Have the mathletes, honor roll students, Future Problem Solvers and spelling bee champs rush the court or field through a huge banner and put their achievements on display. While pep rallies are all about team spirit, you can also use the opportunity to honour hard-working student-athletes. To make this segment of the pep rally even more special, collect photos and videos to create a reel of memorable moments of the individual. In the presentation, you can include the year’s sports highlights and bloopers. Walk the Plank - Use three large appliance boxes to create ships and challenge teams to throw cannonballs into the ships of their opponents. Create flags with your schools’ teams on them and pit different sports or administrators against each other.
Make sure that you are creative, and don't follow the same routine for each pep rally. If students know exactly what to expect, they're not going to be excited about coming. Have your own version of the Class Iditarod; let students attempt to make their fastest version of a sled using only certain materials like rope, garbage bags, etc.
Minute To Win It Games
This way you can show some love to your school’s football team and honour the alumni. With homecoming as the central theme, you can invite a former school athlete to participate in the festivities and ask them to officiate the pep rally. They can add to the school spirit that you also want everyone to feel. Play music by The Beach Boys and Jimmy Buffet. Don’t forget to play the classic song, “Itsy Bitsy, Teenie Weenie, Polka Dot Bikini.” Advertise all week that you will be having a bikini contest. Have four cheerleaders run off stage like they are dressing in their bikinis.
Decorate with Raid cans and giant fly swatters. To make things extra fun, you can set up an obstacle course with cones to map out a wacky course with painter’s tape for a small race with small trikes. The winning team is the one that scores more goals while blindfolded (it’s probably going to be a draw though). See if the coach or any parent can do this in the event. If this option is not available, ask a friend or someone on the yearbook staff to help you out.
Non-Physical Pep Rally Activities and Games
While this is a lot of money, it is significantly less than Vela’s whopper wage. Make sure to have some people available to help bring back the balls that get knocked out of play. If that’s not possible, you can find them at the local craft store. This way, you’ll ensure that rain will clean up some of the mess your fun pep rally left.
Even water can warp the hardwood of a gymnasium. If you want to do something messy a la Nickelodeon style, consider having a pep rally on a football field where rain will clean up any residual mess. Spook the on Halloween, and have the kids dress up in their Halloween costumes for the pep rally.
Tricycle Race
The blindfolded student must then apply makeup to their seated partner to help them get ready for the big game! Give out school-themed temporary tattoos or face paint sticks as a prize. Including a theme in your pep rally can make it that much more exciting for students. Assign decades to each grade, and students can perform in a dance-off for an added element of fun.
Each department’s teachers can get the assembly rolling by parodying a sports team entrance and rushing into the gym to a “walk-up” song. You can also feature performances from the school’s dance team, band and cheerleaders, as well as some fun Harlem Globetrotters-style tricks from the team. Holding a pep rally is an excellent opportunity to bring the whole school together and show some team spirit. But it can be challenging to organise, more so to make it interesting and exciting for all the attendees. Hopefully, these pep rally ideas can help make your next school event fun and memorable for everyone. However, organising a pep rally can be challenging.
Three-Legged Race
If you attend a large high school with numerous sports, you also want to be careful to make sure that all athletes get recognition at some point during the year. Homecoming Makeover - Gather three or four teams consisting of one girl and one boy pair. Seat one teammate while the other is standing blindfolded.
You can also give away temporary school logo tattoos that students can wear on the day of the pep rally. It will add more colour to the audience stand and ramp up school spirit. Want a pep rally idea that’s packed with fun for everyone? Hear us out, prepare a dance for the varsity players to perform and teach it to them a week or so before the game. Have each class perform a class cheer on pep rally day to show their support. The cheerleaders can sell glow necklaces and bracelets.
Create teams of students and compete in a relay race. The fastest teams win a prize of your choosing. Top Honors Pep Rally - Designate a spirit week pep rally to focus on the genius students who have won top brain power honors.
We all love the fun we get from three-legged races, but what if we add a soccer twist to it? Rules are the same as the traditional three-legged race with the addition that the partners must hold the soccer ball between their hips. This entertaining option for a soccer pep rally is even better if you have members of each class participate. Of course, you will need to make your selections in advance.
