Have yourself a merry virtual Christmas

Step into an online Christmas for some festive fun with your colleagues

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – and it looks like the COVID-19 pandemic may just turn out to be the Grinch for the festivities this year.

But while most of us will be driving (and staying) home for Christmas, that doesn’t mean that Santa needs to socially distance or that Christmas office events can’t happen. With a little help from Outdoor Living, Santa and his elves have gone online this year, to help you kickstart the Christmas celebrations with your colleagues, no matter where they are.

“We are delighted to have launched a new series of Christmas-themed online events to help spread a little festive cheer for everyone in Malta at the end of this difficult year,” says Danica Fava, cofounder of Outdoor Living, Malta’s largest and longest-running team-building events company. “We hope that taking part in these fun and unforgettable experiences will become a new Christmas tradition that every year brings together co-workers in Malta and around the world.”

As part of the Catalyst Global network – the top 50 team-building providers worldwide that collaborate to deliver high quality events – Outdoor Living has created an exclusive range of memorymaking virtual Christmas activities, including one where you can transform into Santa and his elves on Christmas night.

In Race around the world – Festive edition, everyone connects online in a breakout room and elects a “Santa” while the rest become elves, before starting a race to take on hilarious challenges and deliver toys to children in as many countries as possible in one night.

You could also boost your collection of frameable photographs through A picture-perfect Christmas, where everyone needs to use whatever props or costumes they have at hand to recreate famous Christmas-themed photographs. More photo-based hilarity can be found in Swipe Face, where participants are challenged to imitate poses, with just 30 seconds to take the perfect selfie.

Perhaps you and your colleagues could become the ultimate Christmas choir in E-Choir. Here, everyone receives vocal coaching to record their individual performance on their phone before all parts are carefully mixed by a professional producer to create a one-of-a-kind final track. Working together never tasted so good – in another activity every participant is sent a gingerbread house kit to complete at home through the game, while those who enjoy card games may also enjoy an online poker tournament with live dealers.

For many, no Christmas is complete without a Christmas quiz and there are three new online events that can help you keep up that tradition. In Quickfire Christmas Teams, teammates need to spontaneously complete mental, physical and creative challenges, while in Music Bingo & Trivia your colleagues can take part in a customised bingo game of holiday songs and trivia. For the full game show experience, your teams can also compete in a fast-paced and energetic virtual quiz led by a specialised game show host in The Big Christmas Quiz Live.

More information about the online Christmas events available from Outdoor Living may be found online at www.outdoorlivingmalta.com