Charades, Post-It Note game and Human Christmas tree

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The game: Charades

How many players? 4 or more

The objective

The rest of the group have to watch your mime and guess what the title is that you're acting out.
The person that guesses correctly then takes their turn to act out a charade.

How to play

One person stands in front of the rest of the family/friends and mimes the title of a song, play, film, book or TV programme.
The person doing the miming uses hand signals to show whether it's a film, book, pop song, etc, and then they either act out each individual word, one at a time, or mime the full title in one go.
The people watching have to guess the name of whatever the person is miming.
Whoever gets it right swaps places and do their own mime to the group.

The game: Human Christmas Tree

How many players? 6 or more

The objective

The team that finish first and have the best 'decorated' tree are the winners and win a prize.

How to play

Separate into teams with one person in each team playing the Christmas tree.
The team then have to turn their chosen person into a Christmas tree, using wrapping paper, tape and decorations - but they have under a minute to do it!
When the minute is up the winner is the team that have the best decorated tree.

The game: Post-It Note game

How many players? At least 4

The objective

To find out the name of the person on your Post-It Note.

How to play

Everyone gets a Post-It Note and has to write the name of a famous people on it - it can be anyone famous.
Then everyone gets a Post-It Note stuck to their forehead.
To keep this easy, put it on the forehead of the person to your right and make sure that the name of the person on the Post-It Note isn't seen.
Each person takes it in turns to ask the group questions about the name on their forehead.
The winner is the person who guesses their Post-It Note name first.

By Louise O'Connell