Cute Ways to Decorate Your School for Spirit Day

School colors should feature prominently on Spirit Day

Spirit day is usually held within Spirit Week, which is the week before homecoming for most middle and high schools. For spirit day, students and teachers often find creative ways to decorate the school to reflect school spirit. Whether you participate in decorating hallways, locker walls or doors, you can come up with a variety of creative and cute Spirit Day decorations.

Doors

Hold a door decorating contest with each homeroom. Encourage every homeroom class to collaborate on a design to be completed by Spirit Day. This activity will foster enough competition to ensure that many doors are decorated on Spirit Day, and it will also help students bond and get excited about homecoming. Design examples can include pictures of local animals wearing school colors or variations on the school mascot.

School Front

Since homecoming is in the fall, a pumpkin painting contest is a fun and cute way to let students express school spirit through fun faces or innovative designs. Allow students to sign up and paint provided pumpkins during the lunch hour, and then display the pumpkins in the front of the school so people driving past can see the students' creations.

Walls

Host a "Who's Who?" contest among teachers or seniors through posters that feature baby photos of the instructors or seniors. Each homeroom can vote on these decorations, and the one to get the most correct answers wins. This is a fun way for students to get to know teachers or upperclassmen and it's a decoration that fosters a sense of community.

Halls and Windows

Use window paint to allow students to paint school spirit slogans to show off to the other classes as they pass outside the school's wings. You can also get balloons in the school's spirit colors and hang them from matching streamers along the hallways. To make the hallway decorations, allow students to draw faces, endearing slogans or other designs on the balloons with permanent markers.