Family Christmas Minute-to-Win-it

This year we decided to try some fun family time for Christmas. We played a few Minute-to-Win-it challenges together. Our family has a large age difference, so we tried to choose games that would be equally challenging for each of all.

Deck the Halls

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• Cardboard Tube
• Ruler
• 6 Christmas Ornaments

Directions:

1. You have just 1 minute to…
2. place the ruler across the upright standing cardboard tube. Be sure that the ruler is smack in the middle so there is the same distance on each side of the tube.
3. Then hang all 6 ornaments on the ruler (3 ornaments on each side of the tube).

Jingle Run

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• 18 Jingle Bells
• 18 Cups
• Empty Cup (across the room)

Directions:

1. Place a bell under each cup and spread them out on the table.
2. Place an empty cup several feet away. (We put ours in the living room behind us).
3. You have just 1 minute to…
4. uncover 1 jingle bell at a time and run it to the empty cup across the room.
5. Place the bells in the cup one at a time.

Jingle Bell Race

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• Straws
• Masking Tape
• Jingle Bells

Directions:

1. Spread out the jingle bells on 1 end of the table and place a line using masking tape across the other end of the table.
2. In under a minute…
3. use the straw to blow the bells across the table across the tape line.

Snowman Slide

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• Plastic Cups (with snowman faces)
• Balloons

Directions:

1. Arrange the snowman cups at one end of the table.
2. In less than 1 minute…
3. players stand at the end of the table and slowly release air from a balloon to knock the snowman cups off the other end of the table.

Snow Fall

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• White Balloons

Directions:

1. Players keep one hand in their pocket and try to keep two white balloons up in the air for one minute.
2. You can adjust the difficulty of this challenge by adding or taking away a balloon.

Candy Suck

Materials:

• 1 minute timer
• M&M’s
• Straws
• Plates

Directions:

1. Player needs 2 plates with 10 M&M’s on one plate.
2. In less than 1 minute…
3. Use the straw to suck up the M&M’s, one at a time and place them on the second plate.
4. Try to get all of the M&M’s to the second plate in less than a minute.
5. You can adjust the difficulty of this challenge by adding or taking M&M’s.

North Pole Pop

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• White Balloons
• Mittens

Directions:

1. Player puts on mittens and has 1 minute to pop the balloon. (It’s much harder than is sounds.)

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• Hershey’s Kisses

Directions:

1. Each player needs 6 Hershey’s Kisses.
2. Players place one hand behind their back.
3. In less than 1 minute player opens all of the Kisses with one hand.
4. You can adjust the difficulty of this challenge by adding or taking Kisses.

Christmas Tree Stack

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• Green Plastic Cups

Directions:

1. In less than 1 minute…
2. players stack up a pile of cups like a pyramid.
3. Then place them back into a single stack.

Here is our Thanksgiving Minute to win it post