Ideas for a fun christmas with family, kids 18 years plus

[LittleBookofCalm]

can we have some unusual fun ideas?

Christmas piñata
Have a large 3D jigsaw puzzle on the go. Last year we had a 3d Hogwarts Castle puzzle.
Get mini remote control cars and build a large track around the dining/sitting room to race them. When we did this we used cardboard to make ramps up onto the dining room table and down again the other side!
Have a gingerbread house competition.
Collect old wrapping paper and kitchen roll tubes to make an epic marble run.
Strawberry shoe lace race: competitors put one end of a strawberry shoelace between their lips and then put their hands behind their back. Somebody else shouts go and all competitors race to get the shoelace into their mouth without using their hands.
After Eight Race: similar to the shoelace race but start with an After Eight on forehead and it's the first player to get it in the mouth.
Cook the Christmas dinner on the BBQ.
Make and fill your own crackers. We get one of those cracker kits which come with the snapper, hats and jokes but you have to buy the little presents and then assemble them yourselves. We do it Secret Santa style - everyone draws a name and has a £5 limit.
Smarties race: Give each player two small bowls and a straw. Fill one of the bowls with small sweets like Skittles or Smarties and leave the other one empty. On the count of three, players must suck the sweets onto the end of their straw, and transfer them to the other bowl. You can either put a time limit on the game, whereby the player get to keep all the sweets they have transferred when the timer stops, or you could have a race to see who empties their bowl the fastest. If you are planning the race version, make sure everybody has the same amount of sweets in their bowl to begin with!
Balloon shaving: Give everyone a balloon and marker pen. They now have two minutes to draw a face on their balloon, and then apply shaving cream over it. Then give everyone a plastic knife for their razor. On ‘Go’, players now shave their balloon – only without popping it. The first person to do that is the winner.

Ricekrispie you are a genius

Awesome ideas thank you Ricekrispie

I came on to say that if everyone involved is an adult, then surely you can just relax and do what you all fancy, but I take it all back and now I want to play Christmas games with Ricekrispie & co. Room for one extra?

Fabulous list! It’s almost making me wish that the dc were older.

We have DS (19 in December) and DD (16)

I bought some 'Cards Against Humanity; , DS looked and said "I;m not playing this with my Mother "

We do pub lunches (nice near Christmas to be near a pub fireplace)
Late night shopping
We're all going to see "The Play That Went Wrong"

I really do miss the Christmases when they were little but we don;t get the 5am wake-up call

I like the After Eight game !
We've played the Guess Who game with the Post-It note on the forehead, that gets really silly