Updated on February 12, 2025
Mod & Merry Cookie Exchange Party. Gather your friends and share delicious treats at this fun and festive cookie exchange party.
For five years, I have hosted a cookie exchange party with some of my girlfriends. We have a great time getting together, sharing delicious treats and drinks, and catching up during the busy holiday season.

Thank you to Oriental Trading Company for providing some of the products for this post.
Supplies:
- Mod & Merry Dinner Plates
- Mod & Merry Dessert Plates
- Mod & Merry Beverage Napkins
- Lime Green Forks
- Light Blue Cups
- Red Plastic Tablecloth
- Red Pleated Tablecloth
- Mod & Merry Table Runner
- Mod & Merry Garland
- Mod & Merry Hanging Ornaments
*Oriental Trading Co. no longer offers the Mod & Merry line. However, they have many festive sets you could use with the party printables. The “Merry Everything” collection has similar colors to the original Mod & Merry design and would be a great substitute.
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How it works:
- I normally create a Facebook event to invite everyone to the party. This is the easiest way to coordinate around the holidays.
- About a week and a half before the party, I make sure everyone has RSVP’d, and we have a final headcount.
- Once I know the total number of people coming, we can decide exactly how many treats to make per person. Usually, we do about 50 – 60 cookies in total. Since we had 10 people attending this year, we did 50 cookies (5 cookies each).
- Each guest brings a wrapped package of treats for each person attending. We also bring an unwrapped platter of sample treats to share and taste at the party. We don’t limit it to cookies; any sweet treat will do!
- We vote on different categories, and the winners get a prize.
I found the most adorable Mod & Merry party supplies at Oriental Trading. The printables I designed match the party decor.
I purchased plates, forks, napkins, and cups that all coordinated.

To make the cups extra special, I added a little cookie exchange sticker to each one. The sticker had a blank space for people to write their names on the cups.

I printed them on blank sticker paper and punched them using a 1 1/2″ punch.

Party Food
We eat a lot of sweet things at the party, so I always like to have some savory food for people to eat.
I made a vegetable tray with ranch, fiesta cream cheese dip, crackers, spinach dip, Hawaiian rolls, and chips and salsa. I also served water, soda, and wine to drink.
To decorate the food table, I started with a plain red tablecloth.
I added a ruffled table skirt around the whole table. These are great and so easy to use. They have a little adhesive strip, so you simply wrap it around the table’s edge and attach it to your plain tablecloth.

Decorations
I added a coordinating table runner and these festive ornament hangers. They are so cute and could easily be used again for a birthday party.
These ornaments are very easy to assemble. Once I had them all ready to go, I hung them from the ceiling using clear fishing lines and thumbtacks.

The Merry Christmas banner came as one long piece. I trimmed the string right after the large pink ornament and attached it to the front of the table using washi tape.

Party Favors
For the party favors, I created some pretty cookie-cutter charm necklaces.

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I wrapped them up and placed them in these little red favor boxes.
Then, I added a thank you for coming sticker onto the top of the box. I printed the stickers on white sticker paper and cut them out using a 1 1/2″ punch.

I used my white cupcake stand and added candy cane garland around the trays. This was the perfect way to display the favor boxes.

Cookie Exchange and Voting
As each guest arrives, we display the cookie packages on the counter. To let everyone know who made what, I added name-tag table tents in front of each person’s packages.
I love these snow globe cookie boxes I found to package my treats.
Once everyone arrives and has a chance to socialize for a bit, we vote on the cookies. This year, we had categories for best packaging, most creative treat, and best-tasting treat.
I have some very crafty friends who are excellent bakers, so it can be hard to choose. The packaging gets better and better every year we do this!

I printed out voting cards to make it easy for each person to make their selection.

Prizes
Each winner gets a prize, which I wrapped in these red and white snowflake bags.

I had three prizes available: a coloring gift set, a holiday craft gift set, and a sweet treat gift set.



Check out all the Christmas decor, crafts, candy, party supplies, and more at the Oriental Trading Christmas store.
Tell me: have you ever hosted a cookie exchange party before?
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