Free age birthday shirt SVG files

Age birthday shirts, from the first birthday to double digits

For a child, the age is the whole point of a birthday. A one-year-old can’t say it yet, a three-year-old holds up three fingers to anyone who asks, and a ten-year-old wants the world to know they finally have two digits. A shirt with the number on it says all of that before anyone has to ask.

This collection draws those numbers the way sports uniforms and college sweatshirts do: heavy block and slab-serif numerals with stacked outline rings, arched lettering, stars and stripes, jersey backs, crests and patches. Every design is an original drawing, made first for layered iron-on vinyl on kids’ shirts and baby bodysuits, and each comes as a solid file for a single-color cut, an outline file and a layered color file. The palette is classic varsity: deep navy, crimson red, warm gold, royal blue, kelly green and white. You can change any of it in the editor on the design page.

Styles in this collection

A jersey for every age from one to ten

There is one jersey design for each age, drawn in six different shapes. The One Year Old Jersey is a red short-sleeve jersey seen from the back, with white trim and Birthday arched across the shoulders, built with first birthday photos in mind. The Seven Year Old Jersey is the same kind of tee in kelly green and gold, shown hanging on a coat hanger. The Four and Ten Year Old Jerseys are sleeveless basketball-style tanks, one in royal blue and one in navy and gold.

The Two, Five and Eight Year Old Jerseys use the collegiate layout: Birthday in a big arch, a ringed number and a bar reading Years Old. The Three Year Old Jersey is a round badge, the Six is a shield crest and the Nine is a square patch with white stitch marks down its sides.

First birthday designs

A 1st birthday shirt is the one most people look for, and there are two here. Besides the One Year Old Jersey, Wild One sets the favorite first birthday saying in varsity letters: Wild arched over a wide blue One with three gold stars. It cuts down to 2.5 inches, so it fits the smallest bodysuit, and it also makes a good high chair banner. For the six-month photo, the Half Birthday design turns one half into a ringed fraction.

Sayings for each birthday

Officially Two puts a giant 2 under a ribbon banner. Three Is a Party pairs a tall 3 with a pennant flag. The Fourth Birthday Patch stacks three borders around a slab-serif 4 like a letterman patch. Fab Five runs a blue 5 across two red stripes, and This Kid Is Five spells the age out over five red stars. Six Year Old Star, Lucky Number Seven with its gold horseshoe, Eight Is Great, Fine at Nine on a shield and Double Digits for ten carry the series on.

Shirts with no number

Big Kid Now, Birthday Team Captain and Birthday All Star leave the age off, so they suit any birthday, a sibling, or a party where the whole group dresses as a team.

Project ideas

• Birthday shirts for the guest of honor, from a bodysuit to a youth large.
• Matching family shirts, with a jersey number for each sibling.
• First birthday outfits for the cake smash and the party photos.
• Party invitations printed with a jersey or a crest and cut out.
• Felt patches for backpacks, jackets and bedroom pennants.
• Wall signs for the party, cut large from cardstock or foam board.
• Favor bag stickers at a small size in one color.
• Keepsake pillows made from the outgrown birthday shirt.

Choosing materials

Sizes that work

Each design page lists the smallest size at which every part can be cut and weeded cleanly. Wild One, Eight Is Great and Big Kid Now go down to 2.5 inches, Double Digits to 3.5 and This Kid Is Five to 4. Seven designs need 4.5 inches, including the One, Two, Four, Five and Ten Year Old Jerseys, and nine need 5. The Six Year Old Jersey, Fine at Nine, Birthday Team Captain and Birthday All Star have the finest lettering and need 5.5 inches.

For a bodysuit, pick a design that works at 4.5 inches or less. The two first birthday shirts both do.

How the color layers work

The first layer, Base and lines, is a solid backing in deep navy. It sits under everything, slightly larger than the shapes on top, so it shows as a thin outline around the design and as the lines between each part. In several designs it also forms the navy shapes themselves, such as the round badge, the shield, the square patch, the ribbon bands and the hanger.

On top go the varsity colors, one layer each: Varsity red, Varsity gold, Royal blue, Kelly green and White. The ringed numbers are built from these, with the number on one layer and its rings on others. Designs with words on the open shirt also have a Lettering layer in navy, which sits right on the fabric so the words stay crisp. Our guide to changing SVG colors shows how to swap any layer before you download.

Making a layered iron-on birthday shirt

1. Pick the design and set the width, checking the smallest size on its page.
2. Mirror every mat and lay the iron-on vinyl shiny side down.
3. Cut each color from its own sheet, and weed the small inside spaces first.
4. Press the navy base first, centered on the shirt.
5. Add the rings and large shapes, then the numbers, then any lettering on top.
6. Follow your vinyl’s directions for every press, since each brand and fabric is different.

For the quickest shirt, cut the solid file from a single color. The ringed numbers, arches and patches still read clearly. If you are new to uploading files, our guide on how to upload an SVG to Cricut covers the first steps.

Cutting tips

• Use a fresh blade for the arched lettering and the small words on badges.
• Weed the letters first, while the sheet is still flat.
• Keep the carrier sheet on iron-on until it is pressed, so separate parts stay in place.
• Use transfer tape for adhesive vinyl, especially on arched words.
• Go slowly around stitch marks, nail holes and thin trim lines.

For tiny stickers and favor tags below a design’s smallest size, print the color file and let the machine cut only the outline. Our Print Then Cut guide explains how.

Building a family of shirts

Because every design in the set uses the same navy, red, gold, blue, green and white, shirts for different ages match without any extra work. A family with a three-year-old and a seven-year-old can wear the Three Year Old Jersey and the Seven Year Old Jersey and still look like one team. For the parents, cut Birthday Team Captain or Birthday All Star larger, and for a baby sibling, Big Kid Now works well on a big brother or sister. For a party with older guests, the sayings in our birthday shirt collection come in a retro style, and the milestone birthday designs pick up where these leave off, from the teens onward. For a whole party built around one theme, see the kids birthday theme collection.

Free to use

Every age birthday shirt here is an original drawing, with no team names, characters or logos, and free for personal projects and for up to 500 finished items per design that you sell. There is no sign-up and no email gate. Please share a link to the design page rather than the file itself.