Omnivorous Surfer

My daughter-in-law, who is doing her student teaching, just called. She's finishing up with her third-grade class and wanted to print a "candy award" certificate for each of the students in the class. In searching for some options for her, I found three FREE means of printing certificates.

First, because of its flexibility, is the Microsoft Office website. At the present, the site includes 299 templates for award certificates; most seem to be for PowerPoint, while some are for Word and a few for Publisher. Once downloaded, you can make any changes you wish to text, fonts, colors, and images. As templates, these would be available for your use at any time, and created awards could be saved to your computer.

The next is DLTK's Printables Custom Awards and Certificates. You can choose to create your certificate in either portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal) orientation. Then it's as simple as choosing or creating/uploading text and images for the template. The certificates seem to be more appropriate for elementary-age recipients. The site is very easy to use.

The final site, Certificate Creator, has a wider variety of certificate styles appropriate for any age or use, although I am not sure all are availabe without a membership. You can create certificates without registering (memberships begin at $12), but you will be unable to use the sites clip art library; change colors, fonts, and sizes, or open saved certificates. Be certain, as always, to read the Terms of Use.

If you'd like to look at other certificate creation sites, this Tooter4Kids page has a list of links.

Do you have any good ones to add?