Tips for an online New Year’s reception

Alas, a cozy New Year’s reception with family, friends or colleagues is not in the cards this year either. At least, not on location! After all, you can organize an online New Year’s Eve party at home! We have tips for you to make it cozy anyway.

The online New Year’s Eve party

There is no getting away from it anymore: the online meeting. But who says your online meeting can’t be fun? Exactly! It’s time for an online New Year’s reception! Round up your family, friends and colleagues and have your get-together from behind the computer. You can use Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype or Google Hangouts for this. These tools are all free and easy to use. So check in advance to see what everyone is most comfortable with, especially since grandparents need to be able to use them, too. Put on something cozy, glass of bubbly and you’re all set for your online New Year’s Eve party!

A fun quiz

An online New Year’s Eve party does not lend itself very well to a level of “small talk.” This is because it quickly becomes very messy. Turning off your microphone once in a while is not a bad thing, but don’t forget to turn it back on when you want to say something. By the way, this type of gathering is very suitable for a fun quiz! You can ask a professional company to put together a Pubquiz for your New Year’s reception, but you can also do it yourself. With Kahoot! you can create fun quizzes with multiple choice questions, but you can also use the Online Quiz Creator or Survey Monkey. Have family members, friends or colleagues submit questions. Assign a quizmaster to put the questions into the quiz and the fun can begin!

Tasty snacks and drinks

Of course, a get-together is not a get-together without tasty snacks. You can of course put a nut on the table yourself, but it’s much more fun to order a drinks box! This can be as simple or elaborate as you like. We previously wrote a blog about drinks boxes, so maybe you can get some inspiration from here!

Online wine or beer tasting

What is also fun to do remotely is a wine tasting. There are several providers in this area such as Wine Tasting Box, Wine Taster and Thuiswijnonline. Prefer beer? Of course you can do that too! You can do that at Beer Tasting, Hellobier and Guess the Beer, among others.

So, just organize your New Year’s drinks online this year! Super fun!

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