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.

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:

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.

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!

Car Magnets
• Basketball: The awesome flaming basketball oval magnet and the square basketball magnets are perfect for showing school spirit and can be easily removed and transferred to another car if needed.
• Hockey: Design your own hockey magnet by clicking on create-a oval magnet. Then add two lines of text, a hockey graphic design, choose the background color, and decided whether or not to add a background design.

Car Static Decal
To decorate your car windows, use car static decals with a basketball theme or custom make a hockey decal. Car static decals are reusable and easy to stick up and take off your windows.

Car Chalk
If you like to change up your car decorating, then use spirit car chalk or window markers to customize a new design for every game. Use more than one color for a shaded effect. Window markers are simple to use and easy to remove. Be sure to get an orange window marker (or try the orange fluorescent marker) to draw a basketball, and a black window marker to draw a hockey puck.

Antenna Balls
Top your antenna with a custom designed hockey or basketball car antenna ball. Choose the shape, color, wording, and design to imprint on the car antenna balls. Get some for teammates and fans as well.

Air Fresheners
After practice or a game, the smell of a sweaty uniform, equipment, or player can overwhelm the confined space of your vehicle. Hang one of the spirit air fresheners in your car to maintain a fresher smelling car.

Hitch Covers
Choose round hitch covers and select orange for a basketball oriented hitch cover and black for a hockey oriented hitch cover. Another way to go is to select one of your school colors for the hitch cover and then just put a basketball or hockey graphic design on the hitch.

1. Develop your team identity by providing bags designed with the school logo and the sport name, or school motto imprinted on the bag for each member of the team. These bags are great for carrying their uniforms, shoes, equipment, a water bottle, etc., and help make it easy to recognize that they are apart of the team.

2. Give the team an assignment to come up with a chant specific to their team and give them each noisemakers or a we’re #1 cheerphone so that in the locker room before the game or right before the start of the game, the team can do their chant together with their noisemakers or cheerphones to pump themselves up, and display their team unity to their fans and competitors alike.

3. Stress to your team that one of the most important keys to success and unity as a team is communication. Lack of communication pulls a team apart and creates individuals not working as a smooth operating machine. Positive communication unifies a team and gives them greater opportunity to achieve a higher level of performance. Emphasize this point by handing out embroidered lanyards for them to put their keys on and use to recall that communication is one key to success. The lanyards have your school or mascot name embroidered on the left side and the team member’s name on the right side.

4. Do workouts together as a team to reach team fitness goals, and to encourage each other to hit personal fitness goals. Provide each team member with one of the bold colored sport towels with the words “GO TEAM!” imprinted on it to use during workout sessions.

5. Give your team a historical link to a previous generation by identifying a past team from your school that was successful and had strong team unity. Display a custom wall decal of that team and explain to your team that one of the ingredients of the accomplishments of that particular team was that they were unified as a team. Then put up a custom wall decal of your current team and encourage them to emulate a similar level of team unity as their counterparts of the past. To create custom wall decals, just upload a photo, select a design, add your own wording, and a 40 inch high by 47 inch wide decal will be printed for you.

Look for daily ways to foster the bond and trust between team members that equals team unity, but ultimately it is up to the team to take the reins and develop a strong connection!