Designing Your Cheer Box

Designing your first cheer box can be a lot of fun, and it can also involve a lot of thought. You get to pick a design for one side of your box that includes your name and anything else you want! Once you paint it on it's there for all of football season so you want to make it good! Here's a few thoughts to consider when trying to figure out your perfect design.

1. Think Outside of the Box

You don't want a design like everyone else you know your name and a little cheerleader painted next to it. You want something original that you can look back on. If you want to put a sunflower on the side then maybe outline it in glitter, or if you want to put your name in block letters maybe put rhinestones inside the letters for an extra pop.

2. Unique and Meaningful

If you're like me, you want whatever is on your box to have a meaning not just some random duck painted on it. Say your family symbol is a cow because of whatever reason, you could put your name in blue (or any color that involves your school colors) and make the background a cow print.

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3. Friendship Boxes

Maybe your best friend is on the squad and you want to match your boxes with hers. You can make half of a heart on one box and the other half on the other. That way when you put them together it makes a whole heart and your guy's names on the sides.

4. Progressing

I really love this idea because it's so unique and will be really cool if you stay on cheer for all 4 years, the 1st year you put a caterpillar the next year is a cocoon, your junior year is a breaking cocoon with one wing coming out and your senior year is a beautiful butterfly. If you take pictures of it each year and put them together it'll make a really cute collage.

5. Traditional

Since it is your first year you can always just go simple and paint your name in a cool font and maybe your mascot or school symbol next to it. Remember you hopefully have 3 more years after your 1st to step it up a notch!

Designing your box should be super fun not stressful. Most squads have a team bonding when doing this and you all come together at one house to make them, so if you're not the best drawer or painter you can ask a friend to maybe paint it for you. It still has the same thought and meaning but hey it may look nicer. I hope all of these tips helped you out. Always remember to think outside "the box."

Love,
A Cheerleader