VBS graphics, from save the date to the last day.

VBS graphics for your church: a flyer, a sign-up post, a Story and a summer posting timeline for Vacation Bible School 2027, with real templates.

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Four Vacation Bible School designs: a tall red VBS 2027 Story, an orange and pink Backyard Week registration flyer, an orange Summer Kids Camp post and a yellow Sign up is open post.

What graphics does a VBS need?

Four cover most of it: a save the date, a registration flyer, a sign-up post and a thank-you. Start about ten weeks before the first day, and put the dates, ages, cost and sign-up link on every one.

  • The timeline below counts back from an example week, Monday 14 to Friday 18 June 2027. Swap in your own dates.
  • Sizes in Design: Square 1080 × 1080, Story 1080 × 1920, Letter 8.5 × 11 in for a flyer and a 4 × 6 in card for a postcard.
  • Use your own theme name. Curriculum publishers' names, logos and art are usually licensed, so read your license before you reuse them.
  • Design is free with any account, with no card needed.

Printing a VBS 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 a VBS plan needs.

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

A square orange Summer Kids Camp post with the words A week of games, friends, and Jesus, July 12 to 16, ages 5 to 11.

Feed post: Square

1080 × 1080

The size for the save the date and the sign-up post. Square works in any feed, and Design can copy a finished post into Portrait or Story.

Four VBS sizes drawn to scale: a Square post, a Story, a Letter flyer and a 4 × 6 in card.

A summer posting timeline for VBS.

Six posts to make and post yourself, counted back from an example week starting Monday 14 June 2027.

  1. From Monday 5 April

    Save the date

    Ten weeks out, one simple post with the dates and ages, before families fill the summer. Add a flyer to hand out at church.

  2. Monday 3 May

    Registration opens

    The sign-up post and the flyer, with one link to a registration page that works on a phone.

  3. Monday 24 May

    Helpers needed

    Three weeks out, ask teens and adults to sign up to help with games, snacks, crafts and check-in.

  4. Tuesday 1 June

    Last call

    A reminder on the day registration closes, with the link again. Say whether walk-ins are welcome.

  5. Friday 11 June

    See you Monday

    What to bring, where to park and when check-in opens. Post it where parents already look.

  6. Friday 18 June

    Thank you

    Thank the helpers and families. Share photos only of children whose parents agreed in writing.

VBS designs you can start from.

Sample designs for a fictional church. The first two are real templates from the Design catalog with the sample dates changed to 2027, and the others are drawn for this page. Change the words, colors and photo to your own.

  • A tall red VBS 2027 Story with Vacation Bible School and the dates June 14 to 18.

    Design template: VBS Story

  • An orange Summer Kids Camp post with a short line about games, friends and Jesus.

    Design template: kids camp post

  • A fictional registration flyer: Backyard Week, June 14 to 18, free, register by June 1.

    Sample: registration flyer

  • A teal Story with a huge number 3 and the words Registration opens in 3 days.

    Sample: countdown Story

  • A yellow square post reading Sign up is open, Ages 4 to 12, free.

    Sample: sign-up post

  • A deep teal square post reading We need helpers, teens and adults, with a sign-up address.

    Sample: helpers needed

What a VBS flyer needs.

Six things to check before a VBS flyer or post goes out, each with the question to ask.

  • Dates and hours

    Does it say the days and the start and end time?

    Parents plan around the morning. Write 9 AM to noon, not just the week.

  • Ages or grades

    Is it clear who can come?

    Say the ages or the grades, and whether helpers or younger siblings can join.

  • Cost and deadline

    Is it free, or how much, and when does sign-up close?

    A date to act by gets more sign-ups than an open invitation. Say whether walk-ins are welcome.

  • One sign-up link

    Does the link work on a phone?

    Most parents will open it on a phone. A short address or a QR code beats a long form address.

  • Privacy and safety

    Is anything private on the flyer?

    Collect medical details and a photo release on the registration form, never on the flyer. Do not post identifiable children without a parent's permission.

  • Your own theme name

    Are the name and art ours to use?

    Curriculum publishers license their theme names, logos and art. Read your license, or make your own theme name and look.

Make the VBS set in Design.

Open Design with a free account, pick a VBS or kids camp template, change the words, dates and photo and download it. Set your church colors once 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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