Fun Office Christmas Activities
Just because you're stuck in an office all day doesn't mean Christmas fun can't extend to your workplace. Depending on the environment at your work, it's possible to mix holiday fun with work.
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| Having a Christmas party at the office during the holiday season is always great. |
Having a party is one obvious choice for fun at the office during the holidays. You could have several. How about a cookie exchange party? Plan to do this at lunchtime one day; during that block, everyone brings several dozen cookies they have made. You have to set a particular number of cookies everyone gets. Because once everyone has an empty plate, they go around the table picking up cookies that look good to them and place them on their empty paper plate. If everyone brings three dozen cookies, everyone gets to take home three dozen cookies. Cookies are a unique idea that brings some fun into the workplace.
Keeping in mind whether or not the public visits your workplace, you might choose to decorate. Why not have a Christmas tree decorating event? Everyone brings six ornaments, and as a group activity, everyone decorates the tree. It is an excellent way to simultaneously build team spirit and decorate your workplace.
Don't forget to institute a "Secret Santa" event at work, where you secretly buy gifts for someone and have some type of gift exchange. But what about a "Santa's helper" activity? Someone in the group has to begin this on the sly. Essentially, this first person (the only one who knows how the whole thing started) puts together a little gift. Ideally, it's a basket with a few gift items in it. They might be decorative items, baked goods, or even bath items. Attach a card saying "Santa's helper" dropped by and brought these items. Now, the person who received the "helper's" gift must put together a little something for someone else and - again on the sly - deliver it to the next person. It continues until everyone has received a visit from "Santa's helper."
Nothing brings people together like a group activity designed to help others. What if your officemates devised an activity to help the less fortunate during the holidays? You might adopt a local family, and everyone in the office purchases items for that family. You can purchase Christmas trees for needy families. If the public visits your office often, you might even begin a "sharing" tree, and people can bring items to put under the tree for needy families or children. The office workers can then deliver these items to needy people as a group activity.
The festive office might want someone to come in and do a cooking demonstration. If enough people are interested, you can hire a cook or baker to come into your office during lunch and do a demonstration or class. Say you want to bake but need to know what to bake this year. A baker can demonstrate cookies or other goodies you might have yet to think to make. Or someone can come in with ideas and samples for the perfect Christmas meal. These ideas are perfect for an environment where people work many hours and are pretty busy but still want to do their regular cooking and baking each year.
