of rounds or period of time.
Give the winning team a prize.
You may also want to explore Deeper KidMin‘s awesome collection of screen-based games which includes a unique twist on Christmas charades, Christmas Crowd Charades.
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Bible Lesson – The True Story of Christmas
Discuss
1. Did you enjoy this game?
2. Can you think of other Christmas Charades phrases to include in this game?
3. Do you celebrate Christmas? Who do you usually celebrate Christmas with? How do you celebrate?
4. Do you know why we celebrate Christmas?
Say
There are many Christmas stories about Santa Claus, but Christmas is not really about Santa. Let us read the true story about Christmas together.
Read
Luke 1:26-38
Discuss
5. In this passage, the angel Gabriel appeared to a young girl named Mary. What did the angel tell Mary?
Say
The angel Gabriel told Mary that she was going to have a son. Let’s read what happens next…
Read
Luke 2:1-20
Discuss
6. Why didn’t Mary give birth in her own hometown?
7. Who told the shepherds about the baby?
8. What did the angel say about the baby?
9. Where did the shepherds find the baby?
Read
Matthew 2:1-12
Discuss
10. Why did the Magi from the east go to Jerusalem?
11. How did the Magi describe Jesus?
12. What did the Magi do when they found Jesus?
Say
This is the true story of Christmas.
Christmas is the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus.
God sent his Son, Jesus, to be born on earth because he loves us very much.
Read
John 3:16
Conclusion
God loves us so much that he wants to be with us forever and ever! But we cannot be with God because we have all sinned. We have all done things that are wrong. Telling lies, fighting and stealing are examples of sins.
So God sent his Son, Jesus, to come to earth to die on the cross so that all of our sins can be forgiven.
And on the third day, Jesus became alive again!
If you choose to accept this perfect Christmas gift of Jesus, you can be with God forever and ever.
You can accept Jesus by:
1. Admitting that you have sinned and asking God to forgive you,
2. Believing that Jesus died on the cross to be punished instead of you, and
3. Inviting Jesus into your life to help you turn away from sin.
You can talk to Jesus about this right now:
Dear Jesus, I know that I have sinned. I believe that you died on the cross to take the punishment for my sins. Please forgive all of my sins. Please come into my life and help me turn away from doing wrong. Thank you that because you took the punishment for my sins, I can have a relationship with you now and will one day be with you in heaven. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen
Bible Lesson for Younger Kids – The True Story of Christmas
Discuss
1. Did you enjoy this game?
2. Can you think of other Christmas Charades phrases to include in this game?
3. Do you celebrate Christmas? Who do you usually celebrate Christmas with? How do you celebrate?
4. Do you know why we celebrate Christmas?
Say
There are many Christmas stories about Santa Claus, but Christmas is not really about Santa. Let us read the true story about Christmas together.
Read
The True Story of Christmas Word Search or The True Story of Christmas Animated Tract.
Say
This is the true story of Christmas.
Christmas is the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus.
God sent his Son, Jesus, to be born on earth because he loves us very much.
Read
John 3:16
Conclusion
God loves us so much that he wants to be with us forever and ever! But we cannot be with God because we have all sinned. We have all done things that are wrong. Telling lies, fighting and stealing are examples of sins.
So God sent his Son, Jesus, to come to earth to die on the cross so that all of our sins can be forgiven.
And on the third day, Jesus became alive again!
If you choose to accept this perfect Christmas gift of Jesus, you can be with God forever and ever.
You can accept Jesus by:
1. Admitting that you have sinned and asking God to forgive you,
2. Believing that Jesus died on the cross to be punished instead of you, and
3. Inviting Jesus into your life to help you turn away from sin.
You can talk to Jesus about this right now:
Dear Jesus, I know that I have sinned. I believe that you died on the cross to take the punishment for my sins. Please forgive all of my sins. Please come into my life and help me turn away from doing wrong. Thank you that because you took the punishment for my sins, I can have a relationship with you now and will one day be with you in heaven. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen
2 thoughts on “Christmas Charades”
How disappointing, I was hoping to find questions like “away in a manger” rather than “bad santa”. Can’t you come up with questions that are at least vaguely about Biblical christmas?
Hi Bruce. Thank you for your comment. We do have more biblical phrases such as “An angel appeared to shepherds”, “Magi from the east” and even “Christ, the Savior is born”. But I agree we should have more. We will try to include more of such phrases for next year. We needed similar phrases for Christmas Pictionary as well, so “Baby Jesus in a manger” appears in the Christmas Pictionary cards.