10 Office Christmas Party Ideas & Activities for Adults
If you’re looking for office Christmas parties that are unique and different, Simply the Best Events have enough ideas for many Christmases to come! Find inspiration from our ideas and activities for office Christmas parties and discover how your colleagues can enjoy some festive fun with our exciting games and attractions.
10 Office Christmas Party Ideas Your Team Will Actually Enjoy
When booking entertainment for office Christmas parties, it is often difficult to judge what would please everyone and whether the majority of the office would get involved. Luckily, our ideas and activities are friendly and engaging for everyone in the office, guaranteeing hours of fun in the festive season.
With something for everyone, we can help you tailor Christmas entertainment packages to suit your workplace, so that you can be sure your office Christmas party will be an overwhelming success.
1. Start an Office Curling Competition
Get into the festive spirit with one of the most popular winter games. With curling lane hire, you can bring the spirit of the Winter Olympics to your office for colleagues to enjoy.
With synthetic surfaces and equipment provided, our curling lane hire is perfect for any indoor office space whilst still providing the same authentic experience as a real ice curling lane.
2. Find the Office Batak Champion
Surprise office staff with a unique game that will raise friendly competitive spirits. A Batak wall challenges everyone’s agility, speed and skill – perfect for a quick game that people will try over and over again.
Creating a high-energy environment, a Batak wall is a great way to get the office Christmas party started, acting as the perfect icebreaker to get people involved or a fantastic feature for colleagues to return to throughout the event.
3. Run a Festive Shuffleboard Tournament
Shuffleboard offers both individual and team competition, creating an energetic atmosphere as groups can play one-off matches or a full shuffleboard competition.
A unique game that is a staple for office Christmas entertainment, shuffleboard is one of our most popular Christmas party features, bringing social groups together to enjoy the drama and strategy of competitive puck sliding into the score zone.
4. Go Head-to-Head at Air Hockey
Bring a classic arcade game into your office space for Christmas, encouraging colleagues to enjoy unlimited matches on air hockey tables! With fast-paced, head-to-head action, colleagues can play one-off games or create a full tournament to crown the office champion.
Air hockey is a game of reflexes and fast reactions – bring a chaos-filled arcade staple to your next office Christmas party for some high-paced, puck-smashing fun!
5. Build a Retro Office Arcade
There’s no better way to organise a nostalgic office Christmas party than with our range of retro office arcade machines. A great option for additional casual entertainment at your Christmas party, you can turn your office into a retro arcade with our classic game machines.
With famous titles such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong on the system, your colleagues will be hooked on every blast from the past. Retro arcade machines are a great way to uncover old memories, decking your office Christmas party out with games that every generation will love.
6. Race Your Colleagues on Giant Scalextric
If competitiveness is in your colleagues’ nature, giant Scalextric is a great way to find out the office’s racing champion. With a full track that will test the best Scalextric players, groups can take part in heats to decide who will claim a podium place.
A great activity for your colleagues to unwind with at the office Christmas party, giant Scalextric is a memorable, unique activity that everyone can take part in.
7. Host a Christmas Casino Night
For colleagues that want to test their luck, you can turn the office Christmas party into a festive casino night, with roulette, blackjack, poker and wheel of fortune available to hire.
With fake money available, office casino games can be inclusive for every colleague as they break out their poker faces and see who can build up the biggest prize pot.
8. Challenge the Boss on Table Football
A classic activity that is seen in sports clubs and pubs across the country, bring table football into your office Christmas party as an additional activity to see who can score the most goals.
Testing everyone’s defensive abilities and sharp shooting, colleagues can play one-off games, winner stays on, or in true football spirit, create their own World Cup-style competition.
9. Take on a Christmas Simulator Challenge
For a more physically demanding activity, choose from our range of Christmas simulators to see who can hang on for the longest!
Seeing colleagues being flung about on our Christmas pudding or reindeer simulators will always bring great laughs. With everyone trying to top the leaderboard, see who can brave the havoc the longest and claim the top spot on one of our simulators!
10. Create the Ultimate Office Games Zone
If you can’t decide on one activity, bundle lots of them together to create a massive games zone for your office Christmas party. Your colleagues can bounce between different activities, getting a taste of a range of different festive games whilst keeping everyone entertained.
You can include something for everyone, featuring games with different levels of intensity, difficulty and strategy. By creating a festive zone that everyone will enjoy, your Christmas party will be full of thrills and competitive spirit for hours.
Find the Right Office Christmas Party Activities for Your Team
Unsure which office Christmas party activity would be best for you and your team? Feel free to reach out to us for more information, or to have a no-pressure chat about which activities would work best in your office.
We can help you figure out which activities would suit your office Christmas party, what would fit within your budget and what would work best in your space.
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Planning Your Office Christmas Party?
It’s never too early to plan ahead, and finalising the details of your next office Christmas party will be one task off your to-do list for the rest of the year.
Get in touch to get the festive season sorted, locking in some festive fun for your colleagues to enjoy at the end of the year.