Holiday Team Building Made FUN!
🎄 Looking for a unique team experience to wrap up the year with energy, laughter, and connection?
The Holiday Recess PLAYshop is our festive spin on the original Recess ‘Game Show’ experience—packed with playful challenges, team games, and feel-good fun that brings everyone together.
Perfect for corporate holiday parties, team celebrations, or end-of-year events, this high-energy session helps teams let loose, connect authentically, and celebrate the season in style.
Because the best gift you can give your team?
A moment to play, connect, and re-energize for what’s next.
Objective:
Have a ton of HOLIDAY FUN & CONNECTION
For Teams That Are
- ✅ Like to work hard, play hard!
- ✅ Feel the holiday crunch and need a release
- ✅ Value wellness, fun and real connection
Objectives & Outcomes
- 🎉 Add pure PLAY to your year end party or celebration!
- 💬 Build authentic connections across teams
- 🧠 Re-energize the team & boost workplace wellbeing heading into next year
How It Works
PLAYshops are fun, experiential & highly impactful! This FUN team-building workshop can take place right in your office or at any locally scheduled event, conference, retreat, etc. All materials are provided and teams of 8-200+ can be accommodated. There are 2 components to get your team laughing & connecting in ways you never thought possible!
- Group Games
Fun and interactive games that are hyper-focused on FUN and CONNECTION! - Game Show Elements
We have overloaded this session with interactive game-show components (music, sound effects, props, awards/prizes) so that the fun is maximized! Oh that and all of our facilitators are improv-trained and bring forth the hilarity as the PLAYshop game-show hosts!
HOLIDAY RECESS ' Game Show' PLAYshop Outline
Intro: FOP Intro, Name Fun, What Playing For
Opening Activity: Green & Red Thumbgrabz
Big Idea: Let’s connect & have some holiday fun!
ICEBREAKERS – getting in ‘sync’ & get to know you:
Reindeer-Penguin-Polar Bear – Small Groups (6-8) – getting on same page by choosing one of the characters each round, in an attempt to be in group unison. Trophies: quickest groups.
Extremes – [Large Group] Connection based game. Everyone joins a spectrum according to get to know your topics (e.g. (E.g Gift Planner vs Gift Procrastinator. Sweet vs Salty. Décor vs no décor, Homemade gifts vs Amazon Prime, Party Hoster vs Party Hider, Baking Marathon vs Takeout and Chill, Snow lover vs Sun seeker, NY Resolutions vs Yolo, etc)
Trophies: Most unique shares!
CORE GAMES – Connection & Fun
5 Tree Things – Groups of 5, high energy/positivity game! Say first 5 things that come to mind. Group cheers them on no matter what (ie. 1! 2,!, 3!,etc). Race to finish first. E.g Topics are fun holiday themed (e.g 5 Awesome things about holidays, 5 Things on the Best Holiday Sweater, 5 of the Worst Gifts Ever, etc). Award: Fastest teams and best answers (voted upon).
T’was the Night (Story Builders) - Groups of 4 you build a story 1 sentence at a time along with positive reinforcement. Title of story is given prior to starting (e.g ‘The most Epic NYE!’). Award: Most epic story!
What You Doing? - In small groups, one person mimes out a holiday activity. Group asks what you doing? Response is anything but what they are doing. Next person has to mime that action out and repeat cycle. Award: Best miming, best suggestions.
Holiday Island C’mere – In small groups of 3, ‘islands’ need to figure out who is leaving the island each round, based on a fun, get to know you prompt (ie. most festive house, best holiday playlist, most likely to re-gift something? Spike the eggnog? Travelled furthest on vacation, most unique winter hobby, etc).
Holiday Shapemakers – In small groups, forming different shapes and getting as creative as possible (Circle, Diamond, Snowman, Giant snowflake, Tree, Reindeer, Ugly Sweater, holiday lights, Joy, etc). Award: Best renditions, most creativity
FINALE : Whole group - An interactive, powerful finale! Greetings, smiles, creativity, movement and FUN!
Partnesia - Various rounds with music and partners creating secret holiday greetings. Followed by a fun sequence where everyone is walking around recreating them. Award: Best greetings/enthusiasm.
Reindeer Flock Dance – to the tune of holiday songs, in small groups a movement based party w/ a rotating follow the leader. Award: Best moves.
RPS Elves: Giant Rock Paper Scissors tournament in holiday theme (Reindeer, snowman, candle). Losers become the elves of the winner and follow them around and cheer the on! Award – winner of tourney!
Wrap Up: AWARD & PRIZE CEREMONY
* PLAYful Finales only available for PLAYshops longer than 3 hours
Pricing*
1 Hour
Groups up to 50 People +$40/additional Person
- Game Show 'Hosts' 1
- Icebreakers
- 3 - 5 Group Games
- Mini High Energy FINALE 1
BEST VALUE
1.5 Hours
Groups up to 50 People + $50/additional Person
- Game Show 'Hosts' 1
- Icebreakers
- 5 - 7 Group Games
- High Energy FINALE
- Winner's Ceremony 1
2 Hours
Groups up to 50 People +$60/additional Person
- Game Show 'Hosts' 1
- Icebreakers
- 8 - 10 Group Games
- High Energy FINALE
- Winner's Ceremony & Prizes!
*Discounts for large groups (100+), startups, schools, social enterprises, and non-profits. Let's chat and figure out your needs.
**Customization, travel costs, or location rentals are extra. Reinforcement programs are available at $1000/hr.