Bored games! Free family activities to stop festive fatigue on Christmas Day… and they’re all made of household items

• The best games to play during the holidays, using items you have at home 
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When the roast dinner has been demolished, all the gifts have been opened and everyone’s had their fair share of booze – that familiar time rolls around on Christmas day.

Whether it’s a classic round of Monopoly or a shiny new contraption one of the kids unwrapped that morning, games are a Christmas staple.

However, with Britons feeling the bite of the cost of living crisis a expensive new activity for Christmas day might not be in the budget.

We’ve rounded up some of the best games you can play over the holidays, using things you already already have in the house – meaning you won’t need to spend a penny.

For the first game, dubbed Flour Tower, all you will need is flour, a sweet of your choice and a knife

Flour tower  

For the first game, dubbed Flour Tower, all you will need is flour, a sweet of your choice and a knife.

Simply fill a bowl with flour and pack it down firmly, before flipping the bowl over onto a plate – in the same way you would make a sandcastle.

The flour should come out molded into a round tower shape.

Next, place your sweet of choice on top. 

The aim of the game is to slice parts of the tower off without making it collapse. 

Competitors take it in turns using a knife and you can cut off as little or as much as you like.

The more flour that falls, the smaller the platform for the sweet and the game ends when it falls apart completely.

The loser then has to get messy and fish out the sweet using their mouth. 

Another popular game that makes an appearance on social media every year is ‘Move the marshmallows’

Move the marshmallows  

Another popular game that makes an appearance on social media every year is ‘move the marshmallows’.

All you will need is mini marshmallows, straws and plates – but you can swap out the marshmallows for an alternative like Maltesers if you don’t have marshmallows.

Pour the marshmallows out into the middle of the table, with everyone who’s playing standing around the table.

All players should be equipped with a straw and a plate, with the aim of the game being to transfer as many mini marshmallows to your plate as possible, using the straw.

Set a timer for one minute and whoever has the most marshmallows on their plate at the end wins the game.

Toilet roll race  

The players should sit in a line on the floor with their toilet paper rolled out far across the room

For this game, all you will need are rolls of toilet paper – one for each person who’s playing, and plastic shot glasses with your tipple of choice.

The players should sit in a line on the floor with their toilet paper rolled out far across the room.

At the end of each paper trail, place a plastic shot glass with your drink of choice – you could swap the shots for glasses of wine if you want to make it really difficult.

Once the the organiser says you can start, players should start rolling in their trails.

The first person to successfully roll up their drink to themselves and drink it wins.

If you spill even a tiny amount, the game gets difficult as the toilet paper will get wet and break off, meaning you lose. 

Blow the candles  

For this challenge, you just need a pack of tea light candles and then prizes or drinks for the winners.

You will need to line up about 10 tea light candles in a row down the middle of a table and light them.

Each player will take it in turns standing at the end of line and blowing down the line of candles

Then, next to each candle, place a drink, shot or prize – you can personalise this game based on how you want to play it.

Each player will take it in turns standing at the end of line and blowing down the line of candles.

Whichever candle is the furthest in the line to blow out, the player will get the prize next to it. 

The further away candles are more difficult to blow out, so it might be worth putting the best prizes or best drinks at the end.

If you opt for drinks instead of prizes, you could fill some cups with nice drinks and some with forfeits – or for an added air of mystery, if you choose gifts you can wrap them up so no one will know which candle to aim for.

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