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Holiday & Christmas Team Building Activities

Holiday team building activities give a team a shared hour of fun before the year ends: building something together, giving back, or competing in a game show with holiday rounds.

Holiday & Christmas Team Building Activities

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24 holiday team building activities for work

Gingerbread Architect

Gingerbread Architect

Teams of about 10 design and build themed structures out of gingerbread, candy and frosting, then present them for judging. It runs indoors in 1.5 to 2 hours for 30 to 1,000+.

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Operation Toy Donation

Operation Toy Donation

Icebreakers lead into assembling toys and necessities for children served by a local nonprofit. It scales to 2,000+, the largest group of any activity on this page.

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Virtual Escape Room: Saving Santa!

Virtual Escape Room: Saving Santa!

Santa has been kidnapped, and teams of 4 to 6 follow the clues online to free him. It takes 1 to 1.5 hours and has no cap on group size, so remote and hybrid teams can all join.

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Jeoparody Live!

Jeoparody Live!

Our take on the TV quiz, with contestant podiums, sound effects, a projected answer board and a professional host. Ask for holiday categories. Teams of 4 to 6, 1 to 1.5 hours.

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Bears and Blankets

Bears and Blankets

Teams build comfort items for younger children through charitable organizations. A one-hour to 90-minute way to give back before the year ends, for 30 to 1,000+.

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Chocolate Architect

Chocolate Architect

Teams earn chocolate and candy through iPad challenges, then design and build a themed structure with it. A sweet alternative to gingerbread, indoors in 1.5 to 2 hours.

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Best Corporate Feud

Best Corporate Feud

A hosted survey game show with face-off podiums and buzzers. All Play questions keep the whole room in the game, which suits a holiday party or an end-of-year meeting.

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Virtual Escape Room: New Year’s Eve Adventure

Virtual Escape Room: New Year’s Eve Adventure

Teams race to stop a plot against New Year's Eve celebrations in several cities. Online, 1 to 1.5 hours, no group size limit: a good fit for the last meeting of the year.

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Bike Build Donation®

Bike Build Donation®

Teams earn parts in quick challenges, build new bicycles and donate them, with helmets and locks, to kids from a local charity. A holiday gift your group makes with its own hands.

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Virtual Office Party

Virtual Office Party

A hosted online party for remote teams of up to 500, with games in small breakout groups. It gives the holiday get-together some structure in 60 to 75 minutes.

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Tapas and Sangria Making

Tapas and Sangria Making

Teams become wineries that create, make and market their own sangria and tapas. A hands-on food activity for a holiday party, indoors or out, in 1.5 to 2 hours.

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Virtual Trivia Blast!

Virtual Trivia Blast!

Fast online trivia with a live host and scoring, in a holiday edition. It fits into a 60 to 75 minute slot for 30 to 1,000+ people wherever they work.

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Trivia Blast Live!

Trivia Blast Live!

Trivia Blast Live! transforms traditional trivia into a fully produced, game-show-style team experience. Guided by a charismatic game show host and supported by real-time scoring, live leaderboards, multimedia visuals, and interactive answer pads, this fast-paced competition brings teams together from the first question to the final leaderboard.

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Virtual Music and Movies Trivia Blast!

Virtual Music and Movies Trivia Blast!

Movie buffs and music gurus unite with this medley of competition! Our Music and Movies Trivia Blast combines two great games into one. Put your competitive group’s knowledge to the test and challenge your team with music trivia spanning the years, and then after intermission, we switch gears to test your movie knowledge. Strike a chord and bring the drama to this fun-filled program!

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Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation

Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation

Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation is a fun charity team building program where your group will design, construct and play a mini golf course using canned and boxed food items. Working in teams, each hole has a special theme and rules, unique to that hole. After the course has been built, an entertaining tournament ensues with scoring and fun competition. Once completed, the course will be deconstructed and the food donated to a predetermined food bank or similar organization.

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Wagon Build Donation

Wagon Build Donation

Wagon Build Donation benefits underprivileged preschool-age children, providing them with a classic learning tool to boost their coordination, imagination and much more. Teams will build full-size, red wagons for donation to a local charity, loading each one with a stuffed animal and children’s book. This program will leave your team feeling energized and with a sense of accomplishment, knowing they put smiles on the faces of children in need.

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Kids Rock!™

Kids Rock!™

Kids Rock!™ is a fun CSR charity team building event where teams assemble rocking chairs, rocking horses, and stuffed animals for children while participating in fun icebreakers. Immediate, tangible results are created and employee morale is boosted through the building and donation of these memorable items for local community centers, hospitals or schools.

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Charity Game Show

Charity Game Show

Your group will bond and have a blast with this program that both entertains and benefits a worthy cause. Teams will face off to answer questions on various topics including History, Pop Culture, Sports and more on a realistic game show set complete with podiums, buzz-in buttons and a large projected answer board. It concludes with a check donation to the charity of your choice.

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Donation Nation Care Packs

Donation Nation Care Packs

Donation Nation Care Packs is a meaningful team building experience that brings your group together to assemble care packages for community organizations that support people in need.Through a series of fun and interactive challenges, your group earns the materials used to create thoughtful packages that benefit homeless shelters, food banks, hospices, veterans’ groups, animal shelters, and many other community-focused agencies.

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Literacy for Little Ones

Literacy for Little Ones

With Literacy for Little Ones, your team will assist in gifting the love of literacy to young readers! This wonderful charitable program brings your group together to assemble donation packages of books and supporting materials to help build the foundation of lifelong literacy for young children from infancy to age 5.

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Operation Military Care

Operation Military Care

This event will give your group a deep sense of patriotism as it works together to prepare care packages for people currently serving in the military. Teams will first engage in various point-based activities including trivia, puzzles and other problem-solving scenarios. The care packages are then assembled and decorated for donation to service men and women and their families.

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Virtual Name That Tune!

Virtual Name That Tune!

Whether you pick the 70s, 80s, 90s, 21st Century, or a little bit of everything, strike a chord with your competitive group and put their knowledge of their favorite tunes and artists to the test, with Virtual Name that Tune ! Using state-of-the-art apps and our interactive, professional hosts, your group will experience a full participant, full engagement game show where teams compete in rounds of music-related categories to earn as many points as possible. Your group will laugh – and maybe even sing – their way through this high-energy event!

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Minute 2 Win It! for Charity

Minute 2 Win It! for Charity

Minute 2 Win It! for Charity will bring out the best in team spirit and a sense of community responsibility from your participants as they compete in tabletop challenges to earn items to create care packages to donate to a local charity. Fast-paced fun, teamwork, and competition are at the heart of every one of these events we deliver. Perfect to include in any corporate or social gathering, or as a stand-alone program.

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Virtual Guess that Price

Virtual Guess that Price

Bring the energy and laughter of a classic game show to your next virtual event with Virtual Guess That Price! This highly interactive online experience blends trivia, scavenger hunts, and pricing challenges into a fast-paced team building event that will have everyone racing, guessing, and laughing together, no matter where they’re located.

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I was expecting it would go well but the outcome was outstanding. This is a tough group but you had them in the palm of your hand from the warm up games, the build off, to the children coming in to collect their bikes.
Hilton Hotels

Judy

Hilton Hotels

The details

About Holiday & Christmas Team Building Activities

Our facilitators run them in person in all 50 states and Canada, or online for remote teams, and handle everything from setup to scoring.

Pick by what your group wants from the hour. Gingerbread Architect is the classic holiday build, Operation Toy Donation turns the party into a gift for children in need, and Saving Santa! brings remote teams together online.

Our holiday team building activities are perfect for teams of any size, from 30 to 1,000 or beyond. Workdays stay busy around the holidays, so we’ll help you choose just the right activity to fit your event’s timeframe, with a selection of Christmas-themed team building activities from 1 to 2.5 hours long.

Client reviews

What our clients say

In their own words, from the planners and teams who booked these programs.

Everyone enjoyed this event as an action-packed, competitive and FUN event. They enjoyed answering the questions to obtain the many items on the build-out list and the collaboration of our remote teams into one cohesive unit was great fun! We loved working with your lead facilitator and her staff went out of their way to make sure all details of the event went smoothly. The resulting donations of the wheelchairs to the Disabled American Veterans were the frosting on the cake.
Subaru of America logoSherrySubaru of America
Our Mini-Golf Build was very organized. Our team leader was awesome! She kept the energy and interest levels high Working together in small groups to problem-solve was a great teambuilding exercise. Our group enjoyed the activities and charitable aspect of the program. They were major highlights of the event. The most fun was giving all the canned and boxed goods away to charity at the end.
AAA NCNU logoLoriAAA NCNU
The best aspect of the program was spending time with coworkers outside work. They enjoyed getting to know one another and learning how to work together. We loved watching the team interact during the icebreaker activity. There was so much energy & excitement in the room. Makes me smile thinking of it today. The team had a great time! Everyone enjoyed the trivia. Very fun, engaging and everyone seemed excited to spend the afternoon with us.
AT&T logoStephanieAT&T
We have done your Build-a-Guitar program in the past, and I have recommended you to other groups. The best part of our Build-a-Guitar event was watching the teams work together and laugh and have fun! The event was very organized and your staff had everything laid out and set-up in an orderly fashion for our program. The pictures we took of the team while doing the different planned photos was the best! It was great to have the principal of the school come and tell us about the program. That was very special. We will definitely use Best Corporate Events again!
Salesforce logoShirleySalesforce
Best Corporate Events has done it again! This time, providing a hugely successful Build a Band Challenge, which took place in our host city of Nashville! Our attendees took part in trivia challenges and were able to build their own band of teammates producing some very creative guitar cases along with working guitars and a drum set! Not to be forgotten was their talent while forming their very own bands with unique names and a few out-of-the-box iPad performances! All was accomplished with the help of a great BEST staff led by Indy Tapar, who was a true professional and a joy to work with. The experience was first rate and capping it off by actually donating the instruments to children took the entire event to a grander level. A truly enjoyable and worthwhile event!
Howden Tiger logoCarrieHowden Tiger
My team enjoyed their event very much, especially the home scavenger hunts. The activities really helped create trust and communication. The feedback I got was that everyone thought your Virtual Guess that Price program was a great team event and that your host Wayne was excellent and did an awesome job!
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals logoDawnBoehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
We enjoyed the event very much! We have not had so much fun as a group in a while. The most fun was the interaction – going into the breakout rooms to discuss answers and convening back. It helped us bond because it gave us a chance to work in cross-functional teams and quick decision-making. The feedback was positive and appreciative, and your facilitator Paul was amazing! It felt like he was one of us! He did an amazing job having small windows of chatting on random topics but always brought the team back to focus on the game.
Nintendo logoLindsayNintendo
THIS WAS OUTSTANDING!! We had such a great time and loved all of the bantering and engagement between the teams. Bradley was AMAZING! He really engaged everyone and did such a great job keeping the event flowing without any hiccups, which is nearly impossible in a virtual setting. It didn’t disappoint. We divided the groups into teams, where the teammates didn’t work closely together. This allowed for each member to connect with someone outside their circle. People had so many good things to say from ’this was super fun’ to ’one of the best virtual events we’ve done’ to ’let’s do it again!’ to simply ’LOVED THIS’. So many laughs! We can’t wait to do this again!
Hines logoSavannahHines
Members of this team have never been face to face before so it was great to have the opportunity to work together like this. The event was lightheartedness and fun. After three days of meetings, etc. this was a chance for fun. The facilitator kept the session moving forward and never lost control of the room. It was just a great time. A chance to let off steam and build relationships.
Pfizer logoEstherPfizer
Our Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation at the JW Marriott Marquis Miami was an outstanding experience from start to finish. The teams brought great energy and friendly competition as they worked hard to design and build their own creative par-3 holes. The competitive spirit was high, but so was the collaboration — each group was fully engaged and determined to create a course that was both fun and functional. Beyond the competition, what truly stood out was the enthusiasm around the service component. The teams were excited to pack the food donations and personally help load them onto the donation truck. There was a real sense of pride and purpose in knowing their efforts would directly benefit families in need. The group also appreciated hearing from the representatives of Joshua’s Heart Foundation. Learning more about the organization’s mission and understanding how the donated items would be distributed added meaningful context to the activity and deepened the overall impact. It was a powerful combination of team building, creativity, and community service that left everyone feeling accomplished and inspired.
Viatris logoTonyaViatris
The event was great! Our team had fun and looked forward to this event. Cheryl was great and engaging!
Medtronic logoMichelleMedtronic

Questions, answered

FAQs about Christmas & Holiday Team Building Activities

Group size, timing, venues and logistics. Anything else, a planner answers the same day.

What types of holiday team building activities are there?

Holiday team building activities come in many forms to suit different group sizes, budgets, and goals. Popular options at Best Corporate Events include festive hands-on activities like gingerbread building competitions, charitable giving events where teams assemble toy or care package donations, holiday-themed escape rooms, virtual party games, and seasonal trivia or game show formats. Pick by what the group wants from the hour: a friendly competition, a build that gives back, or a show everyone watches together.

Can holiday team building activities be done virtually for remote teams?

Yes. Many Christmas and holiday team building activities are available in a fully virtual format, making them perfect for remote or hybrid teams. Programs like Virtual Escape Room: Saving Santa! or Virtual Escape Room: New Year’s Eve Adventure or the Virtual Office Party are designed to bring remote teams together for a festive hour, wherever employees are located.

How large of a group can participate in Christmas team building activities?

Most of our holiday programs run for 30 to 1,000+ people. Operation Toy Donation scales to 2,000+, and the virtual escape rooms have no upper limit. Across all our programs we plan events for teams of any size, up to 6,000+, so tell us your headcount and we’ll match a program to it, from one department to the whole company.

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