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Our littlest one is off to three year old preschool this year. Super exciting for him and me, but also a little sad for me too!
Receiving a $100 voucher from Big W to check out their ‘rough & tumble/every day wear’ range of clothing for 0-4 year olds, could not have come at a better time. When he heads off to preschool, I want him to look smartly dressed, but want him to be wearing clothes that he can play, explore and be creative in.
To be honest, our little one would do all those things in anything he wore. I on the other hand would not be so happy to see paint go over expensive jeans, nor grass stains on delicate tops!
The every day wear range for preschoolers at Big W, gives you a broad selection of good looking clothes to choose from and at super prices. These are the perfect type of clothes for preschool/kinder.
We picked up a couple of pairs of these very cute jeans for only $9. He is a light weight, so the elasticized waist in the jeans will be needed. Thankfully they are the type where the elastic is sewn into the jeans, so we can’t lose it in the waistline of the jeans, like we have done on so many other pairs.
As the mornings are starting off cool here in Melbourne already, I wanted to get him a couple of long sleeve t-shrits, for the walks to school and preschool. I let him choose the designs he wanted. I knew very well he would choose the dinosaur one! They were only $4.48 so we picked up one with a dog on it too.
I have always found Big W to have the best range of Bonds clothing. I have a soft spot for babies in Bonds stripes, so would head to Big W first off to purchase the Bonds suits I needed for our babes.
The Bonds range now extends up to size two for many items. Even though our littlest is three, the Bonds size 2 fits him perfectly, so we picked up this 3/4 sleeve ribbed t-shirt for him for only $13.92.
We are currently still mastering one element of toilet training (it is driving me crazy!), so we picked up some more underwear as well. The underwear and sock sections for kids in large stores can often be quite a mess, making it hard to find the sizes you are after. Not the case when we visited our local Big W. It was neat, well organised and it was easy for the little one to choose his “Thomas jocks”.
By the end we had purchased six tops, three pairs of jeans and new underwear, all for just under $100 – such amazing value. Being the youngest in a family of five and seeing all his siblings wear school uniforms, he is now referring these to as his kinder clothes.
These clothes will be his pseudo uniform for kinder. Clothes that look great, were value for money and will cope with the heavy duty action our three year old will give them at kinder this year.
Most of the clothes we purchased are featured in the current Big W catalogue (ends 15/2), which can be found online here.
Next week, I will be able to show you just how cute our littlest one looks in all his new preschool clothes (and of course I am not biased!). You will also be able to have the chance to win a $100 Big W voucher as well!
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So jealous that your Big W had the boys $9 jeans! I lucked out in two stores. The girls ones are great though. I was pretty impressed with the quality of the clothes and ‘crash tested’ them by sending the kids off to daycare in them after the photo shoot. CrashBoy was very thorough in ‘crash testing’ his long sleeve printed tee. Will have to see how it comes out in the wash
In hindsight I wished I bough a couple of pairs in the size up too of those jeans – such great value!
This is a great idea. I’d never thought of Big W as a good option for preschool clothes. I think Target is great for this stuff but this range is much cheaper. Now, any tips for how to argue with Nearly 3 year old who wants to wear her best party dress EVERY SINGLE DAY?
That is hard when they want to do that isn’t it!
Hey Kirsten,
I had the same princess problem! In the end I took her to an op-shop and let her choose a couple of well-loved party dresses that she could wear any time she wanted to, and save her REALLY good ones for special times.
As she’s getting older her dress collection is growing, so I’ve been less strict about when she can wear the better ones – I hated her growing out of pretty clothes so quickly that we’d only get 1-2 wears out of them!
Wow you did well for $100! I’ve loved seeing what everyone else bought with their voucher!
btw your little one’s hair is so cute!
corrie;)
I was amazed at how much I got for my money. (His hair is pretty wild!)
I am a huge fan of BigW kids stuff – I also notice it really does last – I pass on a lot of “Fun Spirit” stuff to friends once its outgrown – and it never deams to wear out?
Their girls stuff (age 7+) is also much more “age appropriate” for little girls, I find…
Your little one has the most sensational hair BTW…
I agree with the hand me down ability – we have passed down a number of camo patterned shorts in this family. Which is saying something as the boys are so hard on the knee area.
PS. About the hair, I have just seen the photos taken by Rachel for the next post and my goodness, I know I am biased as I am his mum, but he looks soooooo cute! As does our new puppy too
Great to know, as our eldest starts pre-school in March (once she’s three). She’s very (very) independent these days and I think that having her choose her own clothes at the shop may make it easier to have her dressed in appropriate pre-school outfits, rather than her favourite dresses.
It’s a whole new world out there for me – glad to pick up tips as I go. Thanks!!
Having a preschool draw like Katie suggests below is a great idea for kids who like to choose what they wear themselves. It takes away the fight over what they can and can’t wear. As much as it can be frustrating at times, I do really like that my kids have wanted to choose their own clothes.
When our son started 3yr old kinder last year we created a kinder draw and he knew everyday he went to kinder he would go to that draw and pick what he wanted to wear as it was all labelled and ready to go with long & short tops, shorts etc. He choose what he wanted in that draw with 4 t-shirts, 3 long tops and couple pair of shorts etc. Clothes were from target and have washed well.
The preschool draw is such a good idea – I just recommended to Brooke who commented prior to you as well. Thanks for sharing Katie.
After receiving some cash for christmas, I went to Big W too and bought a stack of the Fun Spirit clothing for Mr3 to wear to preschool. he looks so cute in the clothes, and so far they are lasting. We haven’t had them long enough to see how well they will last to hand down to his little brother.
I hope Mr3 is enjoying preschool. Our three year old had his first morning today and absolutely loved it!
We’re huge fans of Big W for Olive’s clothes too. Being creative, I know that there’ll be many paint stained sleeves and pants coming home to me this year from kinder. For the price you don’t mind if they get stained. And I agree that they wash and wear really well. Looking forward to hearing about the comp!
The comp is great and I saw the photos last night taken of our little one by the very clever photographer – they are so gorgeous!
Owh I need to get to the shops before all the winter goodness is sold out – it goes so fast! I have a “Kindy clothes” drawer where all my little man’s stuff goes. Elasticised shorts are the main staple – need to consider the toilet issues!
Off to get a $5 Dino top from Big W!! Great value.
We’ve got a new kinder girl this year and i’m ‘learning’ to dress my daughter in all the ‘old’ clothes that i’m not going to freak out when they’re covered with paint splotches!
Now child6 has started primary school[which he loves} i only have child7 andchild8 at home with me.We have found that we are doing lots of messy making activities together so a well deserved trip to BigW might be the activity we will do this week. I hope the girls stuff they have is as durable as the boys that you described ,girls can be rough and tumbled too. Off to find some bargains times two. Thanks.
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