How to Create School Spirit Merchandise Online
Schools and extracurricular program teams and groups use school spirit merchandise---sports shirts and caps, yard signs, car magnets, noisemakers and other items---to promote school spirit and raise awareness about school programs/activities. The merchandise is also used to raise monies at pep rallies, fundraisers and other events for school equipment, team equipment and/or uniforms, cheerleading squad items, event decorations, band or choral equipment and/or uniforms and even trips. Given the various ways that this merchandise serves a school, its students and the community, creating appealing merchandise at a low cost is important. One convenient and often inexpensive method of creating/ordering school spirit merchandise is online.
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Gather the design elements that you need to create your specific school spirit merchandise online: graphics, artwork, photos and/or text. If you don't already have these items uploaded to a computer, pull from a media storage device or scan onto the computer.
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Visit custom school spirit, general school merchandise or custom product websites like The Spirit Zone or The Spirit Line (see Resources) or Zazzle.com.
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Select a merchandise item and design it or select a design application (typically designated with a DIY design link button) and then select merchandise from within the application. For example, you might select baseball shirts.
Place your school's mascot or other graphic, artwork or photo onto the selected product following the website's instructions for inserting this information. Add text, like the school motto or name, or add student and/or teacher names from sports teams, cheerleading squads, band group or others depending on the type of merchandise and school event.
Enter names for individual pieces of a product or as a team or group. For example, you might need baseball shirts with the last names of each team member displayed on individual shirts.
Format the merchandise's design elements. In the baseball shirt example, you might need shirts in the school's colors. Change merchandise or text colors, font styles and any other design/merchandise formatting options provided by the merchant website you choose.
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Name your merchandise design and save it for future access and/or to share with others. Repeat the steps for additional school spirit products.
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Share the design(s) with others. Print out pictures of the items or copy/paste the images into emails. If using a DIY design application that offers email proof sharing through the app, enter a list of email addresses for anyone who wishes to see and/or provide feedback about the merchandise: teachers, school administration, school board members, students or even parents.
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Re-format the designs if needed and order your school spirit merchandise with a credit card.
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