Christ Birth

Arranging for a Christmas party and do you want your guest’s to have fun? Why not all have full right to have fun and if it is such a special occasion like Christmas than what are you waiting for. Check out some of the games given below:

Game 1: Santa beard: Keep a bowl of balls made of cotton (Sants’s beard) on the table. To Keep a jar of Vaseline too. Make two teams of around 5 members in each. Apply little Vaseline on the chins of all the members. Give some time limit in which they all have to run to the table of the cotton balls and try to stick as many as possible. The same chance is given to the next team. The team which has maximum number of balls or Santa’s beard wins. Take pictures of all the team members as a remembrance. Keep plenty of water and tissue to take off the Vaseline later on.
Game 2: Packing Santa’s Bag:
This game tests the IQ and memory of the contestants. This game is meant for small group who prefer quiet game. The game is known as packing Santa’s bag. one person starts by saying “I packed Santa’s bag and I put socks”, the other person will say “I packed Santa’s socks and pajamas, it goes on in this way adding one by one things and mentioning. In case if somebody misses out any single item, then you are out.

Game 3: Scavenger Hunt Game:
Playing game should be full of fun. To remind the guests their childhood, play the scavenger hunt game. You can have four people in a team. List of items that the guests need to find should be made. It can be anything from a particular color string, or a particular type of jewelry. Play game creatively and have fun. Finding such interesting things brings back the childhood. As this game is played in team they become friends with other guests.

Game 4: Hershey’s Kisses
One of the most popular game is Hershey’s kisses. Two teams with two bowls of kisses at the end of the room. Each team member wear the gloves which are oversized. The team members have to run to the end of the room where kisses are kept, wearing the gloves have to open the kisses and eat it. The team which eats the most wins. The team members not only have fun but also get to eat the kisses.

Christmas in South Africa is during summer. As the season is hot, during these holidays, people go on beaches and mountains to celebrate. Christmas celebration involves singing carols and participation in processions. School being closed for the Christmas holiday, activities like swimming and camping begins.

For Christmas, homes are decorated with pine branches and Christmas fir with white cotton wool on it to denote it as snow. Presents for the children are kept either under the Christmas trees or in the stockings hung specially for this purpose.

Family and friends are invited for the special feast of Lunch and traditional dinner, which includes varieties of mouth-watering delicacies.

To have fun, people either visit beaches to enjoy the cool swim in this hot season or just gather at the town square and march and sing to get into the Christmas spirit.

Ethiopia has a unique way to celebrate Christmas festival. In Ethiopia, it is celebrated on 7th January the day when Christians commemorate the revelation of Jesus to humanity, i.e., Epiphany. On Christmas Eve, many people take part in the procession moving towards the capital city of the country. These people moving about in dark pray, chant, and while religious service present a colourful sight on Christmas morning.

As Africa is not a very developed country, the celebrations are for short duration compared to other developed countries. Christmas being during hot season, people enjoy their meals in a lawn under the shades of tree and not on a formal setting of table and chairs.

Practical items like cloth, pencils, sweets, books etc. are used as exchange gifts for Christmas. People being comparatively poor cannot afford to give costly gifts but still they want to surprise their family and friends so they use these thoughtful things, which will be used by them. Africans traditionally have a very strong pervasive aspect of humbleness and humility, this aspect shows in their celebration of Christmas too.