20 Work Christmas Party Games to Make Holiday at Office Fun
These work christmas party games are a mix of christmas activities for office, gift exchange games making them perfect office christmas party games. Whether its your companies holiday party or events, or you are hosting a small party for your coworkers, these Christmas group games are suitable staff christmas party games. Make your work Christmas party more fun and enjoyable by planning fun Christmas games that will get everyone in festive mood and make everyone join the fun.
Before we get into work Christmas games, if your are looking for office Christmas party theme or events, you must look at these 25 Ways to Make Office Christmas Party Fun.
Christmas Holiday Treasure Quest
To bring some adventure to the office try a holiday scavenger hunt. Make a list of holiday-themed items like candy canes, Santa hats, and holiday cards. Hide these items around the office and let the team find them. The first person or team to locate everything on the list wins a prize. Make it more fun by creating creative hints for each item to keep the game fun, challenging and ensure everyone in engaed.
Christmas Song Emoji Guessing Game
Prepare a list of popular Christmas songs written in emojis (like 🎶🎄 for “O Christmas Tree”). Display them on a projector for everyone to see and each team needs to guess the song titles from the emojis. The person or team with the most correct guesses wins.
Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest
A fun and simple contest that will take less planning is to have an Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest. Participants must come dressed in their wildest holiday sweaters, and everyone is a fashion critic to vote for an ugly Christmas sweater contest. You can set voting categories as “Most Creative,” “Most Festive,” and “Funniest Sweater.” Pick the winner by keeping voting light-hearted and friendly, and arrange prizes for each category to ensure everyone gets a fair shot at winning.
Christmas Trivia Challenge
Test everyone’s holiday knowledge with a round of Christmas trivia. List questions about holiday traditions, Christmas movies, and even international Christmas customs. Divide into teams and whoever gets the highest score is a winner and an ultimate holiday expert.
Christmas Carol Charades
Play the classic charades with a twist by using Christmas carols. List down popular Carol names on slips of paper, and have participants act them out without speaking. Their team has to guess the song based on gestures alone, which usually leads to laughs all around. To bring a good Christmas celebration vibe to your office, pair the game with hot cocoa setup where guests can make one for themselves and enjoy together as the team sing the carols to bring the festive vibe.
Reindeer Antler Ring Toss
For a fun physical activity try this game. Make team in pairs, participants wear antler headbands and their teammates try to toss rings onto them. Whoever lands the most rings on the antlers wins the game. To keep things safe use inflatable or soft rings and play some fun music in the background to bring the festive vibe.
Who Am I? Christmas Guessing Game
Play the classic guessing game with a Christmas twist. Stick the name of a famous holiday character like Rudolph, Frosty, or the Grinch on each person’s back. They then ask yes-or-no questions to figure out who they are. The first to guess correctly wins a prize.
Fun Gift Exchange
This is a simple twist to Christmas gift exchange or Secret Santa. It’s a favorite at many office parties, the make gift exchange more fun and turn it into a game. There are many fun ways to exchange gift, I have 15 Christmas Gift Exchange Games that are Fun you can look at them and pick one. I highly recommend a gift exchange game, as its a staple for Christmas party and Secret Santa is kind of not unique anymore.
Christmas Movie Quote Challenge
Make a list of famous quotes from popular Christmas movies and have everyone guess which movie they’re from. Whoever gets the most correct answers wins. Or you can use this game to warm up the Christmas party and get everyone into a fun Christmas mood. Arrange simple and small prize for those who can guess the character who said the quote to whom for an extra challenge.
Candy Cane Relay Race
Divide the participants into teams for a candy cane relay race. Each team member must pass a candy cane to the next without using their hands by hooking it onto the next person’s candy cane. The first team to finish wins the game.
Holiday Pictionary
Split into teams and use holiday-themed words and phrases like “Christmas tree” or “North Pole” for a festive game of Pictionary. Players have to draw clues while their teammates will guess within the time limit. You can use a whiteboard or large paper for everyone to see the drawings clearly and cheer on their team.
Guess the Christmas Ornament
Blindfold the participant and make them guess the ornament. Fill a jar with ornaments, candies, or holiday treats, or fill the same ornament in the jar without blindfolding and let everyone guess how many are inside. Whoever guesses closest to the actual number wins.
Christmas Karaoke Challenge
Whether people are singers or not, singing karaoke is a great way to get everyone involved and have fun. Encourage employees to sing their favorite Christmas songs, and award fun prizes for categories like “Most Enthusiastic” or “Best Duet.”
Holiday Two Truths and a Lie
This game is a fun icebreaker. Each person shares two true and one false statement about their Christmas traditions or memories, or about themselves, and everyone else guesses which one is the lie. This is also a great way to know colleagues better and bond.
Snowball Toss Challenge
Here is a fun game that’s sure to make everyone laugh. Set up a “snowball” toss by using small white balls or even crumpled paper balls. Place bins at various distances and have participants try to toss their “snowballs” into the buckets. The further away the bucket, the more points the participants get.
Christmas Bingo
Bingo never gets old and makes everyone feel nostalgic to play. Make Bingo cards featuring festive icons like snowflakes, reindeer, Santa, and Christmas trees. As the host calls out each symbol, players mark it on their cards. The participant who gets a complete row or diagonal must say “Bingo!” and win a prize. You can get these free holiday bingo to get started.
Guess the Holiday Scent
Collect a variety of holiday-scented candles or essential oils like pine, cinnamon, or peppermint. Blindfold participants and see who can identify each scent correctly. The person with the most correct guesses wins the game.
Christmas Cookie Decorating Contest
Set up a cookie decoration station with plain cookies and plenty of decorating supplies like frosting, sprinkles, and candies. Give participants set time to decorate, and have a panel of judges (or votes) for categories like “Most Creative” or “Most Festive Cookie.”
Wrap Race Christmas Challenge
Provide random items like staplers, water bottles, or ornaments for participants to wrap as quickly and as neatly as possible. The one who wraps within the time frame or fastest and most neatly wins the game. To make it extra fun, hand out unusual wrapping materials like newspaper or tissue paper and difficult-to-wrap objects.
Elf on the Shelf Search Challenge
Set up a daily Elf on the Shelf Search in the weeks leading up to the party. Hide an elf figure somewhere in the office each day and leave clues. The first person to find it gets a prize, and whoever finds it the most often by the day of the party wins a grand prize.
