12 Office Christmas Gift Exchange Games
Christmas is around and you must try new Christmas gift exchange games instead of secret santa at office. Share office Christmas gifts for coworkers in a fun way by playing these office Christmas gift exchange games. Make your office Christmas party more exciting with these Christmas gift exchange themes that are fun Christmas games at work party.
Lets have a look.
P.S. If you planning Christmas at office try these 28 Work Christmas Party Ideas and 20 Work Christmas Party Games.
Jingle Karaoke Exchange
Set upp a Karaoke at your office Christmas party. All you need is a mic, speaker, and a projector to display the lyrics. Collegues brings wrapped gifts to exchange that can be displayed on a table. Guests can either volunteer or you can randomly pick names.
Write down Christmas songs on small slips of paper and put them in a bowl. Your coworkers pick one and sing the song. Whoever sings at least one verse or chorus can pick a gift of their choice. Those who are shy can either wait to pick a gift from the remaining or as someone to volunteer to sing on their behalf. For a fun twist the volunteer can steal or swap gifts with the person for whom they sing.
This game will not only help you with a fair gift exchange but even make your party more fun with all collegues singing and bonding.
Gift Mystery Tale
Make gift exchange more fun with some storytelling. All the collegues must sit in a circle holding a wrapped gift. The organizer must read a Christmas-themed story that has many times words “left” and “right.”. Each time the word left or right is mentioned, guests must pass the gift to the left or the right, once for each word.
At the end of the story, whatever game the guest is holding is their gift. You can even make your own story or customize a famous Christmas story with many left and right words to make it more fun.
Santa’s Gift Heist
Make your work Christmas party thrilling with this game. Make your collegues draw a number to decide the playing order. Place all the wrapped gifts are kept in the center.
The first player picks a gift from the pile and opens the gift, and shows it to everyone. The next player can either pick from the pile or steal the gift from the first player. Each gift can be stolen only 3 times, after which it belongs to the person who stole it last. The game finishes once everyone finds a gift.
Holiday Spin
This a simple gift exchange game. You will need to make a spin wheel with equal sections of naughty and nice or you make make a spin wheel half naughty and half nice.
Collegues take turns to spin the wheel. If it lands on Nice, they get to choose the gift from the pile of gifts everyone brought. But if it lands on Naughty, you can either make them wait to pick the gift until all the “nice” have picked their gift, or the host can make them do a fun challenge, after which they can pick the gift. The fun challenge can be as simple as truth or dare, or ask them to sing or dance.
7 Up or Down Gift Exchange
If you are running short of time for preparation you can play this game. All you need is 2 dice and a cup. Roll the dice and the guest must guess, if the dice count is more than 7 or less than 7 by saying “7 Up” or “7 down.” If they win and can choose a gift of their choice. If they lose, they wait for everyone’s turn and pick from the remaining, or you can play the game again.
Snuggle Scarf Swap
If you have many female collegues and fashion enthusiats. This is a fun game to try. The only giftt your collegues can bring is a scraf. Assign a number to the wrapped gift and your collegues will draw numbers to find their gift.
Musical Gift Toss
A simple gift exchange game that need no preparations. All the collegues sit in a circle and one of the gift is passed when the music plays. Once the music stops, whoever holds the gift gets it and steps out of the circle. And the game continues ith the remianing.
You just need to araange for some music, which you probably arranged for the party. Just play some fun Christmas songs.
Find the Gifter
Make your office Christmas party more exciting by making your collegues where their detective hats. To play this game, collegues pick a gift and unwrap it to guess, who brought this gift. If they guess it right, they keep it. If not it goes back to the pile of gifts and next collegues can choose it to keep if they guess right.
Roll & Swap Gift
Let the dice decide who gets which gift. This game will need some preparation. On a projector or a board mention what each dice count signifies. For example,
1 for freeze your gift; no one can take it.
2 to steal a gift from anyone
3 for everyone to pass the gift 3 times to the right. and so on.
All collegues must sit in a circle with their gift in hand and take turn to roll the dice. The follow the directions for passing the gift. The game continues till everyone get their chane to roll the dice. The gift your coleegue holds at the end of the game is their gift.
Card Guides Gift
To play this game you will need to make some cards with different actions. Such as, swap gifts with someone who’s wearing glasses, or trade gifts with the tallest person in the room, or swap with someone whose name starts with the same letter as yours. Suffle the cards and your colleges will take one card and follow the instructions to find their gift.
Holiday Emoji Swap
This is fun thinking game of guessing the gift. Inform your collegues to bring gift for exchange without a name. Instead on the tag they need to make clue with emoji to guess the gift in the wrapping.
To play the game you need to arrange the gifts on the table and everyone takes turn to choose a gift but they can get it only if they can guess the gift based on the emoji clue.
Bid the Gift
If you are hosting a formal Christmas party at office, this game will pair well. Give all the guests same amount of tokens that can be used to exchange the gift at the auction.
The host will aution one gift at a time and everyone will bid for it. The bid winner will open the gift at the end to reveal it. If they want they can exchange the gift with other collegue in change for the token and continue with the bidding.
I hope you found some good gift exchange ideas to celebrate Christmas at office.
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