The New Year is sweeping the planet, adults and children are rejoicing! In reality, not everything is often so rosy: children are having fun, and adults, in panic and lack of time, are racking their brains over organizing not only children’s, but also “adult” matinees - corporate parties.
Since the New Year is a holiday of happiness, the most anticipated and almost nationwide celebration, the mass scale of the celebration cannot be compared with any other event. And every December, the problem of holding an original corporate party for the New Year becomes a pressing issue.
Themes for New Year's corporate party
The main goal of any party is to have fun.
The organization options are endless. But how can you find the best one so that the event is fun, creative, impresses every employee and is remembered for a long time? When choosing a corporate party idea for the New Year 2022, you should start from the team itself: the number of people, their age, gender and future expenses.
In general, the theme of such parties has several forms:
- Theme party. The most traditional and popular option. This is a stylized and costumed event. Outfits, menus, hall decoration, games, competitions, music - everything should be consistent with one specific theme. Such a corporate event is perfect for a large staff.
- Quest.An unusual idea - to entertain colleagues with puzzles, riddles and tests. The party will be filled with dynamics and excitement. You can choose a banquet quest, quest room, interactive, excursion, outdoor, and also outdoors.
- Master Class. It will also appeal to everyone: activist, intellectual, gourmet, creator and artist. Among the options are the preparation of handmade desserts and sweets, mulled wine, wine tasting, culinary duels, carving, latte art, studying floristry and creating compositions, handmade cosmetics, perfume session, dance master classes, flash mobs and battles, oil painting, water, on sand, body art, stained glass creation, calligraphy, graffiti, Gzhel, ceramics and glass decoration, wood carving. In general, there are many options and ideas for MK for the New Year.
- Active and sports entertainment. Fun-loving people and athletes will long remember paintball, curling, biathlon, and going to the skating rink. A larger idea is a New Year's corporate party in the style of the Olympic Games with skiing, sledding, snowboarding, hockey and winter football.
- Show. Walk like that! Organize karaoke, a photo shoot, a magic show, or painting portraits and cartoons at your corporate event.
Entertainment
The success of a corporate event depends primarily on how well the entertainment, attractions, competitions or relay races are chosen. In winter, it is a little more difficult to choose games and attributes for competitions, since, in addition to other factors, weather conditions must be taken into account. Therefore, when choosing games that are played outside, you should choose an alternative option in case of slush or rain, while snow is not a hindrance to entertainment.
Fun in the traditional Russian style, such as throwing boots or pancakes (not real pancakes, but special attributes, are used) are very popular. The main point of the fun is to throw as far as possible, or to get into a circle drawn on the snow or ground. There are many options for this entertainment, you just need to use your imagination.
Bowling is no less in demand, but unlike the classic version of the game, you need to knock out matryoshka pins with a special ball, which adds novelty and even more excitement to the game.
In addition, there are many bright and exciting entertainments that can be arranged indoors, such as competitions in trio pants or huge diapers, racing on inflatable hares and others. And the experienced Party2go team will be happy to help you choose the best attractions, games and attributes for competitions. It is enough to take into account all the recommendations of the experts and you will organize an incredible, fun and memorable corporate event!
Corporate party in the style of the 80s
What to wear to an 80s themed party: examples.
A favorite, but still fashionable, idea for a New Year's corporate party. The scenery should be colorful, garlands and streamers cascading down from everywhere, among the decor must-haves are a cassette recorder, light music and a disco ball, posters of celebrities from the 1980s.
The concept of New Year's celebration involves nostalgia in everything. The main dance, of course, is disco. The music matches: the main recognizable hits of ABBA, Boney M, Modern Talking, Alla Pugacheva, the groups Mirage and Laskovy May.
Competitions for corporate events should be based on colleagues’ knowledge of the era. An indicator will be competitions such as guessing the melody from the first notes or one line at a time and fun quizzes to guess the prices of products, fragrances and outfits of that time.
You can also hold a competition on quotes from Soviet cinema and cartoons.
Do you want those times back?
Not really
In the case of a dress code, during the celebration you can make all your wildest dreams come true; experiments will not spoil it. Colleagues will compete to see who has the most colorful clothes, the most voluminous hairstyle, who is wearing ultra-short minis and scarce boiled boots.
The banquet menu would not be complete without Olivier salad, sprat in tomato, sprat, herring, boiled sausage, pickles, Soviet champagne, lemonade. For dessert - traditionally Napoleon, Honey cake, Potato cake, Karakum candies, Belochka, Red poppy, Grillage and Bird's milk and condensed milk.
However, we should not forget that the team will be pleased to plunge into the atmosphere of Soviet cafes and canteens, and not experience their disadvantages. Therefore, serving dishes at a celebration should be aesthetic and non-standard. The assortment can include the shortages of the 80s: seafood, pink salmon, sturgeon, caviar, canned crab.
Collection of photos from 80's themed parties
Celebrate Rockstar Style
Another idea on how to celebrate a New Year’s corporate party is a non-standard celebration in rock style. The atmosphere is saturated with the drive for change, protest, fearlessness, and independence. It will become the most incendiary party.
The variety of trends and genres of rock is enormous. The stars of the first magnitude of this direction are Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Queen, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Scorpios, Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, Guns N' Roses, Nirvana.
It is appropriate to remember about Russian rock legends - Time Machine, Aquarium, Cinema and Alice. Definitely, the theme of the New Year's corporate party 2022 in the Rockstar style invites you to “play around” with the mood of the event: you can choose a playlist from rock and roll to glam and hard rock, any period and even country.
An example of the design of a hall for a corporate event in the style of a Rockstar party.
The hall is decorated in the appropriate style. Everything should be in bright colors, combine different styles and shocking. A press wall, a music stage, all kinds of electric guitars, colored lights on the dance floor, vinyl records, posters with images of idols or symbols, such as the rocker “goat,” will help to brighten up the interior. The best location for the event would be a loft-style room.
The dress code for employees is T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets. If the holiday is in the style of the beginning of the rock and roll era, then images of dudes from the 60s or boho chic of the 70s will do. Rock accessories will complement the outfit: bandanas, gloves, glasses, gloves, badges and jewelry. And also creative hairstyles - lush varnished bouffants, perms, mohawks, long shoulder-length hair. Colleagues will feel like the stars of a live rock concert or festival.
The entertainment program at such a corporate event consists of music and dance competitions. Offer to guess the melodies and lyrics of songs, arrange a mini-concert, invite a makeup artist to create hairstyles and makeup of the rocker era, and add a master class on dancing or playing an instrument.
Rockers are not fussy about food, even though they are stars. Often, fast food is served at such an unusual corporate event. But this does not mean that you need to order food from McDonald's. Let the table be filled with burger sets, French fries, cola, nuggets, hot dogs, sandwiches, fish and chips, barbecue. Snacks and desserts include slices, nuts, popcorn, crackers and muffins.
Ideas for creative people
Creativity, an unconventional approach, a lot of ideas and a thirst for action - all this distinguishes teams with young employees. There are several ideas for them too.
- Corporate style... And then you can substitute any direction that interests the employees. Let's imagine that we live in the 70s or 90s, transport ourselves to a sensational film, and become characters in a new computer game that has already made a splash. There are many options, it all depends on the imagination of the participants themselves. But even in this case, it is worth ordering a thematic program-scenario, and not leaving it to chance. When choosing this option for holding a corporate party, each employee will have to take care of having a themed costume, otherwise the holiday atmosphere may be ruined.
- Quests are a solution that will not lose its relevance for a long time. Suitable for lovers of active recreation, for whom the presence of a rich feast will not be an indicator of a successful holiday. The program can be ordered from an agency, but there is also a budget option - use online resources where you can find scripts in various areas.
Creative individuals themselves can become good event organizers. But if there is a desire to involve all employees, and not distract individual people to resolve issues that have arisen or conduct a quest, then it makes sense to use the services of event specialists.
New Year's corporate party in the style of the 60s
We propose to celebrate the new year 2022 as we celebrated it 50 years ago. The cosmic, romantic era of the thaw, scientific and technological discoveries, human rights struggle, rock and roll and fashion chic. The time of the last romantics and faith in a bright future, naive and transparent. When, it seems, people were kinder and the grass was greener.
The interior plays an important role in celebrating the New Year in the style of the 60s. The ambience is created thanks to vintage furniture, figurines, geometric patterns, a Christmas tree with Soviet toys, paper garlands, posters of the first supermodels, Twiggy and Verushka, paintings in the pop art style, and records. Special rarities are a black and white TV and a set of porcelain fish. The highlight of the atmosphere will be sparklers.
Bright clothes and colorful accessories are best for a 60s style outfit.
Getting into the circle of select dudes is not easy, but it is possible. Women will be helped to recreate a retro look with dresses of various colors, mini and bell skirts, cropped trousers, suits, elegant hats and gloves, large glasses, bright makeup, arrows, babette or a geometric haircut.
Men can dress in elegant, minimalistic suits: white shirts, golf, a narrow tie, pointed shoes, jackets with a zipper. For those who love shocking, we recommend the image of a hippie or try to impersonate the celebrities of that time - Elvis, Shurik, Coward, Goonie and Experienced, Semyon Semyonich with a cast, the “girls” Tosya and Anfisa.
The song repertoire of such an active New Year's corporate party consists of songs by Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dean Martin, Vladimir Vysotsky, Maya Kristalinskaya, Aida Vedishcheva, Muslim Magomayev. The playlist generates the entire program of the celebration.
The “highlight” of the evening will be the dancing; after this party, co-workers will dance the twist, foxtrot, lambada and boogie-woogie every day! There are interesting quizzes on knowledge of life and history of the 60s, song competitions a la Guess the Melody, and dance competitions. Another great option is a fashion show.
And it would be absolutely unforgivable not to organize the main New Year’s program at the corporate event - the Blue Light.
How you celebrate the New Year is how you will spend it. They always prepared for the feast in advance and hid delicacies. The main salad at the New Year's feast is Olivier. They also served Herring under a fur coat, jellied meat, sprats, chicken and cutlets, and the jellied fish was not disgusting at all. Caviar, balyk, oranges, bananas, and canned pineapples were considered deficient. For sweets, we bought chocolates, cake and soda. Soviet champagne was responsible for the general fun.
Symbol of 2022
Traditionally, the focus of New Year's trends is the symbol of the year. In the coming year 2022, it is a black water tiger. Manufacturers of kitchen utensils, souvenirs, toys and textiles have tried to release at least one collection with images of wild cats, or with the famous “wild” print. They continue the ethnic theme that is relevant this season, including the theme of Africa.
Tip : Plates, cups and trays in tiger and leopard print are best paired with a plain black or white tablecloth.
Luxurious tea sets with the symbol of 2022
Tableware with wild print
The natural red hue of the predator often replaces the golden one. In combination with black and white, it looks more luxurious and noble. The “water” theme associated with the symbol of the year is presented in various variations of blue and green, especially light turquoise and blue tones are held in high esteem.
Amur tiger on a porcelain service
Turquoise shades in Christmas tree decor
New Year's fairy tale in the forests of Lapland
Lapland is unanimously recognized as the most magical place for the New Year holidays. The amazing home of Santa and the Northern Lights, the perfect place for Christmas. And even adults want to return to childhood again, to feel that joy and mischief. Unfortunately, organizing an off-site, and even a foreign corporate event for the New Year is not something everyone can afford or can afford. But there is no reason to be upset, both in the restaurant and in the office you can create an atmosphere of miracle and celebration.
The atmosphere of such a party is very cozy and transports you to a fairy tale.
For a themed corporate party in Finnish, they choose a bright and spacious venue, imitate a frosty pattern, snowflakes, spruce, northern animals on the windows, hang paper and shimmering garlands, “rain,” arrange candles, lay out citrus fruits. Knitted, wicker and wooden elements, artificial skins and horns of Scandinavian animals are added to the interior. Special decoration will include a real fireplace and coniferous trees.
There are quite a lot of outfit ideas. You can choose masquerade costumes: dress up as Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, forest elves, gnomes, fairies and other characters from Scandinavian mythology. Their clothes are always in bright Christmas colors - red, green, blue and white. Perhaps most employees will choose a classic formal dress code, diversifying it with colored caps, wings, shoes, knee socks, socks, mittens and sweaters with deer, and fur vests.
A corporate event in the style of a Lapland fairy tale promises the team a fun and entertaining scenario. Among the fun things to do is to compose and draw a Christmas story together, and arrange a casting for the title of Yolupukki, whose main task is to catch a “deer” using a lasso from a ribbon. Collective ritual dances with a tambourine will make even the most stern colleagues laugh.
A celebration taking place in the fresh air would not be complete without active games of snowballs and hide-and-seek; dog sledding would also be a great idea.
Guests will also be entertained by an entertaining confectionery master class, where they will teach how to create gingerbread men and even houses. The final end of the evening will be a grand fireworks display.
In the frosty north, they feast on high-calorie dishes and strong drinks.
For fellow gourmets, the banquet menu will be a real gift. Order national Lapland dishes: baked salmon or trout, appetizers and salads with caviar and seafood, stuffed fish, grilled elk meat, meat and fish pies. As delicacies - venison, in the form of dietary soup, and also stewed. At feasts, real Finns usually prefer grog, kvass, mulled wine, cognac, wine and cloudberry liqueurs.
Snowy Christmas trees
This season, more and more manufacturers are producing artificial spruce trees with the effect of snow-covered branches. They look gentle and elegant, allowing you to “draw” any decorative compositions of different shades against their background.
Tip: you can “silver” the branches of a spruce tree yourself using artificial snow, salt crystals, and foam chips.
Toys in matte and pastel colors go well with snow-covered branches
Set of Christmas tree decorations in dusty pink color
As an alternative to the classic green-red-gold trio, decorators suggest choosing Christmas tree decorations in less contrasting and calmer, pastel combinations: silver, cream, dusty pink, gray, coral, light blue shades.
Tip : In small spaces, an armful of fluffy branches in a wicker basket will help out.
Christmas tree branches in a basket can save space in small areas
A living coniferous plant in pots will help resolve the eternal eco-dispute among lovers of live and artificial fir trees. After the holidays, without waiting for spring, you can plant it in the garden plot, in the nearest front garden or in the forest, organizing a useful and exciting event for the whole family.
Advice: do not buy a live spruce in a pot with even a slight hint of yellowed or dried needles - such a plant will not last long. Carefully read the rules for caring for the tree.
Live mini-Christmas trees in pots
New Year in Alice in Wonderland style
Do you want to organize a theater of the absurd for your dear team? You couldn't find a better idea for a New Year's corporate party! At the same time a fabulous and mysterious story, it is a real carnival of events and a carnival of emotions.
Thanks to the correct design of the hall, employees will be transported to the fairy-tale forest of Wonderland. Decorative trees, secret doors, garlands of stringed keys and cups, signs, and large clocks will help decorate a room in a similar style. Invitations can be created in the form of playing cards and notes. It’s worth preparing a photo zone: the White Rabbit’s house, the yard for the Mad Tea Party and the tree on which the Cheshire Cat sits.
Outfits in the style of “Alice in Wonderland”.
With suits - no options. Just dress up as Alice in Wonderland characters. Each colleague will choose who to transform into. Whether to become Alice, the White Rabbit in an elegant frill, the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, the tabby Cheshire cat, the Queen of Hearts or the cute Dormouse. It will turn out to be a real theatrical party.
The competitions are as absurd and funny as the subject matter. Have a drinking competition with your team using porcelain cups. You will get a lot of emotions from playing the main English game - croquet. Especially if the ball is a soft toy, and a mop serves as a special hammer.
You can’t do without a costume photo shoot and a competition for the most unusual dance. A new version of the game of forfeits will ignite the atmosphere of fun: fortune cakes. It would be quite appropriate to organize a quest at such a corporate event and invite a professional illusionist.
Only in this fantasy can you combine two holidays at once - New Year and Birthday. Long live the unnamed!
Organize a Mad Tea Party. Cupcakes with glazed inscriptions or eat me tags, drinks with drink me stickers, cookies in the shape of a rabbit and his pocket watch or a deck of cards, cake pops, lollipops, ice cream should be served at the table. For more substantial dishes, offer a buffet set: meat, cheese, vegetable slices, rolls, canapés, tartlets.
And don't forget about changing cups!
Celebrating the New Year on a budget
This format of events is chosen by companies with a small staff or in the presence of financial difficulties. It is also suitable for those organizations in which the team is already united, everyone knows everything about each other and there is no need to be afraid of conflict situations. With a competent approach to organization, you can invest in the amount of 1-1.5 thousand rubles per person.
- Corporate party in the office . The most common solution is if you have a spacious room in which you can organize a festive table, which is often set on your own, but an option with centralized purchase of delicacies and alcohol is also used. To prevent a corporate party from turning into a banal drunken party, it is worth contacting an event agency, whose specialists will suggest several scenarios for an acceptable amount. But the event will have to be hosted by a member of the team.
- A trip to nature . The good thing about this option is that such corporate events do not take much time. The average duration, excluding the journey there and back, usually does not exceed 3-4 hours; the frost also affects intoxicated participants of the event. To organize a barbecue, you can rent a gazebo in sanatoriums and boarding houses that are empty in winter, negotiate with the owners of a country house, or use the property of one of the employees. With the purchase of alcohol, meat for barbecue and other organizational expenses, you can meet the amount of up to 3 thousand rubles per employee.
Everything is simple - a good feast, intimate conversations, and if even the simplest program is organized, then the holiday will be remembered.
Black cats and Golden ladies or corporate event for a women's team
The theme of a closed party for a select few, into which representatives of the streets burst into. Luxury versus obstinacy. Mysterious night dwellers, dexterous and graceful, challenge Hollywood divas and spectacular burlesque queens.
The venue area can be divided into two parts: a rich, sophisticated boudoir and a loft, street blocks with dim lanterns. Monograms and lace mixed with minimalism and gothic.
Simple and elegant masks.
The outfits of girls with character are practical, comfortable, laconic and, of course, black. The faces of the mysterious strangers are covered with masks. Fashionistas glitter with gold and sparkle with diamonds.
Entertainment for the New Year's corporate party is based on battles: dance, sports, intellectual, culinary. Will ballroom dancing beat hip-hop? Extravagance or street wisdom? Inadaptability or resourcefulness? Who is the true lady in the end: the one who buys expensive glamorous things, or the one who can literally prepare a feast out of nothing?
The hostess of social life prefers dietary low-calorie dishes and delicacies: light vegetable and fruit cuts, fish, lobster and oysters. “Black cats” are not used to such luxury, but they also love fish and meat dishes. The highlight will be golden cocktails - whiskey sour, daiquiri, and black cocktails - whiskey and cola, bean black, acai sour.
Crazy house - the theme of the New Year's celebration
If you prefer horror, then you will like the theme. When the balls are behind the rollers, work appears everywhere and even appears in dreams, and you can say the same about your colleagues - it’s time to urgently call on humor to help! An interesting option is a holiday in the style of a madhouse.
Holding a New Year's party in a real hospital is overkill, but stylizing the room as Ward No. 6 is easy. The first rule: the color of the chamber is white, the second rule: complete chaos, anarchy and confusion. First aid in interior design is provided by hospital beds, decorative droppers, hanging masks, gloves, gowns and syringes, test tubes, beakers, and medical instruments. And it is imperative that everything is upside down.
Stylization for a mental hospital.
Violent patients are dressed in straitjackets, those who are quietly going crazy are dressed in pajamas: colored, striped and polka dots. The roles of serious doctors and nurses are chosen by employees who consider themselves sensible and serious. But, one way or another, at this holiday, colleagues will learn that those who love to treat are also going crazy. Don't forget about medical accessories: stethoscopes, masks, syringes and glasses with pills.
A special role is given to masquerade characters - Napoleons, Caesars, butterfly catchers, lunatics, fairies. The doctor also has the right to choose his own hypostasis: Hannibal Lecter, Aibolit, Preobrazhensky, Bormental, Victor Frankenstein.
The motto is to celebrate the New Year's corporate party loudly, have a blast, go wild. Games that are funny and active are suitable - Crocodile and Twister. During the New Year's celebration, invite employees to write tall tales, dance to Crazy Frog, sing songs, conduct quizzes like “sanatorium procedures”, competitions on knowledge of medical terminology and mental illness.
There is a reason to have a heart-to-heart talk, to discuss with the whole team the good and the bad, and plans for the coming year. Finally, you can create a row: fighting with pillows, throwing cakes, throwing popcorn.
The banquet menu should be treated outside the box: the “meat” pie will actually be sweet, the milk will not be white, but colored, and the scrambled eggs will be a dessert. Pour dragee candies into bottles and jars for medicine, pour ketchup into a bag for droppers, cool bright jelly directly in syringes, order cookies and gingerbread in the form of straitjackets and stethoscopes, candies in the shape of teeth, fingers and eyes. Instead of glasses, fill flasks and beakers with drinks, and bottles with mixture. Such fun will even make cockroaches dance in their heads!
Bottom line
Before the upcoming New Year's holiday, adults are increasingly asking the question of where to hold a New Year's corporate party in 2022. A lot of options for organizing a New Year's corporate party have been offered to your attention. Whichever one the colleagues wish, the celebration will be at its best. Each idea is original and unforgettable in its own way. All guests will be delighted by the unusual theme of the evening, the varied menu with extravagant presentation, and the fun scenario.
You should approach holding a corporate event on New Year's Eve seriously and competently take into account many aspects - age, preferences, hobbies, and personalities of employees. Then the fairy tale will become reality and the New Year’s corporate party 2022 will absolutely be the holiday you deserve.
Basic rules of the organization
Any communication between employees in an informal setting, especially for employees of large companies, can be a good team building training that will allow people to open up and learn more about each other. A cohesive team will always be more effective.
But you shouldn’t let the organization of corporate events take its course; such an approach to business will only bring negative results. To ensure that the event is held at the highest level, please take into account the following recommendations:
- Very often, the organization is entrusted to a funny joker or an employee with a small range of responsibilities who has more free time. This approach is fundamentally wrong. Even the soul of a company of 2-3 people will not be able to take into account the tastes and preferences of the entire team. As a result, the majority will perceive the corporate event as just another event for show and the memories of it will remain appropriate.
- Don’t think that the main thing is purchasing alcohol and snacks, and then let’s see how it goes. Such corporate events always end unexpectedly and very often in a negative way. The developed program will allow you to direct the celebration in the right direction, control events, and prevent possible conflicts. That is why it is important to involve an experienced organizer who can resolve any situation that arises.
- The program should be selected taking into account the number of employees, age, and field of activity of the company. The interests of young creative people and serious older staff differ significantly. It is necessary to proceed only from the characteristics of the team.
The estimated budget allocated for the event also plays a role. But there are normal options for New Year’s programs that do not require major investments.
