Field Day T-shirt Design

We sell Field Day t-shirts for the students and the adults.  It is really cool to see the kids wearing the same shirt and enjoying the fun day!  The entire school has the same design but each grade level wears a different color. 

How do we choose a design?  Well, I'm not an artist...and can you imagine if the whole school turned in designs???!!!  We make it a privilege for the fifth graders.  They are given a week to turn in a design that they create.  We do allow them to work with no more than one other person.  Once they are all turned in a committee (whoever is in the front office :-) narrows it down to 2 to 4 designs.  The next step is a school-wide vote!  Here is the power point that I use.

Once the votes are all turned in, the design with the most number of votes is the final design.  It is amazing how close it can be!

We charge $6 for our shirts.  Our goal is not to make money off of them, but the little bit extra that we make goes toward shirts for students that can't afford it.  Here is the handout we use for our t-shirt sales.  We also ask parents if they would like to donate a shirt to someone that can't afford it.

A couple of thoughts....

• Do not send the student shirts home before field day, have them put it on when they arrive that morning.  Yes, this was learned by trial and error :-)  Many of them didn't make it back for field day!
• Send the parent/volunteer shirts home the day before field day!
• The 5th grader(s) that designed the WINNING design receives a FREE field day t-shirt and their name on the design!!!