Cubical Decorating Competition Gets Serious!

Hi Parents,

Ok - this time of year definitely brings out the kid in all of us! At my work, we just launched a "holiday cube decorating contest" and my team is out to win! Here are the cube ideas we have generated so far and I welcome your input as to other ideas or how we can bring one of these ideas to life! This is also a great way for working moms to interact with their children this holiday season while baking cookies or preparing decorations for their office.

1) Holiday Sports Theme - each cube in our row could host a different winter sport, such as ice skaing, sledding, luging (sp?), hockey, skiing - it could either just be a fun display OR it could be a game at each desk that they can play and if they "win" they could get holiday cookies or candies (yes - no worries - I will bake the cookies...or bring in the candies)...we could also possibly raffle off ski lift tickets if the play every game they can get entered into the ski ticket drawing.

2) Candy Land Theme - We discussed having a hop scotch type trail on the floor in our row and have a deck of cards at the front cube and anyone that wants to come into our row has to pick a card to see how many spaces they can advance! :-) or do something else with this theme - and of course have plenty of holiday candy hanging from the ceiling!

3) Gingerbread House Theme: We could make a giant gingerbread house....see visual of somemone who implemented this idea last year in her office and won!

http://diannawilliams.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/the-gingerbread-cubicle/

4) North Pole: We could set up our row as the North Pole with a Santa and allow "guests" to write down what they would like from Santa and pass out candycanes and have a workshop environment where we are all "making toys"...

5) The Gift Code Zone: Ok - I mentioned in my last blog post about the gift code concept where I do not put names on the gifts under the tree at my house, I instead create a code assigned to each person and they have to break the code before they can open the presents. We could put up a tree with empty gifts under it and have a tough code puzzle and whoever breaks the code gets a fabulous gift (wine or chocolate perhaps...).

Help! Any and all ideas are greatly appreciated to help us turn our office into a winter wonderland while having fun and of course winning the competition! :-)

Thanks!

Julie
aka: Hopeful Creative Parent