Help! Need Christmas fair activities to do at home

[VelvetChaise]

Unfortunately for some sad reasons we have to miss our school PTA Christmas fair and my kids are devastated.

I’m hoping to create a mini Christmas Faye at home with 1-2 friends. My children are aged 6 and 8, both boys.

Can anyone suggest some fun at home activities we could do?

I’ve thought of:

• cookie decorating
• hot chocolate station
• nerf gun shoot the elf off the wall
• Bauble decorating

ideally they wouldn’t involve buying a load of stuff or too much sugar.

That sounds like loads of good ideas. I think that will do and then watch a Christmas film. Elf? Xxxx

Film is a good idea. Ideally I’d like to have a few more short activities to ‘win’ stamps - at our school fair once you’ve got 10 stamps you choose a small prize and I’d love to recreate that, not just a festive day at home

Pin the nose on Rudolph
Play frozen statues aka musical statues
Use toilet rolls as skittles and make a snowball to knock them down

Misses it, as it’s already been?

Some schools’ Christmas fairs are open to public so you maybe able to go to one at a different school.

attach numbered small envelopes on to a Christmas tree (real/fake or a paper one on the wall) fill with forfeits/small prizes/“stamps”/sweets etc.
draw numbers from a hat to win an envelope.

Bran tub?
Some sort of tombola?
Ours used to always have some sort of hoopla. Usually made by the Yr6s and some sort of Xmas theme.

Yes agree with bran tub or mini tombola

That's sounds amazing, what a lovely mum! The works have lots of little paint your own this and that. And how about a gingerbread house competition... get the adults involved too.

This is such a good idea! I might do this for Christmas Day. A few scratch cards maybe for the winners!

There are heaps of Christmas crafts you can do like paper bag stars, snowflakes, pine cone Christmas decorations. Or you can get some Baker Ross kits.

A gingerbread house making session goes down very well, more expensive than cookies (the Ikea ones are ideal) but the activity will take longer! You could turn it into a competition - then give awards for most sparkly, most sturdy or anything so they all win something?!

Throw bean bags/soft toys/whatever into cardboard boxes for points. Three boxes: 5 points, 10 points, 15 points. 15 points wins one stamp. Or something like that.

Also a treasure box - a hole in the side or top to stick your hand in and pick a prize. Wrap little snacks/fruits/crisp packets etc so they don't know what they're picking.

Make up money (or use monopoly money) to pay for goes.

Hook a duck in the bathtub (yes it'll be easier but it's still fun) or go fishing game if you've got one or can borrow one, for points or prizes.

"Make it snow" game. A player is blindfolded, and has to use a big spoon to transfer cotton wool balls from a bowl into a decorated box containing a small toy. They have to keep doing this to cover the toy in "snow". Other people can give them instructions. They win if they manage to do it in a certain number of scoops, or in a certain time. It's tricky because you can't feel the cotton balls in the spoon.

Another one is: someone is told to have a good look at their own clothes, then they are blindfolded, and have to answer questions about them. The questions should be easy at first, such as "name something on your Christmas jumper". The fun is thinking of trickier questions, such as "how many buttons on your shirt"? Those asking the questions get points for the ones answered wrongly.

I would do this. Try to go to one at another local school on a different day.

Lucky dip was always a favourite
craft is great
fair type games like beanbag throwing, ring throwing etc (whatever you already have)
Making Christmas cards for close relatives?

Some kind of nod to school band/singing carols? Maybe they have to do the singing?!

It’s lovely you are doing this.

I love the shoot the Elf idea.

My kids made little bead and pipe cleaner candy canes many years ago at a fair. We still use them on the tree.

All you need is red and white pony beads and some white, red, or green pipe cleaners. You string alternating red and white beads on the pipe cleaner and then bend it into a J shape.

Love the make it snow idea. So simple!

Assemble their own hot dogs for dinner?