White Elephant

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas.. Or if you live in Rexburg like we do, it always looks like Christmas.. If the Christmas really is fast approaching, here is a good (and entertaining idea) to help celebrate the holiday. Its called white elephant, and I am sure many of you have heard of it, if not allow me to explain.

Everyone brings a gift (if you're living on the budget that I am it will probably be a recycled pair of socks...) that they put into the middle of the group. Then everyone draws a number that will correspond with the order they get to choose the gift. The person who draws #1 goes first (obviously..) and opens they're gift. Then you keep going in the order that was drawn. However these people have the option to steal the gift of any person before them or to choose a new present to open. This keeps on going until everyone has opened a gift. Usually people set a limit to how many times a gift can be stolen, making the activity a little more tense.