Personalized Custom Fourth Grade Shirt with Kid’s Photo and Name – Vintage Photo Youth Tee

This personalized custom fourth grade shirt stacks FOURTH GRADE four times in antique gold, sets your kid’s photo in front of the lettering and signs their first name across the bottom in white script.

Fourth grade is the year they start rolling their eyes at the first-day photo, so this kid photo shirt quietly gets the picture anyway.

Upload a first-day photo

Personalize it before the first bell

1. Select youth tee, adult tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie, plus the size.
2. Choose the shirt color.
3. Upload your child’s photo. Waist-up, in focus and in everyday clothes prints best, and swimsuit, bath or leotard pictures aren’t accepted. The girl on the bus steps is our sample, and your kid replaces her.
4. Type the first name exactly as it should appear. Finished example: Avery.

How to get the first-day grin out of a too-cool fourth grader

• Fourth graders start acting too cool for the bus stop picture
• Back-to-school gifts are mostly backpacks and pencil cases that get lost
• First-day photos look the same from one year to the next

Kids this age still want to feel special on the first day, even if they won’t admit it. FOURTH GRADE stacks four times in antique gold like an old varsity poster, with your kid’s grayscale cutout giving a thumbs up in front and the first name signed in white script.

We remove the background and convert the photo to grayscale so the gold reads clean. Spell carefully, because the name prints exactly as typed.

What does the design look like?

In the sample, a girl with a high ponytail and a backpack slung on one shoulder grips the school bus rail and throws a big thumbs up from the step.

Behind her, the four lines of tall gold type fill the shirt like an old varsity poster. Your photo can come from any day. Last year’s first-day picture works, and so does the one you snap in the driveway this August if you order early enough.

Who buys a back to school tee like this?

Most of the time it’s a mom setting up the first-day photo on the front steps, knowing her fourth grader is about to roll their eyes at it. She wants one more year of that grin before middle school shows up.

• Back to school
• Christmas

Start the fourth grade tee

Sizes and fabric

The student version is the Comfort Colors 9018, a heavyweight youth tee in Youth XS to XL.

An eight- or nine-year-old usually wears Youth S or M. Parents who want to match can pick the Comfort Colors 1717 adult tee, garment-dyed, 6.1 oz, 100% ring-spun cotton and relaxed through the body, S to 4XL.

The 1566 crewneck sweatshirt is 80/20 fleece in S to 3XL, and the preshrunk 1567 hoodie has a jersey-lined hood, drawcord and pouch pocket in S to 2XL. Charts for the youth tee and those adult styles are on our size guide.

A grown-up can also choose the Comfort Colors 6014 long sleeve in S to 3XL, and a preschool brother or sister can tag along in the Rabbit Skins 3326 toddler hoodie, 2T to 5/6T.

Production and delivery

We print each custom kid shirt to order, by DTF or DTG depending on the garment. Production is 1 to 3 business days, then USPS delivers in 3 to 5 business days with tracking. Plan around the school calendar with help from our shipping page.

Type their first name

Fourth grade shirt questions

More first-day designs are in school shirts and our custom shirts for kids.