Some ideas for a cozy homegrown Christmas party for office workers

Are you wondering how to plan a Christmas event for your company, what to prepare, what programs are available… This article will be a suggestion for you.

Christmas, also known as Christmas, Xmas, or Noel, is an occasion to celebrate the birth of Jesus, especially important to the Christian community around the world. Although not an official holiday in Vietnam, people often freely decorate their spaces with pine trees and often visit typical places such as churches to share the joyful and meaningful atmosphere of this holiday season.

Responding to the joyful spirit of Christmas, many companies will also choose this day to organize a few events to connect employees, create a joyful, cozy and inspiring atmosphere. For your company’s Christmas event to take place smoothly and interestingly, you can refer to some suggestions below.

Christmas office decoration

The first thing to do is to decorate the office, workplace with items related to the year-end holiday season. You can ‘change the look’ of your office with a Christmas tree, lights, snowmen, reindeer, Christmas stockings hanging on the door or on the table…

If you are more creative, you can make these decorations yourself in a recycled style, protecting the environment and also saving costs. Each employee can also make their own handmade Christmas tree to work, depending on the materials they have to create.

Prepare wishes and Christmas gifts

If you want to have a surprise Christmas party for your office, the organizer needs to plan to write down wishes, Christmas greetings and prepare suitable gifts. This step needs to be prepared 1 week or 10 days in advance. For the convenience and comfort of both the company and employees, the organizer needs to limit the gift budget. Next is the step of collecting everyone’s wishes and putting them in Christmas stockings. Next is preparing gifts so that on the day of the event, they will be given out, making everyone happy and excited. In addition, you can also prepare random gifts for the entertainment shows and minigames on that day. Some companies have a culture of giving and receiving gifts to each other, so that they can send good luck wishes to their colleagues during the holiday. The organizer can notify everyone 1 week in advance, each person can prepare 1 gift. The collected gifts will then be randomly drawn, bringing surprise and excitement to everyone.

Don’t forget the dress code

The Christmas atmosphere will fill the office if everyone wears a themed dresscode. The outfits chosen for this day tend to be red, white, green, silver, etc. Dressing well is also an opportunity to take beautiful photos, express your style and personality, and can be posted on social networks… It is also an opportunity to spread the special Christmas atmosphere of your office.

The Christmas season also has typical costumes such as ‘ugly sweaters’. Appearing since the 1950s, the “ugly” sweater (Ugly Christmas Jumpers) with flashy Christmas-themed motifs such as Christmas trees, reindeer, bells, candy canes, gifts… has become a very familiar image. You can also consider and think, choose interesting and fun shirts for the Christmas season…

Choose the menu for the Christmas event

Choosing dishes to enjoy becomes an indispensable part, decorating the event and creating a warm, flavorful atmosphere. You can choose a menu with many traditional dishes, or international cuisine, depending on the company’s preferences and budget.

Suggestions are that you can choose main dishes such as roast chicken, bacon, meat pie… or seafood such as shrimp, salmon, or oysters are also great choices. Next, familiar Christmas desserts such as log cake, biscuits, gingerbread cookies, Italian panettone or English pudding… are also popular choices these days.

Because this holiday falls at the end of the year, establishments and stores are often overloaded with orders. It is best to prepare early and order early, so that your event goes according to plan.

Other meaningful activities for Christmas Day

If you are looking for a new and different idea for an event during Christmas for office workers, you can refer to some of the ideas below:

– Organize a workshop on Christmas such as a pottery workshop (molding and shaping related to this holiday), a simple cookie making workshop…

– An occasion to care for and connect employees, so you can combine activities such as eating, playing, sharing, celebrating or rewarding excellent employees of the month/quarter, doing nails at home…

– Meaningful volunteer activities of the company, such as charity, giving gifts to orphanages, organizing for disadvantaged children or lonely elderly people… can all create meaningful and happy memories.

– Competitions between departments such as the most beautiful Christmas office decoration, the most beautiful Christmas costumes, etc.

Although Christmas is not a traditional holiday in Vietnam, the atmosphere of this holiday also spreads to many office working environments. Hopefully, the above suggestions will help you organize a Christmas that, although ‘homegrown’, still leaves unforgettable impressions and moments.