Discover the Best Halloween Team Building Activities
Halloween is a great time of year for bringing people together to celebrate or to host events and parties, and CourseHorse is here to help make your Halloween event planning straightforward and simple. They offer a range of seasonal-themed events and activities, and once you have booked an event, all you need to do is ensure that your team members are in attendance. CourseHorse handles all of the logistical concerns, including sending out materials and ingredients and facilitating and hosting the event.
Benefits of Halloween Team Building Events
Halloween is a great time for hosting a team-building activity because it is a great way to get people in a festive mood before winter arrives. This means that a Halloween event or party can both serve as a way to boost morale and bring team members closer together, and it can be a good way to get people invested in team building or other skill development events while they still have the energy to invest near the end of the year. Owing to this, Halloween is a perfect time to hold team-building events, especially given how many people enjoy the opportunity to celebrate the holiday season. Whether you want to put on an elaborate team-building event or you just want to hold a fun Holiday party, CourseHorse has the options available to fit your needs.
#1: Virtual Pumpkin Carving Party
Few elements of the season invoke the feel of Halloween like the Jack o’ Lantern. In this Virtual Pumpkin Carving Party, attendees will participate in Halloween-themed games, answer themed trivia questions and enjoy Halloween music as they spend the 75-minute session carving their own pumpkins. This incredibly laidback event mostly allows team members to socialize and enjoy one another’s company as they spend an evening making festive decorations for their homes. This event is overseen by a CourseHorse facilitator, but you may find that very little facilitation is necessary since the event's goal is to offer a shared activity that everyone on your team can enjoy and participate in. You can even supplement the event with things like prizes for the best pumpkin, best costume or something else that you think will help make this event as good as it can be.
The virtual pumpkin carving party is a wonderfully fun event to run that requires virtually no preparation on your part or the part of your team. All participants will have a package of pumpkin carving tools, including knives, tools for gutting the pumpkin and sample designs that you can use to guide your carving. In addition, all participants will receive a gift certificate that they can use to purchase the pumpkin of their choice to not have to worry about whether or not they will get the right sized and shaped pumpkin for their ideal design. This course is a great way to kick off Halloween weekend or spend time together as a team during the part of the year when it can be the most helpful. The low-stakes, fun atmosphere of the event makes it an ideal Halloween event.
#2: Virtual Pumpkin Pie Baking
If you are interested in an alternative use for a pumpkin, consider CourseHorse’s Virtual Pumpkin Pie Baking Workshop. In this course, participants will be guided through the process of baking a pumpkin pie in their home kitchens, and the course is taught by an expert chef who can provide tips and advice on how to ensure that the pie participants make comes out perfect. This is a great workshop for a seasonal party because it provides a social space to enjoy one another’s company as you bake, and it ends with everyone in the program having a completed pumpkin to share with their friends and family. Plus, cooking skills, like learning to make a pumpkin pie, are easily transferable to other baking projects (holiday or otherwise), so your participants can take the skills they learn in this program and apply them elsewhere in their daily lives. These cooking workshops are ideal places to hold a team-building activity that will engage participants in the process because they are learning practical skills and getting a handmade treat at the end of the workshop.
Coursehorse makes the planning phase of the workshop as simple as collecting the addresses of everyone who RSVPs for the event. Once you have a headcount and attendee list, CourseHorse will ship a package of ingredients directly to participants' homes. This package includes almost everything you need to bake a pumpkin pie, including flour, pumpkin puree, sugar, honey and spices. Participants will also receive a gift certificate to purchase milk, eggs, butter and optional bourbon for the recipe. A gluten-free option is available, though gluten-free chefs will need to supply the flour of their choosing.
#3: Winter Cocktail Mixology Workshop
If pumpkin pie seems a bit much or you just want to replicate a pre-Halloween happy hour in a virtual setting, consider CourseHorse’s Winter Mixology Workshop. This course will teach participants the art of mixology as they prepare three seasonal drinks in preparation for the long winter ahead. In this course, attendees will learn how to prepare a Spiced Old Fashioned, a Raspberry Snow Drift Sour and a Cozy Clove Toddy. Each of these drinks is simple and refreshing, making them great first drinks to learn for new mixologists or useful staples for participants with some drink-making experience. In addition to learning how to prepare these cocktails, attendees will learn about the history of mixology and the science of crafting a perfect mixed drink. At the end of the course, everyone will have three drinks ready to enjoy for the evening or share with one another (or their guests).
This course is a great way to introduce attendees to a new hobby or skill in a low-stakes, enjoyable way. CourseHorse will send all of the necessary non-alcoholic ingredients directly to participants, including all of the necessary syrups, garnishes and bitters. In addition, participants will receive a Hawthorne strainer and cocktail picks to simplify the drink preparation process. Finally, all the packages will come with a gift certificate for attendees to purchase the bourbon or other spirits they want to use in these cocktails. One of the advantages of learning mixology is that you can start to experiment with different spirits and make substitutions to a drink to align the drink to your personal flavor preference. Thus, regardless of your preference for spirits, this session will teach you something to apply to your mixology projects.
#4: Halloween Trivia Event
If you aren’t looking for a food and beverage event, you may want to consider a competitive event for your participants to enjoy. If you are looking for a Holiday themed event like this, consider signing up for an evening of Virtual Halloween Trivia. In this virtual event, participants will join small teams and compete to demonstrate their knowledge of Halloween history, traditions, films, television and other subjects. This event is run by an experienced trivia emcee, and all of the work is handled through CourseHorse, so once you book the event, all you need to do is show up while the facilitator handles the rest. The event is easily customizable, including everything from including specific questions and topics to shifting around the event's time or the rounds' structure. CourseHorse can help you structure the event however you think will be most engaging for your team.
While you may want to opt for a spooky, thematic Halloween trivia night, dozens of other options are available through CourseHorse. This allows you to customize your experience to meet the desires and wants of your team, which can be a great way to ensure that your team enjoys the event. General knowledge trivia is the default option, but you can also opt for things like movie trivia, music trivia, or sports trivia if you want to aim for a specific knowledge niche. There are also trivia categories testing knowledge on important social issues, such as Pride Month trivia, Black History Month trivia or Women’s History Month trivia. Beyond this, there are also various pop culture trivia options, including things as specific as Game of Thrones trivia, Seinfeld trivia, or True Crime trivia. If none of the options advertised are what you are looking for, there are options available for customizing your own trivia night and working with CourseHorse’s team of trivia experts to build a personalized evening of trivia. With so many options to choose from, you are certain to find an event that meets your needs.
#5: Halloween-Themed Virtual Escape Rooms
If you like the idea of a fun, competitive brain-teasing event as part of your Halloween party but you aren’t sure that trivia is right for you, you may also want to consider a Halloween-themed Virtual Escape Room. CourseHorse offers two Halloween-themed virtual escape rooms, a Haunted House and a Monsters and Ghouls event. In both events, participants will work in small teams to solve puzzles and uncover clues to progress through an atmospherically spooky mystery in an effort to solve the ultimate puzzle and escape the room. Escape rooms are becoming more popular as team-building activities since they require teamwork, communication, cooperation and lateral thinking skills, and CourseHorse seeks to bring all of these escape room features to your team members' homes. In addition to these practical benefits, escape rooms are fun activities that can serve as a good cap off to a holiday party or a fun Friday evening event after a long week of work, making them extra appealing to employees looking to socialize in a structured and fun environment.
These events are also a great choice for virtually any other occasion since the theming isn’t restricted to Halloween. CourseHorse offers a wide variety of different escape room mysteries to schedule for teams of up to 200. These events can be tailored or personalized to your teams, and several events have truncated versions that can be completed in less than an hour. If you are interested in a traditional murder virtual murder mystery, CourseHorse runs a Virtual Escape Room: Murder Mystery event that sees participants piecing together clues to solve a crime before the murder strikes again. If you feel like your team would enjoy a bit of nostalgia with their puzzles, CourseHorse offers an Escape the 90s and an Escape the 2000s event where participants will be rewarded for their knowledge of those two decades. There is a Sci-Fi themed The Final Frontier escape event and even themed events like a Marvel Avengers or Jumanji escape rooms.
#6: Virtual Apple Cider Donuts Workshop
Many people have deeply held memories associating Fall with food, particularly apple or pumpkin treats. In CourseHorse’s Virtual Apple Cider Donuts Workshop, you can offer your team a chance to learn how to make one of these delicious treats from the convenience of their own kitchens. In this workshop, participants will learn all the steps they need to take to create homemade donuts with an apple cider glaze, including everything from preparing the dough to frying or baking the donuts and spreading the glaze. This course is a great way to learn how to make a seasonal treat, and the skills that participants learn will apply to virtually any donut-making project, so if in a month they want to make glazed Christmas donuts, they can prepare those too. Plus, at the end of the sessions, everyone who participates will have a half-dozen (or more) donuts to enjoy, which is a great way to bring in more participants for your party.
This program is taught by an experienced home chef and aims to help participants learn practical cooking skills they can apply in their home kitchen. This means that the recipes are all designed with minimal extra supplies in mind. Plus, CourseHorse makes planning and preparation easy since all your participants will have a box of supplies and ingredients sent directly to their homes. This includes the flour, sugar, spices for the handmade dough, and a gift card for purchasing apple cider and perishables like milk and butter. There is also a gluten-free option for participants who wish to substitute the flour, though they must provide their own alternative. If you want to add even more to the event, CourseHorse offers an additional package that will have the instructor demonstrate how to make an apple martini to pair with the glazed donuts (ingredients also included).
#7: Virtual Truffle and Brittle Candy Making Workshop
It isn’t Halloween with candy, and CourseHorses offers a hands-on, practical candy-making event in their Virtual Truffles and Brittles Workshop. In this course, participants will learn to make two delicious candy treats just in time for Halloween, dark chocolate truffles (which can be made with or without hazelnuts) and Brittle candy with peanuts or your choice of another mix-in. This course will cover the basics of making both of these candies from scratch, and participants will handle everything from preparing the sugar to adding the fillings to completing the finished candy. While the baseline recipe calls for hazelnuts and peanuts, the recipes are so easy to modify that you can swap these mix-ins for just about anything. This makes the candy-making workshop incredibly versatile since participants will be able to take these skills and start making whatever kinds of candy they want for the holidays.
Like all cooking classes offered through CourseHorse, this program is taught by an experienced chef and features guided, hands-on instruction that your participants will surely appreciate. Following along with the recipe, participants will learn the art of candy making, and they will be able to socialize with one another as they enjoy a shared group activity. Participants won’t have to worry too much about preparing for the course, as a package of ingredients will be shipped to them directly, and they will only be responsible for using the included gift card to purchase perishables and dairy products. This event is a great way to get people in the mood for the Halloween season and will surely be a hit for participants since it ends with homemade candy.