Free PDF + editable BoboCreate template

How to Customize and Print a Flag Football Coaching Starter

The Flag Football Coaching Starter is a free eight-page printable for a new youth flag football coach, and its editable .bobo opens in BoboCreate, a desktop design app for Mac and Windows. This guide covers the making side: opening the file, fitting the pages to your league, and printing them at the right size. The starter’s own Coach Start Here page explains how to coach with it.

Download the free PDF Download the editable .bobo

Both downloads are the free edition. The editable file opens in BoboCreate Desktop.

The editable file imports in BoboCreate Free 0.3.19 or later. It uses one of Free's three design places, and its own artwork does not count toward your three uploaded images. Older versions of the app need BoboCreate activated to import it, so update BoboCreate first.

Coach start-here page: who the starter is for, five steps to use it, a first-practice checklist, team details to fill in, Practice 1 at a glance and the non-contact rules

Our League’s Rules fill-in page with a leagues-vary note and boxes for rush line or clock, quarterback running, no-run zones, field size and more

The 5v5 field drawn 30 by 70 yards with end zones and hatched no-run zones, three formations, the Box Zone defense and five words to know

Four play cards (Double Dart, Fast Lane, Staircase, Skyline), each with a field diagram, assignments, the QB’s reads and a coaching point

Practice 1: Flags On, a 60-minute plan in eight timed blocks from the welcome circle to the team huddle, with coach notes lines

Flag pulling in five steps with an angle-of-pursuit diagram, and boxes for no contact and no flag guarding

Equal-play rotation charts for 8 and 10 players with roster lines, the five spots for every series, a halftime tally and a fairness check

Attendance tracker for twelve players and twelve practices or games, with a date row, a total column and team contact lines

You will need BoboCreate (the free plan is enough), a printer, US Letter paper and your league’s rulebook.

Every word in the starter is a live text box and every diagram is made of editable shapes, so you can rename a play, change a practice block or move a player before you print.

What the free template includes

Coach Start Here with a before-the-first-practice checklist
Our League’s Rules: a fill-in page with the common patterns explained
The 5v5 field, three formations and a first defense
Four play cards with diagrams and coaching points
Practice 1: a 60-minute plan in timed blocks
Flag pulling and safe defense, an equal-play rotation for 8 and 10 players and an attendance tracker

Open the free .bobo file

Download free-flag-football-coaching-starter.bobo, choose Open or Import in BoboCreate and select it. All eight pages open as one design; the painted clipboard, whistle and cones in the page headers are locked art layers, so a click lands on the words and diagrams, not the pictures.

Write in your league’s rules

Rules change from league to league, so page 2 has a box or a line for each one: the rush line or rush clock, whether the quarterback may run, no-run zones, field size, the center catching, game length and points. You can print it and fill it in by hand, or type your league’s answers into the text boxes first.

If your league uses a different rush distance, also edit the “rush line” notes on the field page so the diagrams and the words agree.
Keep your league’s rulebook handy: when the starter and your league disagree, your league wins.

Edit plays, practice blocks and rotation names

The play names, assignments and coaching points are text boxes; the players and routes are shapes you can move. If you change a route on a diagram, change the assignments line under it too. Practice 1 lists eight timed blocks that add up to 60 minutes: when you lengthen one block, shorten another so the total stays the same.

Print US Letter at 100%

Export a vector PDF and print at 100% (Actual Size), never “fit to page”, so the field diagrams and cut lines keep their sizes. Print the play cards on card stock if you want them to last a season on a clipboard.

Open the editable template in BoboCreate

Download and install BoboCreate Desktop for Mac or Windows.
Download the free `free-flag-football-coaching-starter.bobo` file.
In BoboCreate, choose Open or Import and select the file.
Fill in your league’s rules and edit any play or practice text; preview all eight pages.
Export a PDF and print US Letter at 100% or Actual Size.

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The free source is for your own team. Do not resell or redistribute the design. The plays and practice plan have not been run on a field by a coach or a team yet, and a home print test of this edition has not been done.