Printable Classroom Labels for Preschool

Classroom Labels for Preschool

Do you label the items on the shelves in your classroom centers? Labeling the tools and materials in your learning centers is an important part of a high-quality early childhood program.

When you place a label on each end of each tub and on the shelf you’re setting both your students and yourself up for success.

But creating labels for your classroom can be a lot of extra work, which is why I created this editable set of classroom labels for you.

Math Center Labels

Classroom Labels

Labels with pictures help create a meaningful, print-rich learning environment for your little learners. When you take the time to label your classroom your students will begin to make the connection between the written and spoken word more quickly.

Printable Classroom Labels for Shelf and Tub

Printable Classroom Labels

There are other benefits of labeling everything in your classroom centers. When materials placed on the shelves are clearly labeled they are easily accessible to your students, which allows them to be more productive and increases student engagement.

Clearly labeled shelves and tubs will also help reduce your students’ frustration levels and save them time searching for materials.

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Center Tub Labels

Placing a label on things provides young children with a visual that helps them learn where each item belongs. If you label everything in your preschool classroom, it will make clean-up time go so much more smoothly!

Center Labels for Preschool
So where do you get these magical labels? Good news, I made them for you!

Download Center Labels
This printable set includes more than 140 different labels you can print out and use in your classroom right away.

Center Essentials Cover 400

The text is also editable so you can type the words in your own language or edit them to meet your needs.

Adhesive Label Pockets for Center Tubs
To attach the labels to the bins in your centers, I love using the sticky back label pockets from Target.

These pockets make it super easy to change out the pictures on the tubs in your classroom centers. Just slide the pictures out of the pocket and replace them with another whenever you want to change them up – easy peasy!

Printable Center Labels
Now you have a neatly labeled classroom that you can change up quickly and easily whenever necessary!

Classroom Labels for Preschool

The Teaching Trailblazers

Having everything in your classroom labeled is awesome! But let’s face it, labels can’t make you a better teacher. The best place to discuss teaching best practices and get the support you need is in the Teaching Trailblazers Program. We have many printable lessons and on-demand video trainings to help you become the best teacher you can be! Get info on the program and apply today!

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15 thoughts on “Printable Classroom Labels for Preschool”

  1. I love the badge holder idea, Vanessa! That is a great way to be able to reuse them.

    We have used contact paper for years – but you are right, it doesn’t stick as well anymore. For larger center signs – or other pictures we want to hang around the classroom – we use clear 8 1/2 x 11 page protector sleeves. Similar to the badges – you can change out what’s in them pretty easily. We also had some teachers use the page protectors for displaying children’s artwork – which reminds me that I have to post those pictures! 🙂

  2. I spray and wipe the centers down with bleach solution. Do the badge protectors keep the labels dry or can liquid seep in?

  3. OOOH! Vanessa, I must admit that I hate it when I find out that you are smarter than I am, LOL!!! The badge holder idea is pure genius!!!! All I have ever done is print out a label and tape it on with clear packing tape, ha ha! Yours are great. Do you have trouble with the kids taking them out of the badge holders, though? That used to happen a lot when I used them as cubby name tags. They came out so often that I finally gave up and just taped their names down, but that was because they would slide out when they pushed the backpacks past the badge holders, of course.
    😉
    Heidi Butkus

    1. 🙂 I haven’t had any problems with the labels slipping out of the badge holders on the end of the tubs or kids taking them out. I think the pictures stay in the holders because most of my tubs have a large lip that protects the badge holder if that makes sense. Kids grab the tubs by the lip and don’t have to touch any other part of the tub. I used the badge labels in my classroom library too and it was great for changing out thematic/seasonal books. You can laminate the pictures prior to use just in case they do slip out.

  4. I use the badge holders but I use velcro so if thet get ripper you can justbput a new one in the same spot.

  5. Hi I just found your website and I’ve already been on here over an hour:) I was wondering how you create your labels with the picture and the word, I work in a district that require we label with pictures and words black font in English and red font in Spanish so I have a lot of classroom specific work to do that does not allow me to purchase pre-made labels. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

    1. Hi Chanel, I just use Word to create my labels. I take the pictures on my phone, e-mail them to myself at school, insert them in a blank Word document and add text under each photo. Then I print and laminate them. Hope that helps!

      1. Hi Vanessa Levin:
        Do you create a table when inserting the labels. Your labels look really nice by the way:). I live in Newark, NJ I can’t wait to attend your workshop:)

  6. I am so enjoying all of your Centers posts, which led me here to the labeling post! Genius! I am in the process of re-organizing a pre-k classroom I inherited from a dear friend who also happens to be a bit of a pack rat! Seeing how your centers are set up is so inspirational and helpful! Thanks for all the great ideas you share.

    1. Also, thanks for telling me about the E6000 glue. I’ve been experimenting with different ways of attaching plastic sleeves to hold the pieces for my file folder games. Sounds like this is the solution I’ve been looking for!

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