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vs.
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St. Patrick's Day Winter
Sports King &
Battle Queen
Have a battle of the sports Have students vote for their
where sports players of favorite teachers (this is
teams switch places with especially great to do for
another team. For example, homecoming). Then announce
field hockey has to try and crown the Queen and
wrestling and the wrestling King teacher.
team has to play field hockey.
White Ice Fine Arts
Theme Pep Rally
Decorate with white fairy Ask Bands, choirs, drama, and
lights for your Winter Rally clubs how they want to be
and have the cheerleaders/ recognized and use the ideas that
dancers perform to white they give you. Coaches sit down
lights for a cool visual effect. with the teams beforehand,
saying “they cheer for you all
year, for one hour you can cheer
for them.” Put the spotlight on
your arts department for the day!
Glow
Party
Black Out Also a great idea to do during your
Rally winter rally, give out glow stick
necklaces to your student body.
Tell your students to dress in
white and surprise them by
having the entire pep rally
(or just portions) in black light.
You can also give glow sticks Audience Art
to your students to join in on Competition
the fun.
Select teams of four people from the
audience. Give each team a box of
materials (crepe streamer, crayons,
Kiss and Tell balloons, markers,
stickers, cardboard, etc.) and five
Surprise minutes to create the best spirit dis-
play. The crowd response
selects the winning team, whose
Have each player sit in a chair members get a small reward like a
and tell them that they will be ticket to the next game, snack vouch-
blindfolded, and an anonymous ers, etc.
cheerleader (or member of
the opposite sex sports team)
will kiss them on the cheek.
Their mission is to guess which
cheerleader or team member
kissed them. After they are
blindfolded, quietly bring out Pink Out
each of their mothers and have October
them give their sons a peck.
The crowd will love it, even if
the players don’t.
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness
month, hold a “Pink” themed pep
rally, you can also raise money for
breast cancer research.
Scavenger Yearbook
Hunt Reveal
Have a pep rally being held on the Get your yearbook team involved in
football field? Scatter two packages rally by revealing the yearbook in a
of balloon weights over the field. dramatic manner. Example: have the
Select five people from the crowd band play trumpets as the yearbook
and make them race to see who can staff parades the yearbook out atop
gather up the most balloon weights in a velvet pillow.
an allotted time. If you have more
than one prize to give away, mark one
of the balloon weights with permanent
marker. The holder of that balloon
weight gets an additional prize!
Three Top
TP Teacher
Prizes
Challenge
Giveaway
You’ll need one teacher per grade Have everyone drop their names
level plus the class president (or into a bucket on the way into school.
another representative) for each During the rally, pick three names for
grade. The student rep is given a roll great prizes like game tickets and
of toilet paper and when the whistle schools shirts. You must be present at
blows, he or she has to wrap the TP the rally to win—this will help encourage
around the teacher as fast as possible. students to attend the rally!
The first one done wins the game for
their class.
WANT SOME MORE IDE AS?
Check out our team building activities,
many of them can be modified for pep rallies!
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