Christmas is the season of joy and sharing. It is celebrated among billions of people around the world. Characterized with gift giving, festive spirit and sharing a traditional meal with family it is one of the most loved festivals. Homes and offices are decorated with colorful Christmas decorations like wreaths, garlands, tinsel, candy sticks, lights and stockings and of course, the main attraction, the Christmas tree. Corporates take this opportunity to express their appreciation to the employees by celebrating with a fun Christmas party. There are numerous ways in which to celebrate and have fun.  You may find a few interesting ideas here. 

Plan an ideal date and time which is convenient for all your team members. It could be a workday afternoon or evening or weekend evening.  Try and avoid the regular sit down dinner at the office and look for great party venues in Mumbai which are spacious and encourage free movement and socializing. Decide who the guests are going to be. Are they going to be just the employees or employees with one guest each or clients and vendors? Keep your budget in mind when you decide the number of guests. Send out invites that mention details like theme and dress code and request RSVP in advance.  At the party, let people sit with friends or team members with whom they share a good bonding rather than as per their department. Plan for exciting games but do not force people to participate. Allow them to get comfortable before they take part. Ban all office talk. The idea is to create a memorable event your team members will look forward to.

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Begin with a theme for the party and allow that theme to flow into the décor, dressing, games and activities and cuisine. Be generous with the food and drink.  You can choose from a wide range o f themes like masquerade ball, winter wonderland, chocolate factory, Santa’s workshop, nightmare before Christmas and Christmas around the world. Get the venue decorated with lights, balloons, stockings, wreaths, garlands, confetti, ceiling decorations like snowflake danglers, and snow spray on glass surfaces to express the festive mood and welcome the guests warmly. As your guests arrive, give them each a pen and paper and ask them to write down their favorite Christmas memory. Later have them all placed in a box together and read out randomly by other members. Let the others guess whose memory is which. This helps the team to get to know each other better.

Organize plenty fun activities like Christmas games, Secret Santa or White Elephant, Christmas carol karaoke, photo booth, and fancy dress, caricaturists and Christmas movie marathon. Begin the games and activities with an ice breaker. Some fun games that you can involve your team members in are-

Wrap Race

Get boxes and objects of different sizes and shapes, some wrapping paper, ribbon, tape, and scissors.  Pair the guests in twos. Have them stand next each other and tie the adjacent hands (one of each) together. Now ask the teams to wrap their “gift” using only one hand each that is the left hand of one member and the right hand of the other member. The team that wraps the gift using all the material first is the winner.

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Christmas Trivia

On colored paper cutouts of anything that symbolizes Christmas and write questions related to Christmas. Number them and hang them around or stick them on the wall. Ask your guests to write down the answers on a paper. The one with the most right answers wins.

Sample Questions:

What are the names of Santa's eight reindeer? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen

Finish the song line: "All I want for Christmas is..." my two front teeth

How do you say Merry Christmas in Spanish? Bonus: In French? Feliz Navidad; Joyeux Noel

What did Frosty the Snowman have for a nose? A button

Who wrote, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"? Clement Clarke Moore

What is the last line in Moore's poem? "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night."

What did the Three Wise Men bring? Gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Decorate that Christmas Tree!

You will need some ornaments that are used to deck up a Christmas tree like bows and ribbons, green crepe paper, tinsel, and candy sticks. Divide players into teams of three and have one member from each team to be the “Christmas tree”.  The task is to decorate the ‘Christmas tree’ using all the material provided within a time limit of 5 minutes.  After the ‘trees’ are dressed, make them perform a ramp walk to display their decoration. This game is fun not only for the participants but for the audience too. The best-dressed tree wins a prize.  An alternative to this game would be “dress the snowman” where toilet paper is used to roll around the ‘snowman’ and hats, scarves and a carrot are used to complete the look. The first team to finish dressing him is the winner.

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Find Your Christmas Carol

Want everyone to get into the Christmas spirit with some carols. Well, this game should help. It will have everyone in room humming carols at the same time!  There should be an even number of player to play this game.  Write out the names of Christmas carols in twos on different pieces of paper which means each song title will be written on two different chits. Put them all in a box and have everyone pick one chit out. The players start humming their tunes and must find their ‘partner ‘who is humming the same tune. When the players find each other, they shout “Merry Christmas”! This game is played for fun mostly.

Apart from fun Christmas games, you could get everyone to exchange gifts by playing secret Santa or white elephant. White elephant can be made as fun as one can get creative about the gifts. Alternatively, if most of your team members are movie buffs you could organize a quiet but fun filled evening with Christmas movie marathon. Make it more interesting by hosting this activity in the outdoors under the starry skies with sleeping bags, popcorn, a great meal and few drinks. All this is possible only if the weather permits of course. Else host the movie marathon in a comfortable indoors venue.  Christmas carol karaoke is another idea most will find appealing during the Christmas season. It feels great to sing carols together.

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Christmas parties are usually hosted to spend good times together, bond and cherish good memories. Keep the speeches short and dances long. Ensure that this party your team members feel appreciated and happy. It would be a good idea to be generous in gifting them. More than the gifts though it will be laughter and happy moments that they will remember.  Therefore include lots of fun activities like some of the above mentioned here and let your team members relax and be themselves.