Ugly sweater party game ideas

For an easy option, use our Canva Template pictured above to create your own invitation! Or, you can opt for a paid digital invitation service. Many e-vite companies offer a wide variety of holiday templates.

Plus, you can see who opened the invite and track RSVPs. Since some holiday sweaters can be a bit edgy, you might want to include a dress code reminder on your invitation. Office holiday parties are also notorious for being a time when people indulge a little too much.

Encourage each team member to show up to the party with a festive background. To find a background image for your ugly sweater holiday party, try free stock photo sites like Pexels or Unsplash. Search for images like a roaring fireplace, a snowy cabin, or sparkling ornaments. Here are a few of our favorites:.

For an interactive activity, plan a baking or cooking experience with your team. Exercise your creative flair by making ugly sweater cookies together. Or, choose a quick activity like putting together marshmallow snow people. For extra fun, ask everyone to decorate their marshmallow figure as someone in history or pop culture they admire!

Go around and take turns showing off your treats and explaining your inspiration. Preparing a food or craft with your team is a great way to encourage dialogue and bonding.

You can send everyone a shopping list ahead of time and offer a stipend or gift card to fund the activity. Ugly sweater parties are all about celebrating kitschy, glittery, tacky holiday spirit — so have fun with it! When planning your ugly sweater party, focus on lighthearted activities that will leave your employees feeling uplifted.

Use a video-syncing browser extension to watch holiday movies with your team. For a hands-on activity, host an ugly sweater decorating session with your team. Offer everyone a stipend to purchase a basic solid-color sweater. Your local craft store is a great place to find one, or order online.

Then, use a DIY ugly sweater kit to personalize and bedazzle your garment. You can find a variety of kits online that come with iron-on patches, puffy glitter paint pens, and other supplies. Plus, they can wear it to future ugly sweater parties, this season and in years to come!

Launch a poll during your video call to let everyone vote for the best holiday sweater! You can award prizes for the most creative outfit, the tackiest sweater, the coziest backdrop, the most holiday spirit, etc.

Give the winners a small e-gift card as a token of celebration. Liven up your party with interactive games like bingo and trivia. You can also search online for downloadable bingo cards. Or, use a service like Canva to make your own.

Online holiday trivia is also a great way to encourage friendly competition with your team. Explore online options, or create your own holiday trivia using a quiz tool like SurveyMonkey. A virtual holiday party is a time for lighthearted fun and cheer. Like a secret Santa, have a not-so-hush-hush exchange by pairing teammates at random. Sweater scrabble is a blind draw of ugly sweaters in a room. Pile the sweaters in a heap in one of the office rooms ahead of everyone coming in.

Party guests should be blindfolded before being led to the room. They have to pick a sweater from the pile. Once they take their blindfold off,they can see just how terribly ugly the sweater they picked is! You can video the picking process but this is optional. Make it hard to guess by making your description intentionally vague or veiled. Everyone can take turns to play. Whoever is the fastest to guess the object being described or gets most of the guesses right wins!

I found a quiz on howstuffworks that asks multiple-choice questions and generates the results based on how you answer. Do check the site out or take a Buzzfeed quiz for Christmas-sy inspiration!

Go all out and design or buy the ugliest sweater you can! I saw a few options on Amazon , Instagram and Etsy, which include a Nutcracker outfit , or an adorable Yeti made of cotton with a feather boa trim. The person who wins the ugly-est sweater contest gets an extra-large stocking for the office Santa to fill with company merch! The white elephant also has trivia questions that you can select before guests file into the office. Just remember to have the answers down in secret on your phone to pull up and verify as and when people shout out answers!

Find out with Reindeer Pong! For every wrong guess, the guesser has to down a shot and continue till they a admit defeat or b get very drunk. Arrange for a selection of. Did someone miss the memo and turn up to the ugly sweater party in an non-ugly sweater? The sacrilege! Whoever is wearing a regular sweater must turn it inside out and pose with a prop such as a candy cane, paper moustache or elf hat- no questions asked!

In this Christmassy version of Pin the Tail on the Donkey, we drew a cut out of Rudolph and had people dip their noses in vaseline and a red mini pom pom to pin on the drawing.

The challenge was to get to the drawing without the pom pom falling off en route! Simon says, is one of the best ugly sweater party ideas to try out with a remote and distributed team. It can be engaging so long as everyone has their video on as the commands are being issued. Click pictures of the team wearing Elf hats or posing with Christmas props such as candy canes, Santa Hats and Star Angels. Create a Christmas ugly sweater contest where teams compete to create a red nose using anything they can find around the house.

The challenge? Doing it in under a minute! You can add this to your list of minute-to-win-it games too. Ugly sweaters became popular after You can combine your party invitation and holiday greeting card into one special card.

These personalized greeting cards allow you to customize your lovely pets on the cards and make them unique yet meaningful than ever. As pet parents, what will be more purr-fect than featuring your dog or cat as the central theme for your ugly sweater party.

Picking out the theme also helps your party make more sense. Your guest can see the great sync from your invitation, outfits, to decorations of the party. Getting a personalized sweatshirt with your favorite paw friends on it will help you score a lot.

And probably make you win the sweater contest game that you might consider holding for your party.