There are many different variations of the gift exchange at Christmas. This is the most common one for me.

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Youth Ideas:
Christmas Gift
Exchange #1
There are many different
variations of the gift
exchange at Christmas.
This is the most common
one for me.
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Materials
A gift from each
participant. Each person
brings a wrapped
unmarked gift. You may
choose a cost limit or
have them bring a white
elephant gift.
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How gifts are exchanged
A. Everyone sits in a circle and
the gifts are placed in a pile in
the middle. Write numbers
from 1-??, depending on the
number of gifts, on small
pieces of paper. Do not
number the gifts. Fold the
papers and place them in a
hat or some other container.
Each person randomly picks a
paper (number) from the hat.
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B. Start with the person
holding number “1″. He/she
picks a gift and opens it. Then
the person holding number
“2″ can either pick a gift from
the pile or take the gift away
from number one. If a person
has his gift taken away, he
may immediately choose an
unopened gift from the pile
and open it.
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C. “3″ can either take a gift
from numbers 1 or 2 or
pick one from the pile to
open.
D. There is no limit on the
number of gifts one
person can open if others
continue to take the gift
they have opened.
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E. Each gift can only
change hands three times
through out the game. The
person with the gift on the
third exchange keeps it.
F. Each person ends up
with only one gift. A
person may end up with
the same gift they brought.
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Variation
Play the game without
opening the gifts till the end
when everyone has a gift in
hand and all the exchanging is
over.
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