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Play Christmas Plastic Wrap Game at your next holiday party! Below is the step by step tutorial with video instructions and Plastic Wrap Game Rules.

The holidays are great time to get together with friends and family. There is always laughing, lots of food, and of course fun games to play!

This Christmas party game was a lot of fun. We played it with a small group of teenagers. But the game could easily be adapted for players of all ages, group sizes, or celebration. This game would be great for birthday parties!

Handmade Christmas Game Ideas:

Handmade games are the best! They are inexpensive and easy to customize to your party. We have shared a couple other Christmas game ideas as well we thought you might like. Like this Naughty or Nice Christmas Game and this Christmas Gift Exchange Dice Game.

Be sure to look around the blog for more Christmas craft tutorial ideas!

Supplies You’ll Need to Create this Project:

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Plastic Wrap
Scissors
Little Goodies – mine came from the Dollar Tree

christmas goodies used in the plastic wrap game

Craft Tutorial Video:

Where to Buy Christmas Goodies:

All of the little toys and treats purchased for this game came from the Dollar Tree.

They have a great selection of items and makes it so the game isn’t too expensive. Plus several items purchased had more than 1 item in the package so that was split into a couple prizes.

As you are browsing the isles simply think of who will be playing the game and what are they things they may want.

The items also need to be on the smaller side. The largest item we purchased was a bag of cotton candy so that became the main prize.

How to Make the Plastic Wrap Game:

Begin by pulling out a section of plastic wrap.

two rolls of Glad Cling wrap. Any plastic wrap will work

Stretch the end around the main prize. This can be the most expensive, or just the largest, and secure the ends of the plastic wrap around the gift.

Wrap the plastic wrap tightly around the gift several more times, and then with a pair of scissors, cut the plastic wrap off the roll.

cutting the plastic wrap with a pair of scissors

Grab another length of plastic wrap and begin wrapping the previous gift.

Take another prize, continue wrapping and repeat.

adding another prize to the christmas game

Continue wrapping and adding prizes until you have a large ball of prizes!

wrapping a large prize ball with plastic wrap

It is completely up to you how big your prize ball will be, and how many layers of plastic wrap. In fact we wrapped several pieces of plastic wrap with no prize to be funny.

We ended up using about 450 feet of plastic wrap and spent about $30 on prizes and candy.

Plastic Wrap Game Rules:

All players get in a circle.

The older player starts with the prize ball, and the player to the left of that person starts with the dice.

Someone shouts go, and the player holding the prize ball begins to unwrap. Ripping the plastic wrap is not allowed. The player must find the end of the wrap and begin unwrapping.

a group of teenagers in a circle on the floor playing a christmas game

Anything that falls out while that player is unwrapping is theirs to keep.

While the player is unwrapping, the person to the left rolls repeatedly until doubles are rolled.

Once doubles are rolled, everything is passed to the left. The person who had the dice now gets to unwrap the prize ball and the next player to the left gets dice and is trying to roll doubles.

a girl unwrapping the prize ball while another girl rolls dice

This repeats until the prize ball is completely unwrapped and the last prize has been won.

This is such a fun game! Since everything is wrapped in plastic wrap you can see several layers in and it was so funny to see what toys they would get excited about and hoping for.

They also got really intense at the end, and everyone was laughing so hard.

You can see how the game played out by watching the video above!

Christmas Plastic Wrap Game with a pair of oversized dice

When you make and play this Plastic Wrap Game please share a photo! We’d love to see it.

Our Crafting Essentials List:

The Cricut Cutting Machine is easily our favorite crafting tool. We use it in so many of our tutorials!
This Fiskars Paper Trimmer is easy to use and cuts nicely without frayed edges.
These Scotch Precision Scissors cut like a dream and you get multiple pairs in a pack!
Keep those started project supplies organized and separated with Stacking Plastic Baskets. I always work on more than 1 project at a time and these baskets really help me from losing supplies.