Valentine’s Day Team Building Ideas For Work
fun ideas to celebrate valentine’s day at work
This article will feature 20+ fun valentine’s day team building ideas and valentine’s day games to celebrate with your virtual team!
Valentine's Day is a unique holiday that focuses on all the great things in life: love, friendship, and family. This Valentine's Day, invite your team to celebrate at work with a fun team building session, a virtual game that will challenge them, a fun icebreaker to kick off any meeting, or to bond through a charity team building event. Taking the time to celebrate this fun holiday will boost your team's morale and give them a chance to unwind, connect and learn a little about one another. Now, onto our Valentine's Day activities!
Valentine's Day Team Building Activities
Food and drinks bring people together, so invite your team for a fun session where they can create something delicious and enjoy it too! Depending on your team's dynamics and preferences, you may choose a family-friendly experience like cookie decorating or something more geared towards grown-up palates like some decadent chocolate truffles.
Valentine's Day Cookie Decorating Class.
Cookie Decorating: Send your team an all-inclusive kit with plain sugar cookies, icing, and icing dye to create some beautiful and tasty sugar cookies. Your instructor will teach your team core concepts like outlining and flooding and show your team how to recreate some fun Valentine's Day designs and patterns.
Hot Chocolate Bombs: What's lovelier than sharing a warm cup of cocoa? In this fun class, your team will learn how to assemble and decorate an impressive hot chocolate bomb. This kit includes a gift box so they can give it to a loved one or enjoy a warm cup of cocoa with their team!
Chocolate Truffles: Chocolate truffles are an indulgent and rich treat that is super easy to make. Send your colleagues a chocolate-making kit with premium Valhrona chocolate and watch as they learn to make these delicious treats. Flavor options include a Sea Salt Caramel Mocha truffle and a Dark Chocolate and Raspberry truffle, perfect for Valentine's Day!
2. Valentine's Day Happy Hour
Invite your team to the ultimate themed happy hour and celebrate this special holiday. We recommend running this idea past your team and choosing an experience that will suit them best, especially if you have team members who opt out of consuming alcohol.
Valentine’s Day Cocktail Making Class.
Cocktail Making: In this class, a professional mixologist will teach your group how to mix, shake and pour some delicious drinks. Your team will receive a cocktail-making kit and all the equipment and ingredients to make three delicious and festive mocktails and/or cocktails. After class, they can use their new skills to press their friends, family, and loved ones!
Wine Tasting: Invite a wine expert to share their knowledge with your team during a luxury wine tasting. Your team can choose from a classic wine tasting featuring a red, white and rose of the season, a wine and charcuterie making session, or even a chocolate and wine tasting, which is incredibly fitting!
3. Valentine's Day Arts & Crafts
Crafting is a great way to relax and decompress, and art projects make for excellent Valentine's Day gifts for someone in your life. Invite your group to build upon their art skills and create their masterpieces.
Valentine’s Day Origami Class.
Origami: The art of paper folding is ancient, and yet we are still amazed by the process and result of this exciting art form. To stay on theme, your team can learn how to make adorable crafts like an origami heart, flower bouquet, or even an origami butterfly!
Card Decorating: A handcrafted card is a unique way to share your love and appreciation for someone in your life. In this class, your team will learn exciting calligraphy techniques and fun and accessible designs to decorate your Valentine's Day card.
Painting Class: Invite your team to learn how to create their very own Valentine’s Day masterpiece! Our experienced instructor will teach them how to create fun and exciting designs to proudly display in their home office or share with a loved one.
4. Valentine's Day Charity Team Building
Invite your team to participate in charity team building and support someone who may appreciate the extra love this time of year. Working on a meaningful project can help foster a sense of community and teamwork, which will help your team in the long run.
Card Decorating Team Building Session For Charity.
Your team can support a cause like Valentine's For Veterans and share their appreciation for our service members and veterans, or partner with Cupid Crew and send love to older Americans who may be more at risk of isolation this Valentine's Day.
For a more hands-on experience, embark on a team project and create some unique gifts for children in foster care with the help of Together We Rise. Your team can decorate ‘sweet cases’ for foster children to carry their belongings, decorate birthday boxes or STEM boxes, or even build bikes and skateboards!
5. Valentine's Day Virtual Games
A fun virtual game can be a great addition to your Valentine's Day celebrations! Your team will enjoy the break from the routine, have some fun and learn a little about one another. If you want an easy way to create further excitement, set out some easy prizes for grabs, like an Uber Eats or DoorDash gift card, so Valentine's Day lunch or dinner can be on you!
Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt.
Valentine’s Day Music Bingo: Treat your team to an energizing mix of music full of all the greatest love songs! This fun virtual game will have your team singing and bopping and singing along to all the best love songs while getting to know each other's tastes and expanding their music knowledge.
Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt: In this fast-paced game, your team will quickly learn how well they know their home and its items as they go on a scavenger hunt. They will race against the clock and one another as they try to find as many Valentine's Day-inspired items as chocolate, something heart-shaped, a card, or even a stuffed animal!
Valentine’s Day Team Trivia: Find out who among you has all the loving knowledge as you are challenged to guess rom-com, TV episodes, and love song lyric trivia. You will quickly discover who is the most well-versed among you and crown a team trivia king or queen.
6. Valentine's Day Icebreaker games
A Valentine's Day game like this or that questions or trivia can be a fun, easy, and free addition to any team meeting, corporate event, or huddle. You can use these games/questions and icebreakers to kick off your Valentine's day celebrations and get your team pumped!
Valentine's Day Icebreaker Questions
What is your favorite Valentine's Day candy?
Who was your first celebrity crush?
What is your favorite love song?
Who is your least favorite character from a romantic movie?
What dessert would you want to have on a Valentine's Day date?
1. Conversation Hearts or Smarties?
2. Hershey's Kisses or Reese's Peanut Butter Hearts?
3. Lindt Truffles or Ferrero Rochers?
4. Total Eclipse Of The Heart by Bonnie Tyler or Can't Help Falling In Love by Elvis?
5. All Of Me by John Legend or Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars?
1. In Dirty Dancing, what does Baby's father do for a living?
A) Doctor
B) Lawyer
C) Businessman
2. In Pretty Woman, what is Edward scared of?
A) Water
B) Flying
C) Heights
3. In The Notebook, where do Allie and Noah meet?
A) A carnival
B) A party
C) The beach
4. What Shakespeare play is 10 Things I Hate About You inspired by?
A) The Taming Of The Shrew
B) Romeo And Juliet
C) The Tempest
5. In A Star Is Born, which song do Jack and Ally perform together?A) There You'll Be
B) Never Enough
C) Shallow
1. Which candy does the slogan ‘taste the rainbow’ belong to?
A) M&Ms
B) Starbursts
C) Skittles
2. Hershey’s Hugs are a Hershey Kiss covered in _____?
A) Caramel
B) Dark Chocolate
C) White Chocolate
3. Which singer originally wrote and performed ‘I Will Always Love You’?
A) Stevie Nicks
B) Dolly Parton
C) Elton John
4. Which of the following is Ed Sheeran’s best-selling song?
A) Thinking Out Loud
B) Perfect
C) Shape Of You
5. William, Price of Wales, and Kate Middleton met while studying at which of the following universities?
A) University of St.Andrew’s
B) Imperial College London
C) University Of Oxford
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