Campfire Cheers
- Abe Lincoln Cheer: That was great! HONEST!
- Alka Seltzer Cheer: Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, Oh what a
relief it is.
- Almost: With hands far apart, bring them rapidly
together but miss just before meeting each other.
- America: A-M-E-R-I-C-A Cub Scouts(or Boy Scouts), Cub
Scouts USA!
- Apollo: Shout: Countdown, 10 - 1 !! BLASTOFF! then with
your hand gain orbit and even out. Then say, "BEEP, BEEP,
BEEP, BEEP."
- Archery: Mimic shooting an arrow, then call out, "Bull's
Eye!"
- Artillery: Begin slowly with the flats of your palms and
increase in speed: then slow down until finally the last
time the hands are not brought together.
- Avon Lady: Point a forefinger and shout, "Ding, Dong!"
- Barber Shop: Make a razor sharp motion on the palm of
your left hand with your right hand, turning your right over
with each stroke. Don't forget the barber's flourishes.
- Barker's Yell: Showtime, Showtime!
- Beaver: Cut a tree by tapping front teeth together, slap
your tail by slapping a palm against your thigh, then yell,
"TIMBER!"
- Bear: Growl like a bear four times, turning halfway
around each time.
- Bee: Put arms straight out and pretend to fly, while
going "Buzz-z-z-z, Buzz-z-z-z."
- Ben Franklin: Hold both hands out in front of you as if
flying a kite. Jerk back suddenly while saying, "Zap, Zap,
Zap."(Lightening)
- Bicycle Cheer: Pump, Pump, Pump.
- Big Hand: Leader says, "let's give them a big hand"
everybody in the audience holds up one of their hands with
the palm up.
- Big Sneeze: Cup hands in front of nose and sneeze in
hands. Having nowhere to put it, wipe your hands in your
hair.
- Big Rock Candy Mountain Cheer: How sweet it is.
- Big Thumb: Hold out a hand at arms length, make a fist
with the thunb up. Variation: Add,"GREAT JOB!!"
- Black Powder Cheer: Pretend to have black powder in your
hand. Pour powder down the barrel. Stamp it down, raise the
gun and fire saying, "Click, BANG!"
- Blast-off: Start counting backwards from 6 to 1. Bend
the knees a little more on each count until you are in a
squatting position. Then, while saying, "BLAST OFF!", just
straight up in the air.
- Bobcat: Stand and give a loud "Meow" three times.
- Bow and Arrow: Make motion as if shooting an arrow and
say, "Zing, Zing, Zing." Pretend to release an arrow with
each zing. Variation: Slowly draw arrow from quiver on your
back. Place arrow against string of bow, pull back, release
and say "pffft."
- Boy/Cub Scout Yell: Rip, Rap, Rap! Rip, Rap, Ree! Loyal
Happy Boy/Cub Scouts are We!
- Boy Scout/Cub Yell: "What's the best patrol/six?" All
the patrols/sixes yell back the Scout/Cub winner's patrol
name/six name.
- British Rank Yell: Be Prepared! Be Prepared! Shout!
Shout! Shout! Tenderfoot! Second Class! First Class Scout!
- Broken Arm: Stick arm out in front of you with the lower
arm and hand dangling. Swing lower arm and hand back and
forth in a limp manner.
- Broken Trolley: Pull the bell rope as if ringing a bell,
repeating "CLUNK, CLUNK, CLUNK."
- Bull Cheer: Make bull horns with fingers while shouting
"El Toro, El Toro !"
- Bull Fighter: Hold down cape and move to in appropriate
motion while shouting "OLE!"
- Buzz Lightyear: Put Your Arms Up And Yell "To Infinity
And Beyond" Variation: Add "I Am Buzz Lightyear, I Come In
Peace"
- Call the Hogs Yell: SOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEE, SOOOOOOOO,
EEEEEEEE!!!!!!! PIG, PIG, PIG PIG!!!
- Can of Applause: Cheer and applaud as cover is removed
from can and become quiet as lid is replaced.
- Cantelope: A variation of the "Watermelon". Cup your
hands for the cantaloupe and shorten time and noise for
spitting out the seeds. Variation: Hold a piece of cantelope
in one hand, take a fast bite, turn head and spit out seeds.
- Carpenter: Pretend to be holding a hammer in one hand
and a nail in the other. Start pounding the nail with the
hammier while saying, "Bang, Bang, Ouch".
- Cat's Meow: You're the cats MeeeeOOOOW!!! (to person
receiving applause)
- Caught Fish: Hold out left hand, palm up, and make
flopping, gasping motions with the right hand on the palm of
the left hand.
- Centipede Yell: Group stands and yells: Ninety-nine
THUMP!! Ninety-nine THUMP!! Ninety-nine THUMP!! This wooden
leg is murder!!! Variation: MY FEET ARE KILLING ME!!!
Variation 2: My shoe bill is outrageous!!!
- Cheerio Cheer: Cheerio-Cheerio-Cheerio.
- Cheery: Pick a cheery, roll in your mouth, then spit the
pit out with a loud "P-TUU."
- Chinese: How! How! How! Phooey, Phooey, Phooey.
- Chinese Bow: Stand, fold your arms, bow from the waist
while saying, "Ah Phooey."
- Christmas Bells: Pretend to hold a bell rope, then get
the left side of the audience to say "DING" on the
downstroke and the other side of the audience to say "DONG"
on the upstroke. Repeat three times.
- Clam: Fold hands together, interlocking fingers. Make
noise by pressing palms together.
- Class A: Clap rapidly in the following rhythm: 1-2-3-4,
1-2, 1-2, 1-2-3-4, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2-3-4...(pause)..One big
clap.
- Class B: Just like the Class A except that on the last
clap, you come back with your hands and make one big clap.
- Class C: Just like the class B except that after missing
the clap, you come back with your hands and make one big
clap.
- Columbus: Put hands up like you're holding a telescope
and shout "Land Ho".
- Coconut: Pretend to shinny up a coconut tree,(Place arms
out front as if hugging tree, move one hand and arm up a
time and then the other), pretend to pick the coconut, let
it fall to the geound(whistle as if a bomb was falling),
hits the ground with a bang!! Shinny down (reverse your
climbing motion), pretend to hit the coconut to open it,
then say: THIS SURE IS A NUTTY APPLAUSE!!!
- Constitution Cheer: We the people, APPROVE!
- Coo Coo: Everyone nod their heads up and dowb and say:
"COO-COO" as many times as you tell them, as if you were
striking the hour.
- Cookie Clap: Everyone takes a big bowl in their arms. In
bowl, dump ingredients to make cookies, such as: flour,
sugar, salt, chocolate chips and dill pickles (have the boys
tell out the ingredients and you'll get some odd cookies).
After the ingredients are in the bowl, you take a big spoon
and with stirring motion yell "Crummy, Crummy, Crummy".
- Cork: Hold out one hand as though holding the neck of a
bottle. Put a cork in the bottle, then hit it in with the
palm of the other hand.
- Cow: Pretend to milk cow saying: "Squirt, squirt,
squirt, mooo."
- Cow Yell: MOOOOO!!! MOOOOO!!! MOOOOO!!!
- Crab: Have the group stand: Have them pretend to be on a
boat, by swaying back and forth, and from side to side, have
them grab hold of a rope as if they are hauling in their
trap, have them grab the trap box and say: "THIS IS THE
BIGGEST KING CRAB I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!"
- Coyote: Have the everyone stand, cup their hands around
their mouth and say: "YIP, YIP, YIPEEEE!!!!!" VARIATION:
Add: "ARC, ARC, AROOOOOOOOO!! GEE, It's lonely out here."
- Deep Sea Diver: Pretend to put on your diving suit,
adjust your helmet, pretend to close face door, and screw
the locks in place. Then pretend to jump into the water by
jumping one step ahead, pretend to be sinking to the ocean
floor, mumbling, "BLUG, BLUG, BLUG!!!" VARIATION: Add the
following when you reach the "bottom": walk around very
stiffly in a circle, then slowly bend over and pick up
something and yell:"I found the TREASURE!!! I found the
TREASURE."
- Desert Yell: "Yucca, Yucca, Yucca !!"
- Desert Rat: Clutch throat and say: "HOW, HOW, HOW,
WATER, WATER, GLUG, GLUG, GLUG." Wipe your mouth and sigh
"AHHHHhhhhhh, I sure feel and look better.!!!" Variation:
Same as above except when you get the water, take a comb out
of the backpocket, dip itinto the water, pretend to run the
comb through your hair, pull out a mirror , look at yourself
and say the last line above.
- Dip Stick: Pretend to get under the hood of your car,
find the dip stick, pull it out, and say, "OH, NO, YOU'RE A
QUART LOW!!!" Variation: Add to the above:You could sure use
an oil change and pretend to put it back, close the hood
with a SLAM!!!
- Doubtful Yell: How come? (Build up on the HOW COME?
Build up on the HOW to a big volume and then cut it off with
a soft "COME?")
- Dreamer: Pretend to snore and wake up. Stretch and say:
WOW, that was a Great Dream !!!
- Drum: On legs make a rat-a-tat sound 3 or 4 times, then
hit the stomach two times and say "Boom, Boom".
- Elephant: Let arm act as a trunk, wave it brokenly in
front of your face. Raise your forearm up and down and say,
"Peanuts, peanuts anyone?"
- Eskimo Cheer: Brrrrr-rrr, Brrrrr-rrr.
- Exhausted Yell: How TIRED? (Build up a loud HOW, with a
soft TIRED and a stretch.)
- Farewell: Hold one hand above the eyes as though looking
into the distance while slowly waving the other hand.
- Ferris Wheel: Move right arm in a large circle, on the
upswing say:"OHHHHH!" On the downswing say: "AHHHHH!"
Variation: Insert the following between the ooh and aah
above: when you are at the top, hold arm in place and rock
back and forth and hold other hand over the eyes and say:
"GEE, YOU CAN SURE SEE A LOT FROM UP HERE!!!
- Firecracker: Strike a match on the leg, light the
firecracker, make noise like fuse "sssss", then yell loudly
"BANG!!"
- Fire Engine: Divide the group into four sections: (1)
Rings the bell fast, DING; (2) Honks the horn, HONK, HONK,
HONK; (3) Sounds the siren, Rrrr, Rrrr, Rrrr; (4) Clangs the
clanger, CLANG, CLANG, CLANG. Have all four groups do their
parts together.
- Fireman Yell: Water, Water, Water! More, More, More !
- Fish: Pretend to a fish by it's tail with one hand with
one hand and plug your nose with the other and
say:"PEEE-U-EEEEE!!!!" Variation 2: Suck in your cheeks,
form an "O" with your mouth, move it as if you were a fish,
without making a sound!!! Variation 3: Hold your nose and
say: "SMELLY, SMELLY, SMELLY!!!
- Fisherman: Pretend to reel out some line, let it drift,
yank your pretend pole back and start to reel in the fish.
Struggle with it for a short time and say: "I'VE GOT IT!!!
I'VE GOT IT!!!"
- Flat Tire: Bend down, attach pump to tire, lift and push
on pump three times, then say, "BOOM!" and jump back in
surprise.
- Flea Flip: Flick your middle fingernail with your
thumbnail.
- Flintstone: Shake hands over the head and say,
"Yabba-dabba-doo".
- Flower: Like a flower blooming, raise part way in your
chair, look around and thumb jump up yelling, "Sproooooong!"
- Flute: Pretend to be playing the flute and give two big
toots.
- Foil Dinner: "RAW, RAW, RAW !!"
- Fonz: Make a fist thumbs pointing up with each hand in
front of you and say "Aaaaaayyyy."
- Frozen Cub (Scout): Wrap your hands around yourself and
say "Brrrrrrr".
- Fruit Salad: Eat a large piece of pretend watermelon,
spit out the seeds, pretend to have a piece of cantalope,
spit out the seeds, then have a cherry, place a finger in
your cheek and give one small pop, as if spitting out the
pit of the cherry.
- Gee: Cup your hand around the mouth and yell: "GEE, YOU
DID A GREAT JOB, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!" Variation:
Insert the persons name after gee. Variation 2: Insert the
persons name as in variation one but also substitute a
different phrase honoring the person.
- Genius Look surprised and say, "Boy look what i
discovered" or "Wow, look what I made."
- Ghost: Wave hands like a ghost and say: "WHOOOO, WHOO,
WHOOOOOOO!!" Variation: Wail, "BOO! BOO! BOO!" three times
and then yell:"YAHHH!!"
- Giant Beehive: Tell the group to buzz like a bee. When
your hand is raised, the volume should increase. When you
lower your hand the volume should decrease. Practice this at
various levels.
- Go Cart: Stand up with legs bent at right angles, put
hands in front of you as if steering and say,
"BAAARRROOOOOMMM!" Variation: Add, "Look at me go!
BARRRROOOMM!!
- Golf: Shout "FORE" and pretend to hit the ball, place
hand over above eyes to follow where the ball went.
Variation: Add: Duck and cover your eyes saying: "OH NO! I
HIT SOMEONE!!"
- Gondolier: Make a motion as if polling a boat, singing
out:"O, SOLE MIO"
- Good Turn: Stand up and turn around.
- Grand How Yell: HOW! HOW! HOO-O-OO-OOW!
- Grand Sneeze: "A-h-h-h Chooooo! Three times, each time
getting loder. Grape: Hold one hand out as if holding a
bunch of grapes, with the other hand pick a grape, chew it
and spit out the pit.
- George Washington Cheer: That was great. I cannot tell a
lie. Variation: Get out axe and swing it at a tree while
saying, "Chip, chop, chop, TIMBER!" then yell, "WRONG TREE!"
- Grand: Everyone is sitting down in their chairs. All
stomp their feet three times loudly, then slap leg three
times, then clap hands 3 times. Then stand up all together
and shout "Ra, Ra, Ra!"
- Grape Juice: Every one stomps around as if stomping
grapes, then reach down with one hand dipping with a glass
and drinking it, saying, "AAAAAhhhhh."
- Great Job: Have one half of the audience say, "Great"
and the other half say, "Going." Alternate each side.
- Guillotine: Pretend to wind a crank pulling the blade
up, tie it off, take an imaginary axe and cut the rope.
Knife your hand down like a blade, saying "Slooosh". Then
roll one over the other while saying "Thud, flop, flop,
flop." Variation: Insert persons name after getting applause
on last flop and say: "Haven't you got those heads of
lettuce chopped yet.
- Guppy: Suck in both sides of your mouth and make a
kissing noise three times.
- Half a Hand: Hold up one hand with the palm open, with
the other hand, cover the open hand so only half shows.
Variation: Add a phrase such as you are handy to have
around.
- Half a How Yell: HUH !!!
- Half a How and an UGH Yell: HUH, UGH!!!
- Helper: Group stands andcheers, "Great job! Great JOB!
GREAT JOB!" Getting louder each time.
- Hamburger: Make a hamburger patty by clapping hands
turning left hand on top, then left hand on the bottom.
- Hangman: Put your hand behind your neck like you are
holding a hangman's noose, then roll eyes and stick out your
tongue.
- Hankerchief: Tell the group that they are supposed to
applaud as long as the handkerchief you are about to throw
in the air, when it hits the floor to stop applauding.
Variation: Catch the handkerchief instead of letting it
drop. Vary the applauding by using short throws, long
throws, throwing to someone in the audience etc.
- Hay DD Straw: Divide the group into two sections, tell
one group that when you point to them they are to yell,
"HAY". Tell the other section they are to yell, "STRAW" !!!
Vary the speed in which you point to the different groups.
Variation: When the leader yells hay or starw, the group
responds with the opposite word.
- Heart and Sole: Slap heart and sole of shoe.
- Home Run: Simulate swinging a bat, then shade your eyes
with your hands and yell, "Thar she goes."
- Hot Dog with Mustard: Get your hot dog and put it in a
bun. Pick up the mustard bottle and squeeze some mustard on
the hot dog, then take a big bite and say, "Yummmmm!"
- How Yell: Raise arm to fullest extent and yell:"HOW!"
- How with a Northern Exposure Yell: How, How, How,
Brrrrr!
- How with a Southern Exposure Yell: How, How, How,
You'all!
- Howdy Yell: HOOOOW DDD DEEEE!!!
- Howdy Pard: HOOOOW DDD DEEE PARRRD!!!!
- Indiana Jones: Swing hand and arm back and then forward
simulating the snapping of a whip. Snakes, it would have to
be snakes.
- Indian: Stomp feet three times, beat chest three times,
5 Indian yells with hand over mouth.
- Invention Cheer: I've made it, I've made it, I don't
know what it is, but I've made it.
- Javelin: Hold hand as if close over a javelin, raise arm
above shoulder and pretend to throw the javelin forward,
wait a couple of secs and say "Thud".
- Jaws(Shark) Cheer: Chomp, Chomp, Chomp.
- Jaws (version 2): Hold arms to cover face (Hands holding
elbows) yell "AAAAAH, HELP !"
- Jet Clap: Swish your hand across the front of you like a
jet and clap your hands twice, real fast to simulate the
sonic boom.
- Jolly Green Giant Cheer: HO, HO, HO!
- Knight: Kneel and place your right hand on your left
shoulder, then on your right shoulder, while saying -- I dub
thee Sir Knight.
- Liberty Bell Yell: Ding, Ding, Ding, Dong! Let freedom
ring!
- Lightening: With one hand draw a ziz-zag in the air in
front of you saying, "ZAP,ZAP,ZAP."
- Lights in the Sky Yell: Look up in the star to find the
stars, then say, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Twinkle".
- Livewire: Grab onto a live electrical wire and shake the
whole body.
- Locomotive: Begin on the he heels of your hands, slowly
and together. Gradually increase speed, working towards the
finger tips and finally over the ends of the fingers. The
last part is raise your hand over your eyes as a gesture of
looking in the distance.
- Lumberjack: Pretend to be chopping a tree then shout
"Chop, Chop, Chop, TIMMMMBERRRR!"
- Mad Doctor Cheer: Scalpel, sponge, sponge, sponge, oops.
- Mad Scientist: Pretend to hold a test tube in one hand.
Pour something into it; then something else, then shout
"Boooommm!"
- Marilyn Monroe: (Sway hips) "HIP, hip, hooray", "Hip,
hip, hooray."
- Match: Pretend to strike a match on the seat of your
pants, it lights on the second try. Look at it burn, shake
your hand and yell "YEEEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOOOO______OOW!"
- Mexican Hat Dance: Put hands on feet and stamp feet
while turning around in a circle.
- Milk Shake: Shake contents in a shaker bottle, slurp the
drink.
- Model "T": Pretend to honk your horn and say "Ooooga,
Ooooga, Ooooga".
- Moose Cheer: Place open hands by ears to form antlers
and call "OOOOO-AAA-OOOO."
- Mosquito: With hand, slap yourself on the neck, arms,
legs, while saying "Oooo, Aaaah." This can also be done by
taking one finger and moving it around in the air as a
mosquito flying (making a buzzing sound at the same time),
letting it land on your arm, slapping at it, and then
shaking off the dead mosquito.
- Mother Cheer: Mother, Mother, She's the one. If Mother
can't do it, it can't be done.
- Motorboat: Flutter your hand in front of you while your
tongue flutters.
- Motorcycle: Lift up the left foot and slam it down
starting the engine with your hands pretending to hold
handlebars and saying "V-V-r-a-a-a-a-m-m-m-m."
- Mountain Climbers: Pretend climbing on mountain. A rock
slips off. Put your had over your eyes, look down and yell -
Look OUT BELOW !
- Mount Rushmore Cheer: WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, LINCOLN,
ROOSEVELT !
- Mount Saint Helen's Cheer: Make fists out of both hands
and put them together. Make the sound of steam building
"ssssSSSS", the sound builds; then when the mountain erupts
yell "POP as hands and arms extend over the head.
- Nail Pounding: Start the nail, drive it in and hit the
thumb yelling, "OOO-UUU-CCC-HHH!"
- A Nickel's Worth: Flip your thumb as though flipping a
coin, then catch it and slap it on the back of your hand.
- Olympics: Join hands, raise them over head and shout,
"Go for the Gold!"
- Once Over: Circle hands, at bottom of circle clap palm
of one hand and back of the other hand together.
- One How Yell: Yell the word "HOW" loudly. Can be built
up to more hows as needed.
- Opec (Oil Well) Yell: "CRUDE, CRUDE, CRUDE."
- PTA Clap: Just plain old clapping for those who lack any
imagination.
- Pack/Troop: Everyone yell together, "Clap your hands,"
then clap hands together two times. Then yell "Stomp your
feet," then stomp feet three times on the floor. Then say,
"PACK(TROOP) _____ can't be beat."
- Pack/Troop Cheer: Razzle, dazzle, never frazzle, not a
thread but wool. All together, all together, that's the way
we pull.
- Pancake: Pretend to be holding a frying pan and a
spatula in your hands. Pretend to put the spatula under the
pancake and flip the pancake into the air. Look into the air
as though watching the pancake flip in the air. Catch the
pancake with the spatula,and flip it on your hand making a
loud "Clap."
- Paper Bag: Make motions to simulate opening a paper
bag., forming neck, blowing it up and pop it, saying "POP"
loudly.
- Party Cheer: Throw hands in the air and say, "Confetti,
Confetti, Confetti."
- Pat on the Back: Everyone pat the back of the left
shoulder with their right hand.
- Pennsylvania University Cheer: Draw right fist back to
shoulder, then throw punch while yelling P U.
- Personal Cheer: Stomp feet three times and shout
personal name.
- Pinata Cheer: Pretend to hit pinata, say "Swoosh"
(Miss), "Swoosh" (miss), "Swoosh" (hit) "HOORARY."
- Pinewood Derby: Start with a hand up above the head and
then with a crying motion swoop the hand down saying,
"Swiss, Thusd."
- Pinky: Clap little fingers together.
- Pirate: "Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of Sprite. Variation:
Avast Ye land lubbers! Walk that plank! Glub, Glub, Glub.
Variation 2: "Hoist the Jolley Roger! We're off to find the
treasure! Yo Ho Ho !!
- Pole Vault: Stand two fingers of one hand on the other
arm like legs. Have them run down the arm to the wrist and
then leap into the air, as the hand comes down, CLAP!
- Pony: Clap your hands together, then slap your leg with
each hand to simulate a pony trot.
- Pony Express Yell: Have everyone gallop in place and
shout, "YIPPEEEEEEEEEE".
- Popeye: 1st group yells: "Where's my spinach! Where's my
spinach! 2nd group yells: "Toot, toot! You're Popeye the
sailor man! Here's your spinach! 1st group: "well, blow me
down, I love my spinach! Toot, toot!
- President: Salute and say: "Hail to the Chief."
- Pump: Have everyone get out their bucket, hang it on the
end of their pump, back up a step or two, then pretend to
take hold of the pump handle and start to pump. Do this for
about ten pumps and say: "The bucket is full."
- Race Car: Say "Varoooom" five times starting quietly and
increasing in loudness each time while shifting gears with
right hand.
- Rainstorm Cheer: To simulate rain, have everyone pat one
finger of the left hand and one finger of the right hand.
Gradually increase the intensity of the storm by increasing
the fingers hitting together. Decrease the number of fingers
as the storm passes.
- Real Big Hand: Make a fist with the thumb extended, put
thumb to lips and pretend to blow, open hand and extend
fingers gradually with each puff. Hold up hand when fully
extended.
- Relay: First person in row claps next person's hand and
so on down to the end of the row.
- Reverse Applause: Move hands away from each other.
- Road Runner: Beep-Beep-Zoom."
- Robot: Walk stiff legged with arms in place saying in a
monotone voice, "DOES NOT COMPUTE, DOES NOT COMPUTE!"
- Rooster: Placing your thumbs in your armpits, wave the
arms up and down while crowing.
- Round of Applause: While clapping hands, move them
around in a circle in front of you.
- Rudolph: Put thumbs to your head with fingers up,
forming antlers. Wrinkle your nose, saying. Blink, Blink,
Blink."
- Salt and Pepper: Hold both fists out in front of you and
raise up the thumbs. Gradually increasing the number of
fingers hitting together. Decrease the number of fingers as
the storm passes.
- Santa Claus: Reach out and hold stomach saying loudly,
"HO, HO, HO" three times. Variation: Add: "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"
- Santa Claus Chimney: Pretend to be driving your sleigh,
say: "Whoa!" (pulling up on the reins), get out of the
sleigh, pretend to climb into the chimney, begin to slide
down and struggle, say: "Wheeze, grunt, rattle, clank, oh,
no," move hands as if falling trying to grasp the sides of
the chimney, then yell:"Craaaasssshhhh and then put your
finger to your mouth and say, "Shhhhhhh!"
- Satellite: Put your right hand over your head, making a
circular motion with the right hand, opening and closing the
right fist, while saying "Gleep, Gleep, Gleep". Variation:
Begin with a countdown from 10, at zero, yell, "BLASTOFF!
stretch arm over head saying "Gleep, Gleep, Gleep" and turn
around three times.
- Saw: Pretend to get a piece of lumber, measure it,
pretend to draw a line, place pencil behind the ear, pick up
your pretend saw and begin to saw holding your lumber with
one hand and sawing with the other, while making your best
sawing impression.
- Seal of Approval: Put your thumbs in your armpits, then
move arms up and down like a seal moving its flippers and
say "Arf, Arf, Arf" several times. Variation: Add: Pretend
you are balancing a ball on the end of your nose.
- Seal: Extend arms, cross hands at the wrist and flap
hands several times.
- Siesta Cheer: Remain seated and pull an imaginary
sombrero over face while snoring loudly.
- Silent Yell: Raise both fists to level with hand and
shout without any sound while shaking both fists. Or else
have everyone stand in unison and open their mouths and
scream without making any sound.
- Silent Smoke: Make a fist with one hand, point the index
finger, hold it close to the chest, then with a circular
motion, begin to slowly raise your arm, keeping the finger
extended until it is high over your head.
- Six Shooter: Point finger in the air and say "BANG" six
times, then blow smoke from the end of the gun.
- Skateboard: Stand up and move top part of body from one
side to the other as if trying to keep balance and say,
"Zoooommm."
- Sky Rocket: Make a motion of striking a match on your
pants, lean over to light your rocket. Make a "SH, SH, SH"
sound, point from the floor to the sky as if you were
following it in flight with your finger. CLAP hands and say
"BOOM" spread arms wide and say "AH____AH____AH".
- Sleigh: Say "Ding-a-ling" three times.
- Stamp of Approval: Pound the palm of your left hand
rapidly with your right fist. For another version, throw a
handkerchief or cap in the air, have the boys stamp their
feet until the cap hits the floor.
- Steamboat: Use both hands to make large rotary motion as
if they were paddle wheels. At the same time say
"Chug-achug-chug". Then reach up with the right hand and
pull down saying "Toot, Toot".
- Superscout: Faeter then a speeding bullet, more powerful
then a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single
bound. It's Superscout!
- Swimmer's Belly: Put both hands out in front of you and
slap your hands together once. Look both ways and say,
"Where's the water, where's the water."
- Swine Yell: Suueeee, Pig! Pig! Pig!
- Sword: Pretend to have a sword in your hand. Swing it
acoss the body three times saying, "Swish, Swish, Swish."
- Texas How: How! How! Howdy pardner!
- Three Strikes: Turn head to the side sharply while
saying, "Strike!" Do these three times and end with, "You're
out!"
- Tiger: Shout, "Grrrreat! Thrust fist upward Tony Tiger
style.
- Tightrope Walker: Have your arms out as if balancing on
a tightrope. Lean to one side and say "Aaaiiiii" as you
simulate falling.
- Tonto: Leader says "Where does Tonto take his trash?"
The audience yells in reply, "To de dump, to de dump, to de
dump dump dump," to the rhythm of a running horse in a
sing-song manner while clapping hands on thighs. (Like Lone
Ranger)
- Tortilla: Slap both hands together, alternating one hand
and the other from top to bottom. On every fourth clap,
shout, "OLE!"
- Toucan Yell: Hold hands in front of mouth, simulating a
bird opening its beak, several times while saying "TOUCAN,
TOUCAN, TOUCAN! A CUB(SCOUT) CAN TOO!!!"
- Train: Divide audience into groups to make different
train sounds, getter faster and faster until a bell rings.
- Trumpet: da-da-da-da-dada-da-da-CHARGE!
- Turkey Yell: Say "Gobble, gobble,," then rub stomach
saying "Yum, yum".
- Turtle: Fold arms in front of face with face hidden. Two
& One-half Hows or How How Ugh Yell: Yell "How, How,
Ugh!!" (as this is done emphasize each How with your fist in
front of your body. On Ugh, yank your arms back to the side
of your body. Do it more rapidly and bit off each word more
quickly each time.
- Two & One-half Hows (Tired): Instead of UGH, use a
tired slow UUUUUUHHHHHH. For a variation, try the contented
HOW, giving a sigh instead of the UGH.
- Two-Handed Saw: Everyone pairs off into two's. Each pair
sticks their hands out with their thumbs up. Alternately
grab each other's thumbs until all four hands are each
holding a thumb. Move arms and hands back and forth as if
sawing.
- Umpire: Stee-rike!
- Viking: Attack! Attack! Attack! Retreat! Retreat!
Retreat! Retreat!
- Walk: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.
- Watermelon: Hold a piece of watermelon in both hands,
make the motions of taking several bites, turn head and spit
out the seeds.
- Webelos Yell: Webelos are great, they can't be beat! So
let's give a yell, Webelos are swell!
- Weightlifter: Attempt to lift bar-bell and asy
"AAAaagh!" as you get the weight up above the head, then
drop it to the floor saying, "THUD!"
- When I Do: The orders are "When I bring my hands
together, you do. When I do not, you must not." Then go
through several false motions to see if you can catch the
group napping.
- Western How: Stamp feet three times, slap knees three
times, whip hand around head three times, and yell
"YIPPI-I-A."
- Whip: Pretend to holding a whip and make the motion of
snapping it in the air while saying "YWAH, YWAH, YWAH".
- Witch: Say in witchy voice: "Heee, Heee, Heee."
- Wolf: Wolf, wolf, wolf, then give wolf howl.
- Yodelers: Cup hands around mouth saying, "Yodel, ley,
lee, who."
Please let me know if you have any other cheers that should
be included in this list.
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