Healthy Holiday Socials @ Work
The holidays bring an opportunity for us to socialize at work during a celebratory time of the year.
Often times, these social gatherings involve sugary options and high-caloric dishes. Keep your
socials healthy with these ideas!
Champion Celebration Ideas:
Music and Dance Party- Include movement into your party
 Salsa party with Latin dancing
 Have a dance party each week already? Maybe you can all learn a dance at your weekly dance
party and then perform it together at your social
 Put on a Talent Show! Have people showcase their talents of playing music, singing, or dancing.
Maybe there’s even a magician in your midst?
 Karaoke Time! Ask your IT to bring in a portable speaker and a microphone and then pull up you
tube videos of karaoke songs
Reminisce Together- Share photos and have a good laugh
 Show a slideshow of photos taken throughout the year
 Gratitude photos of staff members. Have everyone take a photo by answering the prompt: “I am
grateful for: ____” on a white board. Share the photos at your social
Games- Play a fun game to take the focus off of work
 White Elephant- Set a safe limit and make sure that everyone who plays gives a gift.
 Gift Exchange- Have everyone draw a name from a box. Whoever you draw a name for, you’ll be
giving a gift to. But don’t tell them because it is a secret. Set rules about how much people should
spend and encourage people to write three gift hints for their secret gift giver.
Be Festive- Tie a theme to your office social
 Have a decoration contest. Who can decorate their office chair the best? Get people moving—
Ask people to do a walk through in the office to judge who’s chair wins the prize (HSS can give
prizes for this!)
 Have a gingerbread decorating party. Just don’t eat too many of the decorations 
 Use an Ugly Sweater Party as your social theme. Have people share a story about their ugly
sweater.
Give Back Together- Find a campaign to work towards together.
 Check out our list of give back campaigns: http://myhss.org/well-being/flu/
Healthy Eating Ideas for Holiday Socials
Healthy Socials without Food
Recipe of the week
Holiday-themed
recipe share
Department
cookbook
Select a recipe of the week.
(This can be posted on a bulletin board or shared by email. This will
require an administrator.)
Select a theme.
Themes can be 5 ingredients or less, crockpot, quick breakfasts, etc.
Have everyone share their recipe by collecting via email then share
with participants on a bulletin board.
Gather recipes to share.
Have everyone submit a recipe electronically and compile into a food
cookbook to share.
Healthy Gatherings with Food
Potlucks
Daily Treats
Taste Testing /
Cook Off
Have everyone bring a dish to share and also have them share the
recipe.
Assign a day to people and have them bring an item to share along
with the recipe.
Everyone can make a similarly themed item and have all participants
taste the dishes and vote for who did it best!
Add a Fun Spin to Your Socials:
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“Rad Recipes at Random” game. Gather holiday recipes from participants, put them in a bag, then have
everyone pull from the bag. You may end up with your own recipe or you may end up with someone
else’s. Make the recipe and share.
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“Chopped” theme. Gather a group of Managers and employees to be judges. Choose an ingredient that
everyone needs to include in their dish and get as many participants as possible to create dishes that include
that ingredient. Try to choose a common ingredient found in holiday dishes!
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Add a game to your gathering. Play the Healthy and Happy Holiday Trivia game if you have AV where the
social is taking place. You’re sure to get some laughs out of the experience.
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Give out party favors that promote cooking and healthy eating (ie. Measuring spoons, apple cutters, cutting
boards). We can provide these for you!