Last year I got superhero wall decals on Amazon and superimposed employee faces on them and then stuck them up around the lab. (Some are still on the lockers.) We usually have a factoid game where staff submits an interesting tidbits about themselves and we have to guess who. This year we're matching up dream jobs, posters you had on your wall growing up and comments that were written on your report cards. We might have slide olympics where we vote on the best feathered edge. Guess the crit...spin down various EDTA tubes after running them through the Coulter. Normal word games that can be generated for free on various web sites - jumble, word search, sudoku with words. Also match the date to the discovery/invention.(discovery of A,B,O blood types, Rh, Rhig introduced, etc.) Guess the object: Close up photos of various things around the lab taken at unusual angles. Shuffleboard with petri plates. I took photos of a couple of techs in various "poses" and then had them printed at 8x12 at Costco. Cut them out and you have lab action figures that you can copy and "decorate." Last time we did this, our good humored tech was was turned into a cannibal, ballerina, cowboy and showgirl. We also made "sculptures" from discarded (clean) lab items (gold foil from the tops of gel cards, pipette tip holders, etc.) On a more serious side, marketing is taking group photos and submitting them to the local paper and putting up 11x17 posters in the display cases. The napkin holders in the cafeteria have space for inserts. We were given permission to design an insert - probably the Get Results logo plus "Thank a lab professional for...." or interesting facts. We are also sending out an email to the entire hospital, with a little lab week blurb and then a 5 question trivia challenge, highlighting our work (how many tests are done/yr? What % of medical decisions are based on lab results? (70-80%!!!!)) This year we're also going to dumb down some of the word puzzles and put them in the OP waiting room so that the patients waiting for their lab draws will not notice how long they are waiting! For the staff, I got some Giant Microbes (also on Amazon) as prizes...you win SCABIES!!!!, SYPHILIS!!! MRSA, etc.