Office Pajama Party!!!

This event was one of my favorite office events to date. When I had started with this company, Quantifind, the events budget was a happy hour every Friday, in which people would use as an excuse to leave early. There was little to no company culture. I did many events and slowly was able to get the involvement with nearly everyone in the office. This party was a September event, so I decided that the day would be themed WFH Slumber style.. There wasn't any major cultural events or holidays our office was interested in so I decided on this theme. I created the invite and set the date.  We always had contests so this year I did a homemade pizza contest and a costume / best dressed. 

Our office has a few individuals that love to cook and curate recipes of their own, the theme is slumber, so pizza was perfect. Amazing! I hired a popsicle bar vender. This popsicle bar you pick your ice cream, then a coating then toppings OMG so yummy ! 

  

I put out a popcorn bar. Everyone loves popcorn, everyone loves it different. So it was a make it your way popcorn bar. I also added an italian soda bar. This event was very family style. It really felt like a slumber party. Everyone made the best of it. We had fun and games and worked all day. 

My favorite part of the event is the costume or Pajama Contest. I LOVE it when everyone dresses up. I take pictures of them on this big white wall. And then I transform them into a scene. It sometimes makes sense with their personalities or the costume they choose, mostly both. But I love creating these for my coworkers. They also love them and it encourages them to participate. When I finish them I hang  a set on this beautiful gallery wall and everyone in the office will vote in their favorite. I sometimes did voting on Slack. 

 

This event was so fun.

 

Cinco de Mayo office Party

I was really excited for this party! Our office, Quantifind had a mix of cultures I always wanted to accurately represent so I would talk to individuals and ask for suggestions for food, activities, customs, etc, I would always include everything that they suggested. I loved to be able to bring my coworkers together to learn, love or celebrate culture. I wanted an all inclusive feel to the culture. I loved everyone to participate.

First I always start with the flier. I would send this out in employee email communication. I would also update our internal newsletter so I would include this in the appropriate section.I really pulled all the stops on this one! I had some help from a couple of girls here for ideasSo first my contests were best dressed, a Salsa making contest and the game Loteria.

 

I decorated the office it was so pretty. I had people participate in making paper flowers. I had my coworkers coming to the front to learn to make these beautiful flowers and gather their supplies. I loved having an activity for my coworkers to participate in. Again this was a low cost event because I paid for tissue paper and a couple decorations. My co worker donated to me her daughters Quinceañera decorations. I used those and our flowers to decorate.

  

 

I always had a budget to work with for the month for the events. When I came to the office they were doing a weekly "Happy Hour" which I saw people just using it as an excuse to leave early so we would sort of be paying for nothing. So I decided to take those weeks budget each month and combine them into one big event for the office to come together and actually create memorable moments together. In doing these events I would come in early and decorate their desks with candies or tokens from theme. Everyone came to their desk with Mexican candy treats, Loteria Card and Frijoles!

  

 

I got mini piñatas, thats where I stashed the gift cards, so each winner got a mini piñata with a gift card in it. 

People dressed up...

The winner!

We played Loteria. For the game I made it a digital version. I had my front end guy create a randomized program to display the cards and we played from our desks, with the cards on the screen and on slack. It was so fun, Everyone was making the funniest comments on slack it was so hilarious. I wish I had screenshot them. Our office was so fun.

I made my own Loteria deck. 

Here are some of the deck images. I used some of the classic original images for the integrity of the culture. I chose images that I loved and I changed the other images by I mixing in fun and modern takes of the meaning of the word ie El Musico <3 Prince. 

I ordered Enchiladas for lunch..

  

And we had snow Cones!!!

   

I made Horcata and We had Beer of Course!

 

And we made Salsa

  And Judged Salsa! *We did a lot of co-events with Globality. I would always ask them to participate as judges because they were impartial to our team and our entries would have fair and impartial judging.

   

And the next next morning we ate Pan Dulce