My husband and I attended our church’s Christmas party and they had a Chinese Gift Exchange. It was a lot of fun. Here are the rules:
1. Every person brings a wrapped gift of the same cost (it’s a good idea for some to bring an extra wrapped gift, in case someone forgets or doesn’t know to bring one). At our party, they set the gift cost at a minimal . You could even pick to do gifts that don’t cost anything… Like handcrafted gifts, or trinkets you would like to pass on, being sure that they are nice and would be appreciated… No junk allowed. The main thing is to try and keep values the same.
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2 arrange all the gifts in a central area, being sure there is enough gifts for Every person there.
3. Count how many habitancy are there; if there are 18 people, estimate 18 slips of paper 1-18 and place them in a bag.
4. Have someone bring the bag of numbered slips of paper nearby to each someone and have them draw one estimate from the bag.
5. To start the exchange, have the someone who drew #1 pick a gift and unwrap it. #2 can either take #1′s gift, or pick a wrapped gift to unwrap. The change continues consecutively, each someone being able to take a gift from any former exchangers, or a new wrapped gift until all have gifts. If your gift gets taken, you can then take a new wrapped gift, or take someone else’s, but not the one that was taken away from you. The change continues in this manner until Every person has a gift. Because #1 didn’t have the chance to take a gift from someone else person, they have the choice to change their gift with whatever in the room after Every person has gifts.
6. Any one gift can only be ‘taken’ 3 times. For example, there was a mini Mag-Lite flashlight gift that all the guys wanted. They decided to let the 2nd elderly gentleman keep it, but if it had been taken away from him (3rd time), that someone would have been able to keep it.
This is a lot of fun because of the variety of gifts. Because I knew there were going to be males and females, I looked for a gift that either one would appreciate, however, what makes the game funny is when a male gets a gift that a female would appreciate more, or vice versa. This is what inspires habitancy to take someone else person’s gift and produces lots of laughs! So there really is no need to buy gender definite gifts. Of course, you could imply a non-gender gift rule if you wish, to be sure Every person gets something they like, and it would still be fun.
Have a blessed Christmas!
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