Show off Your Students! Easy Lawn signs to Build School Community
I have loved this idea from Head Over Heels teaching and have been wanting to make them for such a long time! These signs are perfect to build school community among staff, parents, and students. I’ll let you in on you can make this happen for your classroom ON. THE. CHEAP! Such a really easy idea for a school committee a well. I made these for my son’s school in cooperation with the principal for distribution to their students over the course of a year.
I have 10 of these Positive Yard Signs ready to go for you to increase your classroom community. (**updates- including signs for distance learning, teacher appreciation and more!!)
If students live in an area where lawns might not be an option – these make great window signs as well to send with a parent/guardian for those living in apartments!
Why to Love School Lawn Signs
- These are pretty inexpensive to make (see below!)
- Show school spirit through your community!
- the SURPRISE – imagine coming home to see a sign in your yard meant for you! How special. This really shows the extra commitment to relationships that can improve school community as a whole.
- easy to rotate and get to each student. If it was for one classroom this wouldn’t be hard to manage and great to rotate. School wide, administration can help get signs out and help with visiting students at home too.
Student Pride Lawn Sign Wording Ideas:
- My teacher is so proud of me!
- I aced all my __________ (spelling words, reading goal, math facts)
- A __________ student lives here! (character traits)
- Meeting a class goal
- Going above and beyond
How to make School Student Achievement Lawn Signs
The best part is how inexpensive these signs are to make. JoAnne (Head Over Heels) used her Cricut to make the signs. A Cricut is a great way to add vinyl to these signs you can use signs (like these!) or even from Lowe’s. This would be great if you were making for one classroom. I like how you can extra details that would be great special for your classroom.
If you were making these for a school or for multiple teachers, I went with the printing option. The cost of supplies vs. shipping and vinyl made the most sense. You can design and as long as it is saved as 300 dpi get it printed from many places.
**UPDATE** Multiple people have noted that their experience has not been the same with Imprint. While I did use them previously this can obviously change over time. I am in no way affiliated but wanted to share exactly what I did so others could use. I will search around for other options to offer as well!
Imprint.com was the cheapest option after shopping around. I was very happy with their customer service and updates – when it was printed, when it was shipped, and more! The quality was also superior! The stands are even larger than I imagined (although the dimensions were there – it is tough for me to visualize.
Use the code INSTA20THANKS for 20% off your Imprint order!
ALSO!
You can use these designs with your Cricut to make the process even faster:
OR
even print them as postcards to mail during a time of distance learning!
This video has all the details about printing as postcards using cardstock an mailing to families!
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Hi, I purchased these and followed the printing instructions. I went through imprint because as you said, they were the most cost effective. However, they are saying the resolution is too low and after ordering and paying they can’t make it unless I send other artwork. Do you have any other suggestions because I don’t want this to be a waste of money. Plus, I love the idea of these!!
I love these lawn signs for your students. I went back through my email and did receive the same. I chose to still print since initially I did a “small” printing and they still turned out great!
We did receive a warning about quality but I did not feel like it affected the printing. (the second picture – with school logo blurred) is exactly what they looked like!
I would love to do this. Did you get a response on how to print them through IMPRINT?
Judy – can you clarify? On IMPRINT, choose yard sign and upload the pictures.
Many other places online as well but there’s was the cheapest I could find. It did have a low quality warning but you can see from the picture the quality turned out great and can be seen from far away!
Thank you for the great designs! I can not figure out how to print them as postcards. I’m sorry, I’m not very techie. Do you have a step-by-step technique? Thanks for your help. Beva
Beva,
Check out this video: https://www.loom.com/share/fd11b2af38d64022bd422b8e797a3b77
Let me know if you need help otherwise (amber@sssteaching.com). Printing 4×6 images on cardstock were the easiest way to print postcard size images for me.
What size of sign did you have printed?
These were 18×24. The 12×18 are also a great option and a little cheaper. The graphics still look great and do not get distorted.
Where did you buy the metal to hold the sign?
Amazon has great options or if you get them printed they usually come with the metal. Lowes has cheap signs as well if you have one close.
I am nervous about them. They are not shipping orders. I ordered signs from them. The signs I ordered from another company have already shipped. Do you have a relationship with them ?
They offered the discount code recently but I have not had any printed in the last month. Going with another company works too!
I’m having the same problem. See my comment below.
Melissa – did you find another company that makes and ships signs faster?? I’d love to know the name so I can use them! Thanks in advance!
I used Imprint for the signs and placed the order 3 weeks ago and the order isn’t printed or shipped. I’ve reached out over and over and the customer service has been horrible. They refuse to let me cancel the order and keep saying it’s coming. In the three weeks this ordeal has gone on I could have ordered from another company. School is over in two weeks so these are of little to no use now and I spent $200 of my own money for my 33 students. More importantly I’m bummed not to have these for the kids. I managed to get a person on the phone yesterday (Marshall) and he was so rude and at times because aggressive and yelled at me. I’ll be filing a fraudulent charge on my credit card today and I recommend not using this company.
Brie,
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have ordered and had great service but it has not been in the last month. I am not affiliated with them but chose to show them as they truly were the cheapest and best quality I could find. I will change the blog post immediately to reflect what you said and let others know who may be reading. I’m sorry you did not have the same experience and hope they get back to you soon and make this right for you and your students.
I would love to customize, add our school logo, and even change the color like the photo above. I purchased the product from TPT. When I choose the sign I can’t figure out the customization options.Can you please be specific on how to do that…Clearly I am not super tech savvy- although I have learned a lot lately!
You should be able to use the image files and overlay or “insert” images on top – like a school logo. Some designs are one way but have blank space on the next so you can see where to customize. The easiest way to do this is probably in Powerpoint.