Free homeschool ID card maker
Fill in your homeschool once, add everyone who needs a card, and print. Cards come out at credit card size, four to a sheet of US Letter as fold overs. Nothing to install, no account, and the card is honest about what it is. The administrator card is the one most families do not realise they can make, and it is usually the more useful of the two.
Preview
Add a name and the card appears here.
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4 fold over cards fit on a sheet of US Letter. Eight fit if you print single sided and skip the fold.
- Cut along the outer lines, then fold once on the centre line.
- Glue a photo into the empty window. A glue stick and a school photo are enough.
- Ordinary paper is fine. Folded, the card is two sheets thick.
You have seen the card above. We ask where to send the sheet after this.
What a homeschool ID is, honestly
It is a convenience document that your homeschool issues about itself. No state agency stands behind it, it grants nothing by right, and anywhere that accepts it is doing so at their own discretion. That is worth saying plainly, because a card that pretends to more authority than it has is the kind that gets refused at a counter and embarrasses the person holding it.
What it does do is answer a routine question quickly. Museums, zoos, theaters and supply shops that offer student or educator pricing usually need to see something, and a printed card with a school name and a photo settles it without a conversation.
Why the administrator card matters more
Student pricing is common and often available on age alone. Educator pricing is the one with real money in it: teacher discounts at bookshops and craft and office supply chains, educator rates at museums, and classroom pricing on curriculum. In a homeschool the teacher is you, and a card that says so is frequently all that is asked for. The builder starts you with one for exactly that reason.
What this produces
A US Letter PDF with four cards to a sheet, each one 3.375 by 2.125 inches, which is the same size as a driving licence or a credit card. Each card prints as a fold over: the reverse sits above the front, rotated, sharing a fold line. One cut round the outside and one fold gives a card two sheets thick with a closed top edge, which is what makes ordinary paper survive a school bag. Print single sided and skip the fold and you get eight to a sheet instead.
The front carries your homeschool name, the person’s name, their grade or title, the school year if you gave one, a role badge, and an empty window to glue a photograph into. The back carries one emergency contact for the whole family, an if-found line, and the sentence about what the card is not.
Why there is no photo upload
Because it would mean accepting photographs of other people’s children on a page that asks for nothing else, and then storing or handling them. Everything else here is rendered in memory and kept nowhere, and a photograph is the one thing where that promise would be hard to keep and much worse to break. A glue stick and a school photo does the same job, offline.
What we do with your email
We send you the cards and occasional homeschool advice, and you can unsubscribe from any email in one click. The names you type are used to render your PDF and are not stored on our servers. See our privacy policy for the full detail.
A card says who your student is. The harder question, the one that arrives at the end of the year, is what they actually did. Bowerstead keeps subjects, attendance, hours and work as the year happens, so the record is already written when somebody asks for it. Free for 30 days, then $9 a month or $79 a year.