A year-end lunch in a million.Is your organisation looking for a venue to hold your Christmas lunch or year-end lunch? Calling all KZN business enterprises. Government Departments. Organisations.Here's a way to spice up the whole day and make it one to be remembered for years to come!
Giverny Creative Country Holidays has come up with the idea to combine the organisational Christmas or year-end meal with some hilarious and entertaining teambuilding, to set the mood for a great celebratory event. The idea has developed from our usual teambuilding programmes in which members of groups within organisations learn to appreciate the lighter side of their colleagues. Typically, groups come to Giverny and take part in fun activities involving crafts and art, which requires NOT one jot of artistic talent. For example, participants might make masks of each other using plaster of Paris, make funny hats, model clay, cartoon each other, and play creative games.
In the past, teams usually leave Giverny in such high spirits, that we always imagine it to be an ideal start to an unusual lunch at one of our nearby Midlands restaurants. We have now teamed up with some of the leading Midlands Meander restaurants to provide the ultimate Christmas lunch year-end lunch package. Groups will come to Giverny for two to three hours, participate in some entertaining activities before heading off to a local restaurant. Imagine making the most outrageous surprise Christmas cracker for a colleague or fitting them out in just the most amazing hat all for the occasion.
So here's what happens: you bring the team from your firm or department to Giverny Creative Country holidays, say at 10 am, spend two to three hours with us making fun things to take with you to lunch. What activities might you expect to do?Before coming to us, you will have chosen activities from the list below. A firm favourite is the plaster of Paris (POP) mask making. How this works is the group splits up into teams of two. One team member sits on a chair while the other applies strips of POP to sitting member's suitably Vaselined face. The photo below shows how it's done although if you are slightly claustrophobic you don't have to have your eyes, nose and mouth totally sealed...
The guy in the photo was pretty extreme ..
Once the application of the POP is complete, the first team member goes off and sits in the sun for 10 minutes. Once dried the POP is pulled off and left to harden further while the "mould" goes off to wash his or her face. Then the roles are reversed and the second team member's mask is made.
One team member sits while the other applies the POP
Once the masks are dry and hardened then its time to trim them and paint them until they look like something like the picture below.
You could make crazy hats made for yourselves or even better, make a hat for someone else for compulsory wearing during the lunch. Highly creative Christmas crackers? Decorations? Christmas stockings? You can make these too.
What about lunch proceeded by the entertaining art of silk-screening? This is so easy and you can silkscreen, for example, a T-shirt for everyone to wear at lunch complete with team name and logo. Or make banners. Tablecloths.
Fitting with our philosophy that people get to know one another better in light-hearted situations, we have a number of hilarious games that we play. These include the "great blind worm", "Boeresport" games such as tug of war, egg and spoon race you could be back in primary school!
Our Activities List includes:
Local Restaurants in the immediate vicinity of Giverny include Old Halliwell Country Inn, Cranford Country House, Mulberry Hill and The Corner Post. Further away are La Lampara, The Bier fassl Restaurant and Pub,Woodridge Country Hotel, Rawdons and many more. They all offer 3-course meals with all the trimmings and all have liquor licences. We will book a lunch at a venue of your choice.
Giverny is approximately 30 km from Pietermaritzburg at Currys Post in the vicinity of Howick. Set in 20 Ha of countryside it is an opportunity to get completely away from the city environment with your co-workers and celebrate a hard-worked and successful year.
For further information, contact Nick or Hermine Coleman 033 330 7060 or 082 6553182. Alternatively, e-mail us at giverny@mweb.co.za. Interested parties can contact us and we will arrange the whole activities-lunch package for them.
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A mask - work in progress
The end result - a mask just for me!
Some groups choose to be a little more serious try decoupage
Scottsville Primary Teachers and their handiwork