thanksgiving team building activities
fun virtual thanksgiving activities for work
This article will 10+ awesome thanksgiving team building activity ideas to help your teams celebrate this holiday season.
Thanksgiving; a time for gathering, celebrating, sharing, and a whole lot of eating - it’s no wonder it’s the most loved holiday in America! We love Thanksgiving and any opportunity to celebrate with our family and friends, and even our work colleagues. This Thanksgiving, you can bring your teams together and inspire some festive holiday spirit and cheer with our fun Thanksgiving activities for work. This list includes arts and crafts, happy hour sessions, and even some fun icebreakers to help your team stay engaged and inspired. Let’s get right to it!
1. Thanksgiving arts and crafts
Tap into this festiveness this holiday season and encourage your team to embrace their inner artists with enjoyable crafting sessions. Activities like wreath making, soap making, and candle making are creative yet accessible and result in fantastic end-products that your team will be proud to use/display this holiday season, or even gift to a loved one as a holiday token.
If you're looking to add a culinary twist, how about a chocolate bomb-making class? Your team can learn a fun new skill, create impressive desserts, and enjoy a cup of rich cocoa together – a perfect touch of magic for your virtual gathering. To make your Thanksgiving celebration inclusive for team members and their families, you can organize a cookie decorating class or a gingerbread house decorating session. These activities provide a chance for your team to express their creativity and let the little ones have a blast with icing and sprinkles. It's a festive way to bring everyone together and create delicious, edible works of art.
2. Thanksgiving wine party
Treat your team to a fantastic Wine and Unwind session, the ultimate happy hour experience this holiday season. Our workshops are interactive and enjoyable, catering to wine enthusiasts and beginners alike, and nurturing connections and camaraderie among team members. Whether you're an aspiring connoisseur or just curious about wine, our sessions promise both education and entertainment.
Give your team an element of choice by letting them pick the activity that suits them best like a Classic Wine Tasting, a Charcuterie Board Making plus Wine session, Paint And Sip, Wine And Craft, or even Wine and Chocolate. These sessions appeal to all different types of teams, and guarantee your team will have something to talk about and share when they come back together!
3. Thanksgiving Charity Event
Use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to give back to the community and help your teams bond by working on a common goal. Charity efforts help boost employee engagement and morale, even more so if your teams are directly involved in the process.
Charity team building events are an awesome way to instill the holiday spirit and help your colleagues feel like they can make a difference. You can help your local community through a food or pet supply drive, help unemployed individuals with a corporate service day by giving out CV and interview skills, or support your troops by building soldier care packages. If your team is crafty, they can come together to write uplifting cards that will brighten someone’s day during the holiday season, especially veterans and senior citizens!
Check out our guide to charity team building events, including our top tips and some great resources and organizations you can support.
4. Thanksgiving Potluck
We all know the real meaning of Thanksgiving is the grub. It is the one time a year we get to eat all the delicious and indulgent foods we love and not feel bad about it. We all have our favorites - so why not invite your team to share their own and celebrate Friendsgiving? Your team can bring along and share their favorite recipes and create a special team project - a Thanksgiving cookbook! This is a great way to learn more about each other and our family recipes' unique twists.
To make this extra fun, ask your team to take pictures of their dishes, and have the team take turns guessing who made each dish. Ultimately, you can create a wonderful e-book full of great recipes your team can enjoy repeatedly.
5. Thanksgiving Game: This Or That
Sometimes, we just need a quick and easy game or icebreaker to energize our teams or add a touch of festivity to any event. Watch your team debate, and defend their food opinions in this Thanksgiving edition of This Or That!
Homemade or canned cranberry sauce?
Green bean casserole or glazed carrots?
Mashed potatoes or mac and cheese?
Sweet potato casserole or candied yams?
Pecan pie or chocolate pie?
Apple pie or pumpkin pie?
Classic stuffing or cornbread stuffing?
6. Thanksgiving Icebreakers
Icebreakers may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but they serve a real purpose. By giving everyone the chance to share an arguably insignificant opinion or thought like ‘what’s the best Thanksgiving pie,’ they get to share a piece of themselves with the group. They make themselves be heard, and the room can often respond with their own insignificant opinion or rebuttal.
Throughout the season, we use holiday icebreakers to make corporate parties more engaging, feel more personal, and help colleagues who may not see each other often learn a little about each other. Check out some of our favorite Thanksgiving icebreaker questions:
What is your favorite pumpkin-spice flavored product?
If you could only have one pie for Thanksgiving, which would you choose?
Have you ever attended a Thanksgiving day parade?
Does playing/watching sports play a big role in your Thanksgiving celebrations?
Do you have your big Thanksgiving meal for lunch or dinner?
What side dish cannot be missing from your Thanksgiving spread?
Do you have any Thanksgiving family traditions?
What is your favorite Thanksgiving TV episode or movie?
Do you prefer the Thanksgiving meal or leftovers?
What is the craziest thing you have seen or done during Black Friday?
Have you ever participated in a Turkey Trot?
What is your favorite fall dessert?
What is your favorite Starbucks holiday drink?
7. Thanksgiving team Trivia
Nothing says holiday party like a good round of pub quiz trivia. Challenge your team with an awesome session of themed Thanksgiving trivia and fall Trivia with fun categories like pop culture, TV and movies, holiday traditions, history, and more. Set some prizes to elevate this experience to reward the winning teams/individuals like an UberEats, Amazon, or VISA gift card. Check out five quick Thanksgiving trivia, the correct answer is bolded.
1. In Full House, who makes Pam’s famous pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving?
A) DJ
B) Jesse
C) Becky
2. Who makes a surprise appearance at Thanksgiving in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air?
A) Will’s mom
B) Geoffrey’s wife
C) Granny
3. The oldest documented turkey trot still takes place every year in which city?
A) Dallas, Texas
B) Buffalo, New York
C) Atlanta, Georgia
4. Eating fresh Dungeness crab during Thanksgiving is popular in which US region?
A) Baltimore, Maryland
B) San Francisco, California
C) New Orleans, Louisiana
5. Who was the first US president to ‘let a turkey go’?
A) Harry Truman
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Richard Nixon
8. Thanksgiving this or that
This or that is a fun and easy game for your teams to get to know each other and learnt about one another’s trivia preferences. Invite your team to justify their choices, and maybe even have a small debate which could be fun.
Pumpkin pie or pecan pie?
Candied yams or sweet potato casserole?
Canned or homemade cranberry sauce?
Classic stuffing or cornbread stuffing?
Spinach dip or buffalo chicken dip?
Roasted green beans or green bean casserole?
Glazed carrots or roasted brussels sprouts?
Alongside pie, whipped cream, or ice cream?
Turkey or side dishes?
Deviled eggs or pigs in blankets?
What’s next?
We hope this list has inspired you to bring your teams together this Thanksgiving and enjoy a fun and engaging session together. To book your next Thanksgiving/holiday experience, get in touch with a KraftyLab event specialist by calling us at 551-430-5384, sending an inquiry, or scheduling a call. We can’t wait to help you plan your next event!
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