Because every classroom deserves a tradition that’s fun, easy, and full of heart.
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Classroom Tees turns your students’ drawings into custom T-shirts your whole class will love.
We’re a woman-owned, teacher-founded business that’s been helping classrooms celebrate creativity since 1992. Every shirt is designed from scratch using your students’ actual artwork and everything is customizable. From shirt colors to design themes, you get full creative control (without the stress).
We partner directly with teachers to make the process simple, fun, and unforgettable—for you and your students.
Group or Whole School Orders? We’re In.
Whether it’s one class, a whole grade level, or your entire school, we’re here to help
you create a shirt tradition everyone will love.
✅ Each class gets their own custom design
✅ Easy process for group leaders or coordinators
✅ Combined shipping + bulk support
✅ Special perks for whole-school orders (ask us!)
We’ve helped teams of teachers pull this off smoothly—and we’ll do the same for you.
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Two Ways to Bring the Magic to Your Classroom
Option 1: On-Site Printing
(Within one-hour of Tulsa Metro only)
We bring the screen-printing to you. Your students get to print their own shirts right at school—it’s hands-on, memorable, and SO much fun.
✅ Perfect for schools within 1 hour of Tulsa, OK
✅ 60-shirt minimum required
✅ We handle setup, supplies, and support
Option 2: Print & Ship
(Available Nationwide)
You send the student drawings—we handle the rest. Your custom shirts arrive ready to wear and celebrate.
✅ Simple process
✅ Fast turnaround
✅ We’ve shipped to 37 states and counting!
Not sure which is right for you? Email us and we’ll walk you through it!
Connect + Let’s Get Rolling
Ready to get started? Send us an email with your preferred timeline and class info we’ll take it from there.
We ask for a minimum of 15 shirts per class, which includes a free teacher shirt (because you deserve it).
Once we receive your class order form, student drawings, and payment, our turnaround time is just 2 weeks.
We’ll email you all the forms you need to make this quick and easy. Flyers for parents, templates for drawings, and a step-by-step guide so you’re never guessing.
✉️ To get started, just email us at Classroomtees@yahoo.com
You can also [click here] to use our quick-start contact form!
Communicate with Families
Once you’ve picked your print or ship date, we’ll send you a ready-to-go order form to send home with families. It’ll help them choose the correct shirt size and place their order easily.
Be sure to set a clear deadline for collecting money and forms, we recommend giving families a week and a half or so. Because each shirt is made to order, this is a one-time opportunity to purchase. We aren’t able to accept late orders once printing begins, so we appreciate your help in sticking to the timeline!
💡 Need help communicating with parents? We’ve got email templates, reminders, and helpful tips to make it smooth and stress-free.
Student drawings
We'll email you our drawing template to use with your class.
Here’s what works best:
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Have students draw in pencil first
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Then trace over the drawing with a fine-tip black Sharpie
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(You may need to help younger students with the tracing step—totally normal!)
Clear, simple, dark line drawings work best for printing, so the bolder the better! When you’re done, scan the drawings in black and white (PDF or JPEG is fine) and email them back along with your order form. Don’t worry, we clean up the drawings,resize them to look uniform and make them print-ready. You don’t need perfect little artists, just excited ones.
👉 For examples and more tips, check out our For Best Results page!
Design Approval
Before we print, we’ll send you a digital proof of your class shirt design for final approval. To avoid delays, please make sure your Shirt Order Form and Simple Design Form are filled out completely. Especially shirt sizes, colors, and your chosen design theme.
We request your email address and cell phone number for approval purposes only. I promise we won't spam you. We tend to print the same day you approve so that we can get the shirts out swiftly.
You’ll receive your proof from: classroomteesproofs@yahoo.com
Once you give us the green light, we’ll get to printing!
Print Day (Local Only)
If you're within an hour of Tulsa, we’ll bring our portable screen printing press to your school, and your students will get to print their own shirts!
It’s hands-on, exciting, and a total highlight of the school year. Kids get to experience art in a whole new way, and we even teach a little about the screen printing process while we’re at it.
What we need from you:
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Access to 2 tables
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A couple standard power outlets
That’s it, we bring everything else.
We love print days (really, we do), and we love being a part of such a fun class tradition with you & your students.
⚠️ Important Note:
Please note: we cannot use white ink for on-campus printing. It doesn’t work well with the on-site process, and we want your shirts to look their absolute best.
Student Drawing Examples
Below are some of our favorite student drawing samples and a quick guide to what makes them great for printing! Don’t stress about perfection, these are kids after all! But the cleaner the drawing, the better it shows up on the shirt (and the easier it is for us to make it awesome).
What we love:
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Drawings stay inside the square—no lines touching the edges
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Names are written clearly and neatly (not overlapping the lines OR drawings themselves)
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Drawings are made with black Sharpie only (no pencil, no color)
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Each square has just one drawing, no extras or doodles or scenes
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Clean, bold lines = perfect for screen printing
💡 Pro Tip: Have students draw in pencil first, then trace over it with Sharpie for best results. Younger kiddos may need help with tracing and that’s totally okay.
Common Drawing Mistakes
Below are examples of drawings that are tough for us to work with—and a few tips to help your students avoid these common hiccups.
⚠️ What makes these tricky:
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Too much color: We print with only one ink color, so colored drawings all appear as a single flat color. What looks beautiful in crayon can end up muddy on a shirt.
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Extra scenes or background items: These make it hard to separate the main drawing from the rest, and we’ll have to remove anything that overlaps to avoid a cluttered final design.
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Crowded names: If a student squeezes their name too close to their drawing or the edge, it may be hard to read—or get cut off completely.
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No name at all: Even if you know who drew it, we might not, so a missing name = a mystery artist.
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Too much detail/pencil marks: Light pencil lines or super-detailed scenes can get lost in the printing process. Keep it bold and simple!
We’re not looking for perfect art just clear, confident little creators who leave space, sign their name, and keep it simple.Thank you for helping us make every shirt something your students will be proud to wear!
Meet the Team
We’re Brit + Jen, the mother–daughter duo behind Classroom Tees.
Brit is a former teacher, Jen has been in the screen-printing biz since 2001 and we are both lifelong art lovers, and proud Oklahoma gals who care deeply about creativity, education, and making classrooms more connected.
In 2021, we bought this business from its original teacher-founder because we believe in the power of student art and how magical it is when kids see their drawings turned into something they can wear.
Brit is the communications, socail media strategist and artist behind the screen. Jen finalizes your designs, ensuring you approve them before she prints each shirt with love. Together, we’ve grown Classroom Tees into a nationwide tradition with love, ink, and a lot of teacher empathy.
