Top 9 reading certificates and awards for kids
The 9, in order
- 123 Certificates: Reading Certificate Templates. Thirty-two reading designs, landscape and portrait, personalised in an online maker; free to customise and print, not to resell.
- K12Reader: Printable Reading Award Certificates. Twenty certificates, nine for books read (10 to 50 in fives) and others such as Bookworm and a Summer Reading Award; click to open the PDF, no sign-up.
- KiddyCharts: Gold, Silver and Bronze Reading Awards. Three reading certificates from a UK community interest company; a direct PDF, newsletter optional. The page does not say what earns each.
- Peabody's certificate · ours. A blank one to fill in by hand for any challenge, and the one each Peabody challenge prints with the dates and books on it, only at the finish line. Free, no sign-up.
- Reading Is Fundamental: RIF Reader certificate. One certificate naming the child a 'RIF Reader', with blanks for the name, a signature and the date, not tied to a number of books; a direct PDF.
- The Reading Agency: Winter Mini Challenge certificate (UK). Earned by reading three or more books and adding them to an online profile (free): a virtual badge and a printable certificate. Last season ran 1 December 2025 to 20 February 2026.
- Pizza Hut BOOK IT! monthly certificate. Each month a child meets the reading goal, a certificate for a free Personal Pan Pizza; October to March, through a class or the homeschool app.
- Chuck E. Cheese: Reading Rewards Calendar. Not a certificate but a reward sheet: a finished calendar brought to a restaurant earns bonus play points.
- St. Louis County Library: 1000 Books Before Kindergarten milestones. Not a certificate but prizes: a sticker at 100 books, a free book at 500, a free book and a bag at 1000, for children registered at a branch or online.
How this list is made
Ranked by how a certificate is got: free printables a grown-up fills in first (more designs first), then ones earned in a programme, then rewards that are prizes rather than certificates. Each row but ours was read on its own page on 30 Oct 2026 and is linked; a page that showed only last season's dates says so.