It's December! Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa and New Year are just right around the corner! Alrighty, the best game hosts are those with the most creative and imaginative minds.

Here I'll list a couple creative holiday game ideas for y'all, even if you don't celebrate any of the three holidays, try to make the most out of your winter break.

I'm going to be listing some ideas for gifts and games for the holidays. I'm not gonna list specific steps or lists, as honestly, these games and ideas are so customizable to one's own favor.

Gift Ideas

Here's a really creative gift idea, and it ties in with artistic creativity, particularly Oriental-style art. This gift idea is for folks planning on giving gift card or money.

Buy those red Chinese envelopes, which you can find 'em anywhere online (here's one place) or at your local Asian mart at times. I'd recommend getting 'em online, they're much cheaper and you get 'em in bulks for much cheaper.

At my local Asian mart, they sold for $5 for a pack of about 5 envelopes, you can literally get a pack of 50 online for about that same price, or maybe a dollar or a couple cents more (not a significant difference...).

So stuff 'em with chocolate coins (hahaha ya'll had to see that coming), and then stuff some money or maybe a gift card inside.

Reason I recommend chocolate coins is because they're literally meant for that, be given as gifts. But hey, to each his or her own.

This is also an excellent idea, not just for the December holidays, but also holiday such as New Years Day, Chinese New Year and Valentines Day.

Heck, I know I'm gonna be doing this for a while, especially on Chinese New Year. I'm Asian, but not Chinese, at the same time, I'm not a person who just likes to sit back and watch fun cultural holidays roll by.

I've attended a Diwali event, and look forward to Chinese New Year.

I'm a guy who likes surprises, who doesn't? We all know of Secret Santa. To make it even more exciting, play a little game where people blindfold themselves, and pick one envelope from an entire pile.

Everyone gets to be a winner, and wins something, be it cash, or gift card etc., regardless of what it is, everyone gets chocolate coins too!

To get even more daring and creative, go to an authorized coin dealer near you, and actually stuff one of those envelopes with a REAL silver coin, a silver dollar or a couple silver quarters and dimes (gold if you're that gutsy and rich hahaha...).

I'd recommend getting an "American Silver Eagle" (pictured below), these sell for about around $20 at cheapest.

Okay, this IS the real thing! It ain't chocolate this time!

Tell all the participants that there's a "real rare silver coin" inside one of the envelopes and to be FAIR, implement the school treat rule, "you take what you touch".

That way, everyone has a fair chance, and players can't just "shuffle" around for the heaviest envelope there is (large silver coins are heavy...).

Be leery of precious metals scammers.....(skip if you don't plan on precious metals)

If you're going to buy precious metals, especially online, I'm not saying all Ebay sellers are scammers or such, but just be leery when buying coins and precious metals on Ebay, or for this matter, anywhere online.

If you're feeling "unsure" of what to look out for, here's a good guide to buying coins online.

In addition, I'll list some tips here for buying silver or gold online.

Make sure the seller or the store is in the United States. I'm not gonna point the finger towards any foreign seller or country, but let the record show, Americans are more prone to getting scammed by foreigners.

Please it's just...easier and safer to look to sellers within the country.

The coin on the right can EASILY fool a person not familiar with coin collecting, heck even as a person who collected coins, it still looks deceptively real to me!

That doesn't even just apply to buying coins in general, but even American taxpayers who get scammed by baiters in foreign countries claiming to be the IRS.

Let's put it this way, if "sounds and looks" too good to be true, it very most of the time, likely is. Avoid click baits such as "MUST SEE!" or "EXTREMELY RARE!". Even they are real, they likely aren't as "worth it" as the seller claims.

If you end up getting interested, make sure you question the buyer at all fronts. Normally, if they're legitimate or fake, it'll show. If something seems "off" about 'em or something just doesn't add up, it's likely your intuition tell you to run.

People are getting better and better and mimicking and creating fake precious metals and gems. I'd simply suggest spending a little gas and actually visiting a certified coin dealer near you.

I remember going to the Chinatown in Toronto, and caught them selling "silver dollars" for $5. They looked, and felt exactly like the real thing.

Game Idea: Find the Star in the Igloo

Alright, you've seen me mention this in this article I wrote back a couple weeks ago. This is inspired from the Snowman's Land of Super Mario 64. Click on the image below, for the video to get even better detail of it.

Now for this first step, it's not a required but it is very creative: build an igloo fort.

I understand it's difficult, and hey...these games are to each everyone's own liking. There's no "correct way" to do it.

If you can't build an igloo (which I assume is most people), then just try finding an interesting room in the house that suits hiding things well.

For example, a room filled with closets, alcoves, drawers that you don't mind people digging through or best yet, "secret doors" and "passageways". Does such a house exist?

Oh yeah! I used to work in a family business where the building (once a house) had all sorts of cool random trap doors, entrances....literally where someone could hide during a world war or a zombie apocalypse!

If you own a house with something like this....please don't tell me you ain't hosting a "find the star" game!

Preferably to resemble an igloo, I recommend a room with white walls. For the most, try to get into the winter holiday spirit. Colors such as white, blue and green are ideal for this game.

Gold and silver-colored walls could also do the job.

Then, as the game host, buy a chocolate star wrapped in a gold foil, and hide it somewhere, anywhere.

Scatter the gold chocolate coins everywhere (get the Mario theme now)? Remember those red and blue-colored coins in Super Mario 64?

Gladly, they also sell chocolate coins wrapped in foil utilizing those colors. For blue-colored chocolate coins, click here and for red-colored, click here. Heck, they even sell multi-color packs, a straight-up Christmas-themed one here, as for Hannukah gelts, click here. Heck, buy silver foiled-wrapped ones if you want (here), remember - you create and host this game to YOUR liking.

So anyways, the person who finds the chocolate star should win an award of some sort, i.e. cash, gift card and etc. The person who hoards the most chocolate coins should win a prize, although lesser of the one who finds the chocolate star.

For example, the person who finds the star wins $30, the person who hoards the most coins wins $15, that kind of deal.

To coincide with the Mario theme, make each red or blue coin equivalent to a certain number of gold coins. For example, a person who hoards six blue chocolate coins has "more" than a person who hoards 17, assuming each blue or red chocolate coin equates to six gold coins.

You should also have some sort of music playing, and then end that music and have some sort of way to notify people that the game has ended. To put the icing on the cake, play this Super Mario 64 track while the game is being played.

Hahahaha...it's the same tune that plays when you're in the igloo in the Snowman's Land playing Super Mario 64, as well as the Wet-Dry World and Hazy Maze Cave levels.

Alright, as with everything: do all of this with caution.

If you're playing in a room, or even any space within a house with a bunch of halls, passageways, closets, alcoves and etc., assure yourself that you know the entire place.

Be ready to find someone in the worse-case scenario that they got lost or something or stranded in some weird maze of entrances, doors and hallways.

I doubt it'll ever happen, eh..better to be safe than sorry.

Little kids are especially susceptible to this, which is why I highly advice children to be accompanied by an adult.

Have your phones ready and all that. But also make sure you prohibit "un-needed" phone use, as people can use them to cheat.

Make the phones usable "only for emergencies". Disqualify anyone that plays unfair or breaks the rules.

I'm not responsible if something happens! No...seriously. Have all the fun you can, but please just use caution and common sense.

Like don't hide the star in the dirty laundry baskets, or in the area with a bunch of rusty dirty pipes! Choose a relatively clean place.

Well folks, that's all the ideas I got for y'all today. Have a Happy Holidays, as I come up with more!

HERE'S A LIST OF MORE PLACES TO BUY GIFT/GAME ITEMS:

Chocolate Coins 1 lb (Quarters)

Chocolate Coins 2lbs (Half Dollars, approx. 128 pieces)

Chinese Envelopes - 100 pack

Chinese Envelopes - 80 pack

Unfortunately - I could not find a place to buy a golden medium to big foil-wrapped chocolate star, you may just have to browse through the internet, however you can assemble it separately, buy or make the chocolate star itself and buy the golden foil here.

Once more, Happy Holidays, have sun and stay safe!