All-Star Team Moms at gyms

[brezzieeex33]

i LOVE my team mom, she is the best! she's always ontop of everything. She sends out emails every month with a calender of practice changes, competitions, etc. Also texting plays a major role for urgent changes in practice times, and meeting times at competitions.

Instead of her paying for all of the gifts that we get prior to competition she chooses a group of moms and pulls them together to split the cost of the items. She uses about 5 moms and uses new ones every competition. For locals, we usual get small stuff like goodie bags with name tags or picture frames with a team photo inside. My favorite gift for a local was when we got a picture frame with a photo of my team and a blanket. A really cute idea was last year (only really works with an allgirl team!) when we got red princess tiaras and m&ms with FAME J5 written on them, it was adorable. As for nationals we usually get jackets, sweatshirts, tshirts, sweatpants with logos on it, not sure where they purshase the logos though. My favorite gift was when we got tiedye red pillows with FAME J5 written on it and the team members names written in smaller text around it, they are adorable.

These are just some ideas, feel free to use them :)

 

[georgiamimi]

Such great ideas! I'd love to do some of this for my team but it's coed....any ideas for the boys??? I don't think they'd appreciate the cutsie pillowcases LOL =)

boys love any gift that involves food lol

 

[mstealtoyou]

Airbornecheer I am definately not amazing. LOL I just happen to have great friends that let me use their embroidery machines so that helps alot! And no matter what I've done I find the kids are very appreciative so that keeps you motivated to keep delivering! It does help if you have a great team of parents. They are your biggest asset. I have been blessed with some really great teams and have found very few people that weren't interested in helping.


Just read the Fame gifts and those are really cute ideas too!

 

[mstealtoyou]

I second that AMAZING! WOW! Thank you so much, MsTeal, for all the great ideas! You really gave me some great ideas to work with and I will sure do the heart ideas right away with Valentine's Day coming up. I can see I have alot of work to do but I think the kids are worth every minute.

Sorry it took me a week to get back and type some ideas out. I am in the throes of Cheersport and Dallas stuff for my teams....LOL....Dont have that much free time right now. HAHAHA

I will try and think of some more stuff. 6 or 7 years is a long time to remember that far back.

I like the picture frame idea with a team photo in it. Haven't done that one yet. Sounds very cute.

Oh Oh.....last year's Youth Elite team mom (Not me) collected pictures of all the kids and had them made into a huge poster size collage.....cheap black poster frames from a hobby shop and they turned out very cute. It had every kid on the team in it. She did them and we each paid for our own kids I think it ended up being $15 or $20.

 

[mstealtoyou]

I love my team moms.. I even volunteered once to be one for one of my own daughters teams and was told I was not quailfied for the position.. Turns out they were right. CEA team moms could write a book, and should.. They're a well-oiled machine..


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Don't feel bad Court. We all have our special abilities and none of us could coach our teams. Plus team moming might cut into some of your snowflake making time. HAHAHA

Courtney gives the best team parties. Thats your thing! LOL I'd venture to say she's had most of our teams to her house to spend the night and do team bonding this season. I know kids do sleepovers at the gym at other programs all the time..............NO........She has these kids over to her HOUSE. Who does this? HAHAHA She's crazy but the good kind of crazy......Crazy over her teams!

 

[FLcoach]

when do you give the kids their gifts/ goodie bags? At the competitions? Or the last practice before?

 

[mstealtoyou]

We do ours at the last practice before we leave. I think for alot of reasons but mostly how would I get all those bags to say Dallas? Logistically I think doing it the week we leave is a better option. Also once you give the stuff out to the kids who carries all that stuff through warmups? Us. We have used the backpacks they won at Big Top the last 2 season's as their "gift bag". We just keep collecting them and filling them up again depending on the need.


Just thought of another one. LOL

1 of our amazing parents did a CD of the teams routine music then added full song version's of the songs that meant something. (Last year) We get an email before routine camp with the music attached and the reason's she chose certain songs to be in the routine. The meaning behind them. Youth's thing is they are the Butterlies so she included some songs that had a butterfly theme and then a song by Rascal Flatts ........My Wish. Put a label on it that said Youth Elite Butterflies and the kids all listened to them in the car on the way to Cheersport last year. I know there were MANY texts flying back and forth on the drive talking about how emotional their kids were with the whole thing.

I have someone doing 1 for this years team too.

Also to answer someone else we volunteer.

 

[Cheerlegal]

I love the cd idea.... I am going to mention this one to my team mom.... :maryland:


Just thought of another one. LOL

1 of our amazing parents did a CD of the teams routine music then added full song version's of the songs that meant something. (Last year) We get an email before routine camp with the music attached and the reason's she chose certain songs to be in the routine. The meaning behind them. Youth's thing is they are the Butterlies so she included some songs that had a butterfly theme and then a song by Rascal Flatts ........My Wish. Put a label on it that said Youth Elite Butterflies and the kids all listened to them in the car on the way to Cheersport last year. I know there were MANY texts flying back and forth on the drive talking about how emotional their kids were with the whole thing.

I have someone doing 1 for this years team too.

Also to answer someone else we volunteer.[/quote]

 

[kjstepone]

My coach did the CD thing a couple years ago (even had My Wish on it) and I LOVED it. I still listen to it sometimes before competitions. It had songs from our routine, inspirational songs, funny songs that had to do with our team and some "pump up" ones too. I think any kid would love that idea!

 

[CheerandmoreCheer]

You all have me wondering if I have bitten off more than I can chew, lol. This thread has helped me alot though!

As for the volunteer thing, at our gym it's volunteer too. I know some team moms complain that they end up spending so much out of pocket they would really appreciate some sort of discount or something. I don't think anyone would be motivated to do it for the discount and maybe it's their own fault if they spend too much but I can see the point.

 

[fiercelexaaa]

all the team moms at our gym are awesome. especially with spirit gifts! their all so cute and its so great of them to contribute to the team. we all love them to death:)

 

[cheerkidzmom]

Are the spirit gifts something most teams do? We have never done that at our gym. But it sounds great! I would love to start something like that but it seems expensive.

 

[ORIGINALCheerkidzmom]

The plastic megaphones filled with snacks are a great gift for the older teams as they love to snack!!

Pillowcases are a HUGE HIT...and one year we did these LLBean monogrammed sleeping bags...it had the cheerleaders name and gym logo on it!

Fun team shirts...shorts....sports bras......

One year we did bathing suits with the team logo.

For younger teams....a beach pail with monogrammed towel, water gun, little trinkets.

Something very cheap is paper towel rolls stuffed with candy and wrapped in paper! They look like spirit sticks and are yummy!

New ribbons are ALWAYS a fav!

I am always looking for new ideas!

 

[heyximcaitlin]

we just got our goodie bags for cheersport at practice tonight. they were red [team color & valentine's day] bags with a team picture from when we got our partial paid bid. we also got some candy, a red sash to hang up on our hotel room door, and a lint roller. we also got team jackets.

 

[mstealtoyou]

You all have me wondering if I have bitten off more than I can chew, lol. This thread has helped me alot though!

As for the volunteer thing, at our gym it's volunteer too. I know some team moms complain that they end up spending so much out of pocket they would really appreciate some sort of discount or something. I don't think anyone would be motivated to do it for the discount and maybe it's their own fault if they spend too much but I can see the point.

You haven't bitten off more then you can chew. Once you get into the swing of it it'll come really naturally for you. You'll find more ideas just walking around a craft/hobby store then you'll be able to do in 1 season. At our gym I pick a National for my team and do bags for them then. Target has some great colored gift bags that you could get and use those for their gifts. It doesn't have to be bookbags or anything big. Pick the big National you want to do something and then start planning. Decide what team gift you want to do for them from You and if it's too much money lobby a friend on the team to split the cost with. Then send an email out to the parents telling them when the event is and that you are doing bags and any donations are welcome. You will get alot of responses I promise! LOL Have a deadline for them to bring the stuff in......I'd say email 4 to 6 weeks from the event.......let them turn them in over the course of a 2 week time period! Then put the bags together the last night they practice of that week. The examples I gave were things I or someone else had done over the course of a few years time. 1 big project and then alot of little things like cupcakes and ribbons for their hair one night. Tie Dye a sports bra for them (that their parents brought in for you to dye) and have a few pizza's another month. You could do something once a month on a small scale.

I admit I do spend a fair amount on my 2 teams over the course of a whole year.....I'm talking through skills camps and whatnot to the last national. But it's spread out over 10 month time period so it doesn't hurt quite so bad. Don't go bankrupt with it. Just do what you can do and ask for parents help with the rest. Again, I find that the kids are happy with just about anything....no matter how small or big.

For me finding the time to get projects done is alot harder then finding the money to pay for it. LOL But that's just me.

You are going to do great. Don't over analyze it.