Cheerleading Party Ideas

Get ready to tumble, dance and cheer with these cheerleading party ideas! These ideas are going to make you jump and cheer for joy. You will lead your squad when they all arrive at the cheer party.

Cheerleading Party Invitations

Create your own megaphone to announce your Cheer party. Use cardstock for the megaphone. Add accents of glitter to add some glam. Write you information about your party with gel pens. To top it off, at the handle add a long string of ribbon to accent your creation. These megaphone invitations will be memorable and easy to find or hang up because of the ribbon accent.

Cheerleading Party Supplies & Decorations

Decorate a special chair for the Team Captain or Team Captain for the day. Of course the team captain will be the birthday guest of honor.

Hang beads, pearls, and other jewels - glamming up your party room is essential. I would glam by the guest of honor’s style. If they love glam, and glitz it up. If they are more subtle then of course have a classic understated glam using twinkle lights, unique clear glassware, silver undertones, etc.

Get Mylar balloons in the shapes of footballs, megaphones and pom poms

Cover your ceiling with helium balloons - using a subtle champagne color

Consider a backdrop of a football stadium and either a balloon arch or side helium balloons for a photo booth

Hang different sizes of cheerleading outfits

Hang different poses and moves that are used in competitions. These will be both inspiring and as an inspiration for your guests creativity throughout the party.

Have a sign that says keep calm and cheer

Have different stations throughout the party - like different concession stands for drinks, food, and different activities

Cheerleading Party Games and Activities

Create a Cheer and Dance for the Party - Try out some new moves. Of course you need to have pom poms for all of your guests. These are to be used at the party and can also be sent home as a favor. You can either make up your own cheers totally on your own or have teams select pictures out of a hat to cheer about. The pictures could be anything from an animal, to an inanimate object to an actor.

Flip the Flops - Decorate flip flops in school colors. Use a hot glue gun and add on jewels and other details.

Pillow Press - Get a pillow case for all the guests. Have a variety of sharpie coloured permanent markers. All the girls can sign their names and draw a design on the pillow cases. Then each guest has a fun memory piece of the team.

Pass the Pom Pom - Play like hot potato

Scavenger hunt - Show and hide a number of items e.g., a hair thing, a pom pom, a penny from a certain year, and some funny items.

Pamper Yourselves - Give and get manicures and pedicures in the school colors and a facial to help relax and rejuvenate your team.

Creative Cheer - Makeup cheers and votes for the funniest, most original, etc. Cheers can be about boyfriends, teams, friendships, etc. And also as a group make up a one word cheer. Each guest says one word and another guest follows. Have someone read back the cheer. It can get super silly.

Music Memory - Have a preset cheer songs or popular songs. Play only a few seconds of the songs and have either teams or individuals guess what the song is and who the artist is.

Costume Contest - Have your guests each get an oversized t-shirt. Have scissors, sharpie markers, jewels, etc to decorate a new look. After all the outfits are designed your guests can sport their look on the runway.

Decorate a Megaphone - Everyone gets either a plastic or homemade cardstock megaphone. Every guest gets a sharpie marker to sketch and write a nice compliment about each other. Then the guest gets to take the positive feedback home with them on their personalized megaphone.

Trust Obstacle Course - Have the guests divided into teams. Have the guests then put on blindfolds. The leader of each team needs to speak loud and clearly giving direction to get through an obstacle course to a desired prize. Try to stay positive with your teammates.

Photobooth - Have different signs to hold in your pictures like flexy and I know it, we throw people instead of balls, no fear all cheer, blood sweat and cheers, got poms, bad to the bow, etc.

Sleepover - Host a sleepover and do facials, and watch cheer and dance movies late into the night.

Cheerleading Party Food

Make cookies in the shapes of megaphones
Decorate cupcakes in team colors (using icing and candy)
Have your fruit in dishes that are all separate letters and spell out the word “cheer”
Have a candy bar in simple mason jars or glitz in large martini glasses
Make mocktails like Shirley Temples. Remember to add some umbrellas and fruit for a fun touch

pink and white cupcake with strawberries

Cheerleading Party Ideas for Cakes

Megaphone Cake - cut the shape out of a megaphone. Use icing tips to decorate with school colors.
Pom Pom Cake - use a half circle cake (half a soccer ball cake pan) and use the grass tip (Wilton). Make the icing colors the color of your school pom poms.
Cheerleading Cake - Wilton has a pan with a bear cheerleader which looks very cute.

Make cookies in the shapes of megaphones
Decorate cupcakes in team colors (using icing and candy)
Have your fruit in dishes that are all separate letters and spell out the word “cheer”
Have a candy bar in simple mason jars or glitz in large martini glasses
Make mocktails like Shirley Temples. Remember to add some umbrellas and fruit for a fun touch

Cheerleading Cake Ideas

Megaphone Cake - cut the shape out of a megaphone. Use icing tips to decorate with school colors.
Pom Pom Cake - use a half circle cake (half a soccer ball cake pan) and use the grass tip (Wilton). Make the icing colors the color of your school pom poms.
Cheerleading Cake - Wilton has a pan with a bear cheerleader which looks very cute.