How to Throw an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

November 24, 2019
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Letitia Campbell

How to Throw an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

How to Throw an Ugly Sweater Party

The best way to throw an awesome ugly sweater party is to make it as fun and EXTRA as possible. I’m going to walk you through how to make it the BEST party of the year.

I will go over how to decorate, invite, games, the best sweaters and MORE.

Drop comments below for your best tips you've found.

First of all we gotta start with decorations -

Have a Photo Booth or Backdrop

First of all you, MUST have some fun decorations to get the party started. I recommend having a Back drop to document and share all the festivities and winners of the Ugly Christmas Sweater contest.

Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Backdrop:

ugly christmas sweater party backdrop

You can make it super simple by getting a festive colored sheet and add some tinsel, décor, ornaments, and sparkles. That is the cost effective with more effort idea. Or you can order backdrops online or your favorite party store.

This is a great way to get people taking pictures and interacting. You gotta show off your Ugly Christmas Sweaters with the world. You could add a fun phrase like, “Best Ugly Christmas Sweaters” or “Get UGLY" or something fu.

I found a super simple and low cost one on amazon to make it nice and quick or you can make your own.

Don't forget to add props and accessories.

Fun Accessories to use for the photo drop

Fun Hats for your party

Make Your Party Social –

Create your own geo hashtag on snapchat or you could come up with a fun hashtag for all your attendees to use. Something like #jonesuglychristmas #elfuglychristmassweaterparty

Something that not a lot of people are using so try to make it different and research it on Instagram before you pick it.

Also, let your attendees know that they need to be friends or have it public for the other people to see it.

You MUST have some FUN Games

Don’t forget the GAMES!!! You gotta have games at the party, check out some ideas we have to make your party a blast.

Jingle Bell Toss -

The Jingle Bell Toss Game toss jingle bells into red solo cups.

Items required: 10 mini cups, small jingle bells

How to play: Arrange 10 mini cups like bowling pins. Have players stand behind a line on the other side with a handful of jingle bells. Toss bells underhand and try to get the jingle bells to land inside the cups. Player with the most number of cups with jingle bells win! You can obviously add some fun holiday spirits to make the game adult friendly with your favorite beverage. Drink every time the opposing team makes a shot in the cup.

Make Ugly Christmas Sweaters - Tell everyone to bring their own sweater and have glue guns, pom poms, ornaments, gloves, and all the fun Christmas décor to glue onto the sweaters. Have it all laid out on the table and at the end of the time you can have the Christmas Sweater Fashion show and give out awards based on the runway. You can also ugly up the sweaters you already have.

Ugly Christmas Sweater Fashion Show – Get together everyone and have them add on more accessories, get weird, and have fun. Play some fun tunes and make a runway to flaunt their Ugliest Christmas Sweater

Ugly Christmas Sweater fashion show

Jingle in the trunk or Junk in the trunk - the short version is you put balls in a box and strap it around your waste and shake to try to get the balls out of the box. It's hilarious.

Read more detail on how to play

jingle in the trunk

White Elephant gift exchange -

The gifts are placed in a central location, and participants determine in which order they will take turns selecting them. The first person opens a wrapped gift, and the turn ends. On subsequent turns, each person has the choice to either unwrap a new present or to "steal" another's.

Make Gingerbread houses - Get Gingerbread kits or make your own and you can even have a contest for the best Gingerbread house.

gingerbread houses

Christmas Sweater Photo Scavenger Hunt - OMG now this is such a blast, come up with your own scavenger hunt or you can buy the game at Walmart.

Don’t forget the Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest, get a Ugly Christmas Sweater Ballot Box

Get a fun ballot box that you can buy or decorate it DIY. Grab a shoe box and just like back in the day when you made Valentine’s day boxes make a fun box. You can get stuff from the dollar store like:

Wrapping paper
Bows
Ornaments
Ballot Cards

If you would like to save time you can just buy the ballot box - You can buy it on Amazon

Buy the Ballot Box here

Think of some fun different Winners –

Best Ugly Christmas Sweater

Naughtiest Ugly Christmas Sweater

Funniest Ugly Christmas Sweater

Best Couples Ugly Christmas Sweater

Create some fun holiday prizes for the winners, you can get these fun Christmas Tree Awards, a pin, a banner, a crown!

Here are some of the BEST Ugly Christmas Sweaters that have won contest after contest!!!

The Sweater that turns you into a Christmas Tree -

Be the best hit of the party with the Ugly Christmas Tree sweater that you can put up your hands add a star and voila, you’re a Christmas Tree!

The Best Couples Ugly Christmas Sweater –

The best way to catch everyone’s attention is to come dressed up matching your significant other with double the trouble fun. One of the top favs is the Feel the Joy sweater with the Jingle my Bells Christmas sweaters.

The famous bow skirt is a unique original no one else will have and a huge hit of the party. You can also pair it with your favorite Ugly Christmas sweater to match. The Christmas Tree sweater and Feel the joy sweater goes great with the bow skirt.

Christmas bow skirt