Help me influence small children

[mead1]

I've mentioned I'm working at Boyscout camp this year. This will have me needing to sing songs, preform skits, and do cheers. Cheers are the subject of this topic. They are normally really stupid chants of three groups. Now I want you guys to give me some ideas for three part cheers. It needs to be family appropriate, but something that will make me look really stupid while doing it. I'll give you an example:

The mead1 happy cheer

Ok, group one over here, when I shout at you, you are going to make a really stupid happy face and shout "Happy!"

Group two, you are Rainbows. You shout "RAINBOW!" and make an arc with your hands. Really big so you hit the guy next to you.

Group Three, you are the final, most important group. You guys are the unicorns. You shout "UNICORNS!" and make a little horn on your forehead with your hands.

Ok, now when I point to you, do your part. We'll go through the line three times, then everyone shout "LESS THEN THREE!"

See, entirely family freindly, mildly entertaining, and it has an internet reference. We actually do a peanut butter jelly cheer and a badger cheer. Most of the staff are big nerds, and we keep ourselves amused with this stuff.

So now it's your turn. I need three words, pantomimes for each, and an ending. The best ones will be used, and may become a Camp Shenandoah Tradition, since most of our cheers really suck.

gogogogogogogogogogo

[Tasselfoot]

Re: Help me influence small children

Give them candy. They will love you.

[MCRenaissance]

Re: Help me influence small children

How old are the kids? Because if they are atleast over ten years old you don't have a chance in hell to make a kid that's straight jump and scream rainbow while making an arc.

[gerbi7]

Re: Help me influence small children

The best ones will be used, and may become a Camp Shenandoah Tradition, since most of our cheers really suck.

Shenandoah? That sounds way too familiar... I can't remember what it was from though.

[BluE_MeaniE]

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Shenandoah? That sounds way too familiar... I can't remember what it was from though.

Is it this?

Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you,
Away, you rolling river
Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you
Away, I'm bound away, cross the wide Missouri.

[mead1]

Re: Help me influence small children

No, they are 12-17 mostly. These kids will do whatever we tell them. The younger kids simply out of fear of authority, the older ones out of how ridiculous it is. We haven't actually used the one I mentioned, but it's a lot less socially crippling then most of ours. and a lot less stupid in general.

Less talk of Shenandoah, more suggestions.

[Tasuke]

Re: Help me influence small children

Tell them that whoever doesn't listen will have to do an original campfire
skit in front of all the other troops that night. And do it every day to show
'em you mean business. Or rape 'em.

[SethSquall]

Re: Help me influence small children

How about shouting animals? Find out what kids like what animals and go off the majority of votes? Could have the littl'uns doing impressions of the animals.

[stretchypanda]

Re: Help me influence small children

Counselor yells "Heeeeey"
Everyone responds: "Ho!
(name of group)'s got soul, uh!
Double up, double up -- uh, uh!
Old lady dancing, Ooooold lady dancing! (pantomime old person hobble)
Alright STOP (one hand out)
Word to ya momma."

That was the chant they used at cheer camp to tell us it was time to shut up and pay attention.

Damn.. I had so many more peppy stupid cheers, but I can't remember them. Thank God I work at a camp that expects middle schoolers to behave like college students without the boozing.