It’s that time of year again – kids are planning their school schedules, picking out first day of school clothes, packing up for the dorm room. Oh, I’m almost jealous!

Everyone knows IKEA is great for organization, storage solutions and furnishing small spaces, so it makes sense that IKEA is the place to go for Back to College.

Click through to see a Back To School checklist and find out where you can get a Buy One Get One free coupon for the IKEA Restaurant just for dropping off some pencils for needy schoolchildren…

Back to School in Style

IKEA South Philadelphia has put together an awesome page full of ideas for outfitting your dorm room. Find info on small space living, using wall space, creating a work space, making a comfy sleeping space and making sure your style shines through. IKEA South Philadelphia Back to School

Back to College Checklist

Download IKEA’s Back to College Checklist to take your dorm beyond the norm: IKEA Back to College Checklist. CollegeCheckList.pdf

IKEA Charlotte’s School Supplies Drive

This is the final week to help IKEA Charlotte support Classroom Central’s School Tools drive to collect new school supplies for students in the Charlotte area.

Suggested items include:

• Notebooks
• Binders
• Backpacks
• Pocket folders
• Packs of crayons, colored pencils, washable markers
• #2 pencils, erasers, sharpeners, pens

Collection bins are in the lobby entrance until the end of August. Drop off brand new school supplies like those suggested above to help school children get prepared for the upcoming school year. As a thanks for your generosity, IKEA Charlotte will give you a ‘Buy One Entrée, Get One Entrée Free’ coupon* for use in the restaurant. Win-win! Get all the details on the IKEA Charlotte activities page.

*Valid only at IKEA Charlotte through August 31, 2010.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 11:32 PM by Susan and is filed under IKEA Restaurant, Product Information, kids. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.