How To Keep Your Child’s Backpack Clean And Organized

Introduction

A child’s backpack for school is a secret garden of education and delight. It contains everything, from their tiffin box to their books to their pencil pouches. Earlier, there had been little concern for designing backpacks for school for kids. However, recent decades and rising lifestyle changes have brought innovation and new ideas in the field of backpack design for children.

Now, school backpacks have everything, from wheels and trolley handles to princess-themed designs. However, before you dismiss them as a fancy delight, it is imperative to keep their increasing book load in mind. Choosing the right backpack to combat their academic load and delight their senses is essential for their physical and mental well-being.

It will make them much more willing to go to school, actively move with their bags throughout the day, and return home to do all the hard work some more at various tuitions. As your child’s life is getting more cluttered by the minute with academic and co-curricular engagements.

It is important to start decluttering their lives, even if it starts with organizing and cleaning their backpacks. Make it a weekly bonding activity. Here are some tips on keeping backpacks clean, and organized, and making the process fun.

Tips On Keeping Your Child’s Backpack Clean And Organized

Choose A Suitable Backpack

It is crucial to choose a suitable backpack for your child’s needs. It should be appropriate for their age and suit their coordination and motor skills. Also, as your kids grow up, their subjects increase, as do their co-curricular and sports demands at school. It is ideal to choose a bag with adequate space, compartments, and a suitable Velcro or zipper option for your child. Do let them pick and choose the design and theme of their backpack, as they will be the ones proudly displaying it throughout the school year.

Start Empty

Always start with an empty backpack. If the backpack is new, then your job is half done. But if it is not, then you and your kid must empty the bag first. Make them sort their backpack possessions into two separate piles, one for books and stationery and the other one for miscellaneous items like tiffin boxes, umbrellas, water bottles, and so on. This will help make re-organizing them much easier. Always remember to shake the emptied bag over the bin once to get rid of errant crumbs, papers, and dust.

Sort School Supplies

Once the piles are separated into school and miscellaneous, things get easier. But if you are packing a new backpack, then it is ideal to separate things into further categories of stationery, books, notebooks, physical training uniforms, and so on. Then your child can pack their pencil box or pouch with pens, highlighters, pencils, and so on, before turning to arrange books and notebooks according to school routine. This organized manner helps keep school backpacks tidy and well-arranged.

Curate A Backpack Checklist

To custom-make a backpacking checklist, you can either use a luggage tag checklist, print available online ones, or make your own at home. Attach it to your kid’s backpack, with their name and phone number on the back (in case of misplacement). This way, your kid will be far less likely to lose things and organize their backpack at school for returning home. They can simply refer to the backpacking checklist. This will solve the problem of missing bottles and tiffin boxes to a large extent.

Map The Backpack

After everything is organized in your child’s backpack and the backpack tag has been attached as well, make a map of the backpack’s contents together. This can involve drawing and coloring the backpack while labeling its various compartments with its contents. Your child can keep it at the front of their bag or in a special backpack compartment for reference, while you can have a copy at home as well.

Create An Exclusive Home-School-Home Folder

It is essential to keep a special folder in your child’s backpack for home-school-home communication. This means that any paperwork, classwork, permission slip, letter, or school document passed out can be stored safely in it and brought home. And any letter or communication from home that must reach school, shall be stored there. Remind your child to be updated on the folder and check in regularly to keep track of school activities and occurrences.

Conclusion

Make backpack cleaning a binding and fun activity to engage in with your kids every week or twice every month. Include snacks and beverages, playing music, organizing things, and use stickers and other fun stationery to make it appealing and engaging to them. Also, remember to check in with the folder every day to stay up to date with your child and their academics. Try this guide to keep your child’s backpack clean and organized with a little hard work.