We began the party with crossword puzzles and word search puzzles. They competed as teams to see which group could complete the puzzle first. Look at the intensity with which they played!
The table that found the most words won candy bars!
Then we played Pinoy Henyo. We have never seen a group of people have so much fun trying to guess words!
Then we had a White Elephant exchange. It was humorous to see people's reactions as they opened their gifts and found all sorts of strange, cute and funny gifts.
After the games, they sang some Christmas songs. One fun song was "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Each table (or two) represented one of the days and would stand up sing the part for the day and do some action they made up. It kept getting more and more creative each time. We had a good time laughing at some of their ideas!
After the
final game, we sang a few Christmas songs and then Santa, Mrs. Claus and
four elves appeared. They brought projects that the missionaries could
work on to help provide a New Year's Party for some homes for orphans.
While most of them worked on the projects, each District got their
picture taken with Santa and Mrs. Claus...and their elves.
