It’s All About Basketball Spirit

The school’s basketball team is moving on toward the championships. How can you help the players, coaches, parents, students, and fans to gear up their team spirit?  Inspire victory with basketball spirit items, school spirit items, and party supplies.

Basketball Spirit Items & Ideas

• Hang banners and cut outs to decorate the players’ hallway lockers.  Fasten large, basketball personalized banners in the gym and hallways to create a spirited basketball themed arena!

• Upload pictures to create cardboard standees.  Place the cutouts in key spots where they are sure to uplift the players and fans.

• For the games, make sure to have plenty of noisemakers-clappers, cow bells, and bam bams on hand to raise the energy level!

Basketball Team Gear Essentials

Does your team have a mascot? Nothing gets fans pumped up and is more fun than mascots. If you don’t have one, think about bringing in this jovial addition to the cheer leading squad.

For a simple team unifier, you will want to make sure your players have matching sports gear bags or draw string back packs in school colors with the team emblem on them.

Place inside each bag a sports spirit bottle, colored rally towel with the words “Go Team!” along with a personalized candy bar.

No matter where your team ends up this season, have fun along the way. Your support and encouragement will take players to personal victories. Let them know you are 100% behind them.

Make Some Noise at Your Turkey Tournament

Are you getting ready for an annual Turkey Tournament? There’s no need to get your pinfeathers in a knot over the preparations! No matter the sport your Turkey Tournament is about, visit School Spirit Supplies at Stumps Party for tools of boisterous school spirit that won’t gobble your budget for spirit items — including the all-important noisemakers!

Search Your Spirit Noisemaker Options
Stumps Party carries every kind of noisemaker you may be looking for: bams, clickers, clackers, clappers, cowbells, kazoos, shakers and whistles. Within these categories there are even more choices when it comes to style and extras. To help with Turkey Tournament planning, here are some noisemaker spirit items and features we feel are standouts:

Curvy Wigglestix™, light up bams and inflatable hand shapes in new, eye-catching takes on bam bam noisemakers.

Clappers, clackers and cowbells on necklaces so fans can free their hands for snacks and stuff without dropping their spirit items under the bleachers.

Imprinted, un-imprinted and generically imprinted noisemakers (e.g., pawprints, “We’re Number One,” etc.) to give you the highest range of price options to suit your budget.

Engage Spirit Noisemaker Strategies
You can use some noisemakers for showing support for the team, and others to help distract the opposing team.

No matter what the function, though, the aims of the noisemaker games are to show solidarity, exhibit confidence, raise the energy level and keep it high.

For these reasons, you’ll want to present a united front both visually and noisily. Stick with just a couple of spirit noisemaker items but work to put them in the most hands as possible. (This helps budget- wise too, because of volume pricing.) Then, at pep rallies teach a little organized noisemaking, such as a rhythm routine or call-and-response, and when to use them.

A clever, coordinated routine plus lots of the same color equals Go Team and is great for morale. And if you can add a special visual effect to this, such as a glow item or the wave of metallic fringe in the wind, it’s even more Wow!

Seek More Outlets for Team Spirit
Noisemakers aren’t the only spirit items Stumps does so well. We also carry team supplies, parade supplies, poms, mascots and more. We hope you’ll take a look at other School Spirit Supplies and let Stumps supply items you can use to express the spirit and energy that will make your Turkey Tournament an enjoyable and rousing success.

Stock Your Tournament Concession Store

From Yum to Fun Spirit Supplies

Looking for some bold and exciting ideas for stocking your team’s concession store? How about offering items that will not only satisfy the crowds hunger and thirst, but shout out support for your team? Think about how you can help create a winning atmosphere by selling items with your team’s name, logo, or colors on them. Fans will also be able to re-live an exciting event by taking something home to remind them of the “Game of the Year”!

Brightly team colored balloons and foam fingers visually lift the level of spirit in the crowd, while personalized noise makers help increase the volume. Megaphones not only help cheer your team on double as centerpieces for the victory or end of the season party. They can be turned upside down and filled with candy, whimsical ribbons on a stick, floating balloons, and/or pictures of team players captured throughout the season. The megaphone displays make meaningful keepsakes for both players and parents.

Who wouldn’t want to have a banner to hold up that proclaims a favorite team with pride? Or one just to boldly say “We Are Number 1,” or “Victory is Ours!” Durable banners with the team’s name and season would make great mementos when hung on a wall in a bedroom, basement, or proudly displayed on a front porch for all to see.

Add specialized candy to bring more fun to the game for young and old alike.  Savor rainbow swirl lollipops or personalized chocolate lollipops. These unique candies can be labeled with the name of the team, organization, or each member of the starting team.

Stock travel mugs with the name and logo of the team. Many parents want to have one of these to proudly display their son’s or daughter’s love for sports. Plus, you might want to offer a free re-fill with each purchase.

Finally, hang a sports related background illustration and bring the game inside the store. These can also be used as a hanging backdrop for the celebration party to come.

Stocking those shelves can be more than just the usual candy and soda items. You can play a large part in spreading team spirit and giving your guys or gals an edge in their important game, while offering something to remember it by, too!