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| 1.Have a sleepover 2. Play the "knot game". Get into a circle and grab someone's hand that is not next you. Then untangle yourselves. This helps as a good ice breaker and as a tool for working together. 3.Make up a dance to one of the band's songs. 4.Make up a cheer to say during football games. 5.Make your own guard t-shirt that has your names and graduation years on them. 6.Make ribbons with your class and name on it (school colors of course) 7.Get a song you all like and do a routine to it and perform it during a talent show. 8.Go to Friendly's at 12-1 a.m. after a show/competition. 9. A little bit before the show take about 10 minutes and sit in a big circle holding hands with everyone. Go around the circle and have everyone say something about guard or people in the guard. (nice things of course). 10. Have secret pals. 11. Find a song and keep it as your guard song and sing it or listen to it before every competition. 12. To get along better, keep an envelope on the guard room door and keep it for a place where people can write down suggestions for the guard and some frustrations that you may have. 13. Talk about your frustrations with practice or with other people in the group. This helps keep the talking behind the back to a minim. 14. Have a guard journal and have people write down their thoughts about the weeks practices or shows. 15. Adopt a mascot, dress it in your uniform, name it, take turns keeping it at home. Have the mascot travel with you and attend all practices. Place ads in competition programs from the mascot, or to it. Send message grams to instructors or guard from mascot, or to it. This is a very fun thing to hear when announcers say " To (guard's name), from (mascot), good luck!!! Don't name it a normal name, because then people think its from another person and it takes all the fun from it. 16. Keep traditions going throughout seasons. This leaves something else people have to look forward to. 17. Have a random question box. Guard members can place questions in there that don't relate to anything at all. Then get together and read them together. 18. Have everyone sit in a circle and pass around a role of toilet paper, skittles, tissues, or something that has many pieces of. Don't tell them how much to take before you pass it around. After it's all around the circle have people count how many pieces they have. However many pieces the person has they have to say that many things about the person next to them (either the right or left). This is a good thing to do with a new guard. 19. Go shopping! |
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