Interactive games, giveaways, quizzes, contests, and other shared activities can turn an online gathering into a more memorable experience and give employees opportunities to participate throughout the event. In this article, we share virtual Christmas party ideas that you can adapt to your team, from distributing holiday gifts to organizing friendly competitions and interactive Christmas games.
Run a Christmas Giveaway for Your Employees
Giving away Christmas gifts is a classic way to generate excitement at a company holiday party. Weekend getaways, Christmas hampers, gadgets, gift cards, and other prizes can all become part of the celebration, whether your employees are together in person or joining remotely.
With an Entry Form Giveaway, employees can access the promotion from their phones or computers, complete a registration form, and enter the random drawing. Share the promotion link by email or through your company’s internal communication channels before the event so everyone has an opportunity to participate.
During the virtual Christmas party, share your screen and run the random drawing live so everyone can follow the winner selection. You can also use the Show Mode to present the winners with an animated countdown and visual and sound effects, turning the announcement into part of the entertainment.
Explore this Christmas Entry Form Giveaway demo to see how employees register and enter the holiday prize drawing.
If you already have a list of participating employees, you can also use Easypromos to upload the participant list and run a random drawing directly using Pick a Winner, without requiring employees to complete a registration form. This is a useful option when everyone attending the Christmas party should automatically be included in the prize drawing.
Let Employees Try Their Luck with Spin the Wheel
Spin the Wheel is a simple way to distribute multiple Christmas gifts during a virtual holiday party. Share the promotion link by email, chat, or your company’s internal communication channels and let employees spin from their own devices to find out instantly whether they have won a prize.
You can customize the wheel with your Christmas campaign design, configure different prizes and probabilities, and use it to distribute gifts, gift cards, discounts, or other employee rewards.
Another option is to use the wheel as part of the live event itself. Add employees’ names to the wheel, share your screen, announce the prize, and spin to reveal the winner in real time. This works particularly well for activities such as Christmas karaoke, team challenges, or prize announcements where the reveal becomes part of the entertainment.
Try this Christmas Spin the Wheel demo to experience the mechanic from the participant’s perspective.
Make the Winner Selection Part of the Event with Live Giveaway
Turn the Christmas prize drawing into part of the entertainment with Live Giveaway. Designed for live events, it lets employees join from their own devices while the organizer controls the experience and presents the winner selection on the shared screen.
You can configure the experience in three ways:
- Live Giveaway: employees register and are entered directly into the random drawing.
- Live Giveaway with a survey: participants answer survey questions before entering the drawing. All participants who complete the survey are included.
- Live Giveaway with a quiz: participants answer a series of questions, and only those who answer all questions correctly qualify for the final drawing.
Employees can access the promotion by scanning a QR code or opening the participation link on their phones. Once participation is complete, the organizer launches the winner selection and everyone can follow the countdown and animated reveal together.
This makes Live Giveaway especially useful for virtual Christmas parties because the activity can be adapted to the event: run a straightforward prize drawing, collect fun opinions about the team with a survey, or turn Christmas trivia into a qualifying challenge before selecting the winners.
Want to see Live Giveaway in action? Watch the video to see how the experience works during a live event.
Challenge Your Team with a Christmas Quiz
Add some friendly competition to your virtual Christmas party with a timed quiz. Employees can answer from their own devices, compete for the highest score, and see how they rank against their colleagues. Award prizes to the top performers or use the quiz simply as a fun team-building activity.
The questions don’t have to be limited to general Christmas trivia. Adapt the quiz to your company and team to make the experience more personal:
- Christmas trivia: Test employees’ knowledge of holiday traditions, Christmas songs, festive movies, and other seasonal topics.
- Company trivia: Ask questions about company milestones, memorable moments, products, or previous Christmas parties.
- Remember when?: Use photos and questions to revisit memorable moments your team has shared throughout the year.
- Get to know your colleagues: Create questions about team members, their interests, fun facts, or hidden talents.
You can launch the quiz during the virtual party so everyone participates at the same time, or share it beforehand and reveal the results and ranking together during the event.
Try this Christmas Timed Quiz demo to see how the game could bring some friendly competition to your company Christmas party.
Celebrate Christmas with Interactive Games
Interactive games can add friendly competition to a virtual Christmas party and give employees an activity they can enjoy directly from their phones or computers. Customize the games with your company branding, Christmas visuals, or even photos of your team, then share the participation link so everyone can join.
Choose individual games based on the experience you want to create. A Memory game featuring employees or company moments can test how well colleagues know each other, while a Puzzle can turn a team photo or festive image into a timed challenge. Employees can compete for the highest scores, and you can reward the best-performing players or enter participants into a random drawing.
Create a Virtual Christmas Game Room for Your Team
Take the competition further by bringing several Christmas games together in a Multi-Game promotion. Think of it as a virtual Christmas game room where employees can access different challenges from the same branded environment and compete for the highest overall score.
Combine mechanics such as Memory, Puzzle, Word Search, and other skill-based games, and let employees play during the Christmas party or over several days. Their performance across the different games contributes to the overall ranking, encouraging repeat participation and some friendly competition between colleagues.
At the end of the campaign, recognize the highest-scoring employees or award prizes to turn the game room into a company-wide Christmas competition.
Step inside this Christmas Multi-Game demo to see how you could create a virtual game room for your team and bring several festive challenges together in one experience.
Turn Elf on the Shelf into a Daily Christmas Challenge
Take inspiration from the popular Elf on the Shelf tradition and turn the search for the hidden Christmas elf into a recurring activity for your employees. Combine an Advent Calendar with Hidden Objects to reveal a new challenge each day, with the elf hidden somewhere within a different image.
Employees return to the calendar each day, open the latest window, and search for the elf, creating a simple way to encourage recurring participation throughout the Christmas season. You can adapt the images and hiding places to your company, products, industry, or other themes your employees will recognize.
For example, our travel-themed demo hides the Christmas elf in a different destination each day, showing how an airline, travel company, or tourism brand could adapt the concept to its own identity. The same idea could be applied to offices, stores, products, company milestones, or other settings relevant to your organization.
Can you find the elf? Explore our Find the Christmas Elf Advent Calendar demo to see how a daily Hidden Objects challenge could be adapted to your team or company Christmas campaign.
Organize a Christmas Photo Contest for Employees
Invite employees to share their Christmas spirit with a company Photo Contest. Participants can upload a festive photo along with their registration details, creating a shared gallery where colleagues can see everyone’s entries.
For example, challenge employees to submit their best Christmas Spirit photo. They could show off their holiday decorations, Christmas outfits, festive workspace, family traditions, or any other image that captures how they are celebrating the season. You can select the winner internally, open the gallery to employee voting, or run a random drawing among eligible participants.
A photo contest works particularly well for remote or distributed teams because it gives employees a way to share a little of their Christmas celebrations with colleagues they may not see in person.
Create a Christmas Photo Booth for Your Team
For a more playful alternative, use PhotoFun to create a virtual Christmas photo booth. Employees can take or upload a photo and personalize it with festive frames, stickers, and other branded elements created for your company Christmas campaign.
Encourage everyone to create their Christmas photo during the virtual party and share the results with their colleagues. It can become a simple group activity while also generating fun keepsakes from the event.
Strike a festive pose! Try this Christmas PhotoFun demo to see how you could create a virtual Christmas photo booth for your employees.
Bring Your Team Together This Christmas
A virtual Christmas party can be much more than a video call. Giveaways, quizzes, interactive games, daily challenges, and photo contests give employees different ways to participate, compete, and have fun together, wherever they are.
With Easypromos, you can customize these experiences with your company branding, combine different mechanics, and add prizes and incentives to create a Christmas celebration tailored to your team. Choose the ideas that best fit your employees and turn your virtual holiday event into an experience everyone can share.
