Must Have Back-to-School Supplies: Embrace Your Child's Fandom Of LEGO, Harry Potter, DC and More

We know how stressful it can be to kit the kids out to get ready for the new academic year. They've outgrown everything; the backpack isn't cool anymore, and the drink bottle has been discovered growing a new lifeform in the back of the closet. Don't worry, we feel your feel pain.

We have a checklist of items you may need and even handy links to purchase them. Make a cup of your favourite beverage and shop from the sofa; no more trekking around the mall with the other discouraged parents and fed-up children.

BACK TO SCHOOL SWAG

This is by no means a comprehensive list of items that your little cherubs may need (want), but hopefully, it may remind you to check on the condition/whereabouts of some things.

• Backpack
• Stationary – notepads, pens, pencils, pencil case, geometry kit, calculator
• Lunchbox
• Drinks bottle
• Keyring – for locker key and door key
• P.E kit bag

Backpacks

Backpacks, rucksacks, holdalls, or whatever you call them, are essential to a kids' school day. Kids can decide to be friends based on each other's school receptacles, so getting the right one is necessary! The LEGO website has a great selection of backpacks for boys and girls (one of our office members uses one too):

• Heritage Classic Backpack – Minifigure Color Me - £44.99
• Backpack – Warm Bouquet - £33.99
• Brick Backpack – Flame Orange - £44.99
• Brick Backpack – Purple - £44.99

If they are too old for LEGO backpacks (no one ever is!), then check out the pop culture-related bags that Zavvi have for sale:

• SpongeBob Nylon Printed Backpack – £22.99
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem Skate Backpack - £29.99
• Harry Potter Hogwarts Backpack - £14.99
• tokidoki Stay Groovy Everyday Shoulder Bag - £61.99 £29.99

Lunchboxes

Keeping those sandwiches from getting squashed is an important task, and we've found some lunchboxes that we think your kids will love. From the LEGO website:

• Space Lunch Bag – Stargazer - £17.99
• Hogwarts Lunch Set - £14.99
• Minifigure Lunch Set - £14.99
• Brick Lunch Bag – Azure - £22.99

Zooming back over to Zavvi for safe snack transportation:

• Snoopy Lunch Bag - £14.99
• Harry Potter Deluxe 2 Pocket Lunch Bag - £14.99
• Pusheen Purrfect Love Collection Lunch Bag - £14.99
• Minions Lunch Bag - £14.99

Water Bottles

We all know the importance of drinking sufficient water every day, we've all had a bottle leak in our bags too! The LEGO website doesn't have a vast number of options, but they do the job of liquid carriers:

• Hydration Bottle – Red - £15.99
• Hydration Bottle 0.5 L – Discovery - £15.99
• Hydration Bottle – Blue - £15.99

For the bigger kids (adults, too) in your life, Zavvi has a small selection of portable beverage containers:

• Marvel Deadpool Peek-A-Boo Metal Drinks Bottle - £19.99 £15.49
• Stranger Things Season 4 Hellfire Club Metal Drinks Bottle - £19.99
• Stitch Metal Water Bottle - £19.99
• One Piece Straw Hat Pirates Emblem Metal Drinks Bottle - £19.99

Stationary

Everybody loves a new notepad and pen; deciding what word is worthy enough to be the first to be written on that crisp new page, everyone struggles to start a new notepad, right? It can't just be us? Anyway, we have curated a small list here, starting with LEGO papery goodness:

• Mini Figure Notebook with gel pen - £9.99
• Lightsaber Gel Pen – Azure - £3.65
• Marker Pens – 10 Pack - £25.99
• 0 12-Pack Colored Pencils with Topper - £9.99

Zavvi offers a nice selection of notepads that even the coolest kid in school would be proud to be seen writing in. There are also some cool pencil cases available too:

• Super Mario A5 Premium Notebook - £11.00
• The Nightmare Before Christmas Metal Case - £14.99
• Star Wars The Mandalorian I'm All Ears Green Novelty Notebook - £9.99
• Akedo x SpongeBob SquarePants Pencil Case - £9.99

Accessories

Granted, younger kids may not need a keyring (maybe just to identify their bag), but older kids could require one for locker or door keys. We think the LEGO keyrings with the torches in the feet are a great idea, as they can help look in the darkest corners of bags for lost POGs. Sorry, wrong era!

• Batman Key Light - £13.99
• LEGO Skeleton Key Light - £13.99
• Harry Potter Keyring – £4.99
• The Mandalorian Key Light - £9.99

If your child tends to lose keys on keyrings, how about a lanyard? Zavvi has a few of these that are cool:

• Akedo x TMNT Comics Lanyard - £4.99
• Akedo x Harry Potter Houses Slytherin Lanyard - £4.99
• Akedo x SpongeBob SquarePants Lanyard - £4.99
• Akedo x DC Harley Quinn Lanyard - £4.99

We hope this helps a little bit with the back-to-school panic. Unfortunately, we can't help with the uniform, but good luck. The force is strong with the parents.