Games For Employees For The Christmas Season

Hi all,
We are planning a Christmas party for around 70 employees.
Any thoughts on what kind of games we can have with theme Christmas & New year?
Pls share :)
Thanks
Hemaa

hi hemaa,

Well this is a problem which almost hr department would be facing, merely because we are concerned about the feedback of our initiatives.

not only does an hr department faces such a situation, but if we map this situation to the real world we are always in a dilemma, whether the gift we are giving to our loved ones would be appreciated or not.

one probable situation could be "involve the employees", let them speak their heartout as what "THEY" want in a christmas party or in any other situation for that matter.

the advantage of adopting such a plan is that, primarily the employees feel important as their opinion is valued.

also an action(xmas party) for someone(employees) will yield best result when the action is in accordance to the preferences of the employees.

thus u can try the following:

ask what the employees want in xmas party

besides the lip work, ask them how would they contribute for the same eg, decoration, singing carols, a employee good at cooking can bake a cake.

if ur co has department or teams, u can always arrange for a small competition such as best decoration and so on.

well that was my opinion, please do let me know the feasibility of the same as well as any improvements, ur comments as well

thanks and regards

KUMAR ABHIJIT

Thanks for your insight.
Yes, we did involve the employees and ran a poll seeking their opinion. We are planning decoration contest & creatively dressed person contest on that day.
Apart from these contests, we are in need of ideas for different games to entertain the crowd for about 60 minutes, before we break for christmas dinner.

Hi hema.,

Check it out the following icebreaker whether it suits to ur ocassion

Name of Icebreaker - Biscuit Tin

Category of Icebreaker - Communication

Time Scales - 20 Minutes

Size of Group - 10 +

Materials Required: - Empty Biscuit Tin, Strips of paper, stopwatch &

pens

Aim of Icebreaker: To encourage participation and teamwork within the

group and

to enhance communication skills

Pre-Organisation

None

Process

Give each team member 6 strips of blank paper and ask them to write a

different

famous person on each one. They must then fold the piece of paper

twice so will

not fall open easily. Once they have all done this, they put their

pieces of

paper into the biscuit tin. You must then split the group in to teams

of 5 or 6

and the teams are to sit together. One person in Team A starts. You

start the

stopwatch.

The first person has to pick a strip of paper out of the tin and

explain to their

own team who that person is without saying their name. Once their team

has

guessed that person correctly then they put that strip of person to the

side and

take out another piece and explains again who that person is. When one

minute is

up you shout STOP and the biscuit tin is passed to Team B. If a team

member does

not know who the person is on the piece of paper then they can put it

back folded

into the tin. They are only allowed to do this 3 x per go. You must

be keep

score of the number of correct guesses each team has and the winning

team is the

team with the highest score.

regards

skr

Hi Heema:

There are many;

Indoor :

1. Parcing the parcel - Play it differently by adding the theme - Changing names.

Give the parcel to anyone and ask them to do whatever is written in it, now the box needs to be moved to another person by calling their name, the second person should do and then pass it to the next person by calling their name.

Rules: NO names should be repeated, also they should not call their friends names(people who sit the same cubical or bay).

(This game is just make sure everyone knows eachother)

2. Treaure hunt - 2 ways (one you could give a gift wrap and ask them to identity whats in it), the other game is keep something hidden and give them clues

3. Khon bhanega Luckpatty?? (this would be similar the the KBC game, but at the final round you get a gift)

4. As usual - Dumbsharad and musical chair

5. Paint the picture - You could draw a Santa and ask anyone to fraw eyes or the hat to santa, by closing their eyes...

So have lots of fun & enjoy the festive season......:)

I hope this would be of some help..