Free Printable First Day of School Signs 2021

Looking for FREE Printable First Day of School Signs for 2021 – 2022? We’ve got you covered with 2021 First Day of School signs for ALL grades – preschool through college! Newly updated for Back to School 2021!

First Day of School Printables

Cute blonde boy with glasses holding a "First Day of School 2021-2022" sign printable

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It’s hard to believe that the kids will be headed back to school soon (whether that looks like in-person school, homeschool, or something else for you this year!), and that the First Day of School is almost here already! Summertime seems to get shorter and shorter each year! We still have a bit of Summer Break ahead of us, but our friends who attend year round schools are headed back in just over a week from now!

Back-to-school means that it’s time to take those obligatory First Day of School photos, so we’ve got you covered with a cute set of free printable First Day of School signs for preschool through 12th grade!

2021 First Day of School Signs - Free Printables for Back to School - Collage graphic of three styles of signs

For the 2021-22 school year, we’ve updated our printable First Day of School signs to include options for classic in-person school as well as homeschool. If you’re doing hybrid learning, distance learning, virtual learning, independent study, or any other option, we have also included a set of blank signs that you can customize with your personalized learning method.

Free Printable "First Day of Kindergarten 2021 - 2022" Sign with pencils and rainbow colors

If you’re a professional procrastinator (like me! 😂) who always waits until the last minute to do things, no worries! We’ve got you!

You can print out these back to school signs minutes before the kids head off to school and still manage to snap a few of those precious First Day of School pictures for posterity. One of my favorite things to do is look back at these photos each year and see how much my kids have grown! (It’s crazy how quickly they grow!)

Free Printable First Day of School Signs

Free Printable First Day of Preschool Sign 2021 - 2022 Sign with pencils and rainbow colors

Each set of First Day of School signs includes printable signs for preschool, pre-k, PK, transitional kindergarten, TK, and kindergarten along with all of the numbered grades. We’ve got you covered from preschool to elementary school to middle school and all the way up through high school!

First Day of School Sign "First Day as a Freshman" 2021 2022 with pencils and rainbow colors

Our printable Back-to-School signs also include alternate text versions for freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years (which means that you actually could use these back-to-school signs all the way through the college years if you wanted to!)!

Two cute Black children holding up printable First Day of School Signs with rainbow colors

Free printable First Day of Homeschool Sign 2021 - 2022 with pencils and rainbow colors

If you have chosen to homeschool for the 2021-2022 school year, we have special First Day of School signs just for you, too! We homeschooled for six years, so I know firsthand how challenging it can be to find homeschool-specific printables sometimes! We’ve got you covered with both graded and ungraded First Day of Homeschool signs! ❤️

Cute blonde girl holding a free printable "First Day of Homeschool 2021-2022" sign on an orange background

Seriously, how adorable are these!? All smiles for the first day of school!

"First Day of 12th Grade 2021 - 2022" free printable first day of school sign with fill in the blank box for distance learning, etc.

For the 2021 – 2022 school year, we’ve also included a fill-in-the-blank option for students who may be continuing on with distance learning, hybrid learning, virtual learning, remote learning, independent study, etc. Simply download the First Day of School signs, and then open the PDF file in Canva (or other photo editing software) to add your own custom text to the box at the bottom.

Note: the font that we used here is Nexa Rust Sans Black if you want to keep it looking consistent!

Cute brown haired girl holding a printable First Day of School Sign 2021 2022 on a white background

I love my HP Envy printer for printing out signs like this because it prints colors super smoothly and vividly (and it’s a steal of a deal if you don’t already have a color printer that you love!)! Plus, you can enroll in HP’s Instant Ink program – for a small monthly fee you will NEVER run out of ink again, AND it will show up automatically on your doorstep whenever you need it! It’s seriously one of my favorite things ever!

(Oh, and don’t worry, we’re ready with matching Last Day of School Signs for the end of the year, too! We update them in April each year to be ready for the last day of school!)

Graphic Collage of Printable First Day of School Sign Options

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