Go Team!

Cheer your team to success! Create bright pennants in your school’s colors—with a new twist. GO TEAM!

• 1.

  Athletes love to hear fans cheer! An encouraging word just as you enter the last leg of a race might spur you across the finish line faster. Knowing that the crowd wants you to make a basket might help you to SWOOSH. How do you think players feel when they see a whole stadium doing the wave?

• 2.

  Pennants and banners help get your message across visually. Even when other fans are yelling loudly, your sign can still be seen.

• 3.

  On large white paper, draw a long, triangle with Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils. Use a straight edge to draw the lines straight.

• 4.

  Pick your team to support. What are their colors? Emblem? Mascot?

• 5.

  With Crayola Twistables, letter your encouragement large and clearly for all to read. Draw team symbols such as a powerful tiger claw.

• 6.

  Cut out the triangle with Crayola Scissors. Erase any extra colored pencil marks.

• 7.

  Glue the wide end of the triangle around a cardboard tube with Crayola School Glue. Air-dry the pennant.

• 8.

  Decorate the tube, too. GO TEAM!

Benefits

• Students gain empathy for team players, their challenges, and rewards.
• Students identify a team to support.
• Students design and fabricate a pennant to support that group.

Adaptations

• Older students explore the controversy about team names that carry stereotypical messages. Stage a debate to voice opposing views.
• Organize a school pep rally. What is involved? If you don’t have a sports team to support, why not cheer for another type of team such as the school’s crossing guards or most prolific readers.