Tis the season to be jolly, with everyone being in holiday buzz, wanting to go home, travel or just take a vacation. This is also an opportune moment to show off with organized holiday activities and events for your employees and fellow colleagues at work.
There’s no better way to enhance a fun office as we approach the season of giving than getting staff involved in different holiday office activities that will bring out the holiday spirit in your work space. They’re also an opportunity to play some team-building games and bond over tasty food.
Here is a list of 20 ways to celebrate the Holidays at the office.
1. Get the office to decorate a centralized Christmas tree in the office.
2. Have employees decorate their office door and have a contest among everyone: Host a cubicle or department decoration contest, where you let each person decorate their cubicle or desk the way they want to. Alternatively, allow departments to work in teams and decorate their areas.
3. What is Christmas without a lot of goodies to share with others? There are many ways to have fun with Christmas meals or treats at work. If you want to make work fun, Christmas treats are sure to help. (Christmas themed treats, candies shaped as a tree, chocolate, Christmas shaped pizza)
4. Getting an Elf on the Shelf and have employees wear elf ears, Santa hats or have Christmas themed outfit days.
5. Throw a work holiday themed party.
6. Play Secret Santa.
7. Incorporate a charitable cause and donate gifts from your organization: Christmas is a time for cheer and merry, as well as a time for giving back. To boost morale among your colleagues during the holiday season, consider banding the entire staff together for some charity work. Organize a white elephant gift exchange with your employees
8. Shoot a holiday video with employees to share with your customers – Don’t have a camera lying around? Use your smartphone!
9. Have employees bring in their favorite cookie and have a cookie tasting
10. Host a red holiday sweater day at the office
11. Set up a holiday card exchange for employees
12. Get your employees together to watch a holiday movie on a fun day like A Christmas Story
13. Get employees together and do some caroling around the office.
14. Do a craft with your employees like you did in grade school, such as snow globes made out of baby food jars
15. Play a game of minute to win it: holiday edition (can be physical or virtual)
16. Put marshmallows into a large jar and have all of the employees guess how many are in the jar- the employee closest to the exact number will win a prize
17. Have your employees write holiday messages and share it amongst each other.
18. Give employees company logo items, ranging from clothing to mugs, as a thank you for their work this year.
19. With all these ideas, you are sure to have plenty of fun at work during your office Christmas activities. So, why not capture your Christmas fun at work by organizing a Christmas photo call? You can also have some small incentive by making it a contest. A fun way to end this is to upload the pictures and have them all on your intranet. Show everyone else when they return from the holidays, that you also had fun.
20. For the New Year, have your employees write down a prediction for the upcoming year and create a time-capsule. Open it up with your employees 1 year later and see who was right.
This is a plan considering that Christmas is right around the corner, and the holiday spirit is in full gear everywhere. Though the holiday season is a time that is often spent with your loved ones, many people have to go to work.
As a company, it is important that all or some of the employees work during Christmas as it is a busy time due the workload depending on the business.
The idea is to enjoy the holiday season and take advantage of employee engagement. So, why not pursue some office Christmas activities.
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