Crafting is not just about paper, paint and glue, you can craft with food too. Getting kids, especially preschoolers, interested in healthy foods is easier when they can associate it with a fun activity like … Read More. Kids will … Read More. Advent comes early this year. It begins on November 28th, They will be so proud of their contribution … Read More.
These Printable Fruit Faces will put smiles on the kids faces and at the same time give them a fun … Read More. Place the pictures in plastic bags Ziploc. You can place two pictures in each bag, back to back. Staple the bags together so you can open them if needed. Use adhesive tape to cover the staples. Variation: You can take pictures of the costumes you make throughout the theme and place them in a photo album or in Ziploc bags.
Photographer Children take turns pretending they are a photographer. The other children dress up with clothing which represents different cultures a sombrero and a poncho, for example and strike different poses. Children of the world Open children of the world Print and lay the pieces on the table along with glue, scissors, sparkles, wiggly eyes, felt, etc.
Children will love creating multicultural characters. Link them together by adding fasteners to their hands to form a chain of children from around the world. Hang from the ceiling or display on your wall. Pyramids Children build pyramids with cardboard boxes.
Chinese lantern Use small glass jars baby food jars. Cover the jars with colourful tissue paper or paint them using stained glass paint. Place a small tea light inside. Calligraphy Open calligraphy Print and display in your writing area.
Set a large piece of white paper on a table along with fine paintbrushes and black paint. Let children invent their own Chinese code. Chinese hats Trace a large circle on heavy paper and cut it out. Cut a straight line to the center of the circle.
Fold the two parts, on either side of the slit. Glue or staple the two parts together. Make holes on either side of the hat's tip. Thread ribbon through the holes. Children can decorate their hats. Rice Let children create a picture by gluing rice grains on dark paper. Spoonfuls of rice Provide each child with an empty 2-litre soft drink bottle.
Fill a large container with rice and deposit it in the center of the table. Set a timer and invite children to add rice to their bottle as quickly as possible. When the timer rings, the child with the most rice in his bottle wins. Sushi and tatami snack time At snack time, set cushions around a coffee table and encourage children to sit on their knees. Make your own banana sushi using a tortilla. Spread jam on top and add banana slices. Roll and cut into pieces.
Chinese meal Set a large blanket on the floor and serve rice. Let children use chopsticks. Collective flag Open flag-Japan Provide a rectangular piece of white fabric. Let children reproduce the flag of Japan. Display within the daycare. Fill tiny Ziploc bags with candy and place them in an empty shoebox. Close the box and secure it with tape. Wrap the box with wrapping paper or tissue paper and tape.
Decorate the box with strips of paper and tissue paper flowers. Use hot glue to add these decorations to the box. Maracas Fill empty water bottles with pasta.
Seal the bottles with hot glue. Children can decorate their maracas and then make music with them. Mexican flower Cut several circles out of multicoloured tissue paper. Use six layers for each flower. Secure them together with a pipe cleaner, pinching the tissue paper in the center. Separate the layers and use the flowers as hairpieces for the girls in your group. My banjo Glue an aluminum pie plate on a strip of heavy cardboard. Slide rubber bands over the plate.
Show children how to create banjo-like sounds by pinching the rubber bands with their fingers. Mexican fiesta For lunch, prepare your very own Mexican fiesta.
Prepare various Mexican foods such as fajitas, tacos, nachos, salsa, guacamole, etc. Play Mexican music in the background. Collective flag Open flag-Mexico Provide a rectangular piece of white fabric.
Let children reproduce the flag of Mexico. Spaghetti Cook several boxes of spaghetti and let cool. Prepare a sensory bin with the cooked pasta. Children will love playing with the noodles. Pasta and more pasta Provide several different types of dry pasta. Let children use the pasta to make a collage, a bracelet, a necklace, a garland, etc.
Colourful pasta Prepare sensory bins filled with tinted dry pasta. Combine the food coloring and rubbing alcohol in a container. Add the pasta. Shake gently to coat pasta completely with color. Spread noodles in a single layer on a baking sheet and let dry several hours. Prepare a single color at a time and then divide to create several sensory bins. This preparation must be done by an adult.
Italian chef Let each child prepare his own tiny pizza. Give them each a small ball of pizza dough. Set a variety of ingredients in bowls and let them create!
Collective flag Open flag-Italy Provide a rectangular piece of white fabric. Let children reproduce the flag of Italy. Vocabulary Thank you: Grazie I love you: Ti amo. To ensure no participants begin work early, it helps to pick a specific prompt and only reveal the exact challenge at the start of the competition.
Next, advertise the event within your organization and drum up interest. You will want to ensure that you have the tools teams need to collaborate, such as online communication platforms, digital whiteboards, and video meeting software.
When the hackathon begins, announce the challenge and send teams to work. To make the event more fun and interactive, check in on teams periodically, and run short online group games to encourage interaction. Once time expires, all participants will reconvene to present finished products, at which point judges will pick a winner and award a prize. Companies often host contests where employees submit photos for a chance to win a prize.
One of the more creative photo contest ideas for employees is to host an ongoing competition with no limits on entries, where participants can see submissions in real time. Hotshot snapshot is such a contest. To host the competition, first choose a theme, such as hometown pride, office couture, or flash forward to the future. Next, invite employees to post photos on social media, either to a private group, or in public using a special contest hashtag.
Participants can view the other entries and up the ante to share an even better picture. You can award prizes to the photographers who garner the most number of likes on all photos or the most likes on one picture. Chances are, your colleagues either arrive to work in uniform or business casual attire. If your office has a lax policy, then your cubicle mates may rock a T-shirt. Or, if you work from home, then no pants is no problem. Whatever the day-to-day dress code, most employees would jump at the opportunity to play dress up.
Costume contests are one of the most popular employee engagement contest ideas. Our sister company, Museum Hack, holds one every year, and employees do not disappoint. Your contest can also be industry specific. For instance, an advertising agency might embody classic ads, while urban planners might dress up as favorite cities.
Museum Hack recreates famous pieces of art. At the end of the day, your costume contest theme does not need to be work-related at all, though. You can choose any topic that spurs staff. As an added bonus, you can repurpose the entries into content for a company blog entry or social media posts. For more tips, check out our guide to virtual costume contests. Step-counting contests are one of the most common workplace fitness competitions. You can put a new spin on the classic by turning the contest into a race around the world.
First, get a map of the globe, either paper or digital. For the game to work, you will need to convert steps into miles. The average mile contains about 2, steps. If you want to be literal, then you can use a local map to track the literal distance.
Otherwise, we suggest using a 1 step to 1 mile ratio. Every week, participants submit step counts, and you will update the map to show where on the globe each racer sits.
For extra fun, show each player in vessels such as hot air balloons, pirate ships, or flying saucers. The race can last as long as you like, but we recommend one to three months.
The most natural workplace decoration competition is to prompt employees to bling out their desks. Deck-a-desk is a desk decorating contest that challenges employees to transform personal workspaces into works for art.
To host a contest, merely choose a theme, set a budget, and let employees get creative. Employees can either decorate individually or as a team. You could even turn the contest into a high-stakes race by putting a time limit on the decorating process. Once employees complete their masterpieces, send a judging committee to tour the building and select a winner. Work from home employees can get in on the fun, too, by decorating desks and snapping a photo or giving a video tour.
Or, remote employees can compete to build the best customized Zoom background for video meetings. Messy desks are no jokes. Cluttered work spaces can lead to missed deadlines, lower productivity, and increased work stress. Not to mention, untidy common spaces can cause friction between coworkers and overall bad office zen. To encourage employees to keep personal and shared spaces clean, launch a workplace housekeeping competition in the form of a scavenger hunt.
This activity works best when announced in advance. For clues, we suggest using pictures of random objects or small trinkets. You can stay late one night and hide clues in common messy spots in the building, such as a habitually buried-in-paperwork desk or an unstocked paper towel machine.
We recommend hiding the clue when the mess is not yet out of hand. For instance, if you change the trash, you may tape your picture to the bottom of the bin before replacing the bag. You can announce the activity to the staff at the start of your designated spring cleaning day. To incentivize employees to keep these spaces clean, you may want to periodically re-hide clues that staff can exchange for small prizes like swag or candy.
Pro-tip: You may want to give the custodial crew a heads-up to your plan. They might even have suggestions for great places to hide clues! Contests boost worker confidence and workplace morale, but can also benefit the broader community. A routine charity donation can become a fun workplace food drive competition. Pantry polls is an interactive office fundraiser that invites volunteers to vote using nonperishable food. First, set up donation stations. Each station should correspond with a poll result.
For instance, you may use the activity to choose a location for the yearly team building retreat , such as a local lake, casino, or winery. Each product is worth one point. At the end of the drive, the station with the most points wins. Pro tip: Encouraging employees to donate money or grocery store gift cards is also a good idea, since these items tend to be more useful to community kitchens than food products.
We recommend employing a point system where every food product is worth one point, and money is worth one or two points per dollar.
In theory, rewarding employees for mentions in rave reviews is a good idea. In reality, it is too easy for staff to stack the deck in their favor. Though management frowns upon participants asking for reviews, smooth talkers often convince customers to leave a good note. Thus, the teammates with the most mentions might be the most charismatic, and not necessarily the most diligent. A better alternative is to play review roulette.
Review roulette is one of the more collaborative contest ideas to motivate employees.
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