Bringing Halloween to the Office

By Chris Kullstroem

Are you feeling stuck in the office this Halloween season? Well don’t despair. You can bring all the fun elements of Halloween with you to work, and celebrate the season with your co-workers.

Find other Halloween enthusiasts you work with –because you know they’re out there- and plan some Halloween weekend adventures. Look into haunted houses, horror movies and Halloween-themed plays going on in your area, and you'll have a variety of haunted happenings to head to after work each week.

Throw an office Halloween party. It doesn't have to be a costume party, but say that costumes are welcome. Send around a Halloween e-vite to everyone in the office, or print up your own design and put one in everyone's mailbox. Have your Halloween party on the day of Halloween, or if you’re taking the day off, on the Friday before. Ask everyone to contribute a dish to get a big assortment of spooky treats. The day of the party, hang decorations around the conference room or lunchroom.

Have an on-going Halloween trivia game. Think of a question that only the true enthusiasts would know the answer to. Email it around, and the first person to guess correctly gets to choose the next question, and so on. For example, "Who was the only Peanuts character not to dress as a ghost when they went trick-or-treating?"

Have a candy-counting contest. Put a jar of Halloween candy on your desk and email around that whoever guesses the correct number of candies wins free lunch (each person playing the game pitches in). Or, whoever guesses correctly gets their ticket paid for at the next haunted attraction outing.

Make your fellow enthusiasts a small Halloween treat bag. Put something fun in there like a Halloween figurine, Halloween pens or pencils or a Halloween pez dispenser.

Decorate your work station for the season. Bring in some small, plastic tombstones, pumpkins, autumn leaves and other displays for your desk. Velcro or tape monsters to the top of your monitor. Put some black flowers in a vase, with orange and white ribbons. Put one of your favorite Halloween pictures on your desktop or as a screensaver. Make a “Happy Haunting” sign for your desk.

If your office is located in a well-populated area, put together a small Halloween event or activity that draws people in from the town. Have a sign in the window or a small ad in the paper that any child that comes to the office in costume gets a free Halloween toy or treat bag. For other Halloween event ideas for your business, check out “Can Celebrating Halloween Help Business Boom?” on the articles page.

Bringing Halloween to work is a great way to celebrate the season, and to have a lot of fun with your co-workers. Try some of these different activities to bring the excitement and the spirit of Halloween with you to the office, and make October the most fun month of work of the year!