Abean Assist's

Practical Guide to

Event Planning

Christmas Party Theme Ideas

Christmas is one of my favorite parties to plan! Here are a few theme ideas in no particular order to get your mind flowing! Use these ideas as a starting point and come up with activities that accomplish your goal. I thought about creating individual pages with lots of ideas for each theme, but decided that this is an ideas page to get you thinking. It is not a 'planned for you' party page because then the plans won't be focused on your goals and objectives. That being said, if you do an internet search for specific themes, you will find lots of ideas! I also put together a Pinterest board with helpful links.

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Christmas World Tour

Serve a meal in a room decorated as an airplane (plane window wall decals and international flags) with volunteers in steward hats pushing food/drink carts between tables.
Travel from room to room with themed activities in each room - learning a song, hearing a story, doing a craft, sample a traditional food, etc.
Provide a "passport book" to stamp in each location.
"Christmas" in different languages (could make a matching game).

Christmas Carnival

Serve traditional carnival foods - Nachos, hot dogs, cotton candy.
Organize carnival activities such as a cake walk and face painting.
Make garland jewelry, have a magic show, etc.

An Old English Christmas

Do some caroling, or find volunteer carolers.
Make traditional Christmas crackers.
Decorate with pine garland, nuts, and candles.
Roast turkey and other traditional Christmas foods (I wanted to do figgy pudding, but the idea was vetoed by the rest of the committee!)

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

Sing Karaoke.
Decorate with Christmas trees - provide tabletop trees and ask guests to decorate.

Candyland Christmas

Decorate with gingerbread houses and candy.
Set up a gingerbread men stand with cutouts for faces as a photo op.
Hold an ugly sweater contest.
Let the kids decorate Christmas cookies with 'Mrs. Claus' or have a gingerbread house decorating competition.

Holiday Glam

Decorate in gold and black with fairy lights.
Play Minute-to-win-it games or a hold a musical program.
Serve a candlelit dinner.

Christmas in Bethlehem

Set up an outdoor market with appropriate foods and give everyone tokens to 'purchase' (cheese, grapes, rolls, fresh fruit, olives, pita pockets with chicken salad).
Decorate tables with nativity sets.
Hold a Nativity sing-along or act out the Nativity.

Winter Wonderland
Let it Snow

Decorate with lots of lights and white or blue and silver.
Hang snowflakes
Organize a hot cocoa bar.
Make snowman ornaments or other snowman craft.

Christmas Luau

Serve traditional luau foods and decorate with traditional luau decorations.
Have limbo & hula hoop contests.
Santa shows up in shorts.
Do fun Christmas skits or sing 12 Days of a Hawaiian Christmas.

Storybook Christmas

Decorate with children's books (better yet, provide books and ask guests to sign up to decorate a table using a book as a theme).
Because I used this theme for a church party, we ended with a rendition of the Nativity.

O Christmas Tree

Make ornaments to decorate trees (possibly donate those trees for a fundraiser).
Hold a "Symbols of Christmas" program.
Decorate with trees.

Comfort and Joy

Use traditional red and green decorations.
Serve comfort food (pies, soup and rolls) and a cozy hot chocolate bar.

Christmas Memories

Ask those attending to bring a food a favorite holiday dish to share.
Santa's workshop - dress as elves and make small gifts or crafts.
Ask for people to bring donations for a local cause and wrap gifts for families in need.

Dr. Seuss's Grinch Stole Christmas

Use the book for decorations inspiration - red draped fabric, oversized baubles, hanging stockings, etc.
Invite guests to come in Whoville costumes.
Serve 'Roast Beast' and 'Who Hash'.
Play "the Grinch stole the ..." game (could be a scavenger hunt or a puzzle missing words)
Set up a photo booth.