Free Printable First Day of School Signs 2023-24

This post may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a small commission.


Looking for FREE Printable First Day of School Signs for 2023 – 2024? We’ve got you covered with 2023 First Day of School signs for ALL grades – preschool through college! Newly updated free printables for Back to School ’23! 

Cute boy in glasses holding a free printable First Day of School sign

This post may contain affiliate links. I will receive a small commission from these sales at no additional cost to you!

First Day of School Printables

It’s almost Back to School time!

It’s hard to believe that the kids will be headed back to school soon, 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! 

A new school year means that it’s time to take that obligatory First Day of School photo, and we’ve got you covered with a cute set of free printable First Day of School signs for preschool through 12th grade! 

Graphic showing 4 different free printable First Day of School signs with rainbow text and pencils

For the 2023-24 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 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.

Graphic of Free Printable First Day of Kindergarten sign 2023 - 2024

If you’re a professional procrastinator (like me! 😂) who always waits until the last minute to do things, no worries! We’ve got you! These adorable signs are the perfect last-minute photo prop for those first-day photos!

You can print these back to school signs just 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. Start your own first day of school tradition and use these same signs each year! (We post the updated free printable signs for the current year in early July)

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 up!)


Free Printable First Day of School Signs

Graphic of Free Printable First Day of Preschool sign 2023 - 2024

Each set of First Day of School signs includes printable signs for preschool, pre-k, PK, transitional kindergarten, TK, and kindergarten along with each numbered grade level. We’ve got you covered from preschool to elementary school to middle school and all the way up through high school! These cute first day of school signs are good for kids of all ages!

Graphic of Free Printable First Day as a Freshman sign 2023 - 2024

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!)!

The FREE First Day of School Signs included are:

  • First Day of School (ungraded)
  • First Day of Homeschool (if you download our homeschool sign set)
  • First Day of Preschool
  • First Day of Pre-K
  • First Day of PK
  • First Day of TK
  • First Day of Transitional Kindergarten
  • First Day of Kindergarten
  • First Day of First Grade (1st Grade)
  • First Day of Second Grade (2nd Grade)
  • First Day of Third Grade (3rd Grade)
  • First Day of Fourth Grade (4th Grade)
  • First Day of Fifth Grade (5th Grade)
  • First Day of Sixth Grade (6th Grade)
  • First Day of Seventh Grade (7th Grade)
  • First Day of Eighth Grade (8th Grade)
  • First Day of Ninth Grade (9th Grade)
  • First Day of Tenth Grade (10th Grade)
  • First Day of Eleventh Grade (11th Grade)
  • First Day of Twelfth Grade (12th Grade)
  • First Day as a Freshman
  • First Day as a Sophomore
  • First Day as a Junior
  • First Day as a Senior
Two cute Black children dressed for school and holding printable First Day of School signs

So much fun! Taking cute photos with these signs are a great way to start the new school year!

Graphic of Free Printable First Day of Homeschool sign 2023 - 2024

If you have chosen to homeschool for the 2023-2024 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 white girl holding printable first day of school sign on orange background

Seriously, how adorable is this!? All smiles for the first day of school!

Graphic of customizable Free Printable First Day of school sign 2023 - 2024

For the 2023 – 2024 school year, we’ve also included a fill-in-the-blank customizable sign option for students who may be continuing on with distance learning, hybrid learning, virtual learning, remote learning, independent study, etc. Or, use that space to fill in your school name, your teacher’s name, or even your child’s name!

Simply download the First Day 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 white girl with short brown hair holding a First Day of 4th Grade sign
Cute little girl holding a chalkboard, isolated on white

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 Printable 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!)

Get the 2023-2024 Free Printable First Day of School Signs Here

This file is Printable #142 in our Freebie Library! Get the password to our Freebie Library by signing up for our Email Club in the form below! If you are already a club member with the password, hop on over to the Freebie Library to download the file now!

Get printable #142
in Our Freebie Library!
Join our Email Club and get the password to unlock ALL of our free printables, SVG files, and more!
Check your inbox for the password!

All free downloads from Happiness is Homemade are for PERSONAL and CLASSROOM USE ONLY. You MAY NOT share, distribute, sell, or use these files for commercial purposes, including print-on-demand. Commercial licenses for SVG and PNG Crafting Files may be purchased in the Happiness is Homemade Shop. Please read our full license terms here.

DOWNLOAD TROUBLE?

Can’t find the download form? Having trouble with the file? Check out our Digital Downloads FAQ page for answers to the most common troubleshooting questions!


WANT MORE BACK-TO-SCHOOL GAMES & ACTIVITIES? GRAB OUR MEGA BUNDLE ON SALE NOW!

We love to see your First Day of School photos, so be sure to share them on social media and tag me @heidikundin on Instagram and @hihomemadeblog on Facebook!

Image of text that says Heidi

You May Also Like: 

\"Watch Out Preschool Here I Come\" SVG on black raglan shirt surrounded by colorful markers and kids shoes

First Day of School SVG Files (includes “Watch Out Preschool” and “Watch out Kindergarten” file + 14 MORE Free Back to School SVGs!)

a boy holding up a sign that says last day of school

Get the matching Last Day of School Signs here! (Updated each spring for the current school year!)

Pin these Back to School Signs for Later!

a boy holding up a sign that says last day of school
a girl holding up a sign that says first day of 4th grade 2023 2024
young children holding up first day of school signs
girl holding free printable first day of school homeschool sign
a young boy holding up a first day sign

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

189 Comments

  1. Hi there! Love these signs, Thank you for making them FREE!! I was wondering if you would be able to do one that says Tot School? I have a daughter ion Pre-K and a toddler that I am homeschooling however I can’t find Tot School anywhere and I wish I knew how to make these or I would hahaha! Please feel free to shoot me an email and we can discuss it further. Thank you!

    1. Hi Laura, we are unable to accommodate custom requests as we don’t have the resources to devote to the multitude of requests that we receive; however, there is a simple “First Day of School” sign available in our Fill-in-the-Blank set that has a blank box underneath where you can fill in “Tot School” on your own (by hand or in a photo editing program like Canva). 🙂

  2. Hello would I be able to get all grades signs without the years? I love the design but was hoping for some without years.

    1. Hi Pamela, at this time we only offer dated sets with years, but we will certainly let you know if we decide to do an undated set in the future. 🙂

  3. Hi Heidi!
    When you update for the 2021-2022 year can you send it to me please!? Love your work.
    Thank you for everything you make

  4. Hello! Love these signs!!! However , I am unable to click on the to print the sign out! I need the distance learning sign for 5th grade…. please help! Thank you in advance!

  5. I love these first and last day of school signs! I used them last year! I can’t seem to click the link that lets me choose from all of the grades. I was able to save the 3rd grade one because it’s one of the examples. I’m trying to get 5th grade in person and 6th grade remote learning. Thanks for your help!

  6. I printed a sign and it keeps getting cut off towards the end? When I look at print preview it looks like it will print out fine. Anyone else have this issue. And thank you very much for making these and sharing them with us.

    1. I’m not sure what the issue is, Michelle, but that sounds like it might be printer related? I just sent you an email 🙂