Ideas for decorating your office or workplace for Christmas

Ideas for decorating your office or workplace for Christmas

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There’s more to Christmas decoration than just your living room. Sure, you can create magic and make even your office space look festive. Your colleagues will definitely appreciate your Christmas decoration ideas and might even get into the holiday spirit themselves!

Here are a few ideas to get you started:

  • Get a small Christmas tree or poinsettia plant for your desk.
  • Deck the halls (and your cubicle) with Christmas lights. You can string them around your cubicle or even put them up on the walls.
  • Make a garland out of green and red construction paper or ribbon.
  • Hang Christmas stockings from your cubicle walls or door.
  • Put up a Christmas wreath on your cubicle door or wall.
  • If you have any Christmas-themed mugs, use them as decoration (and for drinking eggnog)
  • Put up Christmas-themed posters or artwork.
  • Wrap empty boxes with Christmas paper to use as gift boxes or to store holiday office supplies.
  • Make a Christmas wreath for your desk as well.
  • Bring in some holiday-themed office supplies, like Christmas-themed paperweights or a Santa mousepad.
  • Get festive with your computer desktop wallpaper and screensaver.
  • Make a garland for your cubicle or office door.
  • String some Christmas lights around your workspace.
  • Wrap empty boxes with festive wrapping paper to use as decoration.
  • Make a paper chain out of construction paper in Christmas colors.
  • Decorate with Christmas mugs, plates, and napkins. 
  • Fill a jar with candy canes.
  • Deck the halls… or at least your cubicle! Hang some Christmas lights around your workstation
  • Make paper snowflakes and hang them up around your cubicle or office.
  • Bake cookies and bring them into the office (bonus points if they’re shaped like Christmas trees or gingerbread men!).
  • Put Christmas lights around your computer monitor or on top of shelves.
  • Make a gingerbread house (or village) and display it in the break room.
  • Bake cookies or other Christmas treats to share with your co-workers.
  • Decorate a bulletin board with Christmas cards, wrapping paper, or fabric swatches.
  • Put up a Christmas tree in the office lobby or common area
  • Hang Christmas lights around the perimeter of the office space
  • Deck out individual cubicles with Christmas decorations
  • Set up a holiday themed photo booth in the office space
  • Organize an ugly Christmas sweater day where everyone wears their tackiest Christmas sweaters to work
  • Bring in a Santa Claus or other holiday entertainer to visit the office 
  • Decorate your computer monitor or laptop with Christmas stickers 
  • Make Christmas-themed desk name plates for everyone in the office
  • Put Christmas-themed post-it notes around the office space
  • Get a group together and make a gingerbread house! You can even have a contest to see who can make the best one. These are just a few ideas to get you started – use your imagination and have fun with it! After all, ‘tis the season!

Christmasify your office and your colleagues will be so proud of you. And who knows, they may have one or two things to add to the scene. Ho, ho, ho! Christmas is about to hit differently. Knock yourself out!