Back to School with Smiggle and the NEW Budz Range

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After what has seemed like forever since the kids even stepped foot in the school playground, parents everywhere (myself included) are trying to get back into some sort of routine ready for back to school next week! I don't know about you but despite having several months to prepare, the whole back to school thing seemed to creep up on me in the last few weeks. I think perhaps a little bit of denial that the summer had zoomed by so fast and all our usual days out and holidays have been abandoned, or just that time just slipped on by as days merged into weeks. Whatever the reason this week I have found myself dashing around trying to get everything together for the kids to go back to school.

Whilst most of the school shopping bores the kids, one job they do enjoy helping with is picking their lunchboxes, backpacks and stationary etc, especially when it means a trip to Smiggle!

Now I can't say I blame them as even as a grown women I love a trip to Smiggle. The shop always feel's so cheery, happy and a great vibe so I can see why the kids always want everything they see. However with everything going on we have been trying our best not to take the kids into too many unnecessary shops, but the kids were more than happy to sit down and have a good browse through the Smiggle website to choose some bits instead.

As well as all of the usual amazingly colourful items have, this year for back to school they have a great new range to browse, the Budz collection. The collection has the usual happy Smiggle feel and the products come in a range of designs from Bunnies and Unicorn Kittens to Sharks and Dinosaurs.

Evelyn decided to pick a Lunchbox and Drink bottle from the Budz collection both in a very cute purple design. The Budz double decker lunchbox features two generous sized compartments, is BPA free and features a completely food safe lining. It is insulated and easy to wipe making it perfect for school and being able to give it a good clean at the end of each day and the bright design will make it easily recognisable for your child on any lunch trolley.

She also choose a large plastic water bottle from the Budz range which feels strong and sturdy, holding over 500ml of water it will certainly keep her hydrated during the school day.

James is heading into year 6 this year but still loves a trip to Smiggle. He already had a lunchbox that we brought when he went back for a few days before summer. So instead he opted to get not one, but two water bottles! One for school and one for swimming although he is a nightmare for leaving his water bottle in school and having to take a spare in the next day so I am sure they will both end up being used for school.

He choose these two bottle which I absolutely love! The Wonder Stainless steel drink bottle holds up too 500ml and thanks to the insulated metal it can keep drinks hot or cold for up to 6 hours, perfect for keeping drinks cold in the summertime at school. It has a traditional style top with a cap that screws on and off. The second bottle, the Sip stainless steel bottle, holds 530ml and unlike many other stainless steel bottles actually has a sip spout sports bottle style top. The double wall insulated metal body helps keep drinks hot or cold for up to 6 hours too.

James also couldn't help but pick a few new bits of stationary for his pencil case. Whilst Evelyn doesn't have to take anything in yet as school provide stationary for them, James loves having his own set to choose from and will often use it for his homework too. He was so excited when he discovered that Smiggle do scented pencils and decided the "cookie" and "cola" scents sounded best. I have to admit these took me back to my days in school when we had the scented gel pens (who else remembers these!?) and the pencils from Smiggle smell exactly like cookies and cola which is amazing.

He also chose a sharpener with a pointed rubber on the end as well as a novelty hot dog rubber and a few other colouring pencils and pens.

Both kids loved picking their new bits for school from Smiggle and I think buying all the last few bits ready for back to school made it all so much realer for us all! Just 3 days left to go for us now and I think we are pretty much ready now (just the dreaded labelling to tackle now!).

Are you all ready for back to school? Did you take a trip to Smiggle to top up on any back to school products? If you did I would love to know what your kids chose in the comments below.

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**We received a Smiggle gift card to enable us to purchase items for the purpose of this post. However all words, opinions and images are my own.**