Easy Games For Home Holiday Parties

This holiday season, let TeamBuilding ROI help make your gatherings unforgettable with these easy games for home holiday parties ! These easy activities are perfect for holiday gatherings or family events, these simple yet engaging games and challenges are guaranteed to bring laughter and fun to any occasion.

Some games require no equipment at all, while others need just a few easy-to-find items—but all are quick to set up, simple to explain, and an absolute blast to play.

Whether you’re looking for lighthearted icebreakers or lively team challenges, we’ve got something for everyone to enjoy. Make your holiday celebrations more fun, meaningful, and memorable with these creative ideas from TeamBuilding ROI — because nothing brings people closer together like shared joy and a little friendly competition!

Easy Games For Home Holiday Parties from TeamBuilding ROI

that just need pen and paper

Win Loose Or Draw

Win Loose or Draw is a fantastic is one of our Easy Games For Home Holiday Parties. Playing Win, Lose, or Draw at home with your family is a fantastic way to spark laughter and creativity! The game is simple, and you only need a few items to get started: paper, markers or pens, and a timer.

Divide into two teams and take turns having one player from each team draw a word or phrase from a pre-made list. The catch? They can only draw pictures—no letters, numbers, or talking allowed! Their team has a set time, usually one minute, to guess what they’re drawing.

If they guess correctly, the team earns a point. The game continues until all the phrases are guessed, and the team with the most points wins! It’s easy to set up, fun to play, and perfect for bringing everyone together during family gatherings. Win, Lose, or Draw is sure to create hilarious moments and lasting memories for everyone involved!

The Match Game

Another option for Easy Games For Home Holiday Parties. Is The Match Game.

Playing The Match Game at home is a fun and easy way to add game-show excitement to your next holiday gathering! All you need is a list of creative fill-in-the-blank questions, like “My favorite thing to do at home is BLANK,” and some paper and pens for everyone.

One player acts as the contestant, and everyone else writes down what they think the contestant will say to fill in the blank. Once everyone has written their guesses, the contestant reveals their answer verbally, and you see how many matches you get!

This game is hilarious and insightful, especially if you know your guests well—it’s always fun to see how in sync you are. But, if you don’t know everyone as well, it’s a fantastic way to learn more about each person through their unique answers. Easy to set up and guaranteed to entertain, The Match Game is the perfect game-show-style activity to bring laughter and connection to your holiday celebration!

The TeamBuilding ROI Virtual Game Show for your home holiday parties

The TeamBuilding ROI Virtual Game Show is the ultimate way to bring family and friends together, no matter where they are! This exciting experience combines the best of Win, Lose, or Draw, The Match Game, a Jeopardy-style quiz board, and the classic fun of Family Feud—all in one event.

With the addition of a laptop along with paper and pen for each player and our energetic host leading the way, you’ll dive into four thrilling games that guarantee laughter and connection. Whether you’re guessing answers, drawing hilarious clues, competing in trivia, or battling it out in survey challenges, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.

It’s the perfect addition to any family gathering, blending friendly competition with unforgettable fun. Let TeamBuilding ROI turn your next virtual get-together into an engaging and memorable event!

The TeamBuilding ROI Virtual Game Show: https://teambuildingroi.com/programs/virtual-game-show/

Games with a minimal equipment for your home holiday parties

Tilt A Cup

Bring this easy game for your home holiday parties to life. Tilt A Cup requires some ping-pong balls, 6 cups per team and some table space per team.

Each team will elect one player to be the catcher and stand on the other side of the table with the cups. The rest of your team will bounce balls off the table at the catcher. The catcher will attempt to catch the ball in the empty cup, then they will stack another cup on top of the ball so the empty cup is on top and ready for the next pong ball.

You repeat this process and there will eventually be a long slinky of cups, making the 5th and 6th ball very difficult to catch.

A ball in the 6th cup wins this race!

We use this simple, yet fast paced challenge at our TeamBuilding ROI Global Games, and 60 Seconds To Success events

Faulty Towers

Faulty Towers is cup stacking taken to the extreme! All you need is 12 plastic cups per team. We prefer the mini solo cups, since it does add a level of difficulty to the challenge.

One at a time you will stack the cups right on top of each other until you have two towers of 6 cups each. Some cups will be upright and some will be upside down, depending on the placement of the previous cup.

This is a fun race that is much more difficult than standard cup stacking and is an easy game for your home holiday party!

We like to use this challenge at our TeamBuilding ROI Charity Bike Builds and Game Show Roundup events!

Chopstix

For this stacking challenge you will need 8 dice, one set of chopsticks and one playing card for the landing pad per team.

This is a simple game where the goal is to stack two towers of 4 dice each using the chopsticks to pick up each dice.

While this is the game that takes the most equipment, it is the simplest to explain and play!

We like to use this game at our TeamBuilding ROI Food Truck Challenges and our TBROI Robot Rally.

Leaning Tower

All you need for leaning tower is a set of balloons (15 at least) and a roll of scotch tape per team.

Each team simply tries to build the tallest tower out of their 15 balloons. If they pop any balloons, they do not get to replace them. Your tower also must stand on its own. So if your tower falls over, it is only as tall as it stands while on its side.

So this easy game for your home holiday parties has more strategy than it might first appear!

This game is uses at our TeamBuilding ROI Team Cantina Event as well as our Can You Build It For Charity… Mini Golf Challenge!

Enjoy all of these easy games at your next holiday party!