This year we did a tradition I’ve done for the last 12 or 13 years. Whenever I do this semi-formal Christmas party, we assign a table number to all the tables: 1-12. Then we do the 12 days of Christmas– but we customize them. Everyone in the room sings the “on the ___ day of Christmas, my true love gave to me” part. Then the corresponding table group stands up and sings/yells their gift. Here’s this year’s 12 gifts list. Sing them to the tune as you read them and it’ll be more fun. I put them in reverse order so you can sing it to yourself just once… 🙂
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
twelve molding fruitcakes
eleven chargers charging
ten hybrids driving
nine pants eemoing
eight ipods shuffling
seven mothers nagging
six blenders blending
five useless things
four lovely togas
three PS3’s
two myspace comments
and a monkey in a palm tree
We also did something new this year. For fun we did a contest of who could make the best “gingerbread” rendition of Mary and Joseph riding on a donkey on their way to the inn out of the supplies we provided in 5 minutes or less. They did it as a table group and it was tons of fun. They still amaze me when we do this kind of stuff with their creativity. (click on the picture above and it’ll get bigger and you can see one of the creations) The supplies were:
- 4 graham crackers
- 10ish toothpicks
- a hand full of skittles and runts candies
- two small bins of colored frosting
- 4 large marshmallows
- a small bin of small marshmallows
- candie sprinkle
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