What's inside this year's Back to School Basket?
/In less than two weeks, we’ll finish up our summer break and enter into our 4th year of homeschooling (I can hardly believe that!). As much as I adore the loose schedule and break of summer, I am SO ready to begin our school rhythms and enjoy bringing back some structure to our days.
Whether you send your kids off to school or homeschool, I bet you can relate to the itch for routine ;)
Every year, I love putting together a basket for the first day of school. Especially since we don’t do the typical back-to-school shopping, this is a fun back-to-school tradition :)
This year, we are doing the King Kingdom from the Peaceful Press and I am so excited to learn about medieval history, kings and queens, Narnia, and not to mention, try to make our own Turkish delight ;)
So, of course, I had to create a basket that had a few Narnia-inspired or medieval-inspired items in there.
So, let’s start with what in the basket for my littlest (he’s two and a half):
Water bottle and personalized stickers to decorate it
Play-dough
For my middle guy (he’s 5 1/2 and entering into Kindergarten), we got:
Finding Narnia book (it’s so sweet!)
Alphabet Go Fish game
Map of Europe puzzle
Water bottle and personalized stickers for decorating it
School supplies (like pencils, markers, notebook, etc)
Here’s what we gathered for our oldest who is entering 3rd grade:
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table chapter book
Dragonrealm game (we have Dragonwood and love it—so this will be fun to try!)
Water bottle and personalized stickers for decorating it. I especially love the one from Crew + Co :)
The Black Star of Kingston book by S.D. Smith
School supplies
I generally try to stick to including a new book, game, school supplies, and something we can use through-out the year (such as a water bottle, new shirt, etc). Often, the first day of school includes lots of reading new books, playing a new game, and gently beginning the new year :)
Have you given your kiddos a back-to-school basket? Or do you have any fun back-to-school traditions?
Have a good one!
Nicole
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