I have already told you about the history of this beautiful festival of colors from India. I hope you have read my previous blogs on History of Holi and places to visit in India on Holi. If you have not till now what are you guys waiting for?
As you might have known from my previous blogs, there is Holi fever in our office.
Celebrating festivals at work brings out the happier side of employees and builds an amazing bond amongst each other. Playing Holi in the company’s courtyard or the terrace will bring a lot joy and fun and will surely lift up the spirits of all the employees
It is during festivals that all the employee come together like a one big happy family to spread love happiness and good positives vibes all around
Colorful office, with decorated cubicles, slightly jazzy clothes and pinned happy Polaroid’s and festivities across the whole office floor, this is surely something your work force will be looking forward to.
Holi is the most anticipated festival to be celebrated at work place as the color is splashed everywhere, even though there will a lot of cleaning involved post the celebrations, this is one festive celebration which should not be skipped. You can’t control the urge of joining in with the festivities so why not embrace it and have some fun, let your hair down and smear some color on your colleagues and bosses because you never know when might get this chance again
Getting ready and bringing your favorite Rang [color] for a celebration at your work place is a delight in itself for every employee across the world. This is an ideal celebration even for a diverse work environment, because people around the globe are obsessed with this festival filled with colors and joy and would love to be a part of the memorable celebrations.
After all in between your excel sheets and conference meetings and work calls we are helping you how to brighten up your workplace and lighten the work place atmosphere.
So let this colorful fever continue and let me tell you about ways to celebrate Holi at work place.
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Make a photo wall.
Mark a particular wall inside or outside the office or in the cafeteria with company name and logo all over the all. Employees can be asked to dip their hands in the colors of their choice and the leave the hand print on this wall. Please keep a marker besides this wall for them to write their names besides their hand print to sign it.
You could make a vinyl poster as well, with the company name and logo printed all over it and keep it next to this wall so that employees can pose in front of it and click happy and colorful pictures with their painted hands and faces
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Meetahi (sweet) party
Tell your team members to get Holi themed sweets for all, either make it or buy it from out and have a pot luck part and enjoy a variety of sweets from different culture and tradition. Of course let the management also call for some sweets for everyone so it does not look like the management is stingy and does not want to spend.
But tell the employees to bring the special sweet from their culture is a lot of fun as diverse cultures have diverse eating habits and diverse food type.
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Set the stage
Set a stage for the more creative employees and tell them in advance there is a stage set up incase someone want to do some kind of performance to show off their talent for everyone. It could be a dance, a stand up act, singing anything. They can take their pick to entertain their friends.
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Let’s play with raang (color)
Keep 2 hours dedicated for the Holi party during working hours and play Bollywood themed music and curate some games to play with the whole team. You could also play music in the later 1 hour and let people color each other’s cheeks with gulaal and dance to peppy Bollywood Holi songs. Trust me there are a lot of songs available to pick from which go with the Holi theme perfectly.
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Color awards
Each color signifies a specific emotion.
Example – Red signifies love, Yellow signifies sweet, pink signifies friendship, Orange is the color of Fire green is Calm and peace.
Nominate employees who specify each trait and to keep things more interesting you can keep a bowl and a stack of chits next to it, where the employees can write about their colleagues and put their thoughts in the bowl. These chits can be later read out in front of everyone.
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Coloring booth
Since this is a festival of colors why not have a coloring booth as well. Mixing the festival of colors with art therapy will help you have a colorful team building and a skill building exercise.
You could also call out the top three paintings and hang it on the photo wall as a memory. Moreover give back the individual paintings to them and these paintings can be pinned on their pin board, it will help their desk be colorful and will definitely remind them of the fun event throughout the year.
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Rang-takshari
Songs like balampichkari, rang barse and jai jaishivshankar are all songs from different decades of Bollywood. Play antakshari with these songs as a holi themed play, moreover these songs are fun to sing and can be an excellent team bonding exercise as well.
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Buran a mano Holi Hai
Since Holi is a festival of joy and fun lets get a little competitive and plan some fun office games with colleagues.
You can keep the name of this particular game Taste the drink.
In this game make two teams and one participant from each team has to come forward and has to taste the drink made in the glass and say what it is as soon as possible. Once he names it correctly the next participant from the same team can come forward to do the same.
Which ever team finishes first wins.
Now you might wonder what is the fun in this??
Well you can keep drinks with all types of taste.
Example – Neem Juice, Amla Juice, Orange juice, Coconut water, root beer etc.
This game is a brilliant team bonding exercise.
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Hunt Hunt Hunt
The time less, most cherished game – Treasure Hunt
Looking for tiny clues running around the office premises and rattling your brains together to solve those clues. Goofing up in coming up the answers to those clues and starting the whole process again to keep the competition alive can be a part of the colorful Holi celebrations. Making groups and keeping the employees on their toes to look for clues all around the office, and doing as mentioned in the clues be it enacting, or eating, or dancing or posing for pictures, laughing or making funny faces just to win the race will surely be a nice team bonding game. Also you will get some great memories in terms of pictures and videos to look at later.
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Props table.
A white backdrop, colorful cheeks, fancy festive attires and humorous props kept on a table and an on going party with ear to ear smiling and laughing employees.
Could your team ask for anything more to click pictures and videos and post it on their personal social media handles.
This would be the best way to show the world how much fun it is working in your company and how well the company plans events and festivals.
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Paint + Music + Chairs = Lots of fun
This is your traditional music char game but with a slight variation.
Make a set up of chairs in along que… In front of every chair keep a white canvas, some paints and a painting brush.
Tell you whole team to move around in a circle while you blast some peppy Bollywood Holi music. As soon as the music stops they have to grab a chair and start painting on the canvas in front of them. Then you start the music again and they again start walking in a circle.
The second person who again sits in the same chair has to continue painting in the same canvas on which the previous colleague has painted.
Please do remove one chair after every round.
The last one sitting and painting wins.
Also in the end you will get a lot of canvas with funny paintings on it… It is going to be really fun seeing all of them in the end and laughing together.
- Sustainable and eco friendly
Educate your employees on how to be sustainable by celebrating the Holi of 2021 in a eco friendly manner
Do not forget to bring eco friendly colors for this festivals.
You could also educate your teammates on the importance of planting trees and give them a small planter by the end of it to start off their environment friendly journey.
You could also enlighten them about benefits of eating healthy and choosing a vegan lifestyle.
Hope these innovative ideas of team bonding games will brighten up the celebrations of this joyous colorful festival.
