Youth group graphics that do not look like a kids' flyer.

Youth group graphics for your church: a youth night flyer, Instagram posts and Stories, and a fall kickoff plan, with a real template and sample designs.

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Four youth group designs: a yellow Glow Night Story, a black, purple and lime FALL KICKOFF post, a lime Bring a friend post and a purple Real Talk series post.

What makes a good youth group graphic?

A good youth graphic is bold and simple, says the day, the time and the grades in plain words, and asks a student to bring a friend. It should look made for teenagers, not for children.

  • Put the night, the time, the place and the grades on every graphic, and mention food if there is any.
  • Use big type, two or three strong colors and no clip art. Students share what looks good, so give them something worth sharing.
  • Sizes in Design: Square 1080 × 1080, Portrait 1080 × 1350 and Story 1080 × 1920 for Instagram, and Letter 8.5 × 11 in for a flyer.
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Printing a youth night flyer?

Pick a paper size to see the trim, the bleed, the safe area and the pixels to export for print.

Flyer print size calculator

Pick a paper size to see its bleed, safe area and the pixels to export for print.

Print resolution

Trim size

8.5 × 11 in

Size with bleed

8.75 × 11.25 in

Pixels to export at 300 DPI (with bleed)

2625 × 3375 px

Safe-area inset

0.25 in

Aspect ratio

1 : 1.29

Trim in millimetres: 215.9 × 279.4 mm. Without bleed: 2550 × 3300 px. With bleed: 2625 × 3375 px.

In Design, export the PNG at the default Maximum quality preset (2x), or export a JPG and set its scale to 2x. Design stores print pages at 150 units per inch, so 2x is 300 DPI.

Sample flyer for a fictional church

  • Bleed: art runs out here, then gets cut off
  • Trim line: where it is cut
  • Safe area: keep text inside, 0.25 in from trim

A guide, not a printer spec. Bleed of 0.125 in and a 0.25 in safe area are the values Design uses. Printers such as 4over4 ask for text at least 0.125 in inside the trim, and some ask for 3 mm of bleed. Check your printer's own template before you order. Pixels are size in inches times DPI, rounded.

Computes the trim size, the size with 0.125 in bleed, the pixel dimensions at 150 or 300 DPI, the 0.25 in safe-area inset and the aspect ratio for the print sizes Design offers or a custom size. The default is US Letter at 300 DPI with bleed: 8.5 × 11 in trim, 8.75 × 11.25 in with bleed, and 2625 × 3375 px. The preview is captioned as a sample flyer for a fictional church, with placeholder church name and address. In Design, a PNG at the default 2x scale, or a JPG set to 2x, is 300 DPI.

The sizes youth ministry uses.

Choose a size to see a youth design at that shape, drawn to scale.

A square lime green post with the words Bring a friend, free food, no pressure, Student Loft.

Feed post: Square

1080 × 1080

The size for Bring a friend and series posts. Square works in any feed, and Design can copy a finished post into Portrait or Story.

Four youth sizes drawn to scale: a Square post, a Portrait post, a Story and a Letter flyer.

A fall kickoff plan for youth ministry.

Five posts to make and post yourself, counted back from an example kickoff on Friday 10 September 2027. Swap in your own date.

  1. Friday 30 July

    Save the date

    Six weeks out, one bold post with the date, the grades and the place. Parents plan the fall early, so tell them too.

  2. Friday 20 August

    The invite students share

    A Bring a friend post and a Story students can reshare. Ask a few students to post it from their own accounts.

  3. Monday 6 September

    The countdown

    A Story with the day and time and one line about what happens: food, games and a short talk. Add the parent details and permission slip link.

  4. Friday 10 September

    Kickoff night

    A This Friday post in the morning. During the night, post a group shot only of students whose parents agreed.

  5. Saturday 11 September

    What is next

    Thank students and leaders, then announce the new series and the next Friday. Visitors return when they know what is next.

Youth designs you can start from.

Sample designs for a fictional church. The first is a real template from the Design catalog with its sample date changed to September 2027, and the others are drawn for this page. Change the words and colors to your own.

  • A tall yellow Glow Night Story with the date, time, place and grades, and a Bring a friend button.

    Design template: Glow Night Story

  • A black Portrait post reading FALL KICKOFF with purple and pink circles.

    Sample: fall kickoff

  • A lime green Square post reading Bring a friend.

    Sample: bring a friend

  • A purple Square post reading Real Talk, a new series, week 1.

    Sample: series launch

  • A hot pink Story reading This Friday 7 PM, Fall kickoff, with a Send this to a friend button.

    Sample: This Friday Story

Make it feel made for teenagers.

Six checks before a youth graphic goes out, each with the question to ask.

  • Bold and simple

    Can you read it from across a hallway?

    One big word, two or three colors and plenty of space. Skip cartoon clip art, which reads as a children's event.

  • The real details

    Does it say the night, time, place and grades?

    Students and parents both look for these first. A flyer without a time sends them to ask.

  • A reason to come

    Does it mention food, games or a friend?

    Free food and a friend are the reasons teenagers say yes. Say it in plain words.

  • Students' own voice

    Would a student say it like this?

    Ask two or three students to read the words, and let them reshare the invite from their own accounts.

  • Photos of minors

    Do we have a parent's permission?

    Post identifiable students only with a parent's or guardian's permission. Group shots and photos from behind are safer than close-ups, and a name needs no photo.

  • One next step

    What should a visitor do after seeing this?

    A date to come, a link or a friend to tag. One step is easier to follow than three.

Make the youth set in Design.

Open Design with a free account, pick a youth night template, change the words, date and colors and download it. Set your youth ministry colors in your Brand Kit so every post matches.

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The Design editor with the Templates panel open beside a Square quote design headed Rooted, Week 3, with category tiles for Verses, Big Idea, Quotes, Questions, Sermon Recap and Stat Impact.

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