[Let’s All Cheer] Items to Boost the Sports Festival. Handmade Goods, Too

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When you cheer on and energize members of the same team at a sports festival, you often prepare some goods, right?

In this article, we’ll introduce recommended items for sports festivals.

From classic goods like matching class T-shirts and towels to handmade original items you can decorate yourself, we’ve gathered a variety of options.

Wearing items in the same color as your team or class creates a sense of unity and makes the memories of the sports festival even more vivid.

Be sure to get some goods ready and make your sports festival even more exciting!

[Cheer Together] Items to liven up the sports festival. Handmade items too (21–30)

towel

If you spread out your towels and cheer, the audience seats will light up like a live concert! Gripping matching towels printed with everyone’s names and a class-made catchphrase will boost your sense of unity even more.

Professionally made, cool custom towels are great, but buying store-bought towels and filling them with everyone’s handwritten messages to create a handmade feel will make for wonderful memories when you look back later.

Let’s cheer our hearts out with heartfelt towels!

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maracas

Introducing the “camaracas,” a shaker that makes the perfect cheering sound.

Prepare a plastic bottle, a bottle cap lid, beads, masking tape, a hot glue gun, and vinyl tape.

First, put the beads into the plastic bottle and close the cap.

Next, stack several bottle cap lids, secure them with the hot glue gun to create a handle, and wrap it with vinyl tape.

Finally, decorate with masking tape or stickers, and you’re done.

The steps are simple, so everyone can have fun making them together.

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Deco Gun Megaphone

While it can’t be used to project your voice over a distance, if you just want to make an adorable-looking megaphone, why not try making a deco-gun megaphone? Take a bubble gun sold at 100-yen shops and wrap it with a clear file cut into a megaphone shape, then secure it in place.

After that, decorate it with things like party garlands and logo stickers, and you’re done! It’s easier to make than it looks, so find a bubble gun you like and give it a try.

If you adhere the clear file firmly, it’ll be secure when you carry it around.

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Glowing Colorful Megaphone

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The role of a megaphone is to carry your voice over a distance, but if you want it to stand out even more as a cheering item, why not make a light-up megaphone? You can buy megaphones, but they’re also easy to make yourself using items like clear file folders.

With this idea, you can cut a clear file, shape it into a megaphone, and glue it around a penlight.

If you add some tasteful decoration to the clear file, it’ll look cute even when it’s not lit up, making it a fun accessory to carry around.

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T-shirt

Original T-shirts are also helpful for telling team members apart.

A simple design that adds text to an existing T-shirt works, or you can print photos and illustrations or add embroidery.

There are actually services that let you create them with just a smartphone, and even some that finish them the same day.

Look into options that match your desired design.

Depending on the season, opting for hoodies or jackets instead of T-shirts is also an option.

The cost is a bit higher, but they can double as cold-weather protection.

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Decorated uchiwa fans and folding fans

How about making a decorated uchiwa fan or a folding fan, like the ones you often see at concerts? In recent years, DIY kits for uchiwa and folding fans have become available, and you can also find plain ones designed for decorating.

Buying one of these and making your own is a great option.

Try attaching artificial flowers or faux greenery, or drawing illustrations.

Printing a message and attaching it would be lovely too.

Feel free to get creative and decide on your own design.

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