Printable School Bag Check List

We have all gone through or are soon to be initiated into the dreaded morning school routine. Many a morning of chasing after the kids for the things they supposedly packed last night! Hopefully, this printable school bag check list might help to alleviate some of the stress and let your children take responsibility for checking off each morning. DISCLAIMER I cannot take responsibility for non-compliance to the list, sorry!

I have always tried to instil some autonomy in my chillblains (kids). It sometimes backfires when I receive a phone call telling me to please bring in the PE kit as Joshua has left it at home! I hasten to add a deliberate act that would occur when cross county running was the sport of the day!!!!!

I digress; the list should help in the early days when everyone is getting into the swing of the new school year and just keeping track of the right supplies and everything is packed and ready to go. Print off a copy and keep it on the fridge or somewhere it will be seen and used. I laminate mine and use a dry erase pen for the kids to mark off. You could have a fresh print each week.

What’s Included?

There are two versions of the list a Sunday through to Thursday and Mondays through Friday. The working week here in Abu Dhabi starts on Sunday. You will also find two different sizes and a sheet of mini reward cards that you can give to the kids as an extra incentive at the end of the week. It doesn’t have to be an expensive reward maybe an ice cream or a trip to the park. Either way, it might help then to see the benefit of being packed up and ready to rock first thing in the morning.

This link will open the school bag check list PDF file, which you can then download to your computer. Open up the PDF and print. It is formatted as 8.5″ x11″ but just select fit to page size for printing at A4 size.

Check out this fun back to school mini scavenger hunt, a fun way to give your children some shiny new back to school stationery