7 Print Pieces That Run Homecoming Week, From Posters to Bookmarks
Homecoming is a week, not a night, and the print order has to cover all of it: the hallway announcement, the schedule in every hand, a countable door, and something students keep. Here are the seven pieces, in the order a student council should print them.
The homecoming set is seven print pieces: posters and event flyers build attendance, numbered event tickets and event badges run the door, a vinyl banner claims the gym or the field, and die-cut stickers plus bookmarks are what students take home. Posters, tickets, badges and stickers run a 5 business day standard turnaround, so order that group first and let the 3-day pieces catch up.
The picks
Seven pieces, from $16.48 bookmarks to $108.75 posters
Start here. These are the seven products in the set. Nothing here takes more than 5 business days, so order them in one go and the class colors match across paper, vinyl and PVC. Read on for what each piece does and when it has to be on the truck.
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How they work together
Print in the order the week happens
Each piece owns a stretch of the calendar. Group them this way and nothing arrives after it was needed, which is the single most common way a school print order goes wrong.
Posters go up in the halls and tickets go on sale at lunch. Both run a 5 business day standard turnaround, so this pair is the reason you start the print order before the theme is fully painted.
Flyers carry the day-by-day schedule into every hand, the banner claims the gym wall or the field fence, and badges tell students who is running the event and who is chaperoning it.
The two pieces students keep. A sticker lands on a laptop lid and a bookmark lands in a library book, both carrying the year long after the decorations come down.
1. Standard posters: the announcement the whole building walks past
Homecoming starts as a rumor and becomes a plan the moment posters go up. A poster owns wall space that nothing else in this set can claim, and it works on a student who was not looking for it. That is the job: interrupt the walk between third and fourth period with a date and a theme.
Standard posters come in six sizes, from an 11 by 17 inch counter sheet up to a 22 by 28 inch wall piece, with custom sizing in between. Nine stocks are available, including 100# gloss text, 14pt covers and a waterproof synthetic plastic for anything that has to survive outside. Go large for corridors and save the small size for glass cases and the front office. Our guide to making posters covers the focal-point discipline that keeps a poster readable from thirty feet, and there is more poster printing to compare if you want a different stock family.
The honest limit: posters are priced per set of 50, from $108.75. If you only need eight hallway spots, you are buying a lot of spare paper. That math works in your favor only when you cover the whole building, feed the feeder middle school, and keep a few for the trophy case.
2. Event flyers: the week schedule in every hand
Homecoming is rarely one night. It is a spirit day, a pep rally, a game and a dance, and nobody remembers that sequence from a poster glimpsed in a hallway. The flyer is where the schedule lives, small enough to go in a backpack and cheap enough to hand out at every entrance.
Event flyers start at $57.11 per 50, about $1.14 each, on 100# gloss text, 100# silk matte text or 70# uncoated text. Six sizes run from a 5.5 by 8.5 inch handbill up to an 11 by 25.5 inch sheet. Two options matter for a school: a half fold or trifold turns one sheet into a full week program, and a tear-off perforation lets the bottom third become a permission slip or a raffle entry. Stock choice changes how it survives a locker, and the best paper for flyers is worth two minutes before you order. There is more flyer printing if you want a different size family.
Flyers run a 3 business day standard turnaround with Same-Day rush available, which makes them the piece you can reprint late when a game time moves.
3. Event tickets: the piece that makes the door countable
A homecoming ticket does three things at once: it proves someone paid, it tears into a stub the gate keeps, and it carries a number that lets the treasurer reconcile cash against attendance. Print a pretty card without those and you have a souvenir, not a ticket.
Event tickets start at $25.27 per set of 50, roughly 51 cents each, on a fixed 2 by 5.5 inch format with sequential numbering in black ink and optional tear-off perforation. Fifteen stocks are available, from 14pt and 16pt gloss to cream and recycled PCW, white linen, four metallic pearl finishes and a waterproof synthetic plastic. Pearl reads as a formal dance without costing much more; the plastic stock is for the ticket that doubles as a wristband replacement outdoors. Layout matters more than stock here, and event ticket layout shows what belongs on the stub versus the keepsake half. Compare the full range at event ticket printing.
Presale tip that costs nothing: number the presale run and the door run in separate blocks. Two glances at the stub pile afterwards tells you how much of the room bought early, which is the number next year's committee actually needs.
4. Vinyl banners: the piece that claims the gym and the field
One banner does what twenty posters cannot: it turns a wall, a fence or a stage backdrop into the event itself. Hang it over the gym doors for the dance, then move it to the field fence for the game. It is the only piece in this set built to be reused across the whole week.
Vinyl banners start at $79 for a single 2 by 4 foot banner, with any quantity from 1 to 100 in one run and 24 sizes up to a custom 240 by 180 inch. Two materials: 13oz outdoor vinyl for everyday use, or 15oz BlackOut with a light-blocking core when the banner hangs where light comes through from behind. Order reinforced hems on all four sides and 2 inch or 4 inch pole pockets if it is going on a fence in October wind. Short message, huge type, one idea. The reasoning behind that is in our guide to making banners, and there is more vinyl banner printing to size up.
Print the year on it, not the date. A banner that says the year gets hung again for the pep rally, the playoff game and the spring assembly. A banner that says one Friday is trash on Saturday.
5. Event badges: who is running this and who is watching the door
At a dance with five hundred students, a badge answers a question fast: who do I ask, and who is allowed backstage. Chaperones, student council, the DJ, the ticket table and the photography crew all become findable the moment they are wearing one.
Event badges start at $49.88 per 25, about $2 each, sliding toward roughly 40 cents each as the run grows. Six sizes run from 2 by 3 inches to 4 by 6, plus custom widths between 2 and 4 inches. Two materials: a sturdy 30pt gloss laminated card, or 18pt PVC vinyl that runs about 30 percent thinner. Every badge gets a drilled hole or a lanyard slot, with six lanyard styles in black, red or blue. Pick the color-coded route: one lanyard color for staff, another for students, and the door crew never has to ask twice.
The thinner PVC saves money on a large run, but if the badge is going around a neck for a five hour night that ends in a gym, the 30pt laminated card is the one that still looks like a credential at midnight.
6. Die-cut stickers: the mascot cut to its own outline
A square sticker is a label. A sticker cut to the outline of the mascot is a thing students actually put on a laptop, a water bottle or a locker door, and it carries the year around campus for months after the last dance.
Die-cut stickers are cut to the exact shape of the art, basic or complex, in 16 sizes from 2 by 2 inches up to 11 by 11. Six materials are available: uncoated, semi-gloss and hi-gloss paper labels, permanent and repositionable white vinyl, and clear vinyl for a no-label look. Repositionable vinyl is the diplomatic choice if the sticker is going anywhere a custodian has an opinion about. Our guide to making stickers covers cut lines and bleed, and sticker printing has the rest of the shape options.
Be honest about the math before you commit. At $93.37 for 25, this is the most expensive piece per unit in the set at small quantities, roughly $3.73 each. The per-sticker cost slides to around 8 cents as the run climbs into the tens of thousands. So order stickers for the whole school as a giveaway, or skip them. A run of 25 for the committee is the worst version of this decision.
7. Standard bookmarks: the cheapest keepsake in the set
The bookmark is the quiet piece and the one with the best cost per impression. It starts at $16.48 per 50, about 33 cents each, which makes it the least expensive item on this list by a wide margin. Print the week schedule on one side and the mascot on the other and hand them out in the library and in homeroom.
Two sizes cover it, a classic 2 by 6 inch and a taller 2 by 8, with a custom size for the tall slim shape a bookmark needs. Twenty stocks are available, from 13pt up to a chunky 26pt, including soft touch, metallic pearl, synthetic plastic and rigid PVC. Add a drilled hole for a tassel in the class colors and it stops being a handout and becomes a souvenir. Standard turnaround is 3 business days, with 2-Day, Next-Day and Same-Day rush, so this is the piece you can still add on the Monday of homecoming week. Browse more bookmark printing for the full stock list.
It also lasts longest. A poster comes down Friday, but a bookmark stays in a paperback until someone finishes the book, and it is the piece most likely to turn up in a drawer at a ten-year reunion.
Specs and pricing
Event ticket specs on 14pt gloss cover and the price ladder
Tickets are the piece with the least room for error, because the numbering has to be right and the date cannot move. Here are the live specs and price-per-unit for event tickets at 4OVER4.COM, straight from the configurator.
| Quantity | Price Per Unit | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | 50.5¢ | $25.27 |
| 100 | 42.8¢ | $42.84 |
| 200 | 25.8¢ | $51.62 |
| 300 | 20.1¢ | $60.42 |
| 400 | 17.3¢ | $69.20 |
| 500 | 15.6¢ | $77.99 |
| 600 | 15.4¢ | $92.26 |
| 700 | 15.2¢ | $106.55 |
Wally explains the homecoming set
Seven pieces, one theme, printed on one calendar
Wally plans homecoming backwards from the dance. The 5-day pieces go first: posters for the halls, numbered tickets for the door, badges for the crew, stickers for the giveaway. Then the 3-day pieces fill in: flyers with the schedule, the banner for the gym, bookmarks for the library table. Same mascot, same class colors, one order, and the whole week looks like somebody planned it.
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Common Questions
Common questions about homecoming printing
What is in the homecoming set?
Seven print pieces: standard posters, event flyers, event tickets, vinyl banners, event badges, die-cut stickers and standard bookmarks. Posters and flyers build attendance, tickets and badges run the door, and stickers and bookmarks are the keepsakes students take home. Each is priced and configured on its own product page, so you set size, stock and quantity for the size of your school.
How far ahead should a student council order homecoming printing?
Work back from the longest standard turnaround in the set. Posters, tickets, badges and die-cut stickers each run 5 business days standard, while flyers, banners and bookmarks run 3. Placing the 5-day group at least three weeks before the dance leaves room for a proof round and still lets you add flyers later in the week. Rush options go down to Next-Day on every piece and Same-Day on several.
Do homecoming tickets need sequential numbering?
If you are counting the room or reconciling cash, yes. Event tickets print with sequential numbering in black ink, and an optional tear-off perforation gives the gate a stub to keep while the student keeps the ticket. That pair is what makes admission auditable. If the dance is free and open to the school, a plain card is fine, but you lose the count.
What size should homecoming posters be for school hallways?
Standard posters come in six sizes from an 11 by 17 inch counter sheet up to a 22 by 28 inch wall piece, plus custom sizing in that range. For a hallway that people walk past at speed, larger wins: the 22 by 28 reads from the far end of a corridor. Save the 11 by 17 for glass cases, classroom doors and the front office counter.
Which pieces survive an outdoor pep rally or parade?
The banner and the stickers. Vinyl banners print on 13oz outdoor vinyl, with a 15oz BlackOut option that has a light-blocking core, and reinforced hems plus 2 inch or 4 inch pole pockets for tying to a fence. Die-cut stickers can be ordered on permanent or repositionable white vinyl, or clear vinyl, instead of paper labels. Posters have a waterproof synthetic plastic stock option if a piece has to sit outside.
How much does the whole homecoming set cost to print?
It depends entirely on quantity, because every piece is quoted in its own configurator. The starting points are $108.75 per 50 posters, $57.11 per 50 event flyers, $25.27 per 50 tickets, $79 for a single 2 by 4 foot vinyl banner, $49.88 per 25 badges, $93.37 for 25 die-cut stickers and $16.48 per 50 bookmarks. Per-piece prices fall steeply as runs grow, which is why school-wide items belong in one big order rather than three small ones.
Can we reuse this set for prom or spirit week?
Most of it. Badges, banners, tickets and posters are theme-neutral in structure and only need new art, so the same file layout carries from homecoming to spirit week to prom. The pieces to reprint from scratch are the ones with dates on them. Keep the source files organized by piece rather than by event and the next committee inherits a head start.
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