How to host a Christmas ornament exchange party

This article will give you the steps to throw a great holiday party that your friends will be asking about year after year.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• wrapped Christmas ornament
• food and beverage
• guests

1. First: make a guest list of 6-12 people and send out invitations

2. Second: Plan the food and beverage list. You can do some simple appetizers and a nice holiday cocktail.

3. Third: Dig out your Christmas music for the day of the party. You can have this as background music before and during the party.

4. The rules: Everyone is asked to bring a wrapped ornament around a $10 value. Put all the packages in the middle of the room. Write up slips numbered with the amount of guests attending, fold and put in a hat or bowl to draw. Guests will draw numbers. The person with #1 will go first. They select a gift from the middle, open it and show everyone what they get. The person with #2 may either take the gift from #1 that is opened or select a wrapped gift from the middle. If #2 selects the gift from #1, then #1 will select a new gift from the middle to open. The person who has #3 can select an opened gift from #1 or #2 or an unopened one from the middle. This will continue until everyone has had a chance to select a gift.

5. Lastly- offer some food and drink and enjoy the evening.

Tips & Warnings

• If you want to save some money ask everyone to bring an ornament and an appetizer to share.
• Tell guests to wrap their gifts fancy to intrigue people to select theirs first.
• you can also include a toys for tots collection with your party