The purpose of school spirit items and school spirit products are to help promote school spirit among students and teachers. Students are there because their parents (and the law) force them to be; teachers are there because they enjoy teaching and to earn a paycheck. But those reasons alone don't always equate school spirit. A couple of interesting school spirit items can be all it takes to get kids excited about school, and to have the adults join in on the fun, too. So, what kind of school spirit products are great for promoting school spirit? Basic things like hair ties, shoelaces, cheek cheers and t-shirts are a great start.
Schools only have so much money that they can use for the teachers and students. And after the basics like classroom supplies, textbooks and things for lunch and gym are taken care of, there isn't always much left over. This is when schools brainstorm activities and fundraisers to keep the money coming in. But how can you entice people to participate in a fundraiser? Use the perfect incentives: school spirit items! Sell school spirit products at your next fundraiser.
School spirit items are the perfect way to start off the school year. Toss some out randomly during the morning assembly, or hold a raffle and announce the winners over the school's public announcement system. Nothing gets kids excited quicker than something exciting during the first week of back to school. Some school spirit products handed out to students, and a few special ones for teachers, are the perfect way to get everyone back in the groove of school, and excited for things to come. But the fun with school spirit items doesn't stop there. Because just about any item can become a school spirit item, they have their place in many school events, all year round!
A fundraiser is the perfect excuse to go all out with school spirit items. Pick school spirit products that students and their parents will have a hard time resisting. Practical items like t-shirts, tote bags, calculators and mouse pads go over really well, but think outside the box. Custom calculators or miniature digital music players that come in the school's colors and are silkscreened with the school's name and logo make for perfect (though somewhat expensive) school spirit products.
By definition, a school spirit item is any tangible product that has been somehow customized to represent the school. The school spirit product may be done up in the school's colors, or simply have the school's name and/or the school's logo on it somewhere. Keeping this in mind, any item has the potential to become part of your stock of school spirit items! That said, school spirit items are perfect throughout the school year. You can put high school spirit ideas to work and select products that match themes -- a great example is a custom pair of pajamas that are done up in the school's colors, ready just in time for Spirit Week's Pajama Day!
High school spirit ideas are great to execute, mostly because they're so much fun! Not only do school spirit items work hand in hand with high school spirit ideas to bring smiles to bored students' faces and to get them IN school, but they work well at promoting school spirit and keeping the feelings of pride and loyalty going long after the special celebrations are over.