Remember the old days when the first day of school picture consisted of the child standing on the porch smiling? Long gone are simple back to school photo ideas of a child and her backpack. Today, parents are getting quite creative when it comes to first day back to school photos, and some of the ideas are quite fun! If you are wanting to try some unique and fun first day of school photo ideas, take a look below at some cool suggestions! These suggestions are fun ways to add some zest to your back to school photos and come up with something memorable and unusual. Take a peek.
Fun First Day of School Photo Ideas:
1. The Chalkboard Pose (or whiteboard)
Nothing says back to school time like a chalkboard. For this photo idea, have your child hold a chalkboard in their hands or display it next to them. On it, write the child’s name, year, and the answer to a question such as what they want to learn this year or what they are excited about this year. Display the chalkboard in the picture with them as a fun prop.
2. The School Building Pose
For this photo, you will need a little cooperation from the school. For this pose, take a child’s desk and chair (take your own if you have one) and set it outside in front of the school. Take a photo of your child in the desk, in front of the school. It is ideal to show the name of the school in the picture. Try this pose before school starts so you aren’t dealing with a crowd of kids.
3. The Backside Post
Take a photo of your child walking away from the camera, showing their backside and backpack. This is a cute way to literally show them going to school and offers a different perspective.
4. Add text with Picmonkey
Picmonkey.com is a free photo editing service that you can use to add text to your pictures if you wish. Add the child’s name, school name, school year, and other info you wish in fun colors and various fonts. Visit PicMonkey and see what edits you can make to add some fun to your picture.
5. The Sidewalk Chalk Pose
On a portion of the sidewalk, have your child write their name and/or grade on the cement in large and colorful letters. Have them lie next to the sidewalk text and then snap your photo. This pose is so fun and whimsical and lets the child even get a little creative.
As you can see, there are so many fun and creative ways to snap some back to school photos of your child. Give these ideas a go and see what sort of pictures you can come up with! You are sure to come up with something creative, fun, and of course frugal. Say cheese!
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Great ideas. Our schools start back on Monday.
I love all those ideas. I’ve been thinking about this and can’t wait to try some of these ideas out next month when my kids go back. I have a feeling the college student won’t be too terribly interested in posing for mom. hahahaha So what, I’ll take one of those walking away photos of him!
Love these ideas. The first day is next week for us, now if only my kids will let me do one of these cute ideas!
We never did any of these when our daughter was little. I have pictures of her first day of Pre-school and Kindergarten, but that’s it. Hard to believe we’re doing Senior pictures this year, Crazy how fast the years go!
Great ideas! I always take a photo of my kids holding a sign that says the year of school they are entering.
I didn’t really do anything that creative, but those are good ideas.
love love love the chalk on the sidewalk idea. I think we’ll be doing that one this year!
I looovvveeee PicMonkey. I wish it had been around when my kids were little.
My daughter is older so we don’t really do first day of school photos, maybe I’ll try to sneak one without her noticing lol
School started Monday here. I got a shot of him in front of his school and we are taking a shot of him every single school morning (hopefully we can maintain it all year), so that we can do a time lapse video of it at the end of his 5th grade year. 🙂
I love number 5 and I also love Picmonkey.
I love these ideas.
I like the chalkboard idea. I also saw an idea about buying a large shirt and putting “class of _____” on it. Then the kid gets a picture in the shirt on the first day of school each year. You see how they grow!
That is a really cute idea!
These are great photo idea. I will definitely have to try some of these. Thanks so much for sharing! You know I’m a instagram a holic!
These are adorable ideas! I can’t believe the official countdown is on.
We need to do something different this year. I like the sidewalk chalk idea.
Will definitely have to try something new and go for one of these ideas this year!
Great ideas! And, I especially love the idea of using picmonkey for adding in the school name and year, brilliant!
Great ideas — I have been making lists of the pics I want to take next Monday!
Those are some really cute ideas! I love both of the chalk ones, I was already going to do the chalkboard one but the sidewalk chalk one is so cute too!
These are great ideas. I wonder if my 12 year old will pose for me?
All these ideas are great, but I know the 1st one would be a problem at most schools around here. I want to do the sidewalk chalk one 🙂
The first one would be taken at home. They hold the chalkboard or whiteboard in their hand and you would take the photo of them.
Oops, I meant the second one. The desk in front of the school. It’s an adorable idea, but admittance to most schools is very restricted these days, at least in my area.
will likely do what we did last year – big sign with date – school age – and what he wants to be when he grows up. We love the from behind pictures too!
I wish I had been doing it with their grades but I never have, it’s just always been of them 🙂
I really like the chalk idea. I have not tried that one before and may just use it this year.
I totally want to be the cool mom who does this stuff, love these ideas!
great ideas and the kids started last week but its never late to get those in.
These are all so cute! Can’t wait to share. My baby is only 5 months old… so we’ve got some time.