Back to School Mandarin Chinese Studies Supply List

It is now the most exciting time for everybody – the school is starting, teachers, parents and kids are all getting ready for the new school year! Most of the time, a child receives a supply list from school and knows what to shop. Sometimes we need a little bit help especially for a subject which may or may not be taught in the school. Here you are, we have come up with a Back to School Mandarin Chinese Studies Supply List. Hopefully it is going to be useful for teachers, parents and kids!

For sure, a child needs pencils, erasers, binders, paper and other common stationery items. Here I will list some items which are not sepcific for Mandarin Chinese learning:

STATIONERY FOR MANDARIN CHINESE LEARNING

Chinese Character Practice Book – Tian Ge Ben Notebook

This Chinese character practice book is perfect for Chinese learners at any age to practice Mandarin Chinese character writing.

Erasable Pens

This pack of 10 erasable pens let the students to write, erase, and rewrite repeatedly without damaging the paper Fantastic for students to take notes and practice writing.

Blank Flash Cards with Binder Rings

These blank flash cards are excellent for making flash cards for Mandarin Chinese vocabulary. The cards are small, perfect to carry around. The binder rings are easy to group and keep relevant cards together. It is easy to organize the cards by adding or removing cards.

Blank paper Business Cards Word Card

These cards have a nice weight and are plain white. One side is semi-glossy, the other side is uncoated. They are perfect for Chinese vocabulary study.

CLASSROOM | HOME SUPPLIES FOR MANDARIN CHINESE LEARNING

Calendar

Desk | Wall Calendar 2026-2027

We all need a good calendar. This Desk Calendar is large enough to be placed on an office desk. 22″ x 17″ Large Desk Pad Calendar Runs from July 2026 to December 2027

Pocket Charts

10-Pocket Standard Pocket Chart for Classroom & Homeschool

This pocket chart is very useful for teaching children simple words and sentences in Chinese. The 10 clear pockets are designed to fit all standard 3-inch sentence strips, word wall cards, letter cards, and flashcards.

Daily Schedule Pocket Chart with 18 Dry-Eraser Cards

Daily Schedule Pocket Chart are ideal for classroom and home using. Display your daily schedule, to do list, words of the day, etc. There are 13+1 Pockets, 13 Full size film pocket for regular schedule cards, 1 bottom tool pocket for cards not in use and stationery like markers, scissor etc. Save desktop space and being organized.

Dry Erase Items

Dry Erase Lapboard Classroom Set

The Dry Erase Lapboard set comes with 26 boards, 26 markers, 26 erasers. And this is a great set for an entire classroom. Reducing paper waste, boards are the excellent solution for going paperless. They are great to be used to introduce a fun, paperless solution to the classroom/home with student size whiteboards. These sturdy class whiteboards are single-sided and ideal for teachers and parents guiding Chinese learning activities. The dry erase board is large enough to work whole problems but small enough for young children to easily handle.

Dry Erase Pockets

These Oversized Reusable Dry Erase Pocket Sleeves with 2 Rings pockets can be used to store letter sized paper with the ability to write on them with dray erase markers. As we educate our children about environment sustainability, we need to find ways to minimize paper waste. This pack of reusable dry erase packets are good for classroom organization and group class work. The rings help keeping the sleeves together.

EXPO Low-Odor Dry Erase Markers

These dry erase markers are of high reputation. They are ideal for classrooms, offices and homes. They have fine tip for drawing thin, accurate lines and provide consistent, skip-free on whiteboards and most non-porous surfaces.

Board Self Adhesive Dry Erase Roll System

Sometimes we wish to be able to write on any surface, for a quick note, to explain something and so on. This board self adhesive dray erase roll system makes it easy and convenient to create a dray ease surface on any flat surface. Surfaces include wood, drywall, metal, plastic, brick, marble and more. It is perfect for home and school projects, reminders, coaching, chore charts, making lists, drawing, playing games and much more.

Printing Paper

Blank Business Cards

When learning Chinese vocabulary, we need flash cards. We can create flash cards by hand writing; we can also make flash cards with these blank business card.

Calligraphy Items

Wolf Hair Chinese Calligraphy Brush

When leaning Chinese, Chinese calligraphy is a fun and necessary activity. To practice Chinese calligraphy, we need good brushes, paper and ink. This set of brushes are made of wolf hair and wood handle. They are great for beginners to start Chinese calligraphy.

Chinese Calligraphy Black Ink

Excellent ink for Chinese calligraphy practice.

Chinese Calligraphy Brush Ink Writing Grid Sumi Paper

Chinese Calligraphy Paper, also called “Xuan paper”or “rice paper”,  is produced by traditional handicraft process, made from high quality bamboo. Specially offered for Chinese brush ink writing and Japanese or Kanji sumi writing. When writing Chinese Calligraphy, this Xuan Paper has a nice ability of ink diffusion. Standard Size grid. You can practice small characters in the small grids with Chinese brushes or big characters in the big grids(made up of 4 small grids).

Laminator and Paper Cutter

Scotch PRO Thermal Laminator and Pouches

If you are an educator, you know how useful a laminator is. We can use any laminated materials repeatedly and we can write on them with a dry ease pen many times. We can use laminator to help protect documents, photos and more

A4 Paper Cutter Slider Trimmer

For this one, I don’t need to emphasize the importance and usefulness of a paper cutter slider trimmer. This one has security blade and foldable ruler. Must have for a classroom or homeschooling.

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