If your work place embraces holiday festivities, take a look at how we transformed the place we work every day into a fun holiday retreat. For the last couple of weeks, Faithlife’s offices have been full of subtle (and not so subtle reminders) of what’s just around the corner.

Cover everything in paper

Mobile Education created a winter wonderland by covering every surface in their office with paper.

Christmas lights, snowflakes, and icicles dangle from the ceiling.

Nobody is supposed to go out this door anyways (the space outside is under construction). Now it’s blocked by an igloo and guarded by penguins!

penguin crossing — Be careful that you don’t step on one of these little penguins.

Build your own Christmas tree

Lexham Press got creative and used print copies of our books to make this impressive Christmas tree. It sits beside the window for people to admire from outside.

creative Christmas tree — Life cycle of a tree: from tree, to paper, to book, to tree.

Christmas tree made from books — If you ever run out of room on your bookshelves, you could always try this.

Recreate a Hogwarts Christmas

The content innovation team has a history of going all out for decorating contests. This year was no exception.

Hedwig and Platform 9 3/4 — Hedwig awaits you as your adventure begins at Platform 9 3/4.

Dobby on the Hogwarts Express — Hop aboard the Hogwarts Express with Dobby the elf.

students not allowed in forbidden forest — Beware of the Forbidden Forest. It is, after all, forbidden.

Hogwarts floating candles — In October, floating candles would’ve been creepy. In December, they’re delightful.

Turn your office into Narnia

Narnia christmas — This is how you enter customer service right now.

Force the Star Wars connection

Hey, why not? Verbum helped make sure everybody was ready to watch The Force Awakens.

Festive Stormtrooper — This stormtrooper was a little short, so we gave him a hat.

Darth Vader — Don’t get on Santa’s dark side list.

aluminum foil Death Star — That’s no aluminum foil moon. It’s an aluminum foil space station.

Make everything into candy canes

A little wrapping paper, some red, some white, and voila. Your office is ready for Christmas.

Josh Grantham and Brandon Rappuhn duke it out with candy cane lightsabers.

Setting up a photo booth gives people a fun excuse to swing by your office.

Have Christmas somewhere warm

The e-commerce team decided to heat things up with a Christmas tiki lounge. Their unique theme won this year’s “small department” Christmas decorating contest—and with it, a free team lunch.

Set up advent stations

This year, our designers transformed DSGHAVN into a journey through advent. Five advent stations offered a passage of Scripture with imagery prepared based on that passage.

Upon entering the basement where our designers dwell, our judges were handed a map, with a brief explanation of each advent station:

The journey through advent won the large department category of the contest.

Mix and match Pinterest ideas

The employee services team gathered up their favorite Pinterest-based Christmas decorations and crafted as many as they could.

Christmas tree made from cans — You could let someone else recycle all your cans, or you could turn them into a Christmas tree!

Snow flake chandelier — Don’t just make snowflakes. Make a snowflake chandelier!

Snowman door — Every time you leave employee services, you get to pass through this snowman.

Which theme did you like the best? Tell us in the comments! Be sure to check out the results of some of our other Christmas festivities this year.

Comments

Joseph Haney says
December 24, 2015 at 1:17 am

I like all of the above! God bless Y'all !! Merry Christmas :-)

Lori Davis says
December 26, 2015 at 4:31 pm

Thank you for sharing! Looks like an awesome place to "work"!

John Lagaza says
December 29, 2015 at 5:06 am

Very Nice; However I don’t see anything portraying Christ.

- Chris Brownlee says
  December 29, 2015 at 12:30 pm
  
  The advent walk had the baby Jesus under the star.
  
- Patrick Fore says
  December 29, 2015 at 3:23 pm
  
  The stations of Advent points to the Birth of Christ, Narnia is the setting for CS Lewis’ book ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ which is an allegory for the Gospel. And the others are just fun, and we’re pretty sure Jesus invented fun. So I think they are covered.
  
Online Christian Magazines says
January 21, 2016 at 10:55 pm

Wow! amazing ideas. I love the idea of using paper in whole office and Tree made with books.

Sasha Brown says
December 8, 2016 at 10:18 pm

Thanks for sharing. I like it.

Ron Ferguson says
December 17, 2017 at 7:29 pm

They all win, great decorations. Faithlife, what a fun place it looks like to work. Merry Christmas, and thank you the hard work on a great product

Kathy says
April 2, 2018 at 12:46 am

Great tricks to decorate the office for Christmas. Thanks for sharing this article with us!

Riya Sharma says
December 3, 2018 at 11:12 pm

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Digital Printing says
November 26, 2019 at 4:06 am

Creative Christmas Decoration Ideas. Thanks for sharing it.