Diwali! What a festival to anticipate and celebrate. All over India Diwali is celebrated with lots of gusto, color, lights, and sweets. Mostly this is a family affair but corporates who prefer to consider their workforce as a family, do celebrate Diwali in their own way. Most companies host Diwali parties to express their appreciation for the team’s contribution towards the growth of the business. A few interesting ideas to host a fun corporate Diwali Party are discussed below.

Select a venue other than your office to give the team a celebratory feel. Many party venues in Mumbai offer wonderful versatile spaces that can be decorated aesthetically and used for various corporate events. Select one that can accommodate all your team members comfortably. Consider availability of some free space within the venue. Also, find out about the flexibility of the venue to suit your theme and decor. Decor and theme can be anything from traditional to modern and fun to crazy. You could decide on themes like traditional, ethnic, Bollywood, modern, casino, eco-friendly and the likes. Whatever theme you choose, it would be wise to plan for activities that will keep the mood lively. The decor can include anything from earthen diyas, floating candles, electric lights, fairy lights, rangolis, and wall hangings to lanterns, flowers, drapes and more. Lights of various kinds can be used to add to the decor - String lights, Rope lights, Rice lights, LED lights, Netting light and Canopy lights. It would be a good idea to hire a decorator for your event.

Diwali parties bond teammates better and enhance their experience as well. They feel valued when they are involved in the celebrations and appreciated by way of words of praise and gifts. Organize interesting activities and get all the employees involved. For some competitions that require prior preparation, convey the information through the invitation cards. You could include some of the activities mentioned below in your next Diwali party.

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Diya and Rangoli Competition

Competitions like lighting the diya competition and rangoli competition are quite popular. You can also play variations of the rangoli competition using diyas, flowers or colorful shredded paper instead of colored powder.

Diwali Mela

You can organize a Diwali mela complete with exciting food stalls, chaat counters, sweet stalls, games, events, dances, mehndi and tattoo stalls, tarot card stalls, archery and a game of treasure hunt. You can think up of any number or type of stall that you would like to put up for the entertainment of your guests. The bottom line is to have fun.

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Party Games

You could divide your guests into teams and play tug of war, antakshri, musical chairs, paper dance and dumb charades.

Housie or Tambola

This is a popular game played during Diwali. Keep it a little fast paced and announced exciting prizes for the winners.

Dancing

Get your guests swinging and swaying to some peppy dandiya numbers. Change tracks to include popular numbers from Bollywood and encourages all your teammates to participate in dancing. If your team members love dancing, organize a group dance competition. Alternatively, you could host a singing competition. Hire a DJ and let the party swing and groove to the music.

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Fashion Show

You may include a fashion show or an ethnic dress competition. Give away prizes for the best-dressed male and female members.

Mad Ads

Give your team a chance to display their talents. Organize games like Mad Ads. You have to divide the members into teams and give them each a funny concept, with which they have to prepare a hilarious advertisement to sell the product. This activity is lots of fun to prepare and watch others perform. It is sure to get tears of laughter out of everyone’s eyes.

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Dart Championship

Have you ever considered a dart competition? Every employee can participate and try his luck. Do not forget to give away prizes. It adds an element of excitement to the games.

Bowling and Golf

How about indoor bowling and golf? You can hire the necessary equipment for a day and organize a competition for your teammates. It will definitely put your guests at ease and make them have fun.

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Get Creative

Organize a contest wherein the teams are given a bag full of paraphernalia each. You can put in anything and everything that you can think of – chalk, mug, stone, pillow, rubber bands, newspaper, flowers, matchsticks, glitter paper, balloons and more. Ask the teams to create something using all the material provided to them. You can place a condition that the end product should be related to Diwali. Each team then explains their final product and a winner is chosen.

Guess Who

Request all your employees to submit one of their childhood photos in advance. On the day of the party, you can put up the pictures on a board or hang them on a string. Then ask everyone to guess who among them it is. You could probably include a few hints.

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More Activities

More such activities like corporate spelling bee using images of Diwali, flash mobs, cooking competition, mimicry, best caricaturist competition, and marble championship can be considered.

Support a Cause

As a part of your Diwali celebration, you can support a good cause. Consider contributing and allowing your teammates to participate in the cause by contributing to an orphanage or old age home. Selfless giving brings a sense of inner peace and contentment. After all, Diwali is about spreading happiness.

               Ensure that you make every employee feel appreciated. This can be done by including them in the activities and presenting them with a good gift. Gifts like gift hampers, vouchers, silver idols or coins, electronic gadgets and sweet boxes will be appreciated. An annual bonus awarded at this time can be very motivating for the employees.

Depending on the industry, one can even think about giving scholarships to the employees to enhance their knowledge. Inviting the employees’ families to the party can be considered. These ideas will surely create a difference in the work atmosphere, bring in some positivity and build team spirit amongst the team members.