You can make the experience more accessible, and also more fun by using your Vibe Smartboard. Skip to content Tired of doing the same old thing every Christmas office party? Top 4 Creative Office Party Games Christmas Tree Decorating Decorating office Christmas trees with your team is always enjoyable and a sure-fire way to create a festive atmosphere.
Give them just 30 minutes to decorate and explain that everyone has to participate. Once 30 minutes have passed, have pre-selected judges choose a winner, or have teams themselves vote on the best tree. You could also ask people working remotely to vote as well. No problem. The Vibe Smartboard is just as fun Set up your smartboard in your conference room.
Split everyone into even groups. Have two groups come up to the smartboard at the same time and compete to see who can draw and decorate the best virtual tree.
Pre-selected judges or the other teams will pick a winner and give a team award for the best tree. Christmas Charades Christmas Charades is an excellent game to play at your office party to help people relax and have fun.
If they guess the right word they will get 1 point. The teams will take turns acting out Christmas words and trying to guess the correct words.
The team with the most points wins. To remember all the craziness that ensued during Christmas charades, why not record the game and watch it over and over again on your Vibe Smartboard. Secret Santa Wanting to run a Secret Santa, but are not sure how to involve colleagues working remotely? How to set up a hybrid secret santa : Before your party, arrange for your co-workers to randomly select the name of one of their colleagues for whom they will buy a gift.
They are not allowed to tell their colleague that they have their name and will be buying a gift for them. Explain the gift will be given out and opened at the office staff party. For those people who will not be in attendance for the staff party, their gifts could be mailed to them or virtual gifts such as concert tickets or gift cards could be given.
At the staff party, start a Zoom call on your Vibe Smartboard and then everyone will take turns, either in person or virtually, opening the gifts they received. Encourage people to talk about how they approached researching and buying the gift they bought. Have the guessing stage happen after this, they should try to guess who their secret Santas were. A traditional version of name that Christmas tune Turn on your Vibe and share your screen with anyone attending your party remotely.
Play about 10 seconds of a Christmas song or music video from YouTube. Party guests have to guess the name of the song that they briefly heard. And if you really want to make it challenging, you could also have them guess the name of the performer as well.
The person who guesses the most correct songs is the Name That Tune champion. A collaborative alternative version-mash that tune Use rave. Have the event facilitator compile and showcase each music mashup on a your Vibe board. Make the conversation about favorite songs and what surprised people. For extra fun, you could award a prize to the best performance of the night. If they get it right, they get nice list points.
If they get it wrong, they get naughty points. The team that gets a turn right gets to choose the next spot on the board to tackle until all of the answers have been uncovered.
At the end, naughty points get subtracted from nice points, and the nicest team wins. Print Game Here. To set it up, start by printing out the four-sheet elf drawing below and taping the halves together on a wall.
Whoever gets closest to the most anatomically correct face placement wins. Emoji literati, this game is for you. In order to play, print out a game sheet see below for every player. Make sure everyone has writing utensils, then set a timer for five minutes, and ask everyone to guess what Christmas song the emojis represent. When the timer goes off, the person who guessed the most carols correctly wins.
This is a great option for an adventurous, energetic group with a high embarrassment threshold. To set it up, print out these boards and distribute one to every team. The goal of the game is to cross out a full line of five spaces on the board it can be vertical, horizontal, or diagonal. To cross something off from the board, a team needs to take a picture or video with their phone that proves that it happened. On the scale of peak adventure to peak couchlyfe, this game is definitely on the daring side.
To set it up, start by splitting into teams. Each team should get one sheet see below and be given minutes to complete as many items from the list as they can. Teams should also take photos or videos where it makes sense to prove that they have completed their tasks. The team that completes the greatest number of tasks on the list wins.
Each turn, you have to try to remove a piece of wood from the stack without toppling the pile, and then do any dare written on the removed piece. The one who knocks over the game loses and gets pelted brutally with coal just kidding, the shame of losing is punishment enough. You may have played a version of this with marshmallows before. We mean that in a good way, we swear. Begin by slice up a fruitcake into small even cubes and then place it into bowls by the poor, poor competitors.
Players cannot chew or swallow the pieces of garbage fruitcake. Of all the office Christmas party games, the photos from this one might give you the best blackmail material.
Divide into teams of people with someone left out to be the judge. Grumpy Christmas Cat Illustration by cartoonbeing. The Dasher to your Dancer, holly to your ivy, the mistle to your…. Whoever decides to host should start by writing up a bunch of holiday-related questions ahead of time e. Partners should also all decide which of them is partner A and partner B. Pro tip: Make sure you have a wide, open space to play in and that there are no breakables nearby.
Christmas is a season not only for getting, but also for giving. Holiday parties are a time to give back to employees for a year of hard work, as well as a time for staff to practice gratitude and give back to the wider community. There are many ways to include philanthropy in a company Christmas party. You could also hold a toy or winter clothing drive, or encourage teams to adopt families to purchase presents for through a program like Toys for Tots.
You can also plan a volunteering event for half of a workday in December. For instance, visiting seniors in retirement homes, writing cards for soldiers overseas, or organizing donations at a food pantry. For more, philanthropy tips, check out this list of online volunteering ideas and this guide to virtual fundraising.
When decorating for your party, hide snowmen shapes in various spots. Make some easy to spot, and others more hidden.
Examples of hiding spots include platters on the buffet table, balloons near the entrance, floral center-pieces, and presents under the tree. Since the symbol consists of three circles, hiding the shapes is simple. At the party, give attendees a piece of paper and let them know how many snow folk exist in total.
We recommend hiding at least one dozen. Participants can jot down the locations of the snowmen as they spot them. Upon finding all hidden shapes, players can exchange the paper for a prize. If nobody finds all the hidden Frostys, then towards the end of the party collect the slips and award prizes to the folks who found the most snowmen. Holiday movies are a standalone film genre. Screening movies at the party is a low-key activity that is social but not too high-pressure, which makes an ideal environment for more introverted staff.
Not to mention, holiday films can bring about a sense of nostalgia and aid in team bonding. To watch holiday movies, set up a projector and a large screen, then broadcast the festive film of choice. Snacks like reindeer chow, popcorn with red and green sprinkles, and cookies help to complete the holiday atmosphere. If interest for these events seems high, then you could even host a series of movie nights throughout the month of December.
Each week, you can screen a different holiday film, and encourage staff to attend with families in tow. If you live in a warmer climate and have access to speakers, then you can even do outdoor movies and project on the side of the building or a sheet. For more film-related fun, check out this list of team building movies. Elf on the Shelf quickly became a modern Christmas tradition. Other folks have co-opted this exercise and posted pictures of the elf in hilarious positions.
In this same vein, you and your teammates can do this game as an office activity. At the party, split the group into teams, and give each team an elf. Then, send the teams off into the building to stage a work-themed photo shoot with the elf. Participants may snap photos of the elf photocopying its face, intimidating the work mascot plush with a stapler, or stealing lunches from the office fridge, for example. It is a good idea to show a few examples to help spark creative juices.
If you do not want to devote so much party time to this game, then you can have entrants take and submit the photos before the event and show the results in a slideshow during the party.
White Elephant Exchanges are one of the most fun Christmas activities for work. Unlike the more traditional Secret Santa gift swaps, at White Elephant exchanges, participants give each other funny and gag gifts. Participants also have the option of stealing gifts from other players.
The basic rules involve players picking an order to exchange presents in. Participants either receive a present from an assigned partner, or pick a random present from the pile. The next player in line can either pick a new present, or steal the present from the previous player.
The last participant to unwrap a gift can steal an object from any player. Check out more tips for white elephant exchanges online. This or That is a game that asks players to choose between two related, but typically opposite options. When doing this activity in person, you can ask participants to move to one side of the room or the other to communicate the choice.
Check out this master list of This or That questions. Holiday Trivia is one of the easiest Christmas games for work parties. Simply split attendees into teams, and challenge those teams to answer holiday-based questions. We also recommend featuring other wintertime holidays besides Christmas.
You can also come up with more creative categories that fit the holiday theme. To play the game, teams can write down and submit answers, or be the first team to buzz in and reveal the answers.
For a more festive touch, players can use jingle bells instead of buzzers. You can also facilitate the game via Kahoot. Simply make a multiple choice quiz, and then players will enter the room code and answer on their phones.
The app automatically keeps track of scores based on the quickness and correctness of answers. Using multimedia elements is a fun touch. You can also show video clips from holiday films, or even ask players to re-enact famous scenes. Here is a list of Christmas trivia questions , and here is a guide to virtual trivia. Gourmet Hot Cocoa Bars are one of the most delicious ideas for a holiday work party.
These stations need minimal equipment— the basic setup calls for a hot water kettle or a canteen of warm milk, however, beyond that you may also want to provide non-dairy milk alternatives.
Then, lay out jars of cocoa powder or chocolate syrup alongside mix-ins like flavor shots, crushed candy canes, gourmet marshmallows, and whipped cream. You can also provide more unexpected toppings like chili powder, peanut butter powder, rainbow marshmallows, and cereal. Minute to win it games are challenges that must be completed in sixty seconds or less. These games are often physical. You can add Christmas-themed elements to make challenges more festive. Cookie Face: place a gingerbread cookie, preferably a miniature, on your forehead.
Without using your hands, move the cookie into your mouth. Snowball Shake: Tape a tissue box to your lower back and fill it with ping pong balls. On the mark, try to shake all of the balls out of the box. The player who shakes out the most balls wins. Wrap It Up: Players must wrap and place a bow on each teammate and snap a picture before moving to the next player in line.
Coal in the Hole: Players must dunk a black-painted ping pong ball in a mug as many times as possible in sixty seconds. Tree Toppler: Teams get a few sticks of green spaghetti and must build a tree that supports a star-shaped marshmallow. Holly Berries: Place dozens of red balloons on the floor. On the mark, players must pop as many balloons as possible by sitting on them.
To better keep track, place a picture inside the balloons that players can retrieve after popping. Check out more virtual minute to win it games. The first step in the competition is to split the group into teams and choose holiday-themed team names.
Next, ask teams to create a uniform by using holiday accessories like colored garland, elf hats, or reindeer antler headbands. Present pass off: A relay race where runners hand off a wrapped present in place of a baton. Tree toss: Toss non glass! Check out more ideas for team building games , and this guide to virtual office Olympics. To host storytime at your annual party, first pick out a Christmas book or story such as The Night Before Christmas or The Polar express.
Then, invite the CEO, president, or the office Santa to read the story out loud during the party. Be sure to pass out cookies and milk, and allow listeners to circle up chairs, pillows, or blankets to better set the atmosphere. Seasonal Scavenger Hunts are interactive holiday party games. Attendees split into teams and race to complete tasks and retrieve objects from a list of clues.
The person to wrap the present in a neat manner and the quickest wins the game. Keep the competition going until there is one person left who wraps the best. Christmas Family Feud: This Interactive Christmas Family Feud game makes it oh so easy and fun for you to be able to play with your friends, family, or coworkers at your Christmas party. Oh Christmas Tree: This game will help to get the employees to work as a team and introduce a little bit of healthy competition.
You will need several rolls of green streamers, plastic ornaments with hooks, and tinsel. Have the employees separate into even-numbered teams, if possible. Put the same amount of streamer, ornaments, and tinsel in front of each team. The teams will select someone to act as the tree and the others will be the elves who decorate it. When the game begins the teams will race to decorate their tree the fastest.
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