Remember playing Mad Libs when you were a kid? One person had a booklet with a story where some of the words had been replaced with blank spaces, and that person asked you for words to put in the blank spaces by specifying whether you should come up with a noun, verb, place, name, etc. The end result was usually funny and/or nonsensical.
Well, now you can play the game with a famous Christmas story! This printable funny Night Before Christmas story has blanks in some spaces. For some fun at your holiday gathering, tell everyone you’re going to play a game where they need to supply some words, but don’t tell them you’re “rewriting” The Night Before Christmas. Then jot down the words and read it back for some holiday fun!
Click here to download the Funny Night Before Christmas in MS Word or copy and paste the text below into your own word processor if you don’t have Microsoft Word.
Fill-in-the-Blank Funny Night Before Christmas Story
‘Twas the __________ (noun) before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a __________ (animal) was __________ (verb)ing, not even a mouse;
The __________ (plural noun) were hung by the __________ (location) with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The __________ (people or animals) were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of __________ (plural noun) danced in their heads;
And mamma in her __________ (piece of clothing), and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter’s nap,
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the __________ (piece of furniture) to see what was the matter.
Away to the __________ (place in house) I flew like a flash,
Tore open the ___________ (plural noun) and threw up the sash.
When, what to my wondering __________ (body part) should appear,
But a miniature __________ (noun), and eight tiny reindeer,
With a __________ (adjective) old driver, so __________ (adjective) and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name; “Now, Dasher! now, Dancer!
Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!
To the top of the _________(location outside house) ! To the top of the wall!
Now _________ (verb)! _________(verb)! Dash away all!”
So up to the house-top the __________ (plural animal) they flew,
With the sleigh full of _________(plural noun), and St. Nicholas too.
And then, in a __________(period of time), I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my ___________(body part), and was turning around,
Down the chimney _____________(famous person) came with a bound.
He was dressed all in ____________(type of clothing), from his head to his foot,
And his __________(clothes) were all tarnished with ___________(noun) and soot;
A bundle of __________(noun) he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a ___________ (type of person) just opening his pack.
His eyes — how they ___________(past tense verb)! his ___________(body part) how merry! His __________(plural body parts) were like roses, his __________(body part) like a cherry! His ____________(adjective) ____________(body part) was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his ___________(part of face) was as white as the snow;
He had a ________(adjective) ________(body part) and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.
He was _________(adjective) and _________(adjective), a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A _________(type of gesture) of his _________ (body part) and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
He _______(verb) not a ________(noun), but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his __________(body part) aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his ___________(vehicle), to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all ___________(verb) like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him ___________(verb), ere he drove out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”
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