Christmas cracker question cards

Print, cut along the dashed lines, roll each card up and slip it into a cracker or under a plate. After the crackers are pulled, everyone answers their card and passes the question on by name.

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How to play

Cracker Questions

  1. Roll one card into each cracker or put it under a plate.
  2. Answer yours in under a minute.
  3. Pass it on by name: "Same question, Auntie Jo."
  4. One pass each: swap your card for the joke.
Grandparents

What did Christmas look like when you were ten?

Grandparents

What was in your stocking as a child?

Grandparents

Which Christmas do you remember best, and why that one?

Grandparents

What did your family eat on Christmas Eve back then?

Grandparents

Was there a Christmas when everything went wrong?

Grandparents

What did Mum (or Dad) want for Christmas when they were little?

Parents, aunts, uncles

What's one Christmas tradition from your childhood you dropped, and one you kept?

Parents, aunts, uncles

Best present you ever gave someone.

Parents, aunts, uncles

What's the most ridiculous thing you've done to get a present in time?

Parents, aunts, uncles

If you could skip one part of Christmas and double another, which ones?

Parents, aunts, uncles

Which Christmas song do you secretly love?

Parents, aunts, uncles

What's the best thing that happened to you this year that we don't know about?

Teens

Which Christmas film is overrated? Which one is underrated?

Teens

If you designed the Christmas menu, what goes and what stays?

Teens

What's the best present you could get for under ten pounds or dollars?

Teens

What are you watching or playing over the break?

Teens

Which family tradition would you keep when you have your own place?

Teens

Rank the Christmas foods on this table.

Kids

If Father Christmas needed a day off, who here should take his job?

Kids

What would a reindeer want for Christmas?

Kids

Which present would you give to the dog (or cat)?

Kids

If you could add one new rule to Christmas, what would it be?

Kids

Which grown-up here would be the worst elf?

Kids

What's the best thing you made or learned this year?

Newcomer or guest

Presents on the 24th or the 25th in your family?

Newcomer or guest

What's a Christmas food from home you'd miss today?

Newcomer or guest

Is there a tradition from your family you'd want to try here?

Newcomer or guest

What did you expect today to be like, honestly?

Newcomer or guest

If you don't usually celebrate, what's the holiday you'd be at instead?

Newcomer or guest

How did you two meet? We've only heard one version.

Whole table

One word for your year. Go round.

Whole table

Best and worst Christmas present of all time.

Whole table

What's a small thing someone at this table did this year that helped you?

Whole table

Which Christmas in this family would make the best film, and who plays whom?

Whole table

What's one thing you'd like to learn or try next year?

Whole table

If this family had a Christmas tradition nobody else does, what is it?