A great pep assembly not only gets students out of their classes – it
gets them fired up for the big game! Here are just a few ways to guarantee
that your pep rally will be a huge success.
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Role Reversal. A few weeks before
the rally, pick five (fun!) guys from each class and teach them an
easy dance routine. "Girls" by the Beastie Boys and "What a Girl Wants"
by Christina Aguilera are two great picks for this dance! Encourage
the guys to dress up - and watch the crowd will go wild!
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King and Queen. Give the teachers
a chance to be crowned! Let all the students vote for their favorite
male and female teachers (you could use this as a fundraiser as well!),
tally the votes, and crown the winners at the pep rally. Provide funny
crowns and scepters for lots of laughs!
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Make 'em Up. Call out the senior
football players and the senior women basketball players (make sure
the number is even). The football players should sit on chairs while
the women are blindfolded. The object of the game is for the women
to put makeup on the men, without looking! One cheerleader can help
one couple. The crowd then votes on the winner! (The brighter the
makeup the better!)
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Give it Away. Crowds love free
stuff! Candy, pennants, glow necklaces, and other fun items make great
prizes and giveaways. Try this: divide the crowd into sections, listen
to which section has the loudest lungs, and hand out buckets of small
sweets to the section with the most spirit! Another idea: have everyone
drop their name in a bucket on the way in. During the pep rally, pick
out three names for great prizes - like game tickets, school shirts,
or megaphones.
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Audience Art. Select teams of
four people from the audience. Give each team a box of materials (crepe
streamer, balloons, permanent markers, stickers, cardboard, etc.)
and five minutes to create the best spirit display. The crowd response
selects the winning team, whose members get a small reward like an
imprinted stadium cup.
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Wrap Your Rival. Choose teams
of three people from the audience. One member of each team represents
the rival school. The other two team members are given rolls of crepe
streamer in your school colors. Hold a contest to see which team completely
wraps the "rival school" team member from head to toe the
fastest. Be sure to reward the winning team with a bouquet of imprinted
spirit balloons!
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Scavenger Hunt. If your pep rally
is held on the football field, here's a fun, alternate use for balloon
weights. Scatter two packages of balloon weights over the football
field. Select five people from the crowd, and make it a race to see
who can gather up the most balloon weights in 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!
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Dancing in the Dark. Lights off
for the half-time show! Once total darkness settles in, pump up the
crowd with a fast-paced cheerleading dance heightened by several of
our pulsating zenon strobes.
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Glow for It. Get the fans in
on the glow action with our glow necklaces!
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Spell It Out. Giant letter balloons
are a great way to get our message across. Have even more fun by filling
them with confetti. (Our confetti jet does the trick!) As players
run by the balloons when their names are announced, each player pops
their balloon to release the fun surprise!
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Pennies for Prizes. Use our glass
boot mug for a penny-pitch. Select students from the crowd, and give
each participant five pennies to throw. The winner with the most pennies
in the glass receives a school bandanna.
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Kiss and Tell. Have each player
sit in a chair and tell them that they will be blindfolded, and an
anonymous cheerleader will kiss them on the cheek. (Their mission
is to guess which cheerleader kissed them.) After they are blindfolded,
quietly bring out each of their mothers and have them give their sons
a peck. The crowd will love it, even if the players don't.
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Rally the Crowd. A good pep rally
prepares the fans for the big game. This is the perfect time to teach
new crowd cheers, make game announcements, and explain your game plan.
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Pie a la Coach. Every crowd loves
a pie in the face (of someone else)! One way to do it: give a coach
or teacher a bunch of balloons. Each one will have a note inside -
telling him to do something goofy (sing a song, do jumping jacks,
etc). As he pops the balloons, he has to do whatever they say. Make
sure that the last one is a huge whipped cream pie - thrown right
in his face!
