Back-to-School Supply List Printable: Grade-by-Grade Checklists for K–12

August is five weeks away. The school supply lists are starting to appear — in the school’s app, in your inbox, posted in the Facebook group by the mom who is somehow always ahead on these things. You’re going to need folders, pencils, binders, colored tabs, a specific brand of composition notebook, and at least one item that every store in your area is already sold out of.

Here’s the problem: most school supply lists are handed out once, on paper, and immediately lost in the back of a folder you won’t find until October. Or they arrive as a blurry photo from another parent’s phone. Or — if you have more than one kid — you’re juggling three different lists in three different formats across three different grades, none of which overlap on a single thing.

This back-to-school supply list printable fixes that. One download, every grade K through 12, teacher-side included. Print what you need, check off as you shop, and actually get to August 15th without a last-minute Target sprint.

Why One Printable Checklist Beats the School’s List

Every family has a version of this moment: it’s a Tuesday night in late July, you’re standing in the school supply aisle at 8 PM, and you’re scrolling through four different apps trying to find the actual list. Is it a Google Classroom post? The school newsletter? That photo you screenshot two weeks ago and can no longer find? The teacher’s class website, which was last updated in 2024?

A printed checklist on the kitchen counter solves all of this. It doesn’t require a password. It doesn’t need wifi. Your kid can carry it to the store. Your partner can check off items without texting you. You can split the list across two shopping trips without doubling up.

And if you have more than one kid — a third grader, a seventh grader, and a high schooler, let’s say — a grade-specific printable checklist means you pull exactly the pages you need and leave the rest. No manual editing. No copy-pasting from a spreadsheet. Just print, name it, and go.

What’s Inside the Back-to-School Supply List Printable

This printable school supply checklist was designed to cover the full back-to-school prep season for families with kids at any grade level — and for teachers getting their classrooms ready before day one. Here’s exactly what’s included:

Grade-by-Grade Student Supply Checklists (K through 12)

A separate checklist for every grade — kindergarten through twelfth grade — with the supplies most commonly required at that level. The kindergarten list looks very different from the AP Chemistry list, and this printable reflects that. Each page is clean and simple: supply name, checkbox, optional “qty” and “notes” columns so you can write in what the teacher specified (like “1-inch binder, blue, not black” or “college-ruled only”).

Print the page for your kid’s grade, clip it to the counter, and work through it across multiple shopping trips. When it’s done, it’s done.

Teacher Classroom Wishlist Organizer

Teachers don’t get a supply list handed to them — they make one from scratch every August based on what survived the last school year, what got lost, what broke, and what their new classroom needs. This page gives teachers a structured wishlist format: what the classroom needs, priority level (must-have vs. nice-to-have), likely source (buy it yourself, send a parent request, put it on the class supply list), and an estimated cost column.

If you use this alongside the printable teacher planner, you can carry the classroom setup priorities directly into your August weekly plan — what needs to happen by the first day, and what can wait until week two.

First-Day-of-School Prep Checklist

The night before school starts is its own category of chaos. Backpack packed? Lunch made? New shoes found? Bus time confirmed? Alarm set? Outfit laid out? The first-day prep checklist is a single-page rundown of everything that needs to happen before 7 AM on that first morning — sorted into “night before” and “morning of” sections. Print one per kid, check the boxes, and stop the frantic searching at 6:45 AM.

Locker & Desk Setup Tracker

Middle schoolers and high schoolers often have to set up a locker on their own — and they consistently forget something useful. Combination lock? Shelf? Mirror? Extra pencils in the top? This tracker walks them through a basic locker setup and lets them check off what’s done before the first day. There’s a matching desk setup page for younger kids who have an assigned classroom desk to organize. It’s a small thing, but kids who are set up before the first day feel noticeably less anxious — and ask fewer “have you seen my...” questions by Tuesday.

If you have a middle or high schooler who needs support beyond the supply list, the middle & high school planner printable covers homework tracking, weekly schedule, and exam prep — a strong pairing for a kid who’s ready to take on more of their own planning this year.

Who This Back-to-School Checklist Printable Is For

This printable was built for three people who are all doing some version of the same August scramble:

Moms with multiple kids across different grades. You’re not managing one supply list — you’re managing three, and none of them are in the same format. This printable gives you a clean page for each kid’s grade so you can prep them separately, shop across multiple trips, and actually know when each one is done. No more “wait, is this for the third grader or the sixth grader?”

Teachers getting their classroom ready before August. The classroom wishlist organizer is especially useful in late June and July, when teachers are starting to plan what they need before the back-to-school chaos fully begins. It’s a clean way to figure out what to buy yourself, what to request through the school, and what to put on a parent supply request — before August forces all three into a single panicked weekend. Pair it with the printable teacher planner and you’ll go into the first week actually prepared.

Families who want to beat the August store rush. The best time to buy school supplies is before every other family in your district decides to do it at the same time. With a printable checklist ready now, you can start picking up items in early July — a few things each shopping trip — and be completely done before the shelves are picked clean. By the time August hits, all you’re doing is labeling backpacks, not sprinting through Target.

Anyone doing back-to-school all at once. If you want everything covered in one place — supply list, first-day prep, locker setup, classroom wishlist — the back-to-school bundle printable expands this into a full family system: mom planner, student planner, and teacher planner all in one $19 download.

How to Use It This Summer (Before August Arrives)

Five weeks feels like a lot until it’s two weeks. Here’s a simple timeline for using the supply list printable so you’re not doing everything at once:

Now (late June): Download and print the checklists for each of your kids’ grades. Post the teacher wishlist organizer on your planning station if you’re a teacher setting up your classroom. Take a quick inventory of what you already have from last year — crayons that still work, pencils, binders that survived. Cross those off the list.

Early July: Do your first supply run. Focus on the basics that are always the same: pencils, erasers, notebooks, folders, scissors. These are usually in stock in July; they’re gone by mid-August. Check off what you get.

Mid-July: Check the teacher’s specific list if it’s been published. Most teachers post their lists in July. Cross-reference with what you already bought. Grab any grade-specific or teacher-specific items. Teachers: now’s the time to work through the classroom wishlist and figure out what still needs to be purchased.

Early August: Do a final check. Use the locker/desk setup tracker to make sure middle and high schoolers have what they need. Do the first-day prep checklist the night before school starts — backpack, lunch, alarm, outfit, everything confirmed the evening before instead of the morning of.

That’s it. Four simple moments across five weeks instead of one chaotic night in August.

Browse all back-to-school and school year planning printables in the DoneByNoon printable shop. And if you want to try the planning approach before you buy, grab the free daily planning printable — it’s a good starting point for building any routine.

August Is Five Weeks Away. Print It Now.

The families who show up to the first day of school calm and organized didn’t luck into it. They started earlier — not much earlier, just enough to avoid the last-minute crunch that makes August feel like a freight train.

A printable school supply checklist is not a complicated system. It’s a piece of paper on your counter that tells you exactly what you need, lets you track what you have, and gets every person in your family on the same page before the first bell rings.

Print it today. Start checking things off. And get to September without the scramble.