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Orange Pass Competition
Nicole Saldana, Alisal High School

Instead of a banana pass, recently, we did a orange pass game. we were in the steps were we hold our rallies, and each class had to form a line to the top of the stairs. Then the object of this game would be to pass the orange(w/o using your hands!!!) with your neck, then the last person would run down after passing it all the way through the line. Its really and many students partake in it.
 

Night at the Roxbury Prom Theme

For our 2007 Prom, our class replicated the movie 'A Night at the Roxbury' starring Will Ferrel and Chris Kattan. It was outrageous! We had tons of lights and stars..we even had street signs and trees and a 'graffiti' wall all representing thier club they opened!
 

Ice Ice Relay – Pep Rally Game

the game is called "Ice ice relay". three boys and three girls from each class (more depending on the class size) line up on opposite sides of the gym or auditorium. They take turns sliding on a block of ice (on stomachs, bottoms.. anything) from one side to the other, switching from boy to girl. The first team with all players across wins. Play "ice ice baby" by vanilla ice while the competition is going on. Hilarious to play and watch, crowds love it.

Welcome Senior Crowns
Brittany G, Katella High School

Have a crown for every senior at your school to let the whole school know who are the KINGS / QUEENS of the school. Have them school colors and hand them out on the first day of school, or at your first assembly; so that everyone can recognize the Senior Class.
 

Dress-Up Days
Gia Iacona, Scituate High School

Class Color Day - Each class (freshman, sophomore, junior and senior) is assigned a class color. The way my school does it is: Freshman--Yellow and Orange, Sophomores--Green, Juniors--Red, Seniors--Black and White. This is the best day. We go all out crazy. We paint our bodies with out class colors, decorate our lockers and accessorize like crazy!
 

Senior Sunrise / Sunset
Matthew Cauthron, Cesar E. Chavez High School

The Senior Sunrise is held within the first month of school. The purpose of this activity is to celebrate the begining of a new school year, but yet a new begining. The activity consists of all the senior class meeting in the football stadium and watching the morning sunrise while enjoying a light pastry breakfast and entertainment. Towards the end of the year, they meet again in the foot ball stadium, but yet enjoy a BBQ dinner and enjoy the sunset, inwhich represents the end of the school year, and end of high school. This is a memorable event inwhich helps bring back high school memories and adds to senior class activities.,
 

Homecoming Dance & Spirit Week Themes
Rachel Brown, Terra Linda High School

Homecoming Theme: "Rescue Me" - My school used this theme and it worked out perfectly! Each class had their own sub- theme. ex. life guards, police, firefighters and army.

 

Middle School Activity
Shombree, Middle School

For a school activity we had crazy hair day. I went and got clips, hair color, combs, gloves, mirrors. The students payed 2 dollars and got their that morning and got their hair done!

 

Wink Wink Lunchtime Activity
Karissa Saucedo, Madera South High

"WINK WINK KISSING CONTEST" first we post flyers with LIps all over saying Kissing contest with date when where. Then we has a boy and girl sit face to face and they think they are going against the other pairs, and we give each pair a tic tac. We have a count down with mood music in the background. Between the countdown we stop them and tell them to wait. Then we bring out the CHOCOLATE KISSES. THe girls feed the boys the candy with in a certain amount of time. The pair that eats the most wins.
 

Homecoming Week Ideas
Sarah Torbert, Archie High School

At my school, instead of floats, we decorate the hallway. We divide the hallways in to four sections. Each class gets their own section. They have all week to decorate their section. At the end of the week we usually have the cooks, elementary classes, or janitors vote on who did the best job.
 

Middle School Open House
Marti Kemp, Marshall Middle Scool

We've had a waterfeed that both parents and students enjoyed, especially in 100 degree weather! Parents brought cakes for our end of the evening prize drawing. We've also had our Science classes display their science projects. I'm new at this and I would like some new ideas. Any would be greatly appreciated.
 

Fundraising for Seniors
San, Skyline high school

As the leader for patriotism and school spirit committee and part of the varsity cheer squad, i em in-charge for organizing pep-rallies, half time, senior activities, etc.

And as a senior it came to my attention how underclassmen are usually "picked on" by us Seniors. So i thought it would be a good idea for a fundraiser if we had a "Pick On a Senior Carnival".

Its when the tables are turned and the underclassmen get to pick on the seniors. We got all the varsity jocks and student council to participate. Some seniors were placed in a seat and under them was a tank of water where if the underclass men hit the target the senior would fall in the tank. Other underclassmen would throw pies to the other seniors and ther was many other activities. It was a lot of fun!

We charged a $1.50cents at the door. Once the students were inside they had to purchase coupons to buy food and to do the activities.
 

Donation Event
Adriana Gonzalez, Gervais High School

At Gervais we have a week that is all about dornbecker childrens hospital , and what happens is the GHS staff votes for 4 senior boys and girls that show the best representation for gervais, such as grades,athletics,leadership skills, and involvement. after that hapens we have a pagent for the contestance, wher they display their talent kareokie skills dance skills and even a random question, the pagent juges are well known oregonians, the contestance carry decorated buckets collecting money durring the week....... if you think you would like to know more e=mail me!
 

Middle School Fundraising
Lilly, Utt Middle School

since i'm in ASB/fundraising committee, i like to plan family nights. i call up any local restaurant and i tell them that i am a student from Utt Middle School, and i proceed to ask them if they do funraisers at their restauaunt. if they say yes, then we make a date, (usually 3 weeks in advance), make posters and announcements, and when that night comes around, you get to see all of your friends and help raise money for the school. it's really alot of fun and excitment.
 

Themed Days

so at my school (North Salinas High school) we have this day once a year called National Sportsmanship Day. and our school gets pretty into it becaue we are probably the only school who promotes it in our area. The whole day students dress up in their fav jerseys and what ever first period class that has the most kids dressed up wins a breakfast. in each class, certain students are recognized for promoting good sportsmanship or being TRRFC(trustworthy, respectful, responsible, fairness, and caring).. with a certificate, viking spirit item, and a lunch with the other students who were recognized. We have a rally at lunch where a DJ comes. and during that time we have this BIG LONG BANNER where everyone can come and sign their name for being TRRFC. It's something that has become a tradition at our school and maybe it will become yours too
 

Sprit Game
Ariel, Alvarado High School

You are blindfolded and a popsicle is dangling from above. Whoever finishes the popsicle first, wins. but the popsicle may not drop on the ground or else you have to find it from the ground.
 

Beginning of School Pep Rally - Introducing ASB
Katherine, Northlake Christian High School

Organize a huge beginning of school pep rally. Open with an up beat song, and have one person run out or start a dance routine to kind of introduce them selves. Add one person from your executive council and just continue to add people till you have introduced all of your officers for the year. Its a bit hit.

Sprirt Week / Homecoming
Valerie, Waterville Junior/Senior High

For as long as I can remember, during homecoming week each class got to decorate their part of the hallway. Last year we had a really hard time with students not caring and ripping stuff and ruining that hallways. Our school is kinda lacking school spirit and so some kids that worked really hard from one class just came to school the next day to watch their class mates that didnt really care ruin what they worked on. So this year my friend and I are activity coordinators and we decided to have each class decortate shopping carts. Ok that sounds really weird but it was cool. That way even after homecoming was over we still had the shopping carts and thats where we put spirit points. Now to make the points work you have to pick a color of paper for each class and have your asb pres. sign each paper so if they are stolan you know. Everything went well and kids got excited for decorate them because they are not as big as hall ways and dont take as long.
 

Green Eggs 'n Ham Fun Friday Event
K. Latendresse, El Camino Middle School

Supplies per pair: Pig Mask, Green Plastic eggs, bag to catch with.

I found pink foam pig masks online at US Toys. Cover the eyes with masking tape. I use plastic Easter eggs -- the green ones, and have my students decorate/color the white and yellow ones with a green sharpie as well.

Activity: One pig masked student tosses eggs from their pile into the air while their partner catches them with a bag or green pillowcase. The pair with the most caught (they can steal each others mid-air) wins! I usually set this up on grass, as plastic eags will smash on cement. Also put a little bit of paper stuffing in eggs to give them a bit of weight. Tape down the seams. Establish a line that the catchers can't cross while playing. The 'hams' with then have to rely on their partners to give them directions on their throws. Plan on some eggs getting stepped on. (I usually have an extra ASB student retreive as many as possible off the grass during the game.)
 

Prom Themes
Tammy Jones, Canajoharie High School

Our kids wanted to use Vegas, but our principal was concerned about more conservative parents and a gambling theme. We created a night on the vegas strip by creating five hotels, one in each gym corner and one in our atrium. Each part had it's own hotel theme. We chose the Venetian, The Excalibur, The Paris, the Aladdin and the Luxor in our atrium. With city scape in between, it was fantastic. The kids spent the night going from hotel to hotel for photo ops just like they were on the Vegas strip; all without a poker chip in sight.
 

March Madness Raffle
Scott Clardyb, Ilwaco High School

March Madness Raffle- You hand out team brackets to students for a specific dollar amount, kind of like a bingo card, and then they fill it out and the student who best predicts the results of the tournament wins a prize. There is no set amount of bracket boards that can be handed out to one peticular student.