This week, we're sharing a Cheer of the Week. Cheers are fun ways to build community and bring up the energy level of a group. Cheers typically include silly words and movements. There are many repeat-after-me cheers or cheers with patterns to follow. The Game of the Week is Boom-Sha-Boom!
Before You Start:
- Review the clapping motion, which is: clap your hands, then your hands go out like your giving your two neighbors a high-five.
Set Up:
Form a circle with a little space between players.
How To Play:
- Begin the clapping motion as soon as you start the words. There are four verses.
- Every verse is basically the same, but the body part changes.
- The verse: Czechoslovakia, boom-sha-boom, Yugoslavia, boom-sha-boom, let’s get the rhythm in our _______ (do round motion only), we’ve got the rhythm in our _______ (do all the motions).
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Blank fillers:
- Round 1: hands (motion is three claps)
- Round 2: feet (three stomps) Second blank motion is 3 stomps then 3 claps.
- Round 3: head (shake head and say ay,ay,ay). Second motion is 3 head shakes, stomps, and 3 claps.
- Round 4: hips (shake hips and say boing, boing, boing). Second motion is 3 hip shakes, 3 head shakes, 3 stomps, and 3 claps.
Variations:
- For more of a challenge, have everyone continuously walk in a circle.
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