A Christmas home party can be a fun time, especially if it is your first time hosting one.
You can give a Christmas party with a sit down dinner or with a buffet.
Either way your guests will have fun if you relax and have fun. You don’t want your guests going home asking one another if they saw you or talked to you any time during the night.
You want them to say “Did you taste the roast?” or “Did you see her dress, I wonder where she bought it?” This is a sign of a good party. If you want to spend more time with your guests you can have your party catered or you could ask everyone to bring their specialty dish in lue of gifts or wine.
If you want to get your Christmas party catered so you can spend more time with your friends and family, you don’t have to spend a lot and you don’t have to have it all catered. You could ask your friends and family to bring desserts and a few copies of the recipe and only have the main dishes catered. You could even cook a few finger foods for appetizers. Not only does this save money, it also puts more good desserts in your recipe books. You might even want to ask a couple of guests to bring mixed non-alcoholic drinks along with the recipes to add to your bar.
Drinks can fall under different categories from kids punch and eggnog to adult drinks. If you are going to have kids at your party and you are going to have alcoholic drinks, make sure the kids are unable to reach them. You might also want to have the kids’ drinks in easy reach of the kids so that they’re not tempted by the adult drinks. If you are going to serve alcoholic drinks make sure you serve and your guests drink responsibly so that everyone has a good time and no one gets hurt. A good way to make sure this doesn’t happen is to serve non-alcoholic drinks like eggnog, daiquiris, virgin bloody Mary’s and so on.
Games can be fun for everyone. If you want to get to know your guests better play the “What’s your favorite….?” game. One person asks a question like “What’s your favorite food?” and everyone has to answer. It goes around in a circle until everyone has a turn asking a question. You can also play I Spy and Hot Potato with the kids. If there are no kids at the party you could play shots or any other game you can think of.
Another thing you can do at a Christmas party is decorate the Christmas tree. This is usually a family tradition in our house. We play Christmas music and have cookies with hot chocolate. The adults put all the glass ornaments on and the kids put on all the homemade ornaments. With the little kids we make reindeer food and elf nuggets. The elves bring the kids small presents or pajamas on Christmas Eve and leave notes to let the kids know around what time Santa is coming. They love this and can’t wait for the elves every year.
There are many ways to have a Christmas home party but don’t stress out about it. With a little planning and a little effort you can have a really fun party for your friends and family. You can have it catered or have everyone bring a dish or you can cook everything yourself. Either way have fun and be careful, this is supposed to be a time of good will and cheer.