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Football Spirit Week Ideas

Dress-up days for the week of a school football game, with themes for the stands and candy tags for players.

Football Spirit Week Ideas

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  1. Tailgate DaySchool colors and a picnic blanket. Lunch moves outdoors, and each class decorates its table like the back of a car on game day.
  2. Suit Up DayA collar, a tie or a blazer: the school dresses up on the day the team suits up.
  3. Flag on the Play DayYellow from head to toe, the color of the flag an official throws for a foul.
  4. Throw It Back DayAn outfit from any decade before you were born, borrowed from a relative's closet.
  5. Under the Lights DayDark clothes with one bright white or yellow piece on top, like a field lit for a night game.

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Days with a slogan for game week 15

  • Double Team Day Dress alike with a friend, down to the socks, and walk the halls side by side.
  • Freeze the Offense Day A scarf, mittens and a winter hat, whatever the weather.
  • Give Them the Boot Day Boots of any kind: rain boots, work boots, hiking boots.
  • Hats Off to the Team Day Any hat, where hats are allowed, tipped to every player you pass in the hall.
  • Just Visiting Day Dress as a tourist, the way the visiting team will feel: a camera strap, a map and a hat for the sun.
  • Knock Their Socks Off Day The loudest socks you own, pulled up over your pant legs so they show.
  • Mix Up the Defense Day Nothing matches: two patterns, two different socks, one sleeve rolled.
  • Outshine Them Day The brightest colors in your closet, all at once.
  • Put Them to Sleep Day Pajama pants or a robe over school clothes, where allowed, and a pillow under one arm.
  • Round Them Up Day Boots, a plaid shirt and a bandana, with a jump rope coiled at your belt as the lasso.
  • Run Circles Around Them Day Polka dots and circles, as many as you can wear.
  • Send Them Packing Day Bring your books in a suitcase, a duffel or a tote, where the school allows a bag that is not a backpack.
  • Suit Up Day A collar, a tie or a blazer: the school dresses up on the day the team suits up.
  • Throw It Back Day An outfit from any decade before you were born, borrowed from a relative's closet.
  • Wave Goodbye Day Beach clothes and a towel around your neck, with a wave for the visitors' bus.

Football theme days 16

  • Adopt a Number Day Draw a player's number from a hat, wear it in tape all day and wish that player luck.
  • Coin Toss Day Flip a coin before school, the way the game itself starts. Heads, a hat where allowed. Tails, a scarf tucked in your belt as a tail.
  • Flag on the Play Day Yellow from head to toe, the color of the flag an official throws for a foul.
  • Four Quarters Day Add one piece in school colors at each of four bells, so the outfit is whole by the fourth quarter of the day.
  • Halftime Switch Day One school color before lunch and the other after: change your top at the midday bell.
  • Instant Replay Day Wear exactly what you wore on Monday, and act surprised when anyone notices.
  • Kickoff Monday School colors on your feet only: socks, laces and shoes. The rest of the outfit waits for Friday.
  • Pigskin Day Brown from head to toe for the ball some call a pigskin, with a band of white tape at each cuff as its stripes.
  • Predict the Score Day Tape your guess at Friday's final score to your shirt, home team first. The closest guess is read out on Monday.
  • Six Points Day Wear a 6 in tape, or six of one thing, for the six points of a touchdown.
  • Tailgate Day School colors and a picnic blanket. Lunch moves outdoors, and each class decorates its table like the back of a car on game day.
  • Teacher in the Away Jersey Day Each player lends the away jersey to a teacher, who wears it to class on game day.
  • Touchdown Dance Day Clothes you can move in. Each class shows its end zone dance at lunch.
  • Under the Lights Day Dark clothes with one bright white or yellow piece on top, like a field lit for a night game.
  • Xs and Os Day An X or an O in tape on a plain tee. At lunch the Xs line up across from the Os for a photo.
  • Yard Line Day Stripes going any direction, for a field crossed by a line every five yards.

Themes for the stands 10

  • Bandana Section One bandana in a school color for everyone, worn any way and waved together after a score.
  • Checkerboard Section Fans alternate the two school colors seat by seat, so the section reads as a checkerboard from across the field.
  • Color-Out at the Gate Fans fill the home side in the brighter school color, and a box of crepe-paper strips waits at the gate for anyone in something else.
  • Construction Zone Section Yellow and orange tops, paper hard hats and one sign: defense at work.
  • Dress-Up Section Collars, ties and dresses in the bleachers, as if the game were a formal.
  • Jacket Reveal at Kickoff School colors hidden under a dark jacket. At kickoff, every jacket comes off at once.
  • Little Fans Row Younger brothers and sisters in school colors get the front row and lead the first cheer.
  • Not Their Colors Week All week, nobody wears the visiting team's colors, not even on a sock.
  • Rain or Shine Section Ponchos and rain boots in the stands, whatever the forecast says.
  • Road Whites Night For an away game, the traveling fans wear white, as a visiting high school team does in most states.

Candy tags for the team 13

  • Bubble Gum: Stick Together Out There A piece of wrapped bubble gum on a tag for every player on the roster.
  • Chocolate Bar: Raise the Bar One small chocolate bar a player, with the tag wrapped around it like a second label.
  • Chocolate Coins: Win the Toss, Then Win the Game Two foil-wrapped chocolate coins a player, for the coin toss that decides who kicks off.
  • Cinnamon Candies: You Are on Fire Wrapped cinnamon candies in a paper cone, with the tag rolled inside.
  • Gummy Bears: We Can Bearly Wait for Friday A handful of gummy bears in a small bag, tied with ribbon in a school color.
  • Jelly Beans: You Have Bean Working Hard Jelly beans in school colors, sorted into small bags the night before.
  • Lemon Drops: Drop No Passes A few wrapped lemon drops on a tag for every receiver, and for everyone else too.
  • Licorice Ropes: Rope In a Win One licorice rope tied in a loose knot around the tag.
  • Mints: This Win Is Mint to Be One wrapped mint taped to a paper tag on each player's locker.
  • Popcorn: Just Popping By to Say Good Luck A small bag of popcorn with the tag stapled to the fold.
  • Rock Candy: You Rock A stick of rock candy with the tag tied to the stick.
  • Sour Candies: Leave Them Feeling Sour A small bag of wrapped sour candies, handed to the defense first.
  • Taffy: Stretch That Lead Three pieces of wrapped taffy on a tag, for Wednesday, when the week feels long.

How it works

These football spirit week ideas turn the classic days into slogans for game week: pajamas become Put Them to Sleep Day, and a suitcase becomes Send Them Packing Day. No team is named, so any school can use them.

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Building the week around the game

Start small on Monday, with school colors on the feet only, and let each day ask for a little more. Put a slogan day midweek, when the posters can carry the line. Friday belongs to school colors, in class and in the stands.

Football spirit week candy ideas

Candy tags are for the players: one small treat a day with a pun on its tag, taped to a locker or handed out before practice. Choose wrapped candy, write the tags on Sunday and let a different class or club deliver each day.

  • Keep every slogan about the game. A line aimed at the other school's students stops being fun by Wednesday.
  • Write the visitors, never their name, on anything that gets posted. The same posters then work for every home game.

Questions and answers

What are good football spirit week ideas?

An example week: Kickoff Monday, Put Them to Sleep Day on Tuesday, Yard Line Day on Wednesday, Predict the Score Day on Thursday and school colors on Friday, with a color-out on the home side that night.

What are football spirit week candy ideas?

Mints with This Win Is Mint to Be, popcorn with Just Popping By to Say Good Luck, taffy with Stretch That Lead, and chocolate coins with Win the Toss, Then Win the Game. One treat a day, each on a paper tag.

What are themes for the student section at a football game?

A color-out in one school color, a checkerboard of both, dark jackets that all come off at kickoff, or a construction zone in yellow and orange. For an away game, the traveling fans can all wear white.

What do you wear for a football spirit day?

School colors are always right. For a theme day, try yellow from head to toe for Flag on the Play Day, stripes for Yard Line Day, or brown with white tape at the cuffs for Pigskin Day.

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