Christmas Carol Competition

Through Christmas carols, you can continue the singing of age-old carols that share the gospel message. It’s one of the most distinctive yet simple ideas that stay evergreen and not the one to be missed out no matter what your event is. One way to make it more engaging is having a friendly carol competition to have more participants show up along with family and friends to show their support. 

Throw In a Bit Of Charity

Community-based events are all about sharing and caring. Incorporate these elements in your service by hosting fundraisers for the nearby old-age home or collect donations through dinner service. You can never go wrong with some hot cocoa and cookies to accompany the winters. Whether you’re planning a fundraiser or charity event, you can use our flat 50% rebate offer along with our accept donations feature for our online ticket store and virtual box office. 

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Christmas Eve Candlelit Dinner

This could be part of your charity event plan where you set up an event for a Candlelit Dinner after the church service is over. A perfect way to bring the community together to celebrate with food in the peaceful candlelit atmosphere.  Events like these could be set-up using our Reserved Seating plan in case you want to hold seats for your sponsors and community heads.  

Holiday Food Baskets

You can tie-up with your local bakery or dessert shop to pitch in with Holiday Food baskets and goodies that could be handed out to those in need. After all, it is the season to be jolly and share the joy with everyone. A little effort and contribution from everyone go a long way. 

Install A Photobooth

Some might profess that a quiet Church event can sometimes get boring and lengthy. Up the ante by installing a photo booth because who doesn’t like taking a family photo in their best attire. A sure shot way to keep the participation level high and end the service with fun and memorable moments.

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MasterChef 

Food is a multicultural social glue that binds communities together. Masterchef fundraisers are perfect for supporting an upcoming local restaurant or any other cause. Gather all your foodie friends and family to participate with an entry fee. It could be a food fest too if the nearby food joints sponsor and let teams participate in cook-offs based on their popular menu items. 

Musical Fundraiser

Benefit concerts are a great crowd puller. Whether you live in a small town or a huge cultural hub, a musical evening coupled with food and booze will guarantee a heavy footfall. Also, you never know which record label might turn up scouting for raw talent. Invite your local bands to rock out those riffs while the other participants have a go at the karaoke section. Keep the fundraiser open to a wide spectrum of genres. 

Casino Royale 

A bit of a posh affair, a black-tie affair themed around the British spy requires a lot of effort. With precise planning, a Casino Royale fundraiser offers dozens of ways to raise funds including poker tournaments, individual sponsorships, corporate sponsorships, and ticket sales. Keep these events high priced to keep the guest list exclusive and attract a wealthy roster. 

Movie Night 

With different genres to choose from, you can alternate your movie screenings based on the demography. All you need is a comfy location, inflatable movie screen, film rentals, and projection equipment. Setting up a private movie screening at a theatre that serves food and beverages also works wonders. Make sure you use Yapsody’s ticketing platform to streamline the process and get a FLAT 50% rebate. 

Trivia Night 

This one works well with smaller groups as a monthly affair. Hosting a trivia night for the history and sci-fi aficionados at your local pub or a pizza joint won’t pinch you financially as an event manager. A fundraiser like these harbors community building and brings a lot of business for the pub or restaurant which they can contribute to your cause as well. A win-win. Take our quiz if you’re a whizz-kid. 

Book Sale 

Another fundraiser that strikes a chord with the intellectuals and doesn’t demand strong finances. This fundraiser should bring together those who are cleaning out their bookshelves with those who like to read for a bargain price. Connect with your local authors, coffee shops, schools, and colleges to collaborate on the fundraiser. A book reading and signing should do the trick. 

Get Artsy 

Not every artist gets visibility for their work which is why these fundraisers work in their favor. Have an art opening where people buy a ticket to attend an auction of different art pieces. To make it more engaging, allow participants to try their hand at painting, pottery, calligraphy and so on. 

Go Green 

The need of the hour is saving our planet. A fundraiser in the form of a flea market that sells plants, organic and solar-energy products, seeds, and re-usable shopping bags are in demand. The proceeds should be directed towards planting more trees in environmentally sensitive areas. 

Gamers Unite 

You can start a general fundraiser or rally your fellow gaming brethren to launch a support campaign through an annual competition where a portion of their winnings is given away for charity. Approach gamers, YouTubers, and techies for these events for marketing it. 

Junk Donation Fundraiser

An old school trick that is relevant right now. Gather a group of volunteers that have the time and tact to go from door to door and round up unused junk like scrap metal, newspapers, and plastics. Bringing them to the recyclers will get a few extra bucks and make the community clutter-free. 

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1. Plan
Whether you plan to host a home Christmas brunch or big Christmas get together for your community/neighborhood, plan it well in advance. Keep a budget in mind while planning this event. If you’re hosting it at home, decorating your house won’t be necessary as it Christmas season and by then your house is all decked up already. But if you’re hosting this event for the community, pick an outdoor venue or community hall.

2. Theme
Pick a theme for your Christmas brunch. Willy Wonka, Winter Wonderland, Grinch and Elf or simple Classic Christmas are some of the themes you can choose from. So, if you’re implementing the elf theme, you can host a costume contest too. Let your guests and kids dress up in their best attire. The best costume gets a bag full of candy canes. Decorate your venue with elf hats and shoes. You can even get elf dinner plates and napkins to match your theme.

3. Invite
It’s Christmas time! The season already brings a lot of excitement and joyful cheer with it. You can use Canva’s Card Maker or Photoshop to create Christmas invites. Which theme do you want to go with? Let’s say, it’s the Santa theme, create an invite with Christmas trees and Santa riding on the sleigh with your brunch details, the venue, timing and any other specifics if you feel is necessary. If the Christmas brunch is for your friends or a small group of people, you can make it special by using our quirky Christmas invitation ideas. If you’re hosting a Christmas brunch for your community and know exactly how many and who the attendees’ are, you can also send access codes along with your invites to make it an exclusive event.

4. Promote
Want more attendees at your event? Once your invites are ready, tell a woman (just kidding), post your event on social media and send email invites to your guests using an effective email marketing tool like MailChimp. You can also post your events on event listing sites like Yapsody for free. Posting your event on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram can drive more attendees at your outdoor community get together.

5. Creative Brunch Ideas
Whether you’re organizing a brunch at home or outside, you can use different ideas to make the Christmas brunch a success.

• Host a Cook-Off/Bake-off – Since everyone will be tired after a fun Christmas night, they can use quick and simple recipes to make an instant breakfast. Hashbrown breakfast, gingerbread rolls and eggnog pancakes are some of the dishes you can think of for a quick Christmas brunch.
• Organize Pot luck – The benefit of a potluck is that you get to try a variety of sweet and savory food from everyone.
• Arrange a food distributor or food truck for your event.

6. Games
Games and activities create beautiful memories (with family or neighbors) and help in breaking the ice when you meet new people in your community. Christmas Bingo, white elephant and elf trivia are some of the games, you can choose from to make the Christmas brunch fun and exciting. If you’ve already played these games the night before, you can organize minute to win it games too, they are quick and you have thousands of ‘em. Read more about Christmas party games and ideas here.

7. Socialize
Admit it, we get so busy with our daily chores and office work, that there’s no time to meet your friends(except for the occasional Instagram stalking). Christmas comes once a year. Use it as an opportunity to meet your friends, family or neighbors. Play games, drink beer, click photos, chit chat, do a barbeque and have a great time. For a large Christmas get together, you can have photo booths with props like Santa hats and shoes. That way, attendees of all ages can have fun, take selfies and create a lot of memories this Christmas season.

8. Giveaways For Your Brunch
Be it a small pack of cookies and candy canes or a cool toy for kids, giveaways are a great way of showing your love towards your friends and family or your community. For a large event, it can be difficult to arrange a giveaway for all attendees. Instead, give away spot prizes. You can announce spot prizes for a lot of things like anyone with the longest hair, photo of their family in the wallet or anyone wearing the longest heels.

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Traditional Card Invites
This is an old school technique yet an effective way of reaching out to your attendees. Despite today’s advanced digitalization, some companies still send out personalized invites to their attendees. If you’re planning a Christmas event, you can use it too. When you use traditional methods to invite your guests, it gives a personal touch to the invite. You can send a beautiful Christmas invitation card with your event details that will pop a Christmas tree when they open the card.

Handcrafted Card
If you’re a creative event presenter who scored A+ in arts and crafts, and you’re planning a small event, you can go for a DIY Christmas card on Santa’s stocking. You can also make a cute snowman using cardboard and add your event details on it. Voila! Your handcrafted card is ready.

Back To Back Events
Planning multiple events this holiday season? Keep your Christmas event flyers ready while your current event is going on. Giveaway the flyers soon after the event is over. That’s how your existing attendees will know about the exciting Christmas party you’re about to host. To ensure none of the flyers are thrown away, give them a discount coupon or a promo code that they can use to avail the offer while buying tickets.

Banners Here Banners There
Use banners in public transport like buses, metros and trains to promote your event. When your attendees see them everywhere, your Christmas event will automatically register into their minds. Highlight the USP of your event when using banners. Let’s say, you’re organizing a Christmas evening with a buffet and there’s a popular live band performing at the event. Mention about the live band on the banner.

Christmas Event Gift Box Invite
Elite parties require elite invitations. Depending on the volume of attendees, you can create a small gift hamper along with your Christmas party invite for your exclusive guests. It can be Grandma’s Chocolate chip cookies or a bag filled with Christmas candies along with your event invitation. Pack it all together to make it the best combination of chocolates and a perfect way to invite your attendees.

Eat It Up
Create your Christmas invite on an edible scroll or Christmas tree-shaped edible chocolate sheet. With this Christmas party invitation idea, you’re not wasting paper, passing on the message and they get to taste multi-flavored chocolates. Also, you can ask your attendees to click a picture of the invite, in case they forget a few details after eating the invite ;).

Miniature Liquor Labels
While Christmas is all about eating, drinking and having fun, give your attendees miniature liquor bottles as a form of invitation. Customize the mini labels with Christmas trees and jingle bells. While you create a mini label with your Christmas party invite, make sure you add all the necessary details about the event and the font is clear.

Email Marketing
One of the most common and personalized ways of getting your word to the attendee is email marketing. Use Christmas templates and GIFs to design your invite. Personalize your email and use an effective email marketing tool to send out your Christmas event invites. Reach out to new attendees using our MailChimp integration. Read our complete blog on email marketing tips here.

Social Media
Everyone uses social media today. Promote your event through Facebook and Twitter. Create a post using either a Santa or a white Christmas theme with your event details. Roll out offers, contest and offer freebies to buy tickets to your event. Offer referral rewards for getting their friends and family. If used the right way, social media can help you achieve the status of a sold-out event. Drive more attendees to your event by posting your events on Yapsody for free.

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Plan Your Event Early
Starting early has its own benefits. Promote your event in advance using effective marketing tools to reach out to your potential audience. You’ll be able to gauge with the response you receive if there is a need to alter your marketing or sales strategy. Again it depends on the event promotion techniques you use to generate more leads. Read more about it in our recent blog- “When is the right time to promote your event?”

Create the Right Budget
When you’re planning an event, everything boils down to the budget you decide. Every event you plan will have similar costs involved. Create a basic structure for your Christmas event and make changes according to the future events you’ll organize. Keep in mind the infrastructure cost, cost of booking the venue, catering charges and an extra amount to cover all costs including an emergency.

Plan Christmas Invites
Have you planned a grand Christmas party? Make sure your Christmas invite is as grand and appealing enough to lure your attendees to be a part of it. A few things to consider while creating an invite, if it’s an email invite, personalize it. For social media campaigns, choose either a GIF of elves inviting your guests for an event or an image with Candy canes and Christmas tree image with your event details. Use our integrated tool – MailChimp to send out the best Christmas invites and get ready for a sold-out event. Read our blog on effective email campaign tips to know more.

Choose your Venue
Once you’re clear about the budget, the number of attendees and the event date, book the venue straight away. Since we are talking about Christmas events here, if the location you choose is a popular one, don’t wait until the last minute to book it. Figure out if you’d love to have an outdoor adventure this Christmas with a Skiing event or an indoor event with some great music. A few things to consider while booking the venue are the venue itself, the traffic in the locality, distance to get there and parking facility. Geotag your event on the ticketing system to give attendees the exact event location. Share the same on popular social media sites, so the location is easily accessible at their fingertips.

Christmas Decor
You picture the venue to be all lit up with beautiful decorations but when you get there, it’s just the opposite. How many times does this happen to you? Let your decor speak for you and your event. Children’s faces light up when they see Santa and his allies. Consider placing one along with Rudolf the reindeer at the entrance. From white Christmas to an elf themed event, make this season a delightful one for you and your attendees.

Food & Drinks
Christmas is the season to eat, drink and party. While you plan your next Christmas event, spruce up the table with dishes like roast suckling pig, roasted turkey or lasagne with ham. Your desserts can include Bûche de Noël, Christmas pudding, Candy cane cookies and Strawberry Santas. Christmas is incomplete without wines and champagnes. Depending on your budget, select your liquor brands and let your attendees go merry this season.

Use Proper Signage
Inconvenience and confusion are event presenters two worst nightmares. Imagine elf dressed kids entering the smoking area or your attendee has arrived early and wants to snack on some gingerbread cookies, but there’s no proper signage to guide them. It can lead to worse experiences and give you a bad reputation. Whether you’re hosting your first Christmas event or an annual one, place clear signages for every area to avoid any discomfort for your attendees. Provide proper details on your event description page to guide your attendees. Make sure your event details along with Terms & Conditions are properly listed on your online ticket store.

Make Use of Christmas Offers
As an event presenter, you already know how well offers work for you and your attendees. Similarly, you have an opportunity to save money while you sell tickets online with Yapsody. With Christmas coming in early for us, we have launched some great offers, only so you can take advantage of them and create your event. If you haven’t seen our offers yet, you’re already missing a lot. Check out our offers here.

Choose the Right Ticketing Partner
Implementing the right ticketing partner can change the way you plan, promote and sell tickets online. Features like an effective online ticket store, virtual box office and mobile applications ease the setting up process of your Christmas event. Pay nothing from your pockets with our “Pass on fee” feature that lets you add the cost of the ticketing fee to the ticket cost. That way you get the best of the features for free. Whether you set up your event in Los Angeles or Sydney, do it with ease with our multi-currency and multiple payment gateway support systems for event presenters across the globe.

Promote your Event
Just as you planned your event early, promote it too. Start with SEO. Optimize your event page with keywords like “Christmas event” in the content to increase the visibility of your event to the maximum potential audience. Use influencer marketing to create a hype about Christmas party or a Christmas musical evening on social media. Effectively use the most powerful tool – social media to promote your event or simply ask Yapsody to promote your event across the social media channels of your choice. You can also post your events with us for free. Strategically post your Christmas events way before time on popular platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Check out our blogs to understand the promotion hacks in detail for Facebook, Twitter and SEO.

Take a Survey
What if you give your attendees just what they need? You’d have a sold-out event only because of your brand image. You can, with our Questionnaires and surveys, find out if they’d like white Christmas or the Elf them. You can also check how many are vegan, their interests, food they like and incorporate it in the Christmas event you organize to give them the best experience.

Easy Check-In and Check-Out
Long queues on a chilly Christmas night can be frustrating for your attendees. Give your attendees a seamless experience with our Yapscan app and QR code scanning devices. These apps handle large volumes of the crowd easily and eliminate the chances of duplicate tickets.

Get Real-Time Reports
From planning the Christmas party fun night to deciding the theme of the tickets, there’s a lot that an event presenter has on his plate. To understand the ticket sales numbers you need real-time data that’ll help you assess the situation and develop a strategy to meet your goal. YapStats is designed to give you real-time statistics about your online ticket sales for the event directly on your Android/IOS device. With instant reports and real-time tracking, you can alter your sales strategy to boost ticket sales. Using the YapStats app, you can track real-time sales data for each event across all accounts and access key event-related information at your fingertips.

Follow Up Post Event
One thing most event presenters miss out is to follow up on the attendees post the event. Take feedback from your attendees to understand what went well and what didn’t. That way you can improve your next Christmas event based on the feedback you receive from the most obliged fans. Taking feedback is a great way to show your attendees how valuable they are.

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Christmas Ball
Who doesn’t love dancing? Host a great Christmas ball with either live music band or a DJ for your community. It can be a masquerade party or a simple get together with some great music, beers and a few food trucks for some palatable food. While some jive and roll to music beats and the Christmas hits, some can simply relax, enjoy the music and the traditional lamb shoulder roast.

Christmas Party Games
Whether it is a large family or a group of friends, Christmas party games are a great way to have fun together. Organize games like Candy Cane hunt, White Elephant or simply play minute to win it games and roll down with laughter and find the winner among you. To know more about Christmas party games, read our complete blog on “12 Ultimate Christmas Party Games”

The Australian Ninja Warrior
Organize outdoor sports events for your community or neighbors this Christmas. You don’t have to be Australian Ninja warriors to win the game. Your games can be as simple as a scavenger hunt with cookies hidden in the bushes or play games like Giant Beer Pong. Wow! That’s going to be a fun day outing.

Host a Sandman Contest
Since Aussies love being outdoors, whether it is for a barbie or simply going to the beach, you can plan this year’s Christmas party at the beach along with your family or just a group of friends. Your family can relax and enjoy sunbathing, while you host a sandman contest for the kids. If it’s a large group, make teams and let them pour out their creativity by building a Christmas Sandman of different sizes. The team that makes the best sandman wins the Aussie famous boomerang.

Christmas Barbie(BBQ)
Another fun Christmas party idea we can think of to bring your community closer is hosting a Christmas Barbie along with some cool outdoor games. An Australian Christmas Barbeque party is incomplete without burgers, sausages, steaks and loads of chilled beer. Since Aussies love eating fresh salads, you can incorporate salads along with Barbeques and make it a great combination with a wide variety of cold beers.

Organize a mini Masterchef Event
Cook-Offs are a great way of bringing Australian foodies closer. While most Aussie’s love eating Vegemite on toast, barbecue sausages and meat pies, you can host a mini Masterchef in your neighborhood to find out the best chef. They don’t have to be as good as George Calombaris or Luke Nguyen. Your cook-off can include dishes like Roasted Chicken, Eggnogs or Christmas pudding. Planning a food and drink fest? Host one with Yapsody. Sign up now avail a flat 25% off on your ticketing fees.

White Christmas
While most of the world celebrates Christmas during winters with snowy rooftops and chilly nights, It’s a different season in Australia during that time of the year. A lot of Aussies prefer keeping a short Christmas celebration in July to get the feeling of Christmas in winters. It can be as special as a Christmas dinner with family with a roasted turkey or building a snowman outdoors. We may be late for 2019, but you can always use our Christmas party ideas for 2020. Find out more ideas to celebrate Christmas in winter.

Host a Christmas Talent Show
Host The Voice but instead of pop songs, let your contestants sing classic Christmas carols. Also, similar to the reality show, you can have your panel of judges sit with backs facing the contestants. Like in the reality show, judges will turn around when a talented singer or a choir impresses them with their voice. Planning to host one? Host your Christmas talent show with Yapsody as your ticketing partner and avail a flat 25% off on your ticketing fees.

Christmas Bake-off
Bake-offs are a great way to have fun with your friends and community. Call out all the talented bakers of your suburb for a Christmas bake-off. Since Christmas is the theme, and Tim Tams are loved by most Aussies, get the bakers to bake Tim Tam cakes in different variations as a part of your contest. Set a few rules for the bake-off and let the contest begin.

Whether you choose to celebrate Christmas in the winters or at Bondi Beach in the summers, pick any of our ideas to make it a great one. Create your own Christmas events and we’ll offer you the best event booking system at low prices so you can sell tickets online and give your attendees the best experience. Also, if you’re impressed with our ideas and want to set up your Christmas event with us, sign up with Yapsody Now! Make use of our Christmas offer and avail a 25% off on your event ticketing fee!

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Straw and the Jingle Bells
In this game, you’ll need plastic straws, jingle bells and two plates per player. In one minute, using the straw the player needs to transfer as many jingle bells as they can to the other plate. The player with the maximum jingle bells on the plate wins the game. You can replace jingle bells with confetti or popcorn as well to play the game during any other occasion.

Cookie Hunt
Place cookies around the house and leave hints. Separate the players into teams and begin the cookie hunt. You can spread a similar aroma in places where the cookie isn’t placed or leave some hot chocolate in a corner to make this game fun and interesting. The team with the maximum cookies in a minute is the winner.

Reindeer Nose
Keep one pompom per player with a red ribbon tied to it. Apply a little petroleum jelly on the player’s nose. The player has to put one end of the ribbon in their mouth and swing the ribbon till it touches the nose and gets stuck. The player who does it first wins the game.

Entangling the Candy
This game needs a bowl of candy canes and a plate. The player needs to use the curved part of the candy to entangle the other candy canes with their mouth and put it on the other plate. The player with maximum candies on the other plate is the winner.

Passing the Marshmallows with a Spoon
In this game, you’ll need a bag full of marshmallows, spoons. You can make 2 or more teams. One team will have 2 members. The first player needs to place the marshmallows one by one with a spoon in the mouth from one plate or bowl to another. The second player will stack it up. The team who creates the longest marshmallow stack in a minute is the winner.

How Many Life Savers Do you Have?
This game requires a lot of Life Savers or ring-shaped peppermints with a hole and cocktail sticks or uncooked spaghetti. Line up the 7 Life Savers in a way that the hole is facing the contestant. The player needs to pick all the candy using only the cocktail sticks in their mouth. Basically, they need to stack all the ring-shaped peppermints on the spaghetti in one minute.

Unwrap the Candy
Keep 2 mittens per player and a lot of small-sized wrapped up candies. Players need to wear mittens and unwrap the candies. One who unwraps the maximum candies in a minute are the winners. You can replace the candies with cookies or anything of your choice to make it more interesting.

Aim the Snowman
Paint the cups all white with a red nose to give it a snowman look. In this game, you can have multiple teams. This game needs you to pile up the plastic cups but a little differently. Every team can have 2 players. One player will be blindfolded, while the other will give directions to pile up the plastic cups. The team that piles up the maximum cups in a minute is the winner.

Aim & Fire
For this game, you’ll need an A4 size paper, a bowl of Skittles or any other ball-shaped candy, a table and a tray/bowl as the target. Roll the A4 size paper to form hollow pipes and tape it so the pipe structure doesn’t open up. The Player needs to put one candy in the paper pipe at one time, aim at the target and blow the pipe in a way that it lands in the tray. The player with maximum skittles in the bowl is the winner.

Catch the Ball
This is an interesting game. You’ll need 1 balloon per team, 1 plastic cup, 1 table and loads of ping pong balls. Form a team with 2 players, one player on either side of the table. One will stand with the balloon and ping pong balls in a bowl(placed on the table)while the other will stand with the cup. Place 1 ball on the table at a time. The game begins with blowing the balloon and releasing the air of the balloon to push the ping pong ball into the cup your partner is holding on the other side. The team with the maximum collection in a minute is the winner.

Sort out the Candy
Keep plastic cups per player and multicolored marbles in each cup. Each player needs to sort the marble colors by picking one at a time. They CAN’T pour the entire candy from the cup on a plate and then sort them. One marble needs to be picked each time. The player who sorts out the maximum candy in a minute wins the game.

Drape the Snowman
You can have multiple teams in this game. The task here is, your team has to drape one player with white crepe paper. You can be as creative as you want, add a red nose or make him wear a Santa hat. The game needs to be played on one side of the room, that way all the snowmen who are ready can begin the race without waiting for the other. The snowman who reaches the finish line first without the paper crepes opening up is the winner. Play festive Christmas music and let the snowman games begin.

With these funny Christmas party game ideas, you are sure to keep your guests rolling with laughter and fun throughout the evening. If you’re an event presenter, you can also organize a competition and invite guests from your community. Use our event ticketing platform, you can promote, sell tickets online and manage your attendees giving them seamless experience throughout the event. Host your next Christmas event with Yapsody and avail our great offer. Sign up with Yapsody and avail a 25% off on your ticketing fees Now using the code CHRISTMAS25. Click here to know more about this offer.

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Goose & The Egg
What you’ll need: No you don’t need a goose. Your favorite liquor, plastic eggs (as many as you want), shot glasses and a bunch of people.
How to play: A team will consist of 2 members. Label every egg with the name of the liquor your friends will consume. Every team gets a basket full of eggs. The game begins with the first person balancing the egg between their knees and waddling it to the other side of the room. They need to drop the egg on the plate. Their partner will drink the shot every time the egg is dropped on the plate. The first person has to return to the start point and continue until either all the eggs are dropped or till a minute is complete. The team with maximum eggs is the winner. Ensure the shots are ready before the game begins.

Stack the Marshmallow
What you’ll need: A plate, a bag full of marshmallows and a lot of patience
How to play: Each team to have 2 members, one will be the instructor while the other will be blindfolded and arrange the marshmallows in a stack. Each team needs to make 3 marshmallow mountains with as many marshmallows as possible. Give them a minute to complete the task and extend it by another 15 secs to give them that extra leeway. The team with maximum marshmallows is the winner.

Place The Nose
What you’ll need: A big red nose and a printed image of your friend’s face.
How to play: You can have multiple teams. 1 member from each team will place the nose on the photo with their eyes blindfolded. The rest of the team has to guide him with directions to place the nose.

How many do you have?
What you’ll need: At least 2 boxes of Christmas ornaments, 1 plate per box and 1 candy cane per box.
How to play: Create 2 or more teams. 1 player per team will pick the ornaments and place them on the plate using their mouth. They need to hook it up with the thread from the ornament to place it on the plate. The player with the maximum ornaments in their plate within a minute wins the game. Any player who uses their hand gets disqualified.

Candy Race
What you’ll need: A spoon and a lot of candies
How to play: You can 5 players stand in a line for a race at one end of the room. Place candies on the spoon. On the count of 3, the players need to run holding the spoon with their teeth from the start of the race to the end without dropping the candy. If you have a large space, you can have partners for every player in this game. They run halfway and pass the candy to the partner’s spoon. The partner has to continue the race until the finish line. The team reaching the finish line first is the winner.

Aim The Bottle
What you’ll need: A hard and straight candy stick, a bottle, small pieces of paper to write your friends name, string and a bowl
How to play: NO teams are required in this game. Write the names of your friends on small pieces of paper and put them in a bowl. Pick one name every time you want a person to play the game. Tie a string around the hard candy stick and the other end around the player’s waist from the back till the knee. The player needs to aim the bottle and place the candy in the bottle in less than a minute. Whoever does it the fastest wins the game.

True Lies
What you’ll need: 5 to 6 friends and a round table
How to play: Each person has to talk about their 3 worst gifts or Christmas experiences and let your friends guess which story is fake. The one who guesses the fake story is the winner.

Take a Shot
What you’ll need: Shot glasses, different types of liquor or your all-time favorite
How to play: Sit around in a circle and share a funny experience or make up stories. Choose a particular word, for example, Christmas cookie or Elf, take a shot when someone says the word.

Spin the Elf
What you’ll need: A figure of an elf (instead of a bottle), a bowl, paper notes with tasks/dares
How to play: Write down some crazy actions you’d want your friends to do on paper notes and place it in the bowl. Your dares can include things like – what is your darkest fear, describe the most awkward thing that happened or most awkward date or what would you do if you were the opposite sex for a month? You begin the game by spinning the elf. The person whom the elf is pointing to has to pick the paper note from the bowl and simply answer the questions.

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Christmas Masquerade Party
This festive season, begin your celebrations with a grand Christmas Masquerade party. Apart from being dressed elegantly, they can bring their own masks. For those without masks, set up a DIY section with materials like felt pens, feathers, colored cards and ribbons to quickly create one. You can set up a photo booth in one corner along with a box full masquerade photo booth props like mustaches, Santa hats and Santa beards. The photo booth along with a great backdrop will let your attendees create beautiful memories of the evening.

Play Cake Boss
Remember Buddy Valastro from Cake Boss? He made us all want to grow up to be renowned bakers. Make your coworkers’ childhood dreams come true organize a cake decoration contest. Separate employees into teams and offer readymade cakes, cream for the icing, toppings, fruits and everything else they need to decorate the Christmas cake. In the end, you are left with plenty of beautifully decorated cakes that can be shared by the entire staff.

Cubicle Decoration Contest
You’ll definitely find more than one person among your staff who is creative. Host a cubicle decoration contest. You can either provide them with the materials required for decoration or allocate a budget and give your teams the freedom to bring out their creativity with materials purchased by them.

Murder Mystery Christmas Party
If yours is a smaller organization, you can create the suspense with this Christmas party idea. Every attendee can be assigned with a character that they will play at the party. One of the attendees gets murdered and the killer is one of the guests from the party. All this time, the killer has to pretend to be one of the investigators. Get props and have your staff dress up as per the theme.

Christmas Movie Marathon
Organize a Christmas movie marathon to get your team members together. Decorate your workspace with elf shoes and hats. You can cut out pictures of your team members’ faces and stick them onto elf bodies. The elf’s theme is all about treats. You can serve your movie viewers with some hot chocolate and candy canes or popcorn in cute elf mugs. You can ask every team to come up with a few Christmas movie names and add them on chits. Pick one from the bowl and watch your favorite Christmas movie together.

A Women Santa
It’s 2019, yet we haven’t evolved as much as we should have in this department. Surprise your staff by getting a female coworker to dress up as Santa and be the bearer of gifts. This is sure to be a refreshing change at the workplace your employees will love.

Be a Santa to Charitable Organizations
Organize a Christmas Charity drive in your organization. Pick 3 causes and let your employees choose what they’d like to contribute to – be it a cancer society or an animal welfare organization. Don’t restrict the contribution to cash-only. Let’s say they choose to contribute to an orphanage. They can either collect cash or gift toys for these children. By hosting such drives, you’ll serve the community and also make their Christmas celebration a memorable one. Also, if you’re a nonprofit organization, we have special pricing for you. Know more about the special pricing offer here.

Not-So-Secret Santa
Have you received secret Santa gifts you absolutely did not want and awkwardly said “I love it” to your Santa? It happens to the best of us. Try it a little differently in 2019. Let your Santa know what you’d like this Christmas through as many hints as possible and make your Secret Santa not feel horrible about their poor gift choices.

12 Days of Christmas
Kickstart your Christmas celebration with 12 days full of Christmas activities to bring your teams together. Assign one activity each day. For example, Day 1, you can organize Christmas games like Bingo or Christmas charades. And on day 2, you can do a cookie exchange and so on. Set themes for each day. Have the staff dress up in Red and White on Day 1, elf outfits on Day 2 and like it’s 2000 years ago on Day 3.

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Cocktail Party
Get your attendees to don outfits with a color combination of let’s say white and red. Start by stocking the pantry and creating mouthwatering appetizers in advance, so you have a good time with your guests at the party. Light up the corners of the house with shimmering lights to glam up the party. Set up your cocktail bar with infused vodkas, cocktail recipes, so your guests can help themselves. Spruce up the table with some staggeringly delectable appetizers and exotic cocktails and let the party begin!

Cookie Exchange
Invite your friends for a cookie exchange party. This may not be a part of unique Christmas party ideas but it still brings your family together to share recipes, play Christmas charades, munch on candy canes with holiday music filling the air. Let your guests return with a bag full of cookies and unlimited memories to cherish for years to come.

Christmas Movie Night
Invite your family and friends over for a Christmas movie night. You can make a list of movies that can be watched together. Movies like Home Alone, Fred Claus and Jingle all The Way are some of the movies you can enjoy along with some popcorn and Christmas candies.

Gingerbread House Decorating Contest
Stock gingerbread house kits for your attendees wanting to participate in the Gingerbread House decorating content. Make this contest exciting by asking the participants to complete the decoration within a stipulated time. The one who assembles the house within the least time is the winner. Also, you’re a winner because you’re left with multiple Gingerbread Houses your guests can eat away.

Ice Skating Adventure
Lace-up your skates and hit the ice with your group of friends or just your family. Organize little bonfires along with some hot chocolate and marshmallows. Decorate the place with strings of lights spread across the trees to make the place appear great in photos.

Gift A Toy
Christmas is the season of giving. Spread the joy by giving unwrapped toys or used toys to charitable institutions. Nothing can be compared to the happiness you get doing a good deed. It’s the reason for the season. Also, if you are a non-profit then there is a special pricing for your event listing with Yapsody. Know more about the 50% rebate we offer to non-profits here.

White Elephant Exchange
White Elephant is a gift exchange game, where instead of swapping gifts, you steal them. If you have a large group of friends, say more than 6, this game is for you. Set a cap on how much they can spend on the gift, so it doesn’t create a hole in anyone’s pocket. The game becomes interesting when attendees bring “gag gifts” for their friends. Explain the game rules and let the games begin.

Holiday Baking Party
One thing common that holiday bake-offs and cookie exchanges bring is the lingering smell of cocoa and butter permeating the air. Decorate your place with candy canes, stockings and lights around the house. Since this is a baking party, it’s alright if your kitchen gets messy. Enjoy the baking process along with your friends and family and clean up the mess later.

Holiday Games Night
Begin your holiday season with a Holiday games night. Lineup a set of games that will keep the fun and excitement going through the night. Christmas Bingo, Charades and Christmas movie trivia can be some of them, to begin with.

Carol Karaoke Night
There are karaoke apps that can make your carol night lively. Make a list of all the Christmas carols you’d want your attendees to sing and find out who sings and who croaks the best. You can gift small favors to the best singer.

Photo Booth
If you have friends who love taking pictures, host a Photo Booth party. Create a DIY Photo Booth yourself or order it online. Deck it up with some twinkling lights and take unlimited selfies and photos to fill your Facebook and Instagram profile.

From gingerbread cookies, oven-roasted turkey to Santa Claus stories, Christmas brings a whole lot of warmth and happiness to people around us. Whichever idea you choose, ensure to make your party a memorable one and don’t forget to capture the smiles and memories you create this Christmas. If you are planning to promote your event and want to generate revenue from ticket sales, use Yapsody’s online ticketing system. Apart from having abundant features for event presenters, we are now running a special 25% Christmas offer on ticketing fees for Unlimited Events. Know more about the offer here.

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