How to plan a fun and beautiful White Christmas party! Includes Christmas party decoration ideas, menu, recipes, service project, and printables!

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WHITE CHRISTMAS PARTY IDEAS

Do you need ideas for Christmas party? This White Christmas party idea is unique and easy to put together since everything is white!!

As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, my husband and I were asked to plan the Christmas party for our ward (our local congregation for 15-+ people.) This was a volunteer position and our budget was small, but we got creative and pulled off a really nice Christmas dinner using this White Christmas party theme.

I'm sharing all the details of our White Christmas party and hope this will help you plan your holiday party.

HOW TO PLAN A CHRISTMAS PARTY

Here's all the details about the invitations, decorations, menu, entertainment, service activity, and other details so you can plan a White Christmas party to remember!

When planning a Christmas party, first you will have to decide whether it's a small family event or a large event such as ours. Since we were planning the event for the church, we decided to rent a venue for the celebration. However, if it's a family Christmas celebration for you, you can also plan a house party for 10-12 people.

Anyways, below I have jotted down how we planned our party within a budget. Not only is this a good ward Christmas party idea, but a unique Christmas theme for a group of friends, a charity event, or a fancy holiday dinner.

THE CHRISTMAS PARTY INVITATIONS

I used Canva to create our White Christmas theme invitations and then we printed them with Shutterfly using a coupon, making them an affordable option.

Get the editable file in the White Christmas party pack at the end of the post.

CHRISTMAS DINNER PARTY IDEAS: THE SETUP

We had to fit a ton of people in our small gym, so we got creative with the Christmas dinner setup. We lined long rectangle tables around the perimeter, with round in the middle. We put 2 long dessert tables in the middle of the gym to create a focal point.

(The only problem with this was since desserts were out first, some of the children started eating desserts before dinner. You win some, you lose some.)

Church Christmas Party Ideas For The Setup:

We fit a huge group using this table setup. The numbers on the tables represent how many chairs we had at each table.

I created some Engineer Prints with quotes to hang up and put in the foyer as people arrived.

We used all white plastic tablecloths, white plates, cups, and utensils for the tables.

I got the huge Merry Christmas balloons from Amazon and they created a fun focal point for the stage.

Our cute teenage girls made paper snowflakes and paper chains for us to use to decorate with. Super cheap and simple!

WHITE CHRISTMAS PARTY MENU

We didn't have a huge budget for our dinner, but we did want to have a nice meal for everyone. Trust me, celebrations are all about good food and fun. Well, if we had our hands on discounts such as those found through the latest Walmart Weekly Flyers or newspapers, then we would have certainly opted for elaborate meals, by buying groceries at a discounted price. However, in the absence of a huge budget as well as the lack of information about any good discount running, we decided to stick to the minimal. So, this is the White Christmas food we served:

• Glazed Bake Ham (Winco) - purchased with our budget and ward members volunteered to cook
• Cheesy Potatoes (donated and made by ward members)
• Spring mix salad with homemade poppy seed dressing & cinnamon roasted almonds, green apples, and craisins
• Dinner rolls (Costco)
• All-white desserts including: cinnamon rolls, star sugar cookies, dipped pretzels, cheesecake, cupcakes, white popcorn, divinity (contributed by ward members)

2 WAYS TO SERVE THE FOOD

It's a pain to have to wait in line forever to get food, especially if you're trying to keep track of children! So we did something crazy and served the food to each table!

This was a great idea in theory. And I definitely think there were so many people who appreciated being able to sit at their table and visit with others instead of standing in line forever.

To make this happen, however, we needed to have the salad and rolls set out on each table. This required that we purchase silver plastic bowls from Dollar Tree for the rolls and salad.

Pros: I thought it was awesome that 200 people didn't have to wait in line for food. They could sit at their table and wait for the main dish to be brought around. I think more people visited longer with those sitting at their table this way. Another benefit was that we didn't need to use space for serving tables. This allowed us to set up more eating tables which we needed to fit such a large group.

Cons: Like I mentioned earlier, we had to buy extra serving bowls for the rolls and salads since our church didn't have enough for each table. Because of this, we used more food than I think we would have had we had just one food table where people could dish up on their own.

It also took us a while to get all of the food out to each table. We asked the youth to help serve and they did, but it was a little hectic managing it all.

I don't think you can go wrong either way you choose to serve the food. There are pros and cons to both ways.

WHITE CHRISTMAS PARTY DECORATIONS & WHERE TO GET THEM

Here are the links and sources for where we got all the decorations.

• Merry Christmas Balloons- Amazon
• Clear white balloons with confetti- Amazon
• White Balloons
• Paper chains & snowflakes- handmade from youth girls
• 3D white paper Christmas trees - template from A Home For Crafts
• White round plastic tablecloths
• White round rectangle tablecloths
• Rustic wood place card holders (used for 3d trees)
• White card stock paper for trees

HERE'S THE WHITE PARTY DECORATIONS WE USED:

WHITE CHRISTMAS PARTY TABLE DECORATIONS

Since our budget was pretty small, I started browsing Pinterest for some inexpensive Christmas party ideas for the tables. came across these simple and modern Christmas tree centerpiece ideas from A Home For Crafts and knew they would be a great fit for our White Christmas party.

After downloading the template (FREE!) from that website, I was able to use my Silhouette Cameo to cut all the trees out.

If you don't have a digital craft cutter, you could always hand cut the trees. That may be a lot of work for you, but it is an option. I spent about 1 hour cutting 24 trees out using my Silhouette machine.

I cut the trees 2 different sizes: one large and one smaller. The larger trees were self-standing, but for the smaller trees, I used mini wood log place card holders to hold up the trees.

I loved the rustic look it brought to the table (literally!). We also used a few gold and silver ornaments from the Dollar Tree to place around the trees to give some variety.

The trees were a super cheap Christmas party decoration- I used 60 sheets of white card stock total.

ALL-WHITE DESSERTS

This Christmas party idea made it easy to know what to serve for desserts: all-white treats! Ward members signed up and brought any white dessert they wanted. They placed them on the middle tables when they arrived.

We had an assortment of white desserts including:

• mini star sugar cookies and white frosting
• white cake
• cheesecake
• white powdered donuts
• dipped pretzels
• cinnamon rolls
• cupcakes
• rice krispy treats

Unfortunately I was way too busy before the party started to get a picture of all the desserts on the table. But you get the idea:

ANGEL TREE- AN EASY SERVICE OPPORTUNITY

My committee and I wanted to provide an opportunity for people to serve, so we put together an Angel Tree. I used a cheap white Christmas tree I got from Walmart a few years ago for $29 as the tree.

A girl on my committee made these cute angel ornaments using butterfly paper clips, pearls, and ribbon. We attached the gift items to each angel. Whoever wanted to get that gift for someone got to take the angel ornament and keep it.

Here's a video tutorial I found that shows you how to make them.

See how cute all those angel ornaments are?

We partnered with the Ronald McDonald House to donate the gifts. We chose to go with them because there wasn't a certain deadline they needed the items by. And, if all of the gifts didn't get purchased, it wasn't a big deal. Unlike other charities, we didn't want to commit to certain gifts and then not be able to come through for someone's Christmas. All the gifts donated to the Ronald McDonald House were items that could be given year-round for families who stay there.

WARD CHRISTMAS PARTY ENTERTAINMENT IDEAS

We purposely kept the ward Christmas party entertainment really short and simple. This was the program:

• Primary-aged children sang a Christmas song
• The Friendly Beasts (animal nativity song) with puppet show
• "I am "He"" song & picture slideshow (my sisters wrote this song- find more details for this song and the entire program about Christ on Instagram @king.bangerter.music)
• Time for chatting and dessert

FREE WHITE CHRISTMAS PRINTABLES

I hope these White Christmas theme ideas have been helpful as you do your Christmas party planning.

If you'd like to create your own White Christmas party, you can get the free printable engineer prints, layout chart, and more from our Free Printable Library here.

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