Great Gross Gunk

Some activities need the gross gucky stuff, but the problem is what to do with that kiddie pool full of Jell-O and oatmeal after you’ve had your fun. A good alternative is peat moss. Just add water and you have instant mud! It’s cheap and enviro friendly....

Sock Snowball Fight

This spirit activity had been very popular. It’s a just like a real snowball fight. It’s in the gym and instead of snow you use socks that are curled up into a ball. There are tables turned on their sides and big boxes on the gym floor as protectors and to...

Polar Bear Swim

During Spirit week at our school we had a lunchtime activity entitled “Polar Bear Tough Man” we had brave students get in a kiddie’s pool (or if you have a large enough body of water around) full of ice water and the person that stayed in the longest...

Human Bowling

For our recent Spirit Week events, one of the lunchtime activities we hosted was called Human Bowling. You have two participants per class/homeroom. One of them acts as the bowling ball, the other as the bowler. The bowling ball person is strapped face down with...

Spelling Bee

Run an old-fashioned spelling bee as a home room competition at lunchtime. Promote it with signs filled with spelling mistakes. Host it by grade level for each day with Friday as the finals for school champ. The words are made known to the audience by placing them on...