Coolest Winter & Christmas Party Ideas

Throw on something warm and get ready for the coolest Winter & Christmas party ideas.

You can transform these ideas into a winter theme birthday party, fun Christmas party for kids, and even use many of the ideas for a grownup Christmas party.

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There are all sorts of cool Winter & Christmas party ideas and shapes for invitations. For instance, a Christmas tree, star, gingerbread man, reindeer antlers, candy cane, stocking, etc.

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Create a cool stocking invitation by cutting out and gluing a stocking-shaped envelope. Decorate it with Christmas designs (there are lots of stamps you can use such as snowman, candy cane, etc.) Once the stocking envelope is ready, prepare a red or green card to put inside. Write with a silver pen something like:

"Twas just before Christmas and all through the (your family name) house there was lots of excitement. but it wasn't a mouse. It's time to celebrate as (child's name) turns (child's age). Santa is coming, with Rudolph and elves - so make sure you all come and join us yourselves."

A winter party invitation can be in the shape of an igloo, snowman, snowflake, snowball, etc. Add white glitter for sparkle or cotton for "puff", and enclose snow-like confetti.

A cool idea is to draw (or find pictures and clipart) of snomwen. Cut out the birthday child's face from a picture, and then place it on the body of a snowman. Have other snowmen in the picture, and the invitation can read: "Guess which snowman is turning two?"

Other Winter & Christmas party ideas for an invitation can include a fun poem like:

I made you a snowball
It was perfect as could be.
And then I scribbled on it
Directions to my party.
I put it in this envelope and
Ran to buy a stamp
But when the mailman came
The envelope was all damp.

For a Winter party (in Florida or California :-), you can write something like: "It may not snow, not even a flake, but one thing's for sure, we'll all eat cake."

Don't forget to snap lots of pictures and after the party you can send the best ones as thank you cards. If it's a Christmas party, one of the coolest Christmas party ideas is to have one of the elders dress up as Santa and get a picture of each child on Santa's lap. Or, you can also use this life-sized Santa cardboard standee that's a great party prop for picture taking.

Ask everyone to come dressed in green and red and when they arrive you can hand out red clown noses or paint noses red to resemble Rudolf. You can also give out reindeer antlers (just take pipe cleaners and put two antlers on a bow), or any of these inexpensive reindeer antlers and holiday hats.

If you really want to get into the winter atmosphere, this Snowflake machine is probably the most original item on the market (especially for those of us who lack snow.). The kids just love it!

You can turn your indoor party area into a frozen lake surrounded by snow-covered hills. Cover the furniture with white sheets for the hills. Use Styrofoam packing peanuts or cotton batting for snow. Then tape clear plastic garbage bags to the floor for the frozen lake. For more Winter & Christmas party ideas for indoor decorations, take a look at some extravagant Winter wonderland scene settings.

You can disperse jingle bells all around the party area or put bowls full of jingle bells on the table so that everyone can jingle!

To make an indoor igloo ball pit, build a tent inside the house and cover it with a white sheet. Decorate the inside with Christmas or snow-related decorations and throw white balls inside (Styrofoam balls or packing peanuts work well). You can also use a Kiddie pool for this.

Decorate the party area with hanging snowflakes cut out of white cardstock or even simple white paper. Hang red, green silver and gold balloons, and use white batting for snow. These are all great and simple christmas party ideas for decorations.

You can also buy assorted white Styrofoam balls and hang lots of them at different lengths from the ceiling (as if it's snowing...), or just disperse Styrofoam, cotton balls, or even different sized white balloons all over the floor.

Also, cover the windows with paper snowflakes, scatter around Christmas candles, and hang holiday lights inside and outside, on fences, around windows, doors, or anywhere you want to add some charm.

You can even make a snowman out of white balloons. Glue together three different-sized white balloons one on top of the other and give the kids markers (or q-tips with paint) to add the facial and body features. Place the balloon snowman next to the entrance.

More fun Christmas party ideas for decorations can include a North Pole. Cover a large pole with white and red crepe paper and add a sparkly ball on top. Write "Welcome to the North Pole" and place it also next to the entrance. You can decorate your whole party area with candy canes of assorted colors, put them in plant pots, you can give one to each new person that comes, disperse them on the table for more color, hang them with string from the ceiling, etc. Make large cardboard candy canes, peppermint candies, etc. and hang them around the party area.

Hang fun signs all around the party area, such as 'Danger Ice', 'Reindeer Crossing', 'Elves Ahead', etc.

Here's an AWESOME decoration - Make Santa's boot and hang it from the ceiling? Just take an old boot, connect it to some red material (to look like the bottom of pants, and don't forget to sow on some white fluffy material to the end of it so that everyone understands that it's Santa's boot). Then take a piece of white cardboard and cut a plus sign in the middle (two slits that are perpendicular to each other). Then stick the boot into the slit, staple the fabric to the inside of the cardboard and fasten the cardboard to the ceiling. It may sound confusing, but this picture will clear things up.

Below are some of my favorite Winter & Christmas party ideas for Icebreaker activities:

*The 'Original' Ice Breaker Activity: Half fill a milk carton with colored water. Place in the freezer and when partially frozen, drop in various small toys. After this is frozen add another color of water to fill the carton. Again, let it freeze partially and add more toys. This is one of the best Christmas party ideas and the children love to chip and melt the ice to find the hidden treasure as the colors blend, creating new colors.

*Gingerbread House: Let the kids build their own gingerbread house. Provide graham crackers, icing for glue, jellybeans, gum drops, peppermint candies, M&M's and lots of special Christmas candies. Once they are finished place each house in crisp cellophane wrap gathered up top and tied with a bow. It's a great gift to take home and one of the best Christmas party ideas to keep your guests busy.

*Christmas Cookie Decorating: This is one of the kids' favorite Christmas party ideas. Prepare various shaped sugar cookies. Have at least 3-4 cookies for each guest. Set out cans of white frosting and various decorations for the cookies, such as colored sugar sprinkles, mini-marshmallows, mini-chocolate chips, Red Hots, etc. Give the kids popsicle sticks to spread the frosting and make sure to prepare boxes for the kids to take their decorated cookies.

*Snowdough Snowmen: Here's a cool recipe for (inedible) snowdough: 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup salt, 1 cup water, 2 Tbs. Veg. Oil, 1 Tbs. Cream of tartar, 1/3 cup silver glitter, 1/4 cup white powdered tempera paint. Mix all ingredients together. Cook over medium heat, stirring until ball is formed. Knead dough until cool. Provide bowls with bits of cloth, paper, beads, pipe cleaners, felt, etc. Have the guests sculpt their own snowdough snowman and decorate it. You can also provide snowflake, snowman and other winter cookie cutters for the kids to experiment with.

*Snow Globes: You will need little jars (possibly baby food jars). Fill the jar almost to the top with water and stir in a few drops of glycerin (sold at most pharmacies) and 1/2 a teaspoon of glitter, star and moon confetti. What the glycerin does is increases the density of the water and causes the glitter to fall much slower. Now the kids have a great glitter snow globe - one of the best Winter & Christmas party ideas for favors.

*Decorating Favor Bags: Get the kids to make their own favor bags. Provide small brown lunch bags and using clean cookie cutters cut out sponges in the shape of the cutters! The kids dip the sponges in paint and decorate their bags. You can also make a snowflake print out a bell pepper cut in half. Or, you can have the kids finger paint designs onto their bags with green and red paint. Another one of the coolest christmas ideas is to dip shaped cookie cutters in PVA glue, make a print and sprinkle with glitter.

*Jingle Bell Jewlery: Prepare a few bowls of Jingle Bells and precut lengths of very thin satin ribbon in red, green and gold. Have the guest create a jingle bell necklace or bracelet by adding a few bells to their ribbon and jumping a few times to make sure their bells ring just right! This'll add lots of jingles to your party and it's a great favor to take home.

*Reindeers: Each kid can make a reindeer using a candy cane, brown pipe cleaners, wiggly eyes, and a small red pompom nose. (Adults can help by glueing the parts on using low temperature glue guns).

You can make snowball cupcakes and serve with mud and snow (hot cocoa and whipped cream). Homemade doughnuts rolled in powdered sugar can also serve as edible snowballs.

For a Snowman cake: Bake three cakes in round pans of different sizes and place them on a cake board in the form of a snowman. Use white icing. Fashion a top hat with a square cake covered with chocolate icing. Use candies for the face and buttons, twigs for the arms, and sprinkle edible white glitter around the cake for snow.

Spice up traditional sugar cookie recipes with sweet surprises like sprinkles, cinnamon or here's the BEST. crushed candy bars! Just roll the dough in the toppings. You can serve these cookies with a big snowball!! (A scoop of vanilla ice cream - make these "snowballs" ahead of time and place them in the freezer to harden and maintain their shape).

Put little signs besides the foods below so your guests appreciate the creative Winter & Christmas party ideas for food they're eating.

*Snowman Face Pizza - Covered with cheese and olives for the facial features
*Ice chips - Tortilla chips
*Reindeer Droppings - Chili con Carne
*Elf Soup - Prepare with miniature pasta shapes
*Snowman Face Crackers (cream cheese with olives for face)
*Pigs in a blanket (because pigs need those blankets in cold winter weather.)
*Rudolf's nose - meatballs in tomato sauce

*Santa Juice - One bottle of 7UP or Sprite, one carton of Raspberry sherbet, and one can of frozen lemonade (no water added). Just mix and serve, no ice needed! This looks great in a clear punch bowl.
*Polar Ice Cap - You'll need Blue Kool-Aid (prepare as directed), ginger ale, vanilla ice cream, clear glasses and straws. Refrigerate the Kool-Aid and ginger ale. Fill a glass almost halfway with the blue Kool-Aid. Add ginger ale almost to the top of the glass. Drop in one big snowball (scoop of vanilla ice cream) and let the kids enjoy their "North Pole" drink with a straw!
*Hot Chocolate
*Snowman Soup - Pour hot chocolate into a cup and add 2 Hershey kisses 1 small candy cane, 3 marshmallow 'snow balls' and 1 ice cube. This is one of the kids' favorite Winter & Christmas party ideas for drinks!
*Hot Apple Cider
*Eggnog
*Christmas Tea - A dainty little bowl of crushed candy canes make for a delicious substitute for sugar. A bowl of white sugar with flecks of red and green sugar is also tempting.
*Snowshake - Milkshake

*Ginger Bread Cookies
*Candy Canes
*S'mores - Use Graham crackers, Hershey candy bars and big marshmallows, and Microwave. YUM-YUM!!
*Assortment of Christmas candies
*Rice Krispie Treat Snowballs (include M&Ms for a colorful touch)
*Snow Balls- assorted marshmallows
*Reindeer Antlers - pretzel sticks
*Gumdrops

Here are fun Winter & Christmas party ideas for deserts the kids can take part in making:

*Pancake Snowman: Give the children three circle pancakes of different sizes. They make a snowman. Sprinkle them with powdered sugar. Add mini M&m's for buttons, raisins for eyes, red hots for mouth, etc. Then eat!

*Snowballs: Using vanilla ice cream, make "snowballs" ahead of time and place in the freezer to harden and maintain their shape. Then place a variety of different toppings on the table, such as sprinkles, nuts, mini-chocolate chips, and coconut, and allow the children to put whatever toppings they want on a small plate. They then roll their "snowballs" around in the toppings.

*Banana Blizzards (serves about 10 children) blend together one cup cold milk with two or three bananas in a blender. Ask the children to count aloud as you add ten snowballs (scoops of vanilla frozen yogurt) to the blender. Then invite the children to turn the blender on and off again to create the blizzard.

*Peanut Butter Snowballs - You'll need 1 small jar of peanut butter, dry milk, honey and shredded coconut. Empty the jar of peanut butter into a bowl. Add 1 to 2 TBS. of honey (depending on how sweet you want the mixture to be). Add 1/4 cup of dry milk and mix into the peanut butter. Keep adding small amounts of dry milk until the peanut butter has a "playdough-like" consistency. Have the children roll the peanut butter mixture into balls. Finally, roll the balls into the coconut. The children can also make snowmen and then eat them!

You can use the favor bags created in the icebreaker activities as described above.

Another one of the best Winter & Christmas party ideas for favors is to buy mugs, fill with cocoa and mini marshmallows and wrap in plastic tied with a ribbon. You can even get mugs with the birthday child's picture on it and something saying thanks for coming to the party.

Loot bags can be filled with funtoos, jingle bells, stickers, blowing bubbles, Christmas candy, pencils, erasers, snow stickers, holiday coloring books, snow globes, little bendable snowmen, homemade snowdough (as described in the icebreaker activities), candy canes, etc.

(If you are lucky enough to have snow piling up in your backyard, you've got so many fun Winter & Christmas party ideas for outdoor play: Ride sleds, build snow forts and snowmen, make snow angels, have relay races, pin the carrot on the snowman, obstacle courses, tug of war, and just frolic in the snow.)

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