Free Printable Classroom Labels To Organize Your Classroom

Classroom labels are essential for keeping students—and teachers—organized. Label desks, folders, bulletin boards, and more to keep students and materials organized. Labels can also be helpful in keeping classroom procedures and routines moving smoothly. Don’t start the school year without them!

Click the button below to get your free printable labels, and check out our ideas below for how to use the labels in your classroom.

Ideas for using these labels:

Label cubbies and desks

Write each student’s name on a label and affix them to cubbies and desks. Have this ready by back-to-school night so students can find where they will store materials and sit.

Plus, check out this back-to-school clip art.

Label student materials

Keeping students’ materials organized, especially those materials that go to and from school like notebooks and folders, is key. Add student names to labels and spend time on the first day of school gluing or taping labels to each folder and notebook so you always know whose is whose.

Label classroom supplies

Maybe you have bins of math manipulatives or drawers of art supplies to keep organized. Use these labels to organize your classroom so students can help put away materials (read: less time for you to spend organizing and tidying).

Organize completed and incompleted work — We Are Teachers

Organize completed vs. incomplete work

Label your desk clearly with completed work and incomplete work sections to help organize assignments throughout the day. This system streamlines the process of gathering and turning in work at the end of the day, ensuring nothing gets lost or overlooked.

Label your stations

Make sure your students know how you have set up your classroom by clearly labeling spots such as the reading corner, writing corner, and the library.

Make bulletin board plaques

Laminate labels and staple them to a bulletin board. Then, as you switch out student work, use a whiteboard marker to write the student’s name or a note about each piece of student work.

Get even more bulletin board ideas here.