Most of a school supply list is already in a drawer somewhere in your house. This sheet exists to be walked around the house with a pen before anyone goes to a shop, with two lines at the bottom for what's genuinely missing.
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Check off what you already have, then shop for the rest.
School year
Supplies
Backpack
Pencils and erasers
Pencil case
Colored pencils
Safety scissors
Glue sticks
Ruler
Notebooks
Folders
Lunch box
Water bottle
Gym shoes and kit
Reading book
Tissues for the class
You're doing great this week.
Check off what you already have, then shop for the rest.
School year
Supplies
Backpack
Pencils and erasers
Pencil case
Colored pencils
Safety scissors
Glue sticks
Ruler
Notebooks
Folders
Lunch box
Water bottle
Gym shoes and kit
Reading book
Tissues for the class
You're doing great this week.
Check off what you already have, then shop for the rest.
School year
Supplies
Backpack
Pencils and erasers
Pencil case
Colored pencils
Safety scissors
Glue sticks
Ruler
Notebooks
Folders
Lunch box
Water bottle
Gym shoes and kit
Reading book
Tissues for the class
You're doing great this week.
Check off what you already have, then shop for the rest.
School year
Supplies
Backpack
Pencils and erasers
Pencil case
Colored pencils
Safety scissors
Glue sticks
Ruler
Notebooks
Folders
Lunch box
Water bottle
Gym shoes and kit
Reading book
Tissues for the class
You're doing great this week.
Check off what you already have, then shop for the rest.
School year
Supplies
Backpack
Pencils and erasers
Pencil case
Colored pencils
Safety scissors
Glue sticks
Ruler
Notebooks
Folders
Lunch box
Water bottle
Gym shoes and kit
Reading book
Tissues for the class
You're doing great this week.
Check off what you already have, then shop for the rest.
School year
Supplies
Backpack
Pencils and erasers
Pencil case
Colored pencils
Safety scissors
Glue sticks
Ruler
Notebooks
Folders
Lunch box
Water bottle
Gym shoes and kit
Reading book
Tissues for the class
You're doing great this week.
Check off what you already have, then shop for the rest.
School year
Supplies
Backpack
Pencils and erasers
Pencil case
Colored pencils
Safety scissors
Glue sticks
Ruler
Notebooks
Folders
Lunch box
Water bottle
Gym shoes and kit
Reading book
Tissues for the class
You're doing great this week.
Check off what you already have, then shop for the rest.
School year
Supplies
Backpack
Pencils and erasers
Pencil case
Colored pencils
Safety scissors
Glue sticks
Ruler
Notebooks
Folders
Lunch box
Water bottle
Gym shoes and kit
Reading book
Tissues for the class
You're doing great this week.
Check off what you already have, then shop for the rest.
School year
Supplies
Backpack
Pencils and erasers
Pencil case
Colored pencils
Safety scissors
Glue sticks
Ruler
Notebooks
Folders
Lunch box
Water bottle
Gym shoes and kit
Reading book
Tissues for the class
You're doing great this week.
Check off what you already have, then shop for the rest.
School year
Supplies
Backpack
Pencils and erasers
Pencil case
Colored pencils
Safety scissors
Glue sticks
Ruler
Notebooks
Folders
Lunch box
Water bottle
Gym shoes and kit
Reading book
Tissues for the class
You're doing great this week.
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Check off what you already have, then shop for the rest.
School year
Supplies
Backpack
Pencils and erasers
Pencil case
Colored pencils
Safety scissors
Glue sticks
Ruler
Notebooks
Folders
Lunch box
Water bottle
Gym shoes and kit
Reading book
Tissues for the class
You're doing great this week.
Pick the age band, or clear the list and type in your school's own.
Print it before you shop, not after.
Walk the house and tick everything you already own.
Write what's genuinely missing on the "Still to buy" lines.
Take the sheet shopping — it's the shortlist now, not the full list.
Scissors, rulers, glue sticks and half-used packs of colored pencils accumulate. A supply list handed out in August rarely accounts for that, and the default behaviour is to buy the whole thing again. Ticking off what's already in the house first is the entire saving, and it takes about ten minutes.
The two lines at the bottom are what you actually take to the shop. Everything above them is a record of what you didn't need to buy.
Preschool is mostly consumables and comfort: chunky crayons, glue sticks, a change of clothes, a nap mat. Elementary adds the tools of written work — pencil case, scissors, ruler, notebooks, folders. Middle school shifts again to organisation and independence: a binder with dividers, highlighters, a calculator, a planner, a gym lock, headphones.
Most schools do, and it usually arrives as a wall of text in an email or a photo of a photocopy. Clear this checklist and type theirs in one item per line — you get the same tick boxes, the same two columns, and something a child can help work through instead of a paragraph only an adult can parse.
Yes — clear the list and type theirs in, one item per line. The layout and tick boxes stay.
Yes, pick the tween age band for a binder, calculator, planner and lock rather than crayons.
Yes — add each child's name and download one sheet each; there's no limit and no account.
Yes. Turn on ink saver for a version with no filled colour areas at all, or pick the Minimal style.
Yes, no account or payment, and the PDF has no watermark.
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