Award Certificate Maker

How to Use the Award Certificate Maker

This maker builds printable award certificates for your students on a landscape page. Pick one of 14 awards, such as Star Reader, Kindness Award or End of Year Award, or choose Custom and type your own title. Add a short "for" line from the ideas or in your own words. Make one certificate, or one for every name on your class list or on a separate custom list, with a date, a teacher signature line and an optional principal line. Choose from six designs drawn with simple shapes, seven color themes and US Letter or A4. Long names shrink to fit, and the preview shows exactly what prints.

Make award certificates in 3 steps

1. 1

   Choose the award. Pick an award such as Math Whiz or Most Improved, or choose Custom and type a title. Click one of the Ideas for this award to fill in the "for" line, type your own, or leave it blank for no line.

2. 2

   Add names and details. Under Who gets a certificate, pick One student, Class list or Custom list. Add a school or class name, choose Today, Pick a date or Blank line for the date, and type the teacher name. Turn on Principal signature line if you need a second signature.

3. 3

   Print or celebrate. Pick a design, colors, lettering and paper size, then press Download PDF for one certificate per page. Press Classroom Presentation Mode to show a certificate on the board, use Previous and Next to move between students, and press Celebrate for confetti.

Ways to use the Award Certificate Maker in class

• Celebrate on the big screen

  Open Classroom Presentation Mode during a class meeting to show each certificate full screen. Press Next or the right arrow key to move to the next student. With Confetti and Sound on, each certificate opens with confetti and a short fanfare, and Celebrate plays it again.

• End-of-year awards for the whole class

  Pick End of Year Award, choose Class list and download one PDF with a page for every student. The "for" line is the same on every page of one PDF, so for different lines make a separate PDF with a Custom list of just those students.

• Blank certificates to fill in later

  Choose One student, leave Student name empty and pick Blank line for the date. The PDF prints an empty name line and an empty date line, so you can keep a few ready to fill in by hand.

• Printing without color

  Choose the Black & White colors for a school printer without color ink. The Classic design is mostly thin lines, so it also uses little ink in any color.

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