Can you get your team to say the chosen words in the time limit without using the taboo words?

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Youth
Icebreakers:
Christmas Taboo
Can you get your team
to say the chosen
words in the time limit
without using the
taboo words?
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Materials
1. Taboo Words List. The Taboo
word, in all caps is the word that
the teams will try to guess. Also
included are five supporting
words that the clue giver is not
allowed to say. Print them out
and then cut them apart and
place them in a bag for
participants to draw from.
2. Timer. It can be an hourglass
from a board game, or simply an
egg timer that you can set for a
minute and let it go.
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Game Objective
The point of the game is to
have your teammates guess
the word that is on your
card without saying the
word itself, or several other
key words that are listed on
the card.
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Game Play
1. Split the youth into at
least two teams.
2. One person on each team
gives the clues to a person
on THEIR OWN team who
tries to guess the “taboo
word” within a time limit.
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3. The other team must be
shown the card and insure that
the clue giver doesn’t say either
the “taboo word” or any form of
the supporting words for that
clue. (e.g. If ‘Christian’ is a
supporting word, to use the word
‘Christianity’ is also a violation.) If
the clue giver uses one of the
“taboo” words, the opposing
team gets a point. If the person
guessing the word doesn’t guess
the word within the time limit,
the opposing team gets the
point.
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4. If the word is correctly
guessed the team guessing
the word gets the point and
continues to draw cards until
the time elapses.
5. When the time elapses,
the timer is reset and it’s the
opposing team’s turn to
guess words.
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The Words
ADVENT: Christmas, holiday, December,
date, celebrate
ANGEL: Sky, Heaven, Gabriel, wings,
halo
BETHLEHEM: born, city, stable, birth,
place
BIBLE: scriptures, read, testament,
book, God
BELLS: ring, metal, cup, sleigh, jingle
CANDY: stocking, cane, chocolate,
sweet, dessert
CANDLE: light, burn, wick, wax, melt
CAROLS: songs, sing, house, knock,
music
CHRIST: Jesus, Lord, Redeemer, Savior,
baby
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CHRISTMAS: tree, Santa Claus, holiday,
December, 25
CHRISTMAS EVE: 24, night, presents,
Santa, evening
CHURCH: Christian, service, mass,
worship, Sunday
DECEMBER: cold, Christmas, winter,
Hannukah, month
ELVES: Santa, helpers, toys, workshop,
small
EGG NOG: drink, milk, rum, glass,
celebrate
FRANKINCENCE: wisemen, magi, gift,
myrrh, gold
GABRIEL: Angel, Mary, visit, messenger,
birth
GENEALOGY: ancestor, family, tree,
relative, Luke
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CHRISTMAS TREE: lights, ornaments,
star, decorate, evergreen
GIFTS: presents, surprises, give,
Christmas, children
GINGERBREAD: man, cookie, sweet,
house, dough
GOLD: wisemen, gift, frankincense,
myrrh, metal
HALLELUJAH CHORUS: song, sing,
praise, worship, Handel
HEROD: king, wisemen, Magi, ruler,
baby
HOLLY: Plant, red, berries, green, leaves
INN: hotel, room, stay, stable, innkeeper
IMMANUEL: name, Jesus, God, Christ,
baby
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JESUS: baby, manger, Mary, God, Savior
JOSEPH:
Jesus, father, carpenter, Mary, betrothe
d
JOY:
feeling, emotion, happiness, delight, ti
dings
MANGER:
Jesus, stable, hay, baby, animals
MARY:
mother, Joseph, Jesus, Bethlehem, bab
y
MISTLETOE:
Kiss, tree, plant, tree, berries
NATIVITY:
manger, animals, shepherd, baby, Jesus
NAZARETH:
Christ, Jesus, Joseph, city, childhood
NORTH POLE:
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Santa, home, elves, snow, cold

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NUTCRACKER: nuts, suite, dance,
music, ballet
ORNAMENT: tree, decorate, round,
branch, Christmas
PEACE: war, calm, still, hate, earth
PLUM PUDDING: plum, dessert,
Christmas, baked, food
POINSETTIA: Christmas, flower, red,
leaf, Mexico
REINDEER: Rudolph, sleigh, Santa, red-
nosed, antlers
SANTA: sleigh, reindeer, Kris Kringle,
Saint Nicholas, toys
SAVIOR: born, city, David, Christ, Jesus
SHEEP: shepherd, wool, lamb, flocks,
field
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SHEPHERD: field, flocks, sheep,
angels, Bethlehem
SLEIGH: ride, Santa, reindeer, toys, fly
SNOW: cold, frozen, flakes, winter,
white
SNOWMAN: Frosty, ice, snow, water,
round
STABLE: inn, innkeeper, room, barn,
animals
STAR: wisemen, sky, night, moon,
heavens
STOCKING: hung, chimney, fruit, gifts,
candy
SWADDLING: clothes, wrapping,
cloth, material, baby
TAX: Joseph, pay, government, city,
journey
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TOYS: Santa, elves, Christmas,
children, gifts
WINTER: season, cold, snow,
Christmas, December
WISEMEN: star, gifts, gold,
frankincense, myrrh
WREATH: green, round, ribbon, circle,
decoration
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