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A first-day-of-school sign you can print tonight

The sign is not for this morning. It is for the version of you looking at it in fifteen years.

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Fill-in first-day sign

A printable sign with blanks for grade, age, favourites and what they want to be — filled in by the child, in their own handwriting.

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Fill it in by hand, in their handwriting

A beautifully typeset sign records the grade. A sign where the child wrote their own age and their own favourite thing records the child. In ten years the handwriting is the part you will look at.

Ask something that will change

Favourite colour, what I want to be, my best friend, the food I hate. These are the fields that make a stack of five years' signs extraordinary. Height and grade are just data.

Take the photo before you leave, not at the gate

At the gate everyone is anxious and late. Two minutes at home, in the hall, with the sign and the bag, gets a photo of a calm child. It also means it actually happens.

Questions people ask

What if my child cannot write yet?

They dictate, you write, and they sign it however they can. The wobbly signature is the good part.

Do it on the last day too?

Yes — the same questions on the same sign in June is the best version of this, because the answers have moved.

Part of our guide to Gifts kids can give.