Everyone loves Easter. For most people, it’s the first major holiday since Christmas and an excuse to indulge. For businesses, it’s also a perfect opportunity to bring remote teams together and connect.
However, if you’ve never hosted a virtual event before, let alone one to celebrate Easter, you’ll need to get creative when drawing up your schedule. Need some suggestions? Read on for a rundown of some of the best team-building activities and Easter games for adults at work.
What Games Can You Play Virtually at Easter?
If you’ve ever celebrated Thanksgiving or Christmas virtually before, you’ll know how easily team-building games translate to the virtual world. The same applies to Easter, with many of the usual favorites lending themselves well to online get-togethers. However, you’ll need to make a few minor adjustments to make them as web-friendly as possible.
Take the humble easter egg hunt as an example. Unless the Easter Bunny owes you a big favor, planting a haul of chocolate eggs in the homes of your employees isn’t really an option. However, you can come at a game like this from a different perspective. Use the same approach as a virtual scavenger hunt, hiding virtual eggs in digital documents and shared folders.
Alternatively, you can put a festive twist on all manner of internet-friendly games. A simple word search can be populated with Easter-inspired phrases, while you can put together a team trivia game loaded with questions about confectionery, bible stories, or holiday traditions.
How Can I Make Easter Games More Adult-Friendly?
There’s nothing wrong with letting your inner child run wild at Easter. However, the usual Easter games aren’t going to go down well with everyone over the age of five. If you’re hosting an Easter egg hunt as part of your team-building session, there are a few ways you can tailor it to a more mature crowd.
Even if you’re playing this classic Easter game virtually, you can still reward participants with the usual chocolate treats. However, not everyone’s got a sweet tooth. Some might be watching their waistline, while others may have sworn off sugar for good. Think about mixing it up with other prizes instead.
Luxury toiletries and pampering products will always go down well, while gift cards are an all-inclusive alternative if you’re catering to a more diverse group. Can’t bear the idea of playing Easter games without any actual chocolate? Ditch those milk chocolate eggs stuffed with jelly beans and swap them out for premium bars from boutique chocolatiers.
15 Easter Games You Can Try
Is this your first time bringing together a remote team at Easter? If you want to put a seasonal slant on your online session, you’ll need to get creative with your game choices. If you need some help finding the perfect Easter team-building activity, why not try one of the following?:
1. Virtual Easter Egg Hunt
We’ve already talked about how you can retool an Easter egg hunt for an online meeting. One of the easiest ways to make your hunt virtual is to ask everyone to take a photo of themselves with an egg or two hidden somewhere in the background. Once you’ve collected all the images, share them one by one and get everyone else to annotate the hidden Easter treats.
2. Egg Decorating
A favorite with kindergarteners, an egg decorating session will get everyone in the mood for Easter and allow your team to show off their creative side. Ask everyone to hard boil an egg at home so you can paint together, or use digital whiteboards and online drawing boards to decorate virtual eggs.
3. Easter Trivia
A popular choice of team-building game, trivia sessions work particularly well at Easter. Keep rounds simple with questions about iconic candy brands or turn to Easter traditions around the world for some trivia inspiration. For other kinds of trivia, have a look at our ideas on trivia for remote teams.
4. Guess How Many
A staple of festivals and summer parties, this game doesn’t is one of the simplest to work into your virtual Easter get-together. Grab some jelly beans (making sure you count them out first) then pour them into a glass jar. Then get everyone to have a guess at how many beans are in there. Award an Easter-inspired prize to the one whose answer is closest.
5. Bag Bingo
To play this game, draw up a list of common items found in backpacks and handbags, then assign points to each item. Award a few points for everyday items like keys and chewing gum and more points for Easter-related goodies.
6. What’s in Your Phone?
Similar to the above, draw up a list of things most of us have on our phones and assign points. It can be a shameless selfie pose, an embarrassing ringtone, or an unanswered text from a close friend. The participant with the most points at the end wins.
7. Easter Egg Decorating Competition
Here’s a more elaborate take on egg decorating. Ask everyone to decorate an easter egg before you come together online, then share your creations. Using a live poll, get everyone to vote for their favorite.
8. Easter Bingo
Virtual bingo is perfect for breaking the ice. Create bingo cards filled with personality traits or random trivia, then ask your team to mingle to find matches. Once they’ve crossed off a full row on their bingo card, they win.
9. Easter Scavenger Hunt
Don’t feel like a virtual egg hunt? An online scavenger hunt filled with Easter-inspired clues is a good alternative. To make this a team-building exercise, assign participants to groups.
10. Easter Memories
Nothing breaks the ice like an anecdote. Once you’ve got everyone together, take turns to share your favorite Easter moments from yesteryear.
11. Easter Word Search
Word searches are one of the easiest games to play online. What’s more, putting a festive slant on things is simple.
12. Easter Joke Tellers
Keen to find the secret comedians lurking in your ranks? Encourage your teams to loosen up by sharing their best Easter joke.
13. Easter Virtual Happy Hour
Nothing brings a group together like a happy hour. Share a recipe card packed with cocktail and appetizer recipes with your team so you can celebrate Easter and the beginning of springtime in style.
14. Celebrate Spring Holidays
Worried that an Easter celebration might alienate some of your employees? You don’t have to tether your team-building activities to the Easter festivities. Instead, make it a more general celebration and draw your inspiration from the spring season instead.
15. Mail Easter Baskets
Chocolate eggs aside, few of us make much of an effort to celebrate the Easter holidays. Let your teams know how much you appreciate them by mailing out Easter gift baskets before your team-building event.
Team-Building Sessions Make Simple with Gloww
Ready to make an Easter team-building virtual event an annual fixture? By now, you should have plenty of ideas, but you’ll still need a reliable video conferencing solution to actually host your event. With Gloww, you’ve got all the features you need for a first-rate Easter celebration.
With a user-friendly interface, creating custom online events couldn’t be simpler. Don’t know where to start? Take your pick from a huge selection of ready-made session templates. Add collaborative activities and team-building classics like trivia, or use Gloww’s vast multimedia library to create your own challenges. We have ideas on how to celebrate other holidays such as St. Patrick’s Day, or Valentine’s Day.
You can get started with Gloww today. Want to learn more about Gloww’s advanced features? Take a look at our pricing tiers. Want to ask a question? Get in touch with the team today.
FAQ: Virtual Easter Party
What is a virtual Easter party?
You can turn any virtual get-together into an Easter celebration by putting a festive twist on the usual games and activities.
How do you host a virtual Easter party?
Once you’ve picked the perfect conferencing platform and set a date, all you need for a virtual Easter party is a list of games and activities. Use quickfire trivia questions and icebreakers to get things started, then bring in more collaborative activities to encourage your teams to work together.
How do people celebrate Virtual Easter at work?
Easter is the perfect time to unleash your inner child. Turn to nostalgia when coming up with Easter activities for a virtual get-together. Easter egg hunts and egg decorating will put a smile on anyone’s face, while team-based trivia games and office bingo are great ways of getting employees to mingle.
