Tag: Halloween

Halloween is already a great holiday all on its own, but what makes it even sweeter (other than all the candy) is celebrating with a costume and decorating contest!

For our 4th annual entry into the contest, we put together an ’80s themed display, featuring things inspired by a 1980’s arcade — a life size Pac-Man game, a giant Super Mario post-it mural, and of course fully functional arcade games (thanks to a few Raspberry Pis running RetroPie)

While we didn’t win the decoration contest (a Day of the Dead theme won this year), we did have a fantastic time building it and received many many compliments to how fun and creative it was — so that was a win in my book. As a little extra icing on the cake, my Friday the 13th Camp Counselor costume did win “Scariest Costume” so that was a great surprise.

Check it out below!

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Ever since our first entry into the annual office Halloween Decorating Contest, we’ve wanted to do a 9-hole mini golf course — but the logistics in doing so are pretty tough (it takes a lot of resources and space just to make the plain holes).  For our 3rd year entry, we decided this was the year to make it happen!

Rallying the entire IT department together, we put together a Halloween-themed, 9-hole mini golf course, complete with caddy desk, custom maps and scorecards, signage, realistic greens, a windmill, and plenty of variety throughout the holes.

While we didn’t win the overall contest (again), everybody involved had a great time putting it all together and playing through the course throughout the day.  Check it out below!

The starting point caddy stand for the Gruesome Greens IT Mini Golf course

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While putting together my post for IT’s 2018 contribution to the comany’s annual Halloween Office Decorating Contest, I realized I’d never posted 2017.  Whoops.

So, here we are a year later, I give you our 2017 entry:  Star Wars.  While Star Wars costumes may be great for Halloween, it turns out decorating an entire office space for Star Wars is much, much more difficult.  In the end, it came off slightly like a young kid’s birthday party, but what can you do?    The crown jewel of our piece was a giant death star (which was a large weather balloon purchased from Amazon which was then painted by the team to resemble a Death Star.

Check it out below.

The IT Death Star in our entry into the annual Halloween Decorating Contest.

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What better way to celebrate one of the mot fun holidays of the year than with a few office shenanigans?  This year, we decided to go big and built a giant haunted cemetery, complete with crypt, sound effects, and fog machine in the office.  It was pretty incredible!

It took us around 2 weeks from start to finish, with one very long weekend piecing everything together, but it came out pretty well.  The best and most haunted Office Cemetery I’ve ever seen!  Check out the full album below.

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