Secret Santa at work, step by step
- Start a list. A name, a gift budget (e.g. “$30”) and how the draw happens. No account and no e-mail.
- Invite your team. Post the link in your team chat or put the QR code on the screen in the meeting room. Everyone joins with just their name and writes a letter to Santa with gift ideas. Not sure what to write? Ready-made invitation texts.
- The draw. By the organizer's button, by a vote, or by itself at the hour you pick. Nobody draws their own letter, and the organizer can pick pairs who do not draw each other.
- The office party. With “A number instead of the name” the parcels carry numbers, not names. When the gift sack opens, everyone gets the number of their own parcel, and only its Santa knows who it is from.
Neater than a marker: printable tags with numbers.
Gifts ready? Secret Santa games and reveal ideas.
Games for the office party after the gifts: Christmas party games: 15 one-minute games for work, family and kids.
What to write in the letter? The Secret Santa questionnaire has questions for coworkers: size, favorite color, coffee or tea.
Gifts to make the whole office laugh? See Funny Secret Santa.
The draw and numbers on the parcels
You choose them when you set up the list.
When is the draw?
When you click “Draw the letters”
Only you have the button. Click it once everyone has joined.
When the majority decides
Everyone can vote. With 3 votes of 5, the draw happens by itself.
On a chosen day
The draw happens by itself on the day and at the hour you pick. Nobody clicks anything.
What does the draw show?
A number instead of the name
You write the number on the parcel. When the gift sack opens, everyone gets the number of their own parcel.
For remote teams
Everyone joins, writes their letter and reads the letter they drew, with the gift budget, on their own phone, wherever they work. So the gift can go by post.
The draw on a chosen day and the address for the parcel: Virtual Secret Santa.