Christmas is the perfect time to boost team morale, celebrate successes, and bring everyone together. Forget about the stress of day-to-day tasks and focus on creating a memorable holiday experience for your team with engaging office Christmas party games. Here are 30 of the best office Christmas party games that can bring both in-office and remote teams closer together.
1. Ultimate Holiday Game Show
Organize a holiday-themed quiz show hosted by a spirited emcee. This high-energy game pits teams against one another in various festive challenges that test general Christmas knowledge and holiday trivia.
- Materials Needed: AV equipment, scoreboard, buzzers
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Group Size: 60-1,000+
2. White Elephant Gift Exchange
A holiday favorite, White Elephant Gift Exchanges involve quirky, funny, or inexpensive gifts that are exchanged and potentially “stolen” by other participants, ensuring plenty of laughs.
- Materials Needed: Wrapped gifts
- Duration: 1-1.5 hours
- Group Size: Medium-sized groups
3. Virtual Holiday Party
For remote teams, a Virtual Holiday Party can include various online festive games, such as a virtual Secret Santa, holiday trivia, or even a digital escape room. Platforms like Zoom or Microsoft Teams make this possible.
- Materials Needed: Virtual meeting tools, planned activities
- Duration: 1.5-3 hours
- Group Size: Small to large remote teams
4. Christmas Scavenger Hunt
A fun and engaging activity that involves hiding Christmas-related items around the office or a digital scavenger hunt for remote teams.
- Materials Needed: Christmas-themed scavenger hunt sheets
- Duration: 1 hour
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
5. Gingerbread House Building Contest
Teams compete to create the most creative, beautiful, or amusing gingerbread houses. A perfect combination of competition and creativity.
- Materials Needed: Gingerbread house kits, decorations
- Duration: 1-1.5 hours
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
6. Christmas Tree Decorating Competition
Participants are divided into teams and given mini Christmas trees and decorations. They have a limited time to create the most festive tree.
- Materials Needed: Mini trees, decorations
- Duration: 20-30 minutes
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
7. Holiday Bingo
A festive twist on traditional bingo with holiday-themed items or actions. This can include variations such as holiday costumes, making it suitable for both in-person and virtual settings.
- Materials Needed: Bingo cards, markers
- Duration: 30-45 minutes
- Group Size: Any size
8. Seasonal Scavenger Hunt
Create a list of holiday-themed items for teams to find around the office. The first team to find all items wins.
- Materials Needed: List of items
- Duration: 1 hour
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
9. Guess the Coworker’s Childhood Photo
Participants bring in childhood photos and everyone tries to guess who’s who. This brings nostalgia and a sense of bonding.
- Materials Needed: Photos of team members as children
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
10. Ugly Sweater Contest
Encourage everyone to wear their funniest or most horrendous Christmas sweaters. Vote on the ugliest, funniest, or most creative ones.
- Materials Needed: Sweaters, prize for winner
- Duration: 20-30 minutes
- Group Size: Small to large teams
11. Christmas Carol Karaoke
Set up a karaoke machine and a list of Christmas carols. Everyone gets a chance to belt out their holiday favorites.
- Materials Needed: Karaoke machine, music
- Duration: 1-2 hours
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
12. Christmas Jeopardy
Organize a Jeopardy-style game with questions related to Christmas movies, songs, and general holiday knowledge.
- Materials Needed: Jeopardy board, questions
- Duration: 1 hour
- Group Size: Small to large teams
13. Holiday Charades
Play a game of charades using titles of Christmas carols, movies, or other holiday-related items. This is perfect for breaking the ice and having fun.
- Materials Needed: Slips of paper, hat or bowl
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
14. Christmas Icebreakers
Start your party with a few holiday-themed icebreaker questions to get everyone talking and mingling.
- Materials Needed: List of questions
- Duration: 20-30 minutes
- Group Size: Any size
15. Christmas Candy Bar
Set up a candy bar with festive treats. This can serve as both an activity and a delightful treat station.
- Materials Needed: Candy, jars, scoops
- Duration: Throughout the party
- Group Size: Any size
16. Pet Party
Invite employees to bring their pets to the party, either physically or virtually. Pets can participate in costume contests and other fun activities.
- Materials Needed: Pet treats, costumes
- Duration: 1-2 hours
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
17. Reindeer Antlers
Teams race to create reindeer antlers using pantyhose and balloons. This game combines creativity with a bit of friendly competition.
- Materials Needed: Pantyhose, balloons, ribbons
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
18. Christmas Cookie Decorating
Have a station where team members can decorate pre-made cookies with festive icing, sprinkles, and candies.
- Materials Needed: Cookies, icing, decorations
- Duration: 1-2 hours
- Group Size: Small to large teams
19. Pin the Beard on Santa
A festive twist on pin the tail on the donkey. Blindfolded participants try to pin a white cotton beard onto Santa’s face.
- Materials Needed: Santa cut-out, beard cut-outs, pins
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Group Size: Small teams
20. Holiday Human Bingo
Create a bingo card with different holiday activities or characteristics and have employees find coworkers who fit the descriptions.
- Materials Needed: Bingo cards, pens
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Group Size: Any size
21. Virtual Gingerbread House Building
Remote teams can receive kits in advance and build gingerbread houses together via a video call.
- Materials Needed: Gingerbread house kits, decorations
- Duration: 1-1.5 hours
- Group Size: Small to medium remote teams
22. Christmas Movie Marathon
Set up a cozy space with a projector and screen Christmas classics like “Home Alone” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
- Materials Needed: Projector, screen, movies
- Duration: Several hours
- Group Size: Any size
23. Holiday “Never Have I Ever”
Play a Christmas-themed version of “Never Have I Ever” to learn fun facts about your coworkers’ holiday experiences.
- Materials Needed: List of prompts
- Duration: 30-45 minutes
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
24. Christmas Trivia
Test your holiday knowledge with a trivia game focused on Christmas history, movies, and traditions.
- Materials Needed: Trivia questions, answer sheets
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Group Size: Any size
25. Christmas Carol Lip Sync Battle
Teams pick a favorite Christmas song and perform a lip-sync battle. This can be a hilarious and entertaining activity.
- Materials Needed: Christmas songs, props
- Duration: 1 hour
- Group Size: Small to large teams
26. Christmas Pictionary
Draw holiday-themed words and phrases on a board while teammates guess what they are. Pictionary is a fun and creative game that can be enjoyed by everyone.
- Materials Needed: Whiteboard, markers
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
27. Holiday Origami Class
Learn to create Christmas-themed origami decorations like stars and reindeer. This relaxing activity helps team members unwind.
- Materials Needed: Origami paper, instructions
- Duration: 1 hour
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
28. Christmas Photo Booth
Set up a photo booth with festive props and backdrops. Ensure there’s a camera or a hired photographer to capture all the fun moments.
- Materials Needed: Photo booth props, camera
- Duration: Throughout the party
- Group Size: Any size
29. Jingle Bell Toss
A game where participants aim to toss jingle bells into cups of varying sizes for points. The one with the most points wins.
- Materials Needed: Jingle bells, cups
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Group Size: Small to medium teams
30. Holiday Wellness Programs
Incorporate wellness activities such as yoga, meditation or a short holiday-themed fitness session to promote mental and physical well-being.
- Materials Needed: Fitness or wellness expert, yoga mats
- Duration: 1-2 hours
- Group Size: Any size
These office Christmas party games will help your team celebrate the season, bond, and leave the stress of work behind. Introduce a mix of classic and innovative activities tailored to your team’s preferences and watch as the holiday cheer amplifies. Merry Christmas and happy bonding!
