# Free certificate of participation templates

URL: https://dyetub.com/certificates/participation

Everyone who showed up gets one. Choose a design, type the event and the name, and print the whole roster before the awards table opens.

## Events that hand out a lot of these

Science fairs, field days, spelling bees, talent shows, art shows, recreation-center game nights, club contests, geocaching finds, community runs, cook-offs and end-of-season parties. The organizer usually has a list of thirty names and an hour. The orange traditional design above is a safe default; the circles designs are more modern, the band designs suit music events, and the Grill Off and Furthest Traveler designs are ready-made for cook-offs and travel contests.

## Participation is not the consolation prize

A participation certificate records that someone entered, prepared and took part. Make it say so. Name the event and, where you can, the entry:

- "For entering the district science fair with a project on how plants grow toward light"
- "For completing the 5K fun run"
- "For performing in the spring talent show"
- "For taking part in all six game nights this season"

Alongside the participation certificates, the same designs cover **placings** (1st, 2nd, 3rd), **judge's choice**, **people's choice** and the silly awards that make an awards night fun: Best Use of Duct Tape, Most Dramatic Finish, Last Car Standing.

## Wording tips

Keep the award name short enough to stay large: "Certificate of Participation," "Science Fair Entrant," "Finisher." Use the description for the event name and date-free specifics; a certificate that names the event is easier to look at later than one that says only "for participating." Sign it as the organizer, with your role ("Field Day Coordinator") under your name, and add the principal, club president or sponsor on the second line if you have one.

## Printing a stack

- Fill in the first certificate, print one copy, and check it. Then change only the name and print the next.
- Plain paper is fine for a class set; a pack of lightweight card stock makes a batch of forty look like an event.
- Landscape orientation and a high-quality setting are the two things to check; [printing tips](/printing-tips) has screenshots of both and the reason a certificate sometimes prints small.
- Black-and-white printer? Pick the greyscale circles or textual design and skip the color borders.

## Free for every entrant

No account, no email, no cap on copies. Thirty participants cost the same as one: nothing.

## Designs for Participation

- [Standard](https://dyetub.com/certificates/textual-standard)
- [Green](https://dyetub.com/certificates/trad-green)
- [Purple](https://dyetub.com/certificates/trad-purple)
- [Red](https://dyetub.com/certificates/trad-red)
- [Orange](https://dyetub.com/certificates/trad-orange)
- [Greyscale](https://dyetub.com/certificates/circles-greyscale)
- [Blue](https://dyetub.com/certificates/circles-blue)
- [Red](https://dyetub.com/certificates/circles-red)
- [Greyscale](https://dyetub.com/certificates/band-greyscale)
- [Kelly Green](https://dyetub.com/certificates/band-kelly_green)
- [Orange](https://dyetub.com/certificates/band-orange)
- [Red](https://dyetub.com/certificates/band-red)
- [Blue](https://dyetub.com/certificates/band-blue)
- [Grill Off](https://dyetub.com/certificates/contest-grill_off)
- [Furthest Traveler](https://dyetub.com/certificates/contest-furthest_traveler)
- [Spelling Bee](https://dyetub.com/certificates/writing-spelling_bee)

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