How often have you heard the comment “Our school has no school spirit!”? If you as a cheerleader or
coach truly want the crowd to “get involved” then you need to do the following things

• Check with your friends, your student leadership class, team parents, and booster club. Ask them what they need
  to make them cheer for the team. Knowing that you care about them sometimes is enough to get them to cheer
  with you.
  
  
• Keep the cheers and chants simple
  
  
• Use signs
  One of our crowds favorite signs is a big one that says "MAKE SOME NOISE" When the girls hold it
  up and the crowd goes crazy and then we turn it around and the other side says "I CAN'T HEAR YOU" and they get
  even louder. Sometimes we just hold up the "I CAN'T HEAR YOU" side when we're cheering sidelines.
  
  Another one says "CHEER WITH US" on one side and "GET ON YOUR FEET" on the other. We also have
  "YELL" with the reverse saying "LOUDER".
  
  Make signs that roll down as a cheerleader goes up in a stunt.
  
  
• Get the crowd to move. Often this is easier then having them yell words.
  Have signs for - “CLAP”, “STOMP”, “MAKE SOME NOISE”
  
  While the band plays a song, do hand jives that the crowd follows.
  
  
• Have some crowd participation chants
  Get, get get get get on up (stomp clap, stomp, clap, clap)
  Turn, turn, turn around (stomp clap, stomp, clap, clap)
  Boogie, boogie, boogie on down (stomp, clap, stomp, clap, clap)
  And stomp them, stomp them to the ground (stomp, clap, stomp, clap, clap)
  
  “Lean to the left, lean to the right, stand up, sit down, fight fight fight”
  
  1, 2, 3, 4, everybody stomp the floor (stomp, clap, stomp, clap, clap, stomp , clap, stomp, clap, clap)
  5, 6, 7, 8, everybody booty shake
  9, 10, 11, 12, everybody scream and yell, “Go Wildcats, Go Wildcats, Go! Go! Go Wildcats!”
  
  
• Use props
  GIANT FLAG - teach the crowd that every time they see the flag they have to yell “GOOOOOO CATS!”
  
  FENCE - use it in a defense or offense chant.
  
  SEA OF FANS - Create a sea of color in the stands! Give the first person in each row a 19" roll of gossamer. The roll is
  passed from person to person along the horizontal row (A 100 yard roll covers the length of a football field!) When the fans
  are covered, start a giant wave.
  
  DANCING LETTERS - Make large stretch pillow cases with your school's letters on the outside. Make them big enough for
  a cheerleader to fit inside.
  
  BALL TOSS - Every time the team makes a touchdown, throw a huge beach ball (painted your school colors) into the
  audience and have them toss it around. Take it away after kickoff.
  
  
• Create excitement with Posters
  1. SPIRIT LADDER: Paint a ladder (or a big ladder size poster) in school colors and decorate it with Wildcat on top.
  On each rung, put the name of the opponents in order, starting with the bottom rung being the first game.
  
  2. SPREAD THE NEWS: Decorate the wall with newspapers and write a slogan on top of newspaper"
  Spread the news, the Wildcats are gonna beat the _______"
  
  3. YARD SIGNS: Make a bunch of yard signs about the upcoming game. Could do a theme or series of
  messages.
  
  4. STOMP OUT THE _______________. This poster could be in the shape of a paw. Put this big poster
  on the floor for everyone entering the school to walk on.
  
  5. UPCOMING GAME: Have an Upcoming Game" sign. Could be in the shape of a football, soccer ball
  or volleyball. As the game approaches, change the signs to refer to that game. Tell the date, time and
  location.
  
  6. PLAYER RECOGNITION: Make giant paper football field out of poster paper and put mini-helmets on it with the name
  and number for each player. Display on the wall. Other examples: Soccer field with little balls, pool with swimsuits, net with
  volleyballs, net with tennis balls, megaphone with mini-poms, basketball court with mini-basketballs.
  
  
• Cheer of the Week - Have a special location in the school where you hang a poster or banner
  with the words to the cheer for all the students to read and learn before the game. 
  
  
• Create Traditions - Use the same cheer for free throws, feature your fight song each game,
  use the crowd's favorite chant at time-outs, etc. Do push ups in the end zone for each point scored.
  
  
• Contests
  
  
• Give Away Spirit Items