So i'm planning a Pep Rally for Elementary School? Any idea to excite kids ages 5-11?

1. Make announcements in the school bulletin. Have the kids wear school colors from head to toe. Maybe even have a contest for each grade to see who is the best/craziest dressed student. If time allows, have a face painting station for those students who wish to have that done. After lunch is recommended.

2. Make sure the entire staff is dressed in school colors, shirts, etc. You may even have them put on face paint, if your school allows it. As soon as the children walk in the school they will see their teachers, principal, janitors, even the lunch ladies just as dressed up as they are.

3. Decorate high traffic areas with posters, banners, streamers, whatever you have available in school.

4. Encourage students to create posters at home and bring to the rally

5. Have different contests that involve the students. Ex. relay races, eating contests, dress up contests, etc. Make the prizes worth their while and advertise that prizes will be given to the winners.

6. Be overexcited, kids love over enthusiastic adults.

7. The music selection needs to be upbeat and exciting. Songs could include, "The Hey Song", "Let's Get Ready to Rumble, "Eye of the Tiger", etc. Have it playing as the kids come in and during variety of contests.

8. Teacher only competitions.

9. Teachers vs. Students contests such as dodge ball or relays. Students love it when they can beat the teachers at something.

10. Come up with relevent cheers. Cheers for each grade or etc. Allow some stomping of the bleachers but within reason. You don't want to fix or replace these expensive items.

Here are 10 things that I have seen in my experience with pep rallies. If you Google pep rally ideas you will get a ton of different sites that can help you out as well.

I didn't mind skipping class and I usually went to the pep rallies (mainly because at the time skipping school was somewhat inconceivable for me for some reason) but the whole concept always kind of bothered me. I felt like I was in Nazi Germany being told that I arbitrarily belonged to a group of people who were better than everybody else. I still can't figure out why it is supposedly normal to interrupt high school life once every couple months to force all the students to watch propaganda about how great the school is. It really freaked me out when people actually bought into it and were bizarrely proud to go to that particular high school, which was more-or-less the same as every other high school in the city.

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So i'm planning a Pep Rally for Elementary School? Any idea to excite kids ages 5-11?

Need Ideas to involve students remember its not a HIGH SCHOOL pep rally its an ELEMENTARY PEP RALLY? so i know the excitment needs to be 2x's as big. THANKS FOR THE HELP!!

It depends.

Whats the per rally for?