Back to School Essentials
It’s already September! Hope you all had a great summer holidays and enjoyed every minute of it! We enjoyed lots of family activities, a lovely family holiday to Italy and a last minute trip to Legoland. We loved spending time together, and are now fully recharged for the new academic year!
Now that schools will be starting in a few days, we put together our Back to School Essentials with suggestions of products to make your life easier. In now particular order, those are the products we have tried, tested and loved:
Personalised Alarm Clock by Sing My Name is a cool and handy alarm clock, perfect to make sure little ones wake up on time for school. It is available on a range of designs, such as pink fairy, violet girls stuff, pink horse, blue cars, and blue football.
Little man usually struggles to get up in the morning, we have been thinking of getting an alarm clock for our little sleepy head. He loves waking up to the sound of the personalised song from his alarm clock, singing his name. There are a range of boys and girls names available to personalise the alarm clock, it is a lovely idea to wake up to a cheerful and happy song for a great day ahead at school.
Gold Stars Ready for School Big Workbook can be found in KS1 and KS2, aimed at children aged 3 through to age 11. The worksheets support little one’s maths and English learning, building skills at home, by completing a one-page activity sheet. The bumper workbook comes complete with parent tips, advice and over 100 gold star reward stickets.
Little man enjoys completing the worksheets, one page at the time and getting a sticker once he has finished each page. It gets him excited about learning and going back to school. We will carry on using the workbook throughout the year as a fun way to support his learning.
We love reading bedtime stories and unwinding with a book after a busy day. Parragon has a lovely range of beautifully written and illustrated story books, to get little ones into reading.
The Fish with Deep Sea Smile is a fishy tale of one family’s quest among all the fish in the sea to find the fish with the deep blue smile, while Away with my Aeroplane offers a rhyme of movement, wonder of excitement. They are both written by Margaret Wise Brown.
Bunny Loves to Learn by Peter Bently is one of little man’s favourite stories, where the class gets involved in a fun project. It is a great book to get little ones excited about learning and going back to school. The Sleepy Train by Mark Marshall is a magical nightime journey, ideal to relax after a busy day at school.
Miffy’s activity books are ideal to unwind after school, while building other essential skills. Miffy’s day sticker activity book is a fun way to encourage children’s imagination, by following Miffy as she goes through her day, exploring, learning and playing, with sticker scenes, finger trails, spot the difference, and pattern matching
Miffy draws wipe clean book helps to develop children’s motor skills in the creative space for drawing, games to play and room to practise shapes in this delightful wipe clean book.
Nothing like beautiful stationery to inspire little ones to write. Parragon has recently launched a gorgeous stationery collection, Life Canvas, with Paris and Wild range.
The elegant and aspirational Paris collection has a sweet pocket-sized notebook and cute sticky note tin with 11 pads in different designs, featuring beautiful Paris illustrations. Little man got found the notebook perfect to write down his thoughts and the sticky notes ideal for drawing and messages.
Childs Farm toiletries are gentle and mild, designed to make bathtime enjoyable for children, so they are clean after playing in the playground and having fun at school. 3 in 1 swim for hair-to-toe is ideal after swimming lessons. The shampoo, conditioner and body wash in one contains strawberry and organic mint to leave the hair and body smelling lovely!
Bubble bath contains organic tangerine essential oils, to help calm, soothe and moisturise the skin while little ones are playing in the bath. Hair and body wash contains organic sweet orange essential oil and Argan oil to moisturise while cleaning. Little man loves the smell of Childs Farm toiletries, they are available online and Boots stores nationwide.
Johnson’s First Touch All-in-one Wash has been developed for newborn’s delicate skin with a unique fragrance free, soap free and colour free formula. It is hypoallergenic and contains only essential ingredients to gently cleanse and care for baby’s delicate skin from head to toe.
I am aware that little man is not a baby anymore, but he will always be my precious baby! We have tried several different Johnson’s products before and Jonhson’s First Touch is just as effective, without all the unnecessary ingredients.
The products were received free of charge for review purposes. However the opinions expressed in the post are honest and my own.