5 Tips to Get Ready for Back to School

Ready for a new school year? Clean out your closets and start meal planning. These 5 tips for back to school will help you and your children be ready for that first day.

Ready or not, it’s almost time for the kids to go back to school! Where did the summer go? Seriously y’all this summer break whizzed by much too fast. Our first day of school is on August 10, so we’ve been hustling to get ready for back-to-school. Today I’m sharing some of the things we’ve been doing to get ready for school along with a reminder to be saving Box Tops for your school.

5 Tips to Get Ready for Back to School

Clean out your child’s closet and shop for clothes early. I recommend having your child try on last year’s school clothes to see what still fits. Grab a couple of Hefty Trash Bags and start a donate pile and one to keep. This year our donate pile was a lot taller than our keep pile. I can’t get over how much this child has grown the last few months. I have to tell you that T was a little embarrassed by the messy state of her closet when I took the below picture. Guess what she’ll be doing tomorrow? You guessed it, she’ll be cleaning her closet. Also, start shopping for school clothes early. I noticed some of my stores are already sold out of certain sizes.

Ready for a new school year? Clean out your closets and start meal planning. These 5 tips for back to school will help you and your children be ready for that first day.

Modify your bedtime routine. It’s a good idea to ease into your normal school year bedtime routine. I’ve been letting T stay up an hour or so later than normal this summer. We’ve already begun to ease back into an earlier bedtime, since school starts on August 10. What I recommend is one to two weeks before the first day of school start putting the kids to bed a little early each night. Doing your school bedtime for a week should be enough to establish a routine.

Prepare for the morning rush. Equally as important as a bedtime routine, is your morning wake-up schedule. We’ve been staying in our pajamas pretty late in the morning this summer, so getting used to the morning rush is important. Let your kids get use to waking earlier in the morning, at the time you have established for the school year. Rushing around in the morning before school can be very upsetting for your child, so be sure you have allowed enough time to wake up and prepare for the day. When we are too much of a rush, it is easy for things like lunch boxes and back packs to get left behind.

Start meal planning. I find meal planning to be essential during the busy school year. It ensures that a good meal finds its way to the table each night, and we don’t have a lot of waste. You know I’m a huge fan of freezer meals and using the slow cooker. Both are perfect for busy weeknights. Be sure to stock up on Reynolds Kitchens Slow Cooker Liners and Bakeware. Once or twice a month on the weekend, I spend a day preparing freezer meals. They are such a lifesaver during the week. The Reynold’s Bakeware is perfect for storing things like casseroles in the freezer. I don’t know what to say about slow cooker meals except that they are AMAZING and I can’t live without them. And, seriously don’t spend precious time scrubbing your slow cooker when Reynold’s Slow Cooker Liners make cleanup so easy.

Ready for a new school year? These 5 tips for back to school will help you and your children be ready for that first day.

Buy school supplies online. While I prefer trying on clothing in the store, I love buying things like school supplies online. There are a lot of online deals for school supplies, so save yourself the hassle of dealing with the crowds. Plus, Amazon has thousands of school supply lists available. Simply type in your zip code, to locate your school’s supply list. Easy peasy.

Box Tops for Education

Tati’s school is always looking for ways to earn money in order to buy things for the classroom or the playground. One of the ways they earn money for the classroom is through the Box Tops for Education program. I save our Box Tops throughout the school year and turn them in at the end of each grading period.

Ready for a new school year? These 5 tips for back to school will help you and your children be ready for that first day.

Box Tops for Education has always been a simple way for families to help raise money for schools. Since Box Tops are on many of the products we buy every day, the only extra effort involved is cutting off the Box Top and sending it in.

There are a lot of products that we already buy that help support schools. Reynolds Kitchens and Hefty proudly support the Box Tops for Education which means they are big supporters of schools.

Ready for a new school year? These 5 tips for back to school will help you and your children be ready for that first day.

What I love about all of these products help support school and have Box Tops on them. I love that I can buy products that I love and I can help support Tati’s school at the same time.

Even better, from now through August 29, you can enter to be one of 50 daily instant winners and enter to win the grand prize of $1,000 worth of Box Tops for your school! There will be a total of five schools will be chosen for the grand prize and you can enter once a day until 8/29. Be sure to bookmark the site and enter daily. Entering is easy, just click here

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  • OUr school collects box tops and the classrooms have contests, the kids get really into collecting box tops. What a great way to support your school.

  • These are very good tips and getting back to bed earlier a couple of weeks before school starts is important and getting school supplies early is important. I like buying school supplies online. So much easier!

  • Great tips and I know it is getting time for me to start with getting kids adjusted to earlier bedtimes and so many things changing. Even meals, they are hungry after school and want to eat earlier.

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