Alternative to White Elephany party?

[BAMFMrsB]

I need an option for our work Xmas party other than a White Elephant. It's what we normally do for our group, but our entire floor wants to do this now. That is going to be a lot of turns and steals!

Any ideas on other options our smaller group can do? 15 people is the max (depending on who is here, etc) We usually have a catered lunch and then do the White Elephant exchange. We still want to have the lunch but my boss doesn't want to ask people to do a white elephant exchange 2x.

[mbcdefg]

You could have everyone wrap the gift and then people could choose blindly.

Maybe an ugly sweater contest with prizes?

Cookie swap or a cookie tasting contest.

[ddi741]

I agree with PP, just do a bring a generic wrapped gift and let people pick #s and then that is the order they pick. No stealing.

I also like the idea of the cookie swap / ugly sweater contest.

[rubytue]

Limit stealing. We do it with 25-30 folks, but each gift can only be stollen 3 times total (once per round).

[definitelyO]

we do this with our group of girlfriends 15-20 people. the gift can be chosen and then stolen 2x and the 3rd person gets to keep it.

or you can put numbers on the presents in random order and then people draw numbers out of a hat and they get the gift that matches their number.

[MadamePresident]

We have done the Wright Family Christmas at work. You can have a huge group of people and its always funny to see adults work to keep right and left straight.

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