If you're like me, Christmas is your favorite holiday, and you're always a little sad on December 26th to see it go. This year, keep the spirit alive just a little longer by hosting a Day After Christmas Party for your friends and family!
I think the best main theme of a Day After Christmas Party is starting the countdown until the next year's Christmas. Display countdown timers (accurate to minutes and seconds) on computer monitors (you can easily find several free options online), or make a more low-tech version out of construction paper, which you adjust every hour to indicate one hour less to wait until the start of the next December 25th.
If 364 days is too long to wait, another option is to celebrate the ongoing current holiday season with a Twelve Days of Christmas theme. Assign every guest a day and have them bring food or presents to distribute that coincides with their assigned day. For example, your "Second Day of Christmas" guest might bring sugar cookies in the shapes of doves (harkening the song lyric "two turtle doves") and gifts of pairs of gloves (to represent the number two). A guest assigned the "Eighth Day of Christmas" could bring foods and drinks heavy in milk ingredients (such as egg nog or hot chocolate), and dress as a French maid. ;)
Another great idea is to have a Leftovers Party to avoid rotten or wasted food. Have your guests bring leftover dishes from previous Christmas parties or meals and have a big potluck. This is also a great way to get rid of edible gifts you may have received that you know you're never going to eat - maybe a well-meaning coworker gave you some peanut brittle (not knowing you have a nut allergy), or stockings full of candy (not knowing your New Year's Resolution for 2013 is to cut back on sweets), or maybe you just received way too many Christmas cookies to eat all by yourself. Whatever the reason, share these unwanted gifts with your guests to help clear out your kitchen and satisfy their hunger!
You can even take this one step further and have a white elephant gift exchange, where each guest brings a gift or two that they received over the holidays that (for whatever reason) they don't want. One person's trash can be another person's treasure! :)
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I think the best main theme of a Day After Christmas Party is starting the countdown until the next year's Christmas. Display countdown timers (accurate to minutes and seconds) on computer monitors (you can easily find several free options online), or make a more low-tech version out of construction paper, which you adjust every hour to indicate one hour less to wait until the start of the next December 25th.
If 364 days is too long to wait, another option is to celebrate the ongoing current holiday season with a Twelve Days of Christmas theme. Assign every guest a day and have them bring food or presents to distribute that coincides with their assigned day. For example, your "Second Day of Christmas" guest might bring sugar cookies in the shapes of doves (harkening the song lyric "two turtle doves") and gifts of pairs of gloves (to represent the number two). A guest assigned the "Eighth Day of Christmas" could bring foods and drinks heavy in milk ingredients (such as egg nog or hot chocolate), and dress as a French maid. ;)
Another great idea is to have a Leftovers Party to avoid rotten or wasted food. Have your guests bring leftover dishes from previous Christmas parties or meals and have a big potluck. This is also a great way to get rid of edible gifts you may have received that you know you're never going to eat - maybe a well-meaning coworker gave you some peanut brittle (not knowing you have a nut allergy), or stockings full of candy (not knowing your New Year's Resolution for 2013 is to cut back on sweets), or maybe you just received way too many Christmas cookies to eat all by yourself. Whatever the reason, share these unwanted gifts with your guests to help clear out your kitchen and satisfy their hunger!
You can even take this one step further and have a white elephant gift exchange, where each guest brings a gift or two that they received over the holidays that (for whatever reason) they don't want. One person's trash can be another person's treasure! :)
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