Personalized Custom Kindergarten Shirt for Kids with Photo, Name and Class Year – Vintage Photo Youth Tee

This personalized custom kindergarten shirt for kids marks the first day with three things: his photo, his first name and the year he’ll finish high school.

KINDERGARTEN stacks four times in antique gold, his name runs across in white script, and CLASS OF plus the year sits small at the bottom. Thirteen years from now, that number is going to hit hard.

Upload his first-day photo

Which class year do I type?

Count thirteen school years forward. A child starting kindergarten in fall 2026 is usually class of 2039, and fall 2027 starters are usually class of 2040. Our sample reads 2039.

Ask the school if you’re unsure, because we print whatever you enter. Prefer no year? Type the name only.

How to order

1. Choose youth tee, toddler hoodie or an adult style, then the size.
2. Pick the shirt color.
3. Upload his photo. The thumbs-up boy on the listing is a sample and is replaced by your child.
4. Type the first name, a comma and the class year. Finished example: Leo, 2040.

Why the class year on a kindergarten shirt hits so hard

• The first day of kindergarten goes by in a blur of tears and waves
• First-day photos get buried under thousands of other pictures on the phone
• Nothing he wears that day says what year he’ll graduate

Parents dropping off a kindergartener are already thinking about the day he graduates. KINDERGARTEN stacks four times in antique gold behind his black and white cutout, with his first name in white script and a small CLASS OF line carrying his graduation year.

The look

A little boy in a henley wears a backpack that’s bigger than he is, holds a camo lunchbox and gives the camera a gap-toothed thumbs up. Send the same kind of picture: backpack on, lunch in hand, front porch.

Tomorrow morning’s first day of school photo works too if you upload it right away. We cut it out and print it in black and white in front of the gold stack.

Who’s buying

It’s a parent with tissues in one hand and a phone in the other, standing on the porch with a five-year-old whose backpack is bigger than he is. They want the first day of kindergarten saved somewhere better than a camera roll.

• Back to school
• Christmas

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Sizing the kindergarten shirt for kids who just turned five

Most kindergarteners wear the Comfort Colors 9018 heavyweight youth tee in Youth XS; bigger kids take S. The full youth run is XS to XL.

Adults can match in the Comfort Colors 1717, a 6.1 oz garment-dyed tee in 100% ring-spun cotton, relaxed and unisex, S to 4XL.

Fleece is the other route for grown-ups: the 1566 crewneck in 80/20 ring-spun cotton and polyester (S to 3XL) or the preshrunk 1567 hoodie with lined hood and pouch pocket (S to 2XL).

Mom or Dad can also pick the Comfort Colors 6014 long sleeve in S to 3XL. See the size guide for measurements. The preschool sibling waiting at home can wear the Rabbit Skins 3326 toddler hoodie, 2T to 5/6T.

Production and shipping

Each kids name shirt is printed to order, DTF or DTG depending on the garment, in 1 to 3 business days. USPS then delivers in 3 to 5 business days, tracked. Check our shipping page before the first day of school.

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