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How to Customize Your School Locker Games

A standard student locker is a basic tin container, which usually has squeaky hinges and a lock that takes practice and patience to master. Students start the school year organizing and decorating these basic lockers, and often turn them into personalized and fashionable spaces. Creative activities in the locker-lined school hallways can boost student involvement and school spirit. Customize all school games and activities, and begin a healthy tradition that you can carry on over the years.

Things You'll Need

Clothes in school colors
Raffle tickets
School logo hat
Magnets displaying school colors, logo, or mascot

Instructions

How to Play Magnet Games on School Lockers
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  Give each student a simple round magnet displaying the school logo.
  
  Order a selection of custom magnets with the school logo, mascot, name or any other image particular to your school.
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  Seniors wait four years to receive senior magnets.
  
  Distribute magnets to students. Students earn special magnets, such as a welcome magnet on their first day, or a senior magnet when they enter 12th grade. All students earn other magnets throughout the year. For example, honor roll students can earn honor roll magnets, and volunteers can earn community service magnets.
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  Explain that the magnets have value. Rare magnets signed by the principal can only be earned for exceptional service and are awarded by the principal in a formal ceremony. In contrast, a more common magnet that can be bought by anyone at the school store showing the school name or logo, is considered less valuable.
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  Build relationships between students by encouraging them to work together to acquire certain magnets.
  
  Allocate special days for trading and bartering for magnets that allow students to build a diverse collection. Such days include the end of a marking period and the 100th day of school.
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  Distribute other custom magnets throughout the school year as rewards for achievements or tokens of thanks. Teachers, the Parent Teacher Association, coaches, librarians, or any other faculty or staff member can give out magnets.
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  During an awards ceremony, the principal can award special magnets.
  
  Supply the principal with special magnets that can be earned by students for exceptional performance. To keep the value system in place, the principal's magnets are the most difficult to earn and are therefore the most valuable.
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  Encourage students to display their magnets on the insides of their lockers.
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  Conclude each school year with a locker cleanout that includes managing magnet collections. Underclassmen pack up their collections and reintroduce them the next school year. Seniors pass down magnets to lower class students or pack up their collections and take them home.
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  A new school year means a new custom magnet.
  
  Carry on the tradition of customized magnets each year.
How to Customize
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  Wear school colors to show school spirit.
  
  Allow students to wear clothes in school colors for a custom uniform on special days or over a certain time period such as a week labeled "Spirit Week."
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  Celebrate the school's birthday.
  
  Play organized school locker games on days that are special only to the school, such as the day the school was founded or the principal's birthday.
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  If you are lucky, your locker number will be called.
  
  Create games that are made from materials with the school logo that can be used on or in lockers, or involve lockers. Such games include a raffle where a ticket matching the number on your locker is put into a school hat. If your number is drawn and announced on the intercom, you win a prize.
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