I am the coordinator for Spirit Club this year at my school and we have every week there is a spirit score Pep Rally. Most of the evaluation of signs and posters around the school, but some of the figures of the evaluation items of mind, the various clubs in his hand, as little football hard paper that say “love Computer Club the football and things like that. What is something good, craft ideas simple and inexpensive for the club?
You can make Spirit Pins out of beads and safety pins. Just use the small safety pins and add a couple small beads with the school colors. Clip the pin onto a piece of paper that has your slogan on it. You can also laminate a one or two line slogan and attach it to the pin. Then the students can wear the pins with the school colors anytime.
To bead safety pins, put the beads on the pin. Close the pin and with a pair of pliers, gently pull the loop apart at the back end and slip the beads around the loop until they are on the top of the safety pin. Pinch the loop back together.
You can start a Spirit Tree. If you can obtain a portion of a school wall or bulletin board, build a tree trunk. Use brown tissue paper and roll it and scrunch it into the shape of a tree trunk with branches. Let the tissue paper be 3D and not flat on the wall. If you can’t use a wall, make a free standing tree and move it around.
Hand out leaves (either dye cut or hand cut) with your slogan. Ask them to write something good about the school, or root for their favorite sport or just ask them to Join in the Spirit Tree with their first name. Hang the leaves from the tree. You could leave a folder attached to the wall (or tree whatever the case may be) with leaves so that anyone can grab a leaf and leave their message. You can either staple or tape them to the tree.
You can hand out paper bags to make a big noise at the spirit assembly. Put your slogan on the bags, hand out the bags to kids as they enter the gym. Lead them in a rousing school song and end it with a bang-where everyone gets to pop their bag in time with the song (if possible). You could make it a competition from one side of the room to the other…who can be the loudest! Make sure you have recycle bins at the doors when the students leave so they can dispose the bags properly.
Hope this stirs up some ideas for you. Have fun on Spirit Day!
If your looking for crafts check out Oriental Trading online. Search under football, cheer, cheerleading they have tons of crafts.
I don’t know if this would be possible at your school, but at my high school all the hallways were divided by grade. The freshman had their lockers in one section, the sophomores in a different hallway, etc…
So every year before we had “Red Day” (our school color, it was a competition between the grades) we had “Color Wars” for a week. Every class was assigned a different color and they decorated their entire hallway with it. Everyone wore their colors and used streamers, paint, signs, etc… It was awesome! The class that did the best won and got extra points for the Red Day competition.
I know you are looking for things to hand out, but this is a great way for everyone in the school to get involved!