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Document those important milestones, like the first day of school, with these free printable First Day of School Chalkboard signs! The printables are available for every grade, Preschool and Pre-K through High School. Download just the year’s sign or download the whole set of First Day of School signs all at once. 

Be sure to check out the latest 1st Day of School signs HERE. This 2016 update includes TK (Transitional Kindergarten!). Looking for LAST DAY OF SCHOOL Chalkboard signs? Find them HERE. If you are having trouble, please read the tips in the FAQ section.

A child holding a first day of school sign for kindergarten.

First Day of School Printable Chalkboard Signs

Here it is, the moment you’ve been waiting for! You loved the last day of school chalkboard printables so much that I had to be sure and give you the first day of school chalkboards, too!

The first day of Kindergarten is a momentous occasion, so I created these adorable printable chalkboard signs when my son started kindergarten. We have used them every year since and they have become quite popular here on the website.

HOW TO USE MY FREE PRINTABLE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL SIGNS:

  1. Choose the page you’d like to print. Each grade is on a different page so you do now have to print them all.
  2. Print them out on 8 ½ x 11-inch cardstock.
  3. If desired, trim to fit an 8×10-inch frame and have your kids hold them in the same frame each year. Or have fun with different frames.

Tools needed for this project:

You may need one or more of these tools to help in printing and creating the projects described above:

  • Color printer – This device offers beautiful color printer on a variety of paper sizes, mobile printing (from your mobile device), scanning and copying and much more!
  • Cardstock – A heavier paper is my first choice when printing anything for display, gift tags and cards or tags.
  • Sharp scissors – needed for cutting cardstock, especially when cutting into shapes for cards and tags.
  • Paper Trimmer – Helpful when trimming to size, especially from 8 ½ x 11-inch paper.

first Day of School signs Free Printables for every grade

HOW TO DOWNLOAD

To download the printables, click on the link below. You will be taken to a page where you can choose which grade to print, pr dpwnload the entire set at once.

IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE PRINTING, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE FILE OF YOUR CHOICE, THEN PRINT FROM YOUR COMPUTER.

If you are having trouble printing:

  1. Download the file of your choice, then print from your computer.
  2. Open an incognito window on your internet browser and then open the first day of school signs.

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FAQs:

  • How do I print these? You can definitely print these on your home printer, and it doesn’t have to be super high quality. THIS is the one I use. You can also print at Staples, Office Depot or Kinkos, but I do not recommend printing on photo paper since there is a lot of black ink that could smudge and ruin the copy. I use regular CARDSTOCK or even plain printer paper (just make sure to let it dry).
  • How do I get the chalkboard background? The chalkboard background is actually a graphic design style and is printed directly on the paper. No chalkboard required!
  • Do you have TK? No, I’m sorry, I do not have TK for this design. However I do have TK with THIS set. Unfortunately I am not able to make special orders of these signs.
  • I can download some of the pages, but not *this* one. Please make sure that your Adobe software is up to date. Try closing out the page and letting it reload, then select the page you wish to download. Each page has been tested numerous times and with numerous browsers and is working.
  • I can’t print at all, help! If you are having difficulty bring up the pdf for print or download, try opening an incognito window on your browser and then go the the url and try printing again. Occasionally your browser thinks we are spamming you with downloads but I assure you we are not! If incognito doesn’t work, try a different browser, or a different device.
  • Can you just email me the file? I get a lot of requests for this, but unfortunately I am not email to email the files. They are large files and some providers block them. Please try the tips I mentioned above.
  • As with each of my free printables, these are free gifts for my readers. Please do not copy, sell or redistribute in any way without permission.

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  1. I’m wondering if you offer a free download of a chalkboard background with a sign that just says “first day of school” without a grade number?

  2. Hi Kristin!

    Your first and last day printable chalkboard signs have honestly become so special to me as I mark these milestones, which are going by in a blink with my 4 kiddos. I started using the “All About Me” documents a couple years ago, but can’t seem to find the first day of school ones anymore. Do you still have those available?
    Thank you so much for sharing your creative ideas, and hard work to give moms like me special tools to mark the growing up of their babies, which as I’m sure you know all too well…..goes by oh so quickly!

    Much appreciation!

  3. Hi, what is the biggest size that this can be printed? I was hoping it would print out to an 11×14 maybe???

    1. Hi Wendy! Yes, I have printed them at 11×14 and they came out fine. Actually the ones you see in the photo are that size.

  4. I was able to download the pdf. However, I wanted to print at Costco and they don’t take .pdfs. Anyway to get it in .jpg or .bmp?

    1. Sorry I just have them in pdfs. You’d probably be better off printing on cardstock at Kinkos or Staples (it’s cheaper, too!).

  5. Love these signs! I was unable to download all but the Kindergarten one, it said it’s blocked. Are you able to check the link or email it? Thanks!

      1. Above I meant I was able to download all but the kindergarten one, I tried the kindergarten one again and tried it on another computer but it still isn’t working. Can you email it? Thanks for the prompt response 🙂

  6. Truly love your signs. We used them last year but was wondering if you had any with the year on them?

    Thanks,
    Angelica

  7. I used the first/last day of school kindergarten chalkboard sign last year and loved it! I’m sad to see that there is no first day of school chalkboard sign for the 1st grade in the download list!! 🙁

    1. Hi Ashley, Yes it’s there. It’s the 4th up from the bottom. They aren’t in numerical order (not sure why but that was just the way they uploaded). Hope that helps!

      1. Hello. I love your chalkboard signs! I was able to download and print the 2nd grade one but my computer is saying it cannot download the kindergarten one. Is there any way you could send it to me? I would love to have it for my youngest.

        1. Hi Jessica, Please keep trying! Sometimes it takes a few times for the downloads to work given the size of the files. Sorry you’re having trouble!

          1. Hello. I have been able to print several others but not the kindergarten one either. Tomorrow is the first day of school. Help! I have printed from here before in previous years but I am having trouble this year.

          2. Hi, I’m sorry you’re having trouble. We have tested and re-tested the Kindergarten page and have not have trouble. Please try closing out your browser and clear your cache and then try again. Thanks!

  8. I love your signs and have been using them for my own kids and in my classroom for the past few years. Would you be able to make a First Day and Last Day of TK (Transitional Kindergarten) sign? Thanks so much!!

  9. I love your printables! They are so cute! My only problem is the Pre-K printable doesn’t print out correctly. Is anyone else having this problem? Is there anyway to correct this?

  10. Wondering if you have a First day of Montessori that’s set up like your other first-day printables.

    Thank you,
    Heather

  11. I’m new to this and don’t understand how the printable is used to get to the chalkboard? Any advice or help would be appreciated. TIA 🙂

  12. Hello! Any chance you have a First Day of TK chalkboard printables? I can’t find any on Pinterest and don’t have the software to make my own. Thanks!!

  13. I’m the director of a preschool. May I copy your Back to School image to put with our Back to School event, if I include your url?
    Thank you–so cute!

  14. I printed these for this school year but wondering if you ever made a free printable for the “Last day of school signs”? Please let me know as I would love to get it if you did. Thanks Kimmie

  15. I pinned this page to print up the first and last days of school chalk board signs but now I am unable to find the link for the first day of school signs. The posted links are to advertisements. Can you help?

  16. I’d like to save these to my flash drive and print at Staples, etc in order to save my printer but the download keeps ‘failing’. Any ideas?