fun HOLIDAY TEAM BUILDING ideas
holiday team building activities and games
This article will feature 15+ fun and exciting virtual holiday team building ideas to help remote teams connect and have fun! Perfect for holiday parties and corporate events.
Help your teams connect all holiday season along with our fun holiday team building activities! Maintaining morale and employee engagement during the holiday season is important among all the deadlines and hustle and bustle. So, prioritizing setting time aside for your teams to engage, have fun, and relax is key! Your team will get to know each other better, feel more connected to your company and unwind with their colleagues. If you want to ensure your next office holiday party is a success, include a fun team building session for your colleagues and make sure it is unforgettable! Check out 15+ of our favorite holiday team building experiences:
Holiday Art & Craft Activities
1. Candle Making: Help your team channel their inner creatives and invite them to a fun craft session with an awesome end product. Give your team the gift of coziness through an easy candle-making class, where they will learn how to melt, pour and decorate candles from the comfort of their home.
2. Soap Making: Alternatively, show them how easy it is to create luxury shea-butter-based soap bars with a soap-making class. To get your team in the holiday spirit, choose from our range of holiday scents, including Pine Forest, Pumpkin Eggnog, and Apple Cinnamon!
All activities include an all-inclusive kit containing everything you need for your activity, plus an experienced instructor that will guide your team along the way. Your team will enjoy their candle or soap bar or even gift it to a loved one over the holiday season.
3. Card Making: For a quick and easy session, invite your team to an awesome card decorating session! Our instructors will teach your team some simple and accessible techniques, including calligraphy tips, to make a beautiful holiday gift: a handmade card!
KraftyLab’s Candle Making Experience.
Holiday happy hour Session
4. Mixology Session: Cocktail parties are a key part of the holiday season, so let’s plan your next team happy hour! Invite your team to an exclusive mixology experience with a trained mixologist who will teach them how to make delicious holiday cocktails. Your team will receive a kit with all the tools and ingredients (no alcohol is included) to make delicious three delicious holiday cocktails/mocktails: a Holiday Mule, Apple Cider Sour, and Cranberry Fizz.
5. Wine Tasting: For a fun spin on Happy Hour, KraftyLab’s wine tasting workshop is a deluxe experience that your teams will no doubt remember. Our Wine and Unwind series features five different experiences, including a Classic Wine Tasting where participants receive a sampling kit with a red, white and seasonal rose wine, or they can enjoy a delightful Wine And Charcuterie experience and learn how to build a charcuterie board while they sip on a delicious glass of wine.
Alternatively, add a delightful creative twist to happy hour with our Sip And Paint and Wine And Craft experiences, where teams get to attend an awesome arts and crafts session like Holiday Painting, Japanese Marbling or Soap Making, while they sip on a delicious glass of handcrafted wine.
KraftyLab’s Virtual Mixology Experience.
Holiday Family-Friendly Experiences
6. Cookie Decorating: Incorporate your teams’ families into your holiday celebrations by opting for a family-friendly team building experience like a cookie decorating class! It is a great way to let your teams get creative and let their little ones go wild with icing and sprinkles galore! Our host will teach your colleagues how to recreate fun festive designs and facilitate team building during this light-hearted class. You can even have a custom round where teams compete for the most innovative holiday cookie!
7. Chocolate Bomb Making: A hot chocolate bomb-making class is a perfect cozy alternative if you have an older group of kids on the team. Invite your team to create chocolate bombs and fill them with all their favorite toppings, like marshmallows, sprinkles, and cocoa powder, ready to be dunked in a hot cup of milk. Your team will receive an all-inclusive kit delivered right to their door with all the equipment and ingredients needed to make a delicious cup of hot chocolate.
8. Gingerbread House Decorating: Let your team channel their inner child as they have fun during a gingerbread house decorating class! Your team will receive an all-inclusive kit with blank gingerbread cookie sheets, icing, and candies. They will assemble and be able to put their twist on their gingerbread house with the help of our instructor. You can elevate this experience with a contest for the most detailed or creative house and a fun prize up for grabs!
9. Chocolate Truffle Making: Our chocolate truffle-making class is the ultimate fudgy chocolate treat for grown-ups. Learn how to make these super simple and delicious treats, and enjoy a rich and creamy chocolate center covered in a smooth chocolate shell. You can choose a two-truffle or three-truffle kit, with flavors options including Sea Salt Caramel Mocha, Dark Raspberry, and White Chocolate Coconut Matcha.
KraftyLab’s Cookie Decorating Class.
Fun Virtual Games For Holiday Parties
10. Blurt: Blurt is a central hub for all your favorite party games! Your team will play several fun mini-games in this super interactive and engaging game session. Blurt will have your team racing against the clock to find items in their home during Search It Out, test their music and movie knowledge with a session of charades, inspire some friendly competition with a fantastic Pictionary session, and more!
11. Holiday Music Bingo: Music Bingo is one of our favorite twists on a classic game. Music bingo is hosted by a professional DJ and host that will guarantee a fun and memorable experience for your team. Your host will use the breaks between songs to play a little game, connect through a fun icebreaker, or even give people a chance to comment on their favorite tunes. This experience includes custom virtual Bingo cards, and you can elevate this experience with some fun prizes to sweeten the pot! Our host will curate playlists for the perfect holiday party with all your favorite Christmas jingles and holiday songs.
12. Holiday Scavenger Hunt: In this fun and hilarious virtual game, your team will be on a quest against one another to find out how well they know their home and the location of their belongings! Your host will guide your teams into small groups, and they will race to find and collect as many winter and holiday items as possible. Scavenger hunts are awesome for team building sessions, as colleagues will strategize, divide, and conquer to optimize their search! Are you ready to find out who in your team has the biggest holiday candle or if anybody secretly has a life-size ornament in their home? We are!
Free Holiday Games
13. Free Christmas Trivia Game: Inspire some friendly competition among your teams this holiday season with a fun game of Team Trivia: Christmas Edition! Check out some of our favorite Christmas trivia questions, including Christmas Movie and TV Trivia, and fun Christmas Trivia, including traditions, music, food, and pop culture questions!
To receive a free playable and interactive version of this game, sign up for our icebreaker newsletter, Break The Ice for free and we will send it directly to your inbox so you can download it and play with your teams. For a sneak peek at the game, check out some of the trivia questions included:
1. What are the burglars in Home Alone known as?
A) The Wet Bandits
B) Gold-Toothed Bandits
C) Scarface Bandits
2. In the movie Elf, where does Buddy go to find his biological father?
A) The Rockefeller Center
B) The Empire State Building
C) One World Trade Center
3. In Friends, who invents Santa’s Tex-Mex friend, The Holiday Armadillo?
A) Joey
B) Ross
C) Chandler
14. Christmas Emoji Quiz: Play a hilarious game of Guess The Emoji Title: Christmas Edition. It may sound intimidating, but it’s super simple! All you need to do is set up a slide show with one/two categories: Christmas Movies and Christmas Songs. Then, you can either create your emoji combinations or invite your teams to send their emoji titles. Check out some easy Christmas Emoji combinations:
👀👩😘🎅- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
🏠👦 - Home Alone
🤐🌃- Silent Night
🏠🎄- Home For Christmas
❄🚅 - Polar Express
🎄🎄🎄🎄 - Four Christmases
❌👩👧👧🎄 - Bad Moms Christmas
🎸🔁🎄- Rocking Around The Christmas Tree
🚘🏠🎄 - Driving Home For Christmas
15. Christmas Icebreakers: Icebreaker questions are an easy and quick way to connect with your team and give everyone a chance to have their voice heard in a group. You can post them on your social media and your communication channel or even use them as conversation starters during your next holiday party. Check out five fun and easy Christmas icebreaker questions:
1. Do you prefer Christmas presents or Christmas dinner?
2. What is the coolest gift you have ever given someone?
3. Have you ever participated in an Ugly Sweater Contest? If so, did you win?
4. What is your favorite Christmas ornament or decoration?
5. What is the best Christmas cookie?
If you enjoyed these, check out this article featuring 60 holiday icebreaker questions!
16. Never Have I Ever: Christmas Edition: Play a game of holiday Never Have I Ever with your team! Choose from our work-friendly prompts and learn more about your colleagues and their holiday experiences, mistakes, and traditions.
1. Never Have I Ever…forgot to get someone important a Christmas gift?
2. Never Have I Ever…messed up a key component of Christmas dinner?
3. Never Have I Ever… regifted a present?
4. Never Have I Ever…hosted a holiday party?
5. Never Have I Ever…taken a picture with a mall Santa?
17. Holiday This or That
If you want a quick and easy way to connect with your team, play a lightning round of holiday This Or That! Everyone will get to choose their option, and encourage the team to defend their opinions and decide on the best Christmas foods, movies, music, and more!
1. Turkey or ham?
2. Mulled wine or eggnog?
3. Christmas sweaters or Christmas pajamas?
4. Elf or The Grinch?
5. Sugar cookies or gingerbread cookies?
If you enjoyed these, check out this article featuring 60 holidays This Or That questions!
What’s next?
We hope this list has given you plenty of awesome ideas for holiday team building experiences. To make this process as seamless and efficient, get in touch with a KraftyLab virtual event specialist and let’s plan the ultimate holiday party together. You can schedule a call, send an inquiry or call us directly at 551-430-5384!
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