The Official Home & Dining Channel Back to School Kick Off

It’s back to school time! Our Home & Dining Channel is kicking it off in some fine H&D style today! All the blogs here at H&D got together so that we could bring you the best back to school tips possible.

With the exception of me here at Offbeat, (seriously are there really offbeat school tips?) the H&D channel has lots of great stuff that you need to know to get your kids back to school with style, organization, and the everlasting bagged lunch.

Here are the offerings:

Maricar has the MOST AMAZING idea at Keeping the Castle for back to school Bento; seriously, your kids will be the envy of the lunch table. Maricar has seriously earned her bold print — go see her post because I think you’ll agree.

BUT the rest of Home & Dining is rocking out the back to school tips as well…

Julie Bonner over at Declutter It has tons of tips that will get you and your kids organized and ready for back to school time, in no time flat. Trust me, they’re easy and anyone can follow them.

If you think that Heather over at Chocolate Bytes is just here to tell you to jam pack the kids lunches with yummy chocolate; well, you could not be more wrong. Heather came up with the coolest chocolate ideas for back to school that I’ve ever seen — go check it out. That’s an order!

If you want to be able to afford to send your kids to college later on, be sure to check out Deborah’s helpful money saving back to school info at Simply Thrifty.

At Foodie Obsessed, Tracey Thompson tells you how to quit worrying about how to pack creative lunches that your kids will eat and gives you the tools you need to simply get packin’.

Noel Bautista has a great recycling project you can do with your kids that will help them learn to save the environment and get them ready for school in style, over at Unplugged Living .

Mother Earth’s Garden tells you how to impress all those new teachers and gives tips on how to help your kids concentrate. (always useful).

And what, dear readers, am I suggesting?

Well for starters, I think you should try out these fly methods of transportation and for two maybe try to find a newer school than this:

Fox Creek is an old 19th century cottonwood limestone schoolhouse in Kansas. It looks cool and all, but the last thing your kid needs is the school falling down on his head while he’s trying to learn to spell Mississippi.

Too new?

Here’s the official oldest wooden schoolhouse in the United States; St. Augustine, Florida to be exact:

Yikes! Scary. Built in the 1700s, some say that it’s haunted. I say it looks full of spiders. But look there are still some teachers there…

Hey, wait… there’s something not quite right about these school attending folk? Hmmm.

Good luck getting your little ones back to school!

[Fox Creek photo via :Kansas Geological Survey]