Chants & Cheers

A-W-E-S-O-M-E! Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, are we!

Perfect chant to wake the group! I’m alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic! I’m alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic! I’m alive, alert, awake! Awake, alert, alive! I’m alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic!

Campers at camp can sing this song whenever any of the counselors accidentally or deliberately say the word “Announcements” Announcements Announcements Announcements! We sold our cow We sold our cow We have no use For your bull now! Announcements Announcements Announcements!!

(pound the table and chant) *Name, Name* strong and able get your elbows off the table this is not a horse’s stable, but a fancy dining table! (to the tune of london bridge is falling down) ’round the mess hall you must go you must go you must go ’round the mess hall you must go, you were naughty The …

Banana’s of the world: UNITE Peel banana Peel peel banana Peel banana Peel peel banana Peel banana Peel peel banana Shake banana Shake shake banana Shake banana Shake shake banana Shake banana Shake shake banana Go bananas! Go Go bananas! Go bananas! Go Go bananas! Go bananas! Go Go bananas!

BANANAS UNITE, peel to the left…. peel to the right…. peel down the middle and MMM TAKE A BITE!!!

Leader(or last person that went):Bang bang choo choo Train watch (name) do her thang Person: I cant Everyone else: Why Not?!!? Person: Because! Everyone else: Why not Person:my head hurts my skirts to tight my hips keep shakin to the left to the right from the left to the right EVERYONE:from the left to the right left to the right …

Way down south, not so very far off, a Jay bird died of the whooping cough cause he whooped so hard from the whooping cough that he whooped his head and his tail right off. Second verse same, as the first a little bit louder and a little bit worse. hey way down south…………………

Hands up! Chili chili, chili chili chili Hands down! Chili chili, chili chili chili Turn around! chili chili, chili chili chili Touch the ground! Chili chili, chili chili chili Hey ________, Don’t be afraid! Show us how you boomerang! (does dance move) Boomerang! chili chili, chili chili chili Boomerang! Chili chili, chili chili chili (start from the beginning)

person/group 1: Hey _________(name)! person 2: Hey what?! person 1: Hey _________(name)! person 2: Hey what, hey what?! person 1: Lemme see you buff! person 2: Buff what?! person 1: Buffalo!!! person 2: Oh! We’ve got our hands up high and our feet down low and that’s the way we buffalo, it may be fast it may be slow but …

Bugalo Bug-Bugalo Woo! Bugalo Bug-Bugalo Woo! Hey ______! (Fill in name of person) Hey what? Can you do it? Do what? The Bugalo! I’ll try: With my hands up high and my feet down low This is how I Bugalo! (For the “Bugalo” you can either cartweel, strike a pose, or do a little dance move.)

Calimine, Calimine, Calimine Lotion Ooo, no no no not the lotion Itchy itchy scratchy scratchy Think I got one on my back-y Quick, get the bug spray! I think he went that way! Fwssst. Ugh. I got that bug. Cumila, Cumila, Cumila vista Oh, no no no not la vista Eenie Meeny Docile-eeny Ooo Walla walla weenie (spoken, as fast …

This is a chant that we loved to do at camp. Insert a name in the blank, and have the kids clap as they do this chant. It is a back-and-forth between two people. 1″Hey _________!” 2″Hey what?” 1″HEY _________!!!!!” 2″HEY WHAT?” 1″Show me how to get down!” 2″No way!” 1″SHOW US HOW TO GET DOWN.” 2″Okay. I stomp, my …

(This isn’t really a song, but rather a noise making activity that sounds like a carousel. Split the group up into 4 separate groups and assign each a noise to make. The first noise goes first and then after a few times of making that noise, the 2nd group chimes in. Keep building with the sounds until all groups are …

To work a group needs to decide on who they are going to pick out. Then they call out that person. Group says: HEY _____! (insert persons name) Person replies: HEY WHAT! Group says: HEY _____! (insert persons name) Person replies: HEY WHAT! Group says: SHOW US HOW TO GET DOWN! Person Replies: NO WAY! Group says: SHOW US HOW …

This can be played by any number of people and it’s really fun once you get started. First person-My name is *NAME* and I know what I got. Group-What do you got? First person- I got a *Item* that is hotter then hot. Group-How hot is hot? First person- Batman and Superman Group-nanananan First Person- Can’t do it like *another …

tushies orange juice to tease the other team Orange Crush Lemon Ice Beat them once beet them twice Beat them high Beat them low (team name) on the go!

Peanut Butter Reese’s Cup mess with me I kick you butt. Boom boom, choo-choo chang! Watch [name______] do her thang! “I can’t.” “Why not?” “I just can’t.” “Why not?” “Cause my head hurts, my skirt’s to tight, my hip shakes from the left to the right. To the left, right, left right!” Repeat.

[stomp stomp clap, stomp stomp clap] Chili, chili baby Chili, chili baby Hey [name] do that thing ‰ÛÏI can’t‰Û Why not? ‰ÛÏI just can’t‰Û Why not? [all together] Because my back hurts My shirt’s too tight And my booty shakes from the left to the right From the left to the right Repeat

Chiquita Bananas Unite Peel banana, peel peel banana Peel banana, peel peel banana Eat banana, eat eat banana Eat banana, eat eat banana Swallow banana, swallow swallow banana Swallow banana, swallow swallow banana Hurl banana, hurl hurl banana Hurl banana, hurl hurl banana Go bananas, go go bananas Go bananas, go go bananas

[In a soft voice, don’t yell:] If you can hear me clap once (counselor & campers clap once) If you can hear me clap twice (counselor & campers clap twice) If you can hear me clap three times (counselor & campers clap three times)

Get your elbows off the table *NAME* dear (repeat) Get your elbows off the table, this is not a horse’s table Get your elbows off the table *NAME* dear Once around the hall, Once around the hall, Once around the ha-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-al. (roll the pitch up and down for each ‘ah’) *That person then goes around the outside of the dining …

Only counselors may start the chant and it is up to them to start it if they want to. This will get the kids thinking about their manners and it is lots of fun to. Enjoy! This is a great chant if you are trying to teach manners in the dinning hall. Only counselors can start the chant but campers …

leader chants, campers repeat… Everywhere we go! (Everywhere we go) People always ask us (People always ask us) Who we are (who we are) Where we come from (where we come from) So we tell them (So we tell them) We’re from …name your camp… (we’re from…) And if they cannot hear us (And if they cannot hear us) We …