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Showing School Spirit During Homecoming Week

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Homecoming celebrations are sweeping across the country, kings and queens are being crowned and students are showing their school spirit from parades to pep rallies to locker decorating contests. One great way to show school spirit during Homecoming week and throughout the rest of the school year is wearing your favorite high school apparel from Rokkitwear. A shirt that is customized with the school’s mascot, name or insignia is one thing, but knowing that a portion of the proceeds go back to the school makes it even more special.

But celebrating Homecoming is more than just choosing your court and going to the football game, it is a time to show pride in your school and all that it has to offer. High school is where you get to see your friends every day and participate in sports, clubs and all of your favorite extracurricular activities. You are surrounded by teachers and counselors that want the best for your future as well as many opportunities to help you get there. Homecoming week should be fun, and remember all of the reasons why you should celebrate your school spirit.

Ways to Celebrate Homecoming Week

Get involved and join the Homecoming committee. If the idea of choosing a dance theme, decorating for the dance and pep rallies and decking the halls with school spirit sounds like fun to you, then the Homecoming committee is where you belong.

  • Themes: Themes are a great way to get everyone involved in the Homecoming fun. In addition to having a Homecoming theme, it is also fun to have “dress up days” all week to accommodate the Homecoming theme or just ask everyone to wear school colors like their high school t-shirts and other high school apparel.
  • Decorations: Posters, banners, and signs are a must for Homecoming week. They can promote the theme of the Homecoming dance or simply declare reasons why your school is the best, decorations are a fun way to remind everyone what Homecoming is about. One of the best ways to encourage everyone to participate in the decorations is to have a “hall or locker competition.” Every grade is assigned a different hall or set of lockers in the school to decorate, and the grade that has the best looking at the start of Homecoming week is announced the winner.
  • Contests: Friendly competitions between grades are a fun way to get everyone involved. You can do upperclassmen versus lower, or even pair up the seniors with the freshmen. You can have high school t-shirt decorating competitions, float decorating contests for the Homecoming parade and sport competitions like a powder-puff football game before the big game.

No matter what kind of themes, decorations or contents you come up with, having classmates, faculty and the community supporting the local high school is always a reason to celebrate.

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DIY Ways to Customize Your Senior High School T-Shirts

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Earth tones are popular colors to accompany standard school colors

Make your senior year high school t-shirt your own by adding fun design elements that match your personality. It’s your final year of high school and you are probably rocking your senior shirt. Why not make it your own by adding designs that are a reflection of you? Try a unique color pallete with the District Wash tee https://www.rokkitwear.com/product/2168-district-wash-tee. Here are some easy ways that you can customize your high school spirit gear.

Clorox Bleach Pen Writing: All you need is a colored shirt, a Clorox bleach pen, wax paper and a piece of cardboard. Cover the cardboard in wax paper. Slide the board underneath the shirt so that it is under the surface you are writing on to protect the rest of the shirt from the bleach. Write on your message or image with the bleach pen and let it sit for about 10 minutes. Place the shirt under the faucet and rinse with a hard steady stream of water until there is no bleach residue left. Wash the bleached area with hand soap before throwing it in the washing machine.

Turn a T-Shirt into a Tank: You will need your high school t-shirt and a pair of scissors. First, cut off the sleeves, collar and the bottom inch or two of the shirt. Flip the shirt over and cut a triangle down the back of the neck. Use the piece you cut from the bottom of the shirt and tie it onto the back, wrapping it around. You can find images along with step-by-step instructions, here.

Lace up the Sides: Again, all you’ll need is your senior shirt and a pair of scissors. You might want to use a t-shirt that is slightly big on you since this will use up some of the fabric on the sides. Cut the side of the shirt in a straight line up until you hit the sleeve. Cut horizontal slices going down the side that are about an inch wide. Tie the slits together in a knot and repeat the steps on the other side.

Watercolor T-Shirt: You will need a white high school t-shirt, Elmer’s blue gel glue and fabric dye. The glue resists dye, and when you dye the shirt in cold water the glue will keep any message or image you have added white while the rest of the shirt picks up the color. Wet your shirt with cold water and put a barrier underneath (you could use the cardboard and wax paper combo we mentioned above, or anything else you don’t mind possibly getting some color on). Draw on the shirt with the glue and let it dry for several hours. Add your dye to cold water and dunk in your t-shirt. Once your shirt has reached the desired color, lay it flat to dry to let the dye set in. Once it’s dry, soak it in cool soapy water for about 15 minutes to remove any extra glue. Then simply toss in the washer like normal.

Have fun with this! Your shirt doesn’t have to be perfect; it should just be your own. Practice on a junky old shirt you don’t care about any more to make sure you have it right for the shirt you plan to wear. Share any DIY customized shirt ideas you’ve tried with us here!