Jell-O Shots for Christmas Parties

Are you planning your Holiday Parties?

Nothing says party like Jell-O shots!!!

Ugly Christmas Party? Tacky Christmas Party?

Here are two awesome ideas for a great ADULT  party!

photos: Joni'sKItchen.blogspot.com and Beauty and the Beard.blogspot.com

"Ugly" and Tacky Christmas Party 2010

 Once again we had our annual Ugly/Tacky Christmas Family Party!

 This is a perfect way to celebrate with your family or friends (or both!)....We had a table set up just for Christmas Cookies and desserts

 Thank You Aunt Jenny for the delicious Cake Pops!

 Once again we wore our Ugly Sweaters

 Now for the ideas to help make your Party Special...

Gift Card Exchange

We had a gift card exchange this year.
We had everyone bring a $25 gift certificate (from anywhere...we asked everyone to be creative), we had a separate exchange for kids and adults.
We drew numbers and made it a "Dirty Santa Game", like a white elephant exchange...that way there was switching and stealing  of the gift cards.

Gag Gift Exchange

We then asked every one to bring a gag gift, and played "dirty Santa" with the gag gifts as well!

Next came a new game....

"Left, Right, Left"

To begin everyone stands in a circle.  I gave out small bags with silly inexpensive gifts inside (i.e. candy, small toys, hand made gifts...), the bags were sealed and everyone wondered what was inside. I then read the story. When I said the word RIGHT, you hand the bag to the right, and when I read the word LEFT, you pass the gift to the left.

Story:

The Right Family Christmas Story Christmas was almost here and Mother RIGHT was finishing the Christmas baking. Father RIGHT, Susie RIGHT, and Billy RIGHT returned from their last minute Christmas errands. "There's not much LEFT to be done," said Father RIGHT as he came into the kitchen. "Did you leave the basket of food at Church?" asked Mother RIGHT? "I LEFT it RIGHT where you told me to," said Billy RIGHT." "I don't have any money LEFT." The hall telephone rang, and Susie RIGHT LEFT to answer it. She rushed back and told the family, "Aunt Tillie RIGHT LEFT a package for us RIGHT on Grandma RIGHT's porch. I'll go over there RIGHT now and get it," she said as she LEFT in a rush. Father RIGHT LEFT the kitchen and brought in the Christmas Tree. By the time Susie RIGHT returned, Mother RIGHT, Father RIGHT, and Billy RIGHT had begun trimming the tree. The entire RIGHT family sang carols as they finished the decorating. Then they LEFT all the presents arranged under the tree and went to bed, hoping they had selected the RIGHT gifts for their family. Now I hope you have the RIGHT present for yourself, because that's all that's LEFT of our story, except to wish you a Merry Christmas, isn't that RIGHT?

We then drew numbers again and let everyone, steal and switch again!

Next we had a Trivia Contest
I found questions on the internet and read the questions and had a silly gift for the winner....Trivia Questions are always a big hit....

 a huge hit was Christmas Snuggies (found on sale last year the day after Christmas!)

 These  are  a couple pictures from the gag gift exchange...Nothing says christmas like suspenders with shot glasses...

the Grand Finale....Kazoos!
Yes, Christmas songs with everyone on Kazoos!

Merry Christmas!!!!

The Ultimate Tacky Christmas Sweater Party (Ugly Christmas Sweater Party)

This party was a huge hit!

There are lots of photos, please enjoy...for other Christmas ideas see side bar under Christmas Ideas!

This is our annual Family Christmas party where all the cousins get together for a gift exchange, (We all like to have Christmas at our own houses Christmas Morning).

Last year everyone was instructed to find the perfect Christmas sweater...
The "Tacky" family photo!

Please note, Grandma and Grandpa shared 3rd Place!

Grandma's sweater lights up! (QVC!!!), and Grandpa found his on Ebay!






Zoie and Thomas won First and Second Place!!!!!





These were the Gifts for the Tacky Christmas Sweater Contest:
Singing, Vacationing Santa, he sings "It's 5 o'clock somewhere...."
2nd place...
3rd place
Decorations made by my daughter at school!

How cute is this milk jug Snoopy!


Cheese Whiz...a must!
Crock Pot Drinks, recipe on next post
Little Debbie Snack cakes where a huge hit!


Pigs in a blanket...nothing says party like these!
Two color jello (so "Tacky"!)
Deviled eggs...

We did have other foods but these were some of the highlights!

This party was so easy to pull together, I used my best Tupperware, and finest paper plates!
We had our Kids gift exchange first...


note the extra cute Martha Stewart kids cooking set...Thanks Aunt Jenny!

Now let the real party begin!

First we had a contest of how "guess how many M&M's in a jar" (I forgot to get a photo)

Next was the "Dirty Santa" Gift exchange.
click here for rules and ideas
We had silly gifts...




The Elvis Popcorn was a big hit!

Elvis Popcorn stolen by Ron!
Next game was fun..

We took a prize (we used a small box of candy), wrap it good, then wrap it in another box, then another, another , another...make it hard to unwrap. Use lots of tape...

You need one dice and oven mitts.

Start rolling the dice, when someone lands a six they have to put on the gloves and open the present, in the meanwhile, everyone else keeps rolling the dice...the next person who gets a six steals the oven mitts and unwraps...winner is the one to finally reach the prize




oven mitts make great gifts!
Tupperware jello mold was another special gift!
This was the yummy leftovers, cheese whiz, cocktail weenies, and ding dongs!

Til next Christmas...

Get those sweaters ready.