Buddy loves to play games, so I decided to add “play a Christmas game” to our advent chain this week. (Read more about our activity advent chain here.) But I knew that I wanted an easy, low prep game, since the week before Christmas is always very busy. When I saw a Santa hat cup game on Lalymom’s blog, I knew it would be perfect.
This game is so easy and fun! I pulled out some miniture plastic cups that I bought awhile ago and some pom pom balls. Buddy loves playing with pom poms, so he was super excited to see them. The game is simple to play. You put a cup down and add a pom pom to the top to be the ball of the hat. Then the next person puts down his or her cup and pom. If your hat knocks down the tower, you lose. We have large tweezers in the bag with the poms, so we decided to use that to put the pom poms on the cups.
After we played our game, Buddy wanted to play with the cups and pom poms. He made “pies” by putting the poms in the cups. Then he had a lot of fun serving them.
This was a fun, seasonal game. We won’t play it year round, but I know we’ll try it again next December.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours! I hope you have a wonderful and restful holiday.
