How to Play a Game with Christmas Bows?! Ready for a new holiday tradition to start with your family and friends?
This affordable Christmas game is such fun it can be played with children or adults!
How to Play a Game with Christmas Bows
It is so fun and easy to play. Perfect for big or small family christmas games.
In fact, we are happy to teach you how to play a game with Christmas bows!
It will certainly brighten any grinches mood. At least, we hope.
As a mom and foster mom, you never know when you need to brighten a mood or four around here, and making games like this is great for that.
Before we get started! You must know this is truly one of the easiest DIY games to play, but the ages do matter!
I mention that because when you try to take the tab off the back of the bow, it can be tricky. Sometimes time-consuming for some.
Little ones, such as toddler age, would have trouble with that.
Perhaps you could either have the sticky tabs removed or add tape to the back of the bow before starting the activity.
However, the game’s object makes it fun, too, because you race to see who gets the most bows on the opponent’s back.
As a result, you can play it at a Christmas party, a holiday PTO event, in a classroom, or at church!
We personally played it in our backyard!
It was so fun, and we laughed so hard that we will play with family and friends at a holiday party next!
What you will need to Play
Christmas Bows (Check Amazon’s price here!)
Christmas Shirt (This shirt is optional but fun)
What is a game with Christmas bows?
It’s a fun DIY game that you can play at Christmas time.
It allows you to enjoy celebrating the holidays, gifts, Santa, and entertainment!
And something we came up with for a family fun activity and a free Christmas game.
Tip: Make a game out of it for a birthday, Valentine’s day, or another special occasion too.
Just pick the colors that would most likely go with the party theme or design.
For example, on Valentine’s Day, you may want to choose silver, red, pink, and white bows.
Rules of How to Play a Game with Christmas Bows
Now that you know what, you need to play the game. Simply Christmas bows & players! How awesome is that?
Get ready for the easy rules, lol.
To start, you will need at least 2-4 players (or more).
Next, put a minute on the clock!
One player will need to have a bag of bows, and the other player will need to have their back turned.
For example, in the photo below.
Lastly, you have one minute to fill the back of the shirt with as many Christmas bows as possible.
The player with the most bows on the opponent’s shirt back within a minute wins the game!
In addition to racing your opponent, you could have someone from the sidelines tossing bows to be silly. Then, if you catch them, you could use them on the shirt.
We had a fun time playing it! Even Dad jumped in for fun!
Minute to Win it Christmas Games
This other Minute to win it Christmas game idea includes 4 players and two teams.
However, this way, you could either put a minute on the clock or have the same amount of bows (for example, this 120 gift bows bag). ⬅️Do you think that’s a good deal for bows?
Whichever racer fills the shirt up with the quickest time will win a cool prize!
Perhaps, if you don’t have any decoration bows but have a printer?
We give you a free printable with Christmas bows on it. The bows are gold for added fun!
Just click and print the printable. Then, cut the bows out and add tape. That’s it!
Favorite Holiday Games
We hope you enjoy stumbling upon this favorite holiday game idea! It will work for easy Christmas games for kids at school or Christmas party games and activities for family and friends!
We had fun playing this game, and we hope you do too!
Gift Bows Games
The best part is we have more games centered around the holidays and gift bows!
We hope you enjoy these holiday games with your family and friends! Please don’t forget to sign up for our email and follow us on Pinterest for more great ideas!
Stick more bows on people’s backs than your opponent.
I have never played this! I think this would be perfect for my kids’ school parties. Thank you
Hi Jody,
You are very welcome! Thank you so much for stopping to see the game. I hope you find many more game ideas that fit your needs. 🙂
This is absolutely adorable. Every Christmas my kids and my nephews raid the house looking for cool crafts and games we can play with after dinner. We usually end up making our own games. It’s always fun no matter what – but this is actually brilliant. We can utilize the bows we already have or just bring our left over bows (which we always have). Such a great idea. The kids will love it!
Awe. Thank you so much, Deb! I am so glad it gave you a fun idea to do with your children and nephews. Yay! I hope you all have a wonderful time playing this game! 🙂
So cute! Love this simple and fun idea! And festive too! 😉
Thank you! 🙌🎅😊
This game sounds so easy and fun..! It is just a matter of speed to win the game. It’s definitely for all ages. Gotta try this.
It is definitely easy and fun! We had a really good time playing it. 🙂 The kids loved it!!! 🙂
This is a cute game. Husband so wouldn’t play but his uncle would haha.
LOL. It is a lot of fun. 🙂
This looks like fun! Do you have any idea about how many bows are used in a minute? Trying to figure out how many bows would be needed for a school party?
Thank you so much, Lisa! 🙂 In one minute our average was about 10 bows with peeling the tabs off the back of the bow. However, if you want to reuse the bows or already have the tabs pulled off the back. The average was around 22. I’d love to hear if you beat our score. 🙂 This game is a lot of fun. Thank you for stopping in and trying our idea.