Christmas Team Building Activities & Ideas for Work 2026

Christmas Team Building Activities, Ranked by What Teams Book

Every activity on this page is one companies genuinely book for their staff Christmas party, and the table below ranks them by how often teams pick each one. All are run by a professional host, work as a party at a venue or in your own office, and suit anything from a small team to a few hundred people. That ranking comes straight from our own event bookings, not guesswork:

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The grid above has the full set of Christmas party activities, from craft workshops and cocktail classes to casino, quiz and race nights and charity builds. Want us to narrow it down for you? Send your group size and date and we will come back with festive ideas and a quote »

Corporate Christmas Party Ideas Beyond the Sit-Down Meal

A corporate Christmas party with Funktion Events is built around a hosted activity, not a set menu. Every option here runs at a venue or in your own office, for anything from a small team to a large group of several hundred staff, with a dedicated event manager who plans it, brings the kit and runs the day. Companies including AstraZeneca, KPMG and LAKA have booked their festive events with us, and we can build a bespoke office Christmas party around your team, brand or a specific theme.

It still works as a party, people just do something together first rather than sit straight down to eat. Even year-round favourites like pizza making run through December, in venues dressed for the season.

Christmas Team Building Activities for Work

Christmas team building activities are hosted festive events that get colleagues working together over a shared challenge or craft, from treasure hunts and gingerbread builds to cocktail classes and charity bike builds. More of our clients now put their team building and Christmas party budgets together into one event, and it is easy to see why.

Instead of spending the whole budget on a meal that is forgotten by January, they get the celebration and a day that genuinely develops the team. In a market where forming and keeping good people matters as much as the numbers, a company Christmas party that also builds the team gives the business something back, not just a night out. We plan and run it to the same standard as our year-round team building activities, with the festive theme added.

Pick a Festive Activity by What You Want From the Day

Start with the outcome you are after and we will point you to the right event:

• Creative and craft: Christmas Wreath Making, Gingerbread House Making or Ornament Painting.
• Food and drink: Chocolate Making or festive Cocktail Making.
• Treasure hunts and problem-solving: the Smartphone Christmas Treasure Hunt, Qubed or Challenge 100.
• Evening and social: Race Nights, Gameshow Bonanza or Brilliant Bingo.
• Charity and CSR: a Charity Bike Build or Charity Sleep Pod Build, where the team finishes the day having built bikes or sleep pods that go to people who need them over winter.

Virtual Christmas Parties for Remote Teams

If your team is remote or spread across sites, a virtual Christmas party keeps everyone together over Zoom or Microsoft Teams, hosted from end to end. Browse the festive editions in our full range of virtual team building events, which scale from one team to several hundred people in breakout rooms.

Planning a bigger celebration? See our corporate away days, or browse every option in our team building activities. Not sorted a venue yet? Our free venue finding service sources festive spaces anywhere in the UK. Just after games and ideas to run yourselves? Head to our seasonal and festive team building blog or our office Christmas party games guide. And to add festive food and drink to the day without extra planning, these corporate Christmas hampers ship straight to your office.

What Every Team Building Event Includes

• We come to you – our team brings the kit and sets it up at your office, venue or chosen space, anywhere in the UK.
• A dedicated event manager – one point of contact who plans the whole thing with you and runs it on the day.
• Free venue finding – if you have not booked a venue, we source the right space for your group size and location.
• Fully insured and risk assessed – every event is covered and professionally run, and Funktion Events is an ABTA Member (Y6501).

“December fills up faster than any month, and once the good dates and venues go, they are gone. My advice is to pin down your date and rough numbers first, then leave the rest to us. I look after the venue, the host and the running order, so on the day you are just another person enjoying it, not the one worrying about it.”

Izzie
Senior Corporate Event Manager

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