24 Ways to Bring Holiday Cheer to Your Boring Cubicle

By Sean Griffis

It’s really difficult to focus at work during the holiday season. There are just SO many things on everyone’s minds, from all that shopping to cross country travels to endless meals and dinner parties galore. Well, if you can’t beat ‘em, JOIN ‘em — or at least decorate for ‘em. Bring a little of all that cheer to your 9-to-5; snag a tree for your desk, string some garland or lights (or both) from the walls or just pour your cuppa joe into the merriest mug you can find. Here’s how to make a winter wonderland of your workspace for the holidays.

1. Tabletop Tree ($50): Create a forest on your desktop with 10 easy-to-assemble colorful trees.

2. Cheery Coffee Mug ($18): Mix some gingerbread creamer with a fresh cup of coffee in this mug and you’ll be filled with cheer Monday through Friday.

3. DIY Stockings: Have a team-building evening and make stockings for everyone in the office to hang at their desk (bring spiked nog for even more fun!). (via Brit + Co)

4. Ornaments ($14 each, $60 for five): These wooden orbs would look fab on the office tree or tacked to your cubicle wall.

5. Festive Flasks ($18-$24): Get some chuckles (hopefully) when you whip these cozy flasks out during a late night meeting. Obviously a must for the office holiday party (and fully stocked in your desk drawer at all times).

6. String Lights ($18): Beat the fluorescents and string these beauties throughout the entire office or just above your workspace.

7. Merry Desktop Wallpaper: With this wallpaper (and others), every day during the holiday season will be merry and bright. (via Dear Lovely)

8. Holiday Candle ($26): Make your desk space smell like a wonderland for the rest of the year with these wintery scents.

9. Chalkboard Christmas Tree ($45): No one volunteering to take the lead on watering the office Christmas tree? No worries, just grab a pack of chalk and get to decorating the chalkboard fabric. Bonus perk: It’s easy to move and hang, so everyone can claim ownership of it for one day.

10. DIY Dangling Dreidel: Craft this multi-colored dreidel garland with any color paper you want, hang ‘em up and have everyone celebrating the festival of lights. (via Paging Supermom)

Click through to find the entire list to create a festive office space.