We’ve all been there – those moments in school when we just wanted to hide under a rock. Whether it’s because we said something embarrassing, or we were caught doing something we weren’t supposed to be doing during picture day, these moments are always good for laughs later on. In honor of school picture day, we’ve compiled a list of 39 funny school pictures that will have you giggling (and cringing) in sympathy.
I remember how funny some of my school photos and yearbook photos looked and these images sure bring back memories of getting ready for picture day at school – good and bad memories! Whether it was funny haircuts or smiling too much or too little, picture days were always an exciting time. So take a walk down memory lane with us, and enjoy a good laugh at these funny school pictures.
1) Let the funny school pictures begin!: “Apparently I didn’t know how to smile in first grade.”
![39 Funny School Pictures - "Apparently I didn't know how to smile in first grade."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-01.jpg?resize=720%2C851&ssl=1)
2) “At least they smiled. Sorta.”
![39 Funny School Pictures - "At least they smiled. Sorta."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-02.jpg?resize=720%2C900&ssl=1)
3) “My attire for Homecoming (male).” Funny school pictures from the year 2322?
![39 Funny School Pictures - "My attire for Homecoming (male)."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-03.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
4) “Awkward School Photo.”
![39 Funny School Pictures - "Awkward School Photo."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-04.jpg?resize=720%2C850&ssl=1)
5) “Blunder Years glamour shot.” Funny school pictures when you want to look your best!
![39 Funny School Pictures - "Blunder Years glamour shot."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-05.jpg?resize=720%2C1025&ssl=1)
6) “Every picture day for Wally, I pull this beauty up from 2016!!”
![39 Funny School Pictures - "Every picture day for Wally, I pull this beauty up from 2016!!"](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-06.jpg?resize=720%2C894&ssl=1)
7) “I promise my child is happy and isn’t living in misery as he appears in this photo.”
![39 Funny School Pictures - "I promise my child is happy and isn’t living in misery as he appears in this photo."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-07.jpg?resize=720%2C900&ssl=1)
8) “My daughter’s first ever school photo. She was so excited for days, went in, and got mugshot instead.”
![39 Funny School Pictures - "My daughter's first ever school photo. She was so excited for days, went in, and got mugshot instead."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-08.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
9) “For my 2nd-grade photo, I vouched for the Satan’s-child-lawyer look.”
![39 Funny School Pictures - "For my 2nd-grade photo, I vouched for the Satan's-child-lawyer look."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-09.jpg?resize=720%2C954&ssl=1)
9) “I forgot to smile.” Do you have funny school pictures where you forgot to smile? Let us know in the comments.
![39 Funny School Pictures - "I forgot to smile."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-10.jpg?resize=720%2C900&ssl=1)
11) “My friend was saying ‘yee’ before you were saying ‘haw.'”
![39 Funny School Pictures - "My friend was saying 'yee' before you were saying 'haw.'"](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-11.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
12) “I had to bribe the school photographer to let me do this my senior year.”
!["I had to bribe the school photographer to let me do this my senior year."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-12.jpg?resize=720%2C900&ssl=1)
13) “I still think that this is my favorite photo of all time.”
!["I still think that this is my favorite photo of all time."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-13.jpg?resize=720%2C900&ssl=1)
Funny school pictures are what happens when kids wear green to school on picture day!
14) “In case you’ve ever wondered what happens when your kid wears green on picture day…”
!["In case you've ever wondered what happens when your kid wears green on picture day..."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-14.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
15) “We heart the USA!”
!["We heart the USA!"](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-15.jpg?resize=720%2C912&ssl=1)
16) “My Kindergarten Picture is definitely the most epic of all my school pictures.”
!["My Kindergarten Picture is definitely the most epic of all my school pictures."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-16.jpg?resize=720%2C902&ssl=1)
17) “Mason got his kindergarten pictures and I didn’t want his name on the bottom so I typed in “I don’t want this” and they freaking printed this…so now I have like 30 pictures of him with this on the bottom.”
!["Mason got his kindergarten pictures and I didn’t want his name on the bottom so I typed in “I don’t want this” and they freaking printed this...so now I have like 30 pictures of him with this on the bottom."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-17.jpg?resize=720%2C900&ssl=1)
18) “Me in the 4th grade ready to go on some sort of tropical safari with my best friend.”
!["Me in the 4th grade ready to go on some sort of tropical safari with my best friend."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-18.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
19) “My mom mixed up pajama day and picture day.”
!["My mom mixed up pajama day and picture day."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-19.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
20) “My friend’s boyfriend was not happy about his kindergarten picture. His parents still have it framed in their house 20 years later.” Funny school pictures that live on forever…
!["My friend’s boyfriend was not happy about his kindergarten picture. His parents still have it framed in their house 20 years later."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-20.jpg?resize=720%2C966&ssl=1)
21) “1996 HS Yearbook Picture.”
!["1996 HS Yearbook Picture."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-21.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
22) “School photo circa 1996. Allergies were hitting me hard that day…”
!["School photo circa 1996. Allergies were hitting me hard that day..."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-22.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
23) “School photos sometimes in the early 2000s. I really thought I was ‘Da Bomb’. I remember going to Limited Too and thinking those velour pants were a must.”
!["School photos sometimes in the early 2000s. I really thought I was 'Da Bomb'. I remember going to Limited Too and thinking those velour pants were a must."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-23.jpg?resize=720%2C833&ssl=1)
24) “My brother’s Pre-K picture. He didn’t know how to smile.”
!["My brother's Pre-K picture. He didn't know how to smile."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-24.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
25) “Reagan brought home her school pictures today. Should I ground her or high-five her?” Definitely a high-five for funny school pictures that rock!
!["Reagan brought home her school pictures today. Should I ground her or high-five her?"](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-25.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
26) “My wife’s school picture with her most prized possession at the time. An Evanescence CD.”
!["My wife’s school picture with her most prized possession at the time. An Evanescence CD."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-26.jpg?resize=720%2C551&ssl=1)
27) “My Senior yearbook photo…it was 2002, frosted tips and N*Sync were actually cool…”
!["My Senior yearbook photo...it was 2002, frosted tips and N*Sync were actually cool..."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-27.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
28) “Jack’s picture this year. Seriously, school photographer? Seriously?!?!”
!["Jack's picture this year. Seriously, school photographer? Seriously?!?!"](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-28.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
29) “My sister rocking a homemade dress and home haircut.”
!["My sister rocking a homemade dress and home haircut."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-29.jpg?resize=720%2C968&ssl=1)
30) “10M, and looking like a middle-aged mom who’s deciding to grace you with a smile, while still judging you just a little” Gracing you with a smile with funny school pictures…
!["10M, and looking like a middle-aged mom who’s deciding to grace you with a smile, while still judging you just a little"](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-30.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
31) “The school offered to re-shoot the photo but my parents declined.”
!["The school offered to re-shoot the photo but my parents declined."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-31.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
32) “They wouldn’t take the photo unless I smiled.”
!["They wouldn't take the photo unless I smiled."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-32.jpg?resize=720%2C1005&ssl=1)
33) “This was the retake of my Second Grade school photo.”
!["This was the retake of my Second Grade school photo."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-33.jpg?resize=720%2C907&ssl=1)
34) “I too was instructed not to blink during my elementary school yearbook photo.”
!["I too was instructed not to blink during my elementary school yearbook photo."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-34.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
35) “I told my 9-year-old I didn’t care what he did in his spring school photos. This is what he gave us.” Funny school photos is the gift that keeps on giving.
!["I told my 9-year-old I didn’t care what he did in his Spring School photos. This is what he gave us."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-35.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
36) “When you’re super excited to see your kid’s school pictures….and then you find this in the packet.”
!["When you're super excited to see your kid's school pictures....and then you find this in the packet."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-36.jpg?resize=720%2C900&ssl=1)
37) “Why YES!! My vest WAS homemade! PM me for orders!!!”
!["Why YES!! My vest WAS homemade! PM me for orders!!!"](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-37.jpg?resize=720%2C960&ssl=1)
38) “You know when they have those ‘proof of life’ hostage photos? Well…thanks Sebastian for the most epic school photo ever. It’s so funny that we are buying the whole darn pack.”
!["You know when they have those 'proof of life' hostage photos? Well...thanks Sebastian for the most epic school photo ever. It's so funny that we are buying the whole darn pack."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-38.jpg?resize=720%2C899&ssl=1)
39) “My 2nd grade school pic. I’m a girl.”
!["My 2nd grade school pic. I'm a girl."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/funny-school-pictures-39.jpeg?resize=720%2C1107&ssl=1)
I hope you enjoyed these funny school photos. Now smile!
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