CHARADES! In Christmas Crackers!
Christmas Cracker are not a crunchy munchie.
It's a Brit Christmas thing.
"Christmas crackers are part of Christmas celebrations primarily in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper,[1] making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled by two people, often with arms crossed, and, much in the manner of a wishbone, the cracker splits unevenly.[1] The split is accompanied by a mild bang or snapping sound produced by the effect of friction on a shock-sensitive, chemically-impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun).
Crackers are typically pulled at the Christmas dinner table or at parties. In one version of the cracker tradition, the person with the larger portion of cracker empties the contents from the tube and keeps them. In another each person will have their own cracker and will keep its contents regardless of whose end they were in. Typically these contents are a coloured paper hat; a small toy, small plastic model or other trinket and a motto, a joke, a riddle or piece of trivia on a small strip of paper.[3] The paper hats, with the appearance of crowns, are usually worn when eating Christmas dinner. The tradition of wearing festive hats is believed to date back to Roman times, and the Saturnalia celebrations, which also involved decorative headgear."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_cracker
Our crackers included a CHARADES phrase.
A phrase commonly known.
You had to act out the phrase in pantomime.
The kids had never heard of this.
They loved it.
So did the adults.
Really got into it.
And the next night...we played Charades.
Again.
It's a great way to spend time with your family.
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My DH and his friends used to play sometimes but he said he "choked" when he had to act out "Marcel Marceau". 
Several years ago I was pleasantly surprised when my son came home from hanging out at a friend's house and said the kids had played Charades.
Another fun thing to play with kids is Mad Libs, where you ask the people in the room to give you a verb, noun, number, name of person in room, etc. needed to fill in the blank words in the short story. I remember first buying Mad Libs when I was 9 or 10 and my friends and I would laugh so much at our resulting stories. It's also a painless way to learn parts of speech if the kids are young and haven't learned that yet.
http://www.itsamadlibsworld.com/index.php?edition=21
We had some friends over for Halloween, and I was dressed as Peter Pan.
In acting out a clue, I split my tights. I was mortified!
Everyone else thought it was the highlight of the evening.
I never played charades again.
I still have flashbacks. 
