Kindergarten Teacher Christmas Tote Bag Love Candy Cane Lights

LOVE Spelled in Candy Canes and Christmas Tree Lettering

The L and the E come wrapped in green and red stripes, the V is dotted with tiny ornaments like a tree standing on its point, and where a round O might sit, a candy cane bends into a heart tied with a red bow and a sprig of holly. Under that, the word Kindergarten is written in soft, rounded handwriting, the kind a child could sound out letter by letter. A string of colored bulbs loops along the bottom edge. It is a lot of Christmas in one spot, and all of it is arranged around a single classroom.

Our Kindergarten Teacher Christmas Tote Bag is made for the teacher who spends December with a room of five- and six-year-olds and somehow keeps the glitter and the countdown chart moving in the same direction. It carries her picture books in the morning and the folders of crooked reindeer drawings she takes home to sort at night. The word on it is Kindergarten, spelled out plainly, so the bag says exactly which grade she belongs to. Colleagues will know. Parents at the winter concert will know too, and a few will ask where it came from.

We gave the lettering a candy-shop feel, with colored beads set along the stripes and holly leaves tucked in beside the heart. Children notice that kind of thing before adults do. A teacher crossing the schoolyard with this bag on her shoulder will collect a few pointing fingers and one or two shouts of candy cane. The string of lights underneath echoes the ones that go up in so many classrooms this time of year, so the bag feels like part of the room instead of something carried in from outside. By the last week before break, when the room is loud and everyone is a little tired, a bag like this gives her something cheerful to reach for.

Where Does a Kindergarten Teacher Christmas Tote Bag Go Besides the Classroom?

Beyond the classroom, this tote bag goes along to the school holiday concert and the staff gift exchange, then rides home with her for winter break. A classroom aide or parent volunteer who shares the room with her will find it just as fitting.

Hung on the hook by the classroom door, the row of tiny bulbs along the bottom sits right at the height of a five-year-old’s eye.