SCHOOL MATERIALS

Preparing Your Child for La Rentrée

French schools do not provide all school materials. At the very youngest age you will need to purchase nothing. With the increasing maturity of your child, however, you will be expected to provide anything from pencils and crayons to exercise books and textbooks. When your child gets to secondary school (college) or high school (lycée) the costs mount.

You are not always given the list of items required during the summer holidays. Some schools wait until the first week of school, hence the panic…

What we do know is that all of these items will  need to fit into a backpack, big enough to take larger than A4 books….

A selection of backpaks and pensil cases. Which one is your favourite?

1. Blue Backpack

2. Super fun pencil case with a photo print

3. Beautiful pink / white pencil case by PakhuisOost

4. Black backpack with animal print

5. Backpack by Molo

6. Schoolbag

7. Normal is boring

8. Black / white backpack

9. Dinosaurs pensil case

10. Monster backpack by Molo

11. Diamond print backpack in blue / white by PakhuisOost

12. Pouch

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For the original post, see les Enfants a Paris blog

SHOP all bags and backpacks HERE

Vintage styles school Satchels

Vintage Style School Satchels for the Modern Child

Mon Premier Cartable for Children by Miniseri

Satchel shaped school bags are still commonplace in the United Kingdom and the Continent, particularly in France, where they are enjoying a fashionable resurgance in popularity thanks to brands like Miniseri. Founded in 2007, Miniseri initially launched as children’s satchel company and was known for it’s sweetly innocent “mon premier cartable” design which translates as “my first bookbag.” In the United Kingdom, leather satchels never really went out of style and brands like the Cambridge Satchel Company have also crossed over to the United States.

In homage to the practical past of when durability was favored over disposability, satchels bring back an appreciation for high quality school bags meant to survive the wear and tear of the young, active student. Not to mention they’re also really adorable.

For mummys throughout Europe it’s quite easy to get a hold of a child size satchel with many online retailers like Orange Mayonnaise offering a great selection of satchels. However, for mothers Stateside it can be harder to find satchels. So we scoured the internet and did the work for you and found Miniseri retailers that ship to the United States, so your petite etudiante can have some vintage style in the modern class.

Carousel Satchel by Miniseri

Online Retailer Orange Mayonnaise also ships to the United States 

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SHOP Miniseri HERE or all our (school) bags HERE 

SCHOOL BAGS for boys

On continue sur notre lancée de dimanche dernier avec une sélection de sacs, mais pour vos mini mâles cette fois. 
Il y a moins de choix que pour les petites nanas mais on trouve quand même quelques cartables sympas.

Vous vous rappelez du sac Petit plus de Miniséri utilisé dans le look écolière il y a quelques semaines?? mais siii souvenez vous le rose avec un imprimé “qui fait comme ci qu’on avait tous plein d’objets sympas dedans : des lunettes, une poupée, un canard en plastique!” oui très utile pendant les heures de classe! (pour celles qui ne l’ont pas vu voici le lien (www.lesenfantsaparis.com/back-to-school)
Et bien ils font le même mais version petit macho avec un imprimé voiture, avion et bicyleeetteuuh, on l’aime celui là.

Mais notre coup d’étoile va au cartable en toile (pour les moins sérieux, parce que si ton fiston emmène tous ses bouquins à l’école je ne donne pas beaucoup de temps à la durée de vie de ce sac ^^) Bobo Choses avec un joli imprimé “Forêt”pour les futurs écolos.

FJALLRAVEN

DANDY STAR

ZOWIE

BOBO CHOSES – Shop here

MINISERI – Shop here

Allez, je vais vous concocter un petit look pour la semaine prochaine, ciao mes fidèles mamounettes 

For the original post, see Les Enfants a Paris !!