Games for Corporate Christmas Party

Teams go on scavenger hunts to find listed items and
a hidden missing piece of a puzzle. The team that completes the hunt and solves the puzzle wins. The puzzle should be displayed in a central location with the last piece missing until found by the winners. It would be nice if the picture on the puzzle was a meaningful one to the corporation.

Hi!

Here's a couple of ideas your employees might enjoy.

Put together a trivia contest about the company or your industry. If there are spouses or guests invited be sure to include general knowledge questions.

Ask a question (a DJ or a senior officer can play the gameshow host). Make it a multiple choice. The first one who raises his/her hand and answers correctly goes to the front of the room. When you have about 5-6 people at the front, then ask another question. Only the people at the front can answer. The first one to get it correctly wins a prize.

The others go back to the audience. Once a person has won a prize, they're ineligible to keep playing.

It's sort of like "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." This goes over very well at parties.

Make some of the questions easy...others more difficult...but something everyone in the audience should know.

Another activity that's fun -- especially is you have enough similar prizes for a table-full of guests -- is to build something.

We did a party where the guests were each given all the materials they needed to build a gingerbread house in 20 minutes. The team who built the best-looking one in that time won. All the gingerbread houses were then donated to a local shelter.

What's great is that it's fun, it's competitive, it requires teamwork, it has a charitable outcome, and it's an active rather than passive competition.

You could do a similar thing by giving your guests the materials they need to decorate a small Christmas tree and/or make their own ornaments.

The best-looking tree (or funniest, most creatives, etc.) builders are given a prize and the trees are donated after the party to an area charity or to a local hospital or nursing home.

Hope those help! Happy Holidays!

Phyllis Cambria
Co-author with Patty Sachs of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Throwing a Great Party"
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I created a game for our company christmas party last year. We have a small company and don`t give bonus`s so this game is intended to let our employees know our appreciation and everyone leaves with a prize. Prior to the party buy $100 gift certificates(or amt you choose) to various stores, restruants,resorts, etc. I buy one gift certificate(of equal value) for each employee(not spouse or guest) attending the party. Employee`s not attending the party miss out on the fun.Place the each gift certicate in a seperate, unmarked envelope, make sure all envelopes are the same and can`t be seen through. Place each (attending)employees name on a slip of paper and place in a bag, hat, or dish to be drawn out during the party. The president of our company holds this bag. Through out the night a name is picked out of a bag. That employee chooses an envelope (without knowing what they have picked). The employee opens the envelope to see what they have won. The next employee to pick can either pick a new unopened envelope or take any prize already opened. The hitch is a prize can only be taken twice. If it has been taken from any person twice the last person to capture it keeps it, and it is frozen. The person it is taken from is allowed to pick from the pile again and the process continues until all names have been drawn. One last rule, the very first person to pick is allowed to trade their gift certificate one last time with any one who holds a certificate, except for those already frozen. The first person to pick in the game never has a choice to keep or trade, so they get their choice at the end. To get the game real interesting and competitive, throw a couple of cash awards(equivalant to the gift cert. Amt) instead of a gift certificate into the pot. All gift certificates should equal the same dollar amount. We have also played the game with actual prizes (similar in price) instead of gift certificates. All prizes are kept a secret and no one knows what they are going to leave with.

TREASURE HUNT with teams & Maps., clues etc. Like Survivor.
Have me do a Caricature from photos of staff & make slides out of them. One who guesses their own sketch wins prize & Sketch ! Dance Contest!

You know make it easy. Buy a role of tickets with numbers on them and draw. The employees have already worked, don`t make them work for a prize, just draw it and give it.

We came up with a good mixer game. Print the lyrics to favorite christmas carols, and cut them into odd sentences. For example..

Grandma
Got run over by
A reindeer coming home

Have the party guests draw them from a Santa hat. The first group to find each other and sing the entire carol wins a candy cane etc. The remaining group then exchanges lyric slips and start again until everyone wins.