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Goth "Black to School" School Supplies
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items It's time for Back to School, and we thought you might like to see some gothic and dark alternative school supply ideas! We call it 'Black to School.'
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Goth Lunchboxes and Lunch Bags
Goth Backpacks
Goth Crayons, Pens, Pencils, Markers and Art Supplies
Goth Notebooks, Journals, Paper and Stationery
Goth Planners, Binders and Folders
Goth Lunchboxes and Lunch Bags
Take your lunch to school in a stylish goth or horror themed lunchbox or lunch bag. They're roomy enough for your sandwich or small bento box, your Thermos or beverage, and some snacks and treats.
This goth spiderweb lunch tote bag is insulated. Use it to bring your lunch, sandwich or spooky snacks with you to school or work.
Goth Spider Web Insulated Lunch Bag
If you prefer a retro metal tin lunch box to the soft sided totes, here's a cool Nightmare Before Christmas lunch box for you. It features Jack Skellington and Sally, and has a purple and black color scheme with lots of spirals. The back side feature...
Vandor Nightmare Before Christmas Jack & Sally Tin Tote
Here's an elegant gothic death's head moth lunch bag with handles and a crescent moon. Pack your lunch and arrive in style.
Death's Head Moth Lunch Bag
Tradgoths might enjoy this black and white lunch bag festooned with bats all over it. A nice nod to creatures of the night who feast.
Halloween Bat Insulated Lunch Bag Tote
Here's a Beetlejuice themed soft sided freezer bag lunch bag with "Never trust the living" on it.
Never Trust The Living Lunch Box Freezer Bag
This Beetlejuice soft sided lunch bag features the sandworm and a green Beetlejuice logo.
LOGOVISION Beetlejuice Sandworm Insulated Lunch Bag
This lunch bag for goths has two of my favorite things: black and white stripes, and a black cat!
Black Cat Black & White Striped Lunch Bag
Here's a goth lunch bag for Wednesday Addams fans. It has the Nevermore Academy logo on it, plus gray and black stripes.
Addams Family Wednesday Striped Lunch Bag
Goth Backpacks
I'm going to try to find some goth and horror backpacks other than from Loungefly, but let's face it, they really cornered the market on really cool pop culture backpacks. I suspect that with modern technology, kids don't have to haul so many big hea...
Here's a mini backpack in black and purple with bats all over it! It's from the Alternawear clothing shop on Etsy.
Mini Purple Black Bat Print Backpack Bag Halloween Goth
Here's a Haunted Mansion backpack for teenagers or adults. It features the iconic damask black and purple wallpaper pattern. The zipper pull is a bat, too!
The Haunted Mansion Backpack | Disney Store
Here's a Nightmare Before Christmas kids backpack in my favorite color - aqua! The figures shown include Lock, Shock and Barrel, The Mayor of Halloweentown, Dr. Finkelstein, a black cat, Oogie Boogie, Zero, and of course Jack and Sally. Plus lots, an...
Disney Nightmare Before Christmas Kids 16" Backpack
Here's a school backpack for fans of Hocus Pocus. It has all three Sanderson sisters on it: Mary, Sarah and Winifred.
Loungefly Disney Hocus Pocus Sanderson Sisters Bag
Loungefly envisioned the Hocus Pocus Sanderson sisters as adorable Chibi figures in this mini backpack.
Loungefly Hocus Pocus Chibi Mini Backpack Standard
Here's a figural backpack from Loungefly depicting the Sanderson Sisters house from Hocus Pocus. It's the mini size backpack from Loungefly.
Loungefly Disney Hocus Pocus Sanderson Mini Backpack
Here's a fun backpack for Disney Villains fans. It's the Disney Villains Frames backpack, and the really cool part is it glows in the dark! There's Ursula, Maleficent, the Evil Queen from Snow White, and also Hades.
Loungefly Disney Villains Frame Glow-In-The-Dark Mini Backpack
This backpack from Loungefly shows cute little animation style Hocus Pocus Sanderson sisters in a graveyard scene.
Loungefly Disney Hocus Pocus Double Strap Bag
If anyone is still a fan of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, here's a lovely blue and black floral backpack depicting Emily.
Loungefly Corpse Bride Floral Mini Backpack
Fans of Netflix's Wednesday series might enjoy this figural Nevermore Academy backpack for their schoolwork.
Loungefly MGM Wednesday Nevermore Mini Backpack
This cute Wednesday backpack shows Wednesday Addams as a Funko Pop.
Funko Pop! Wednesday Mini Backpack
This Nightmare Before Christmas mini backpack features an iridescent smiling Jack Skellington face. It's 11" tall.
Girls' Disney Nightmare Before Christmas Mini Backpack - Purple/Black
This Beetlejuice backpack cracks me up. He's doing Western style cosplay.
Loungefly: Warner Brother's Beetlejuice Western Cosplay Mini Backpack – Stylish, Compact Design
I thought this Nightmare Before Christmas "Zero" skeletal dog mini backpack was really cute.
Disney Nightmare Before Christmas Zero The Dog PU Leather Mini Backpack Tote Bag
For horror lovers, here's a Ghost Face from Scream mini backpack. As a bonus, it glows in the dark. Great for waiting on a dark winter morning for the schoolbus.
Glow in the Dark Ghost Face Horror Movie Character Black Mini Backpack
Goth Crayons, Pens, Pencils, Markers and Art Supplies
Here are black, sparkly, striped, or swirly composition books, notebooks, and binders, plus pens and pencils, paper and art supplies likely to be of interest to goths and dark alternative students.
Your little darkling will likely go through quite a few black crayons throughout their school year, so stock up via this bulk set of black Crayola crayons.
Crayola Black Crayons, 12 Count Refill
If your morbid little one draws lots of bloody scenes in their pictures, you'll need this red crayons refill for them!
Crayola Single Color Crayon Refill, Red
These black Post-it notes are useful for marking the best pages in your favorite Edgar Allan Poe story. If you have a silver gel pen, you can write notes on them.
Post-it Super Sticky Notes 3x3 Black 5 Pads
Why not use Halloween sticky notes throughout the entire school year? Use them to jot down quick morbid little thoughts, or mark the most macabre parts of your textbook to re-read again and savor later.
9 Pieces Halloween Sticky Note Pads, 450 Sheets
If you need to have some colored pencils on hand, here's the Black Widow colored pencil set, with black wood pencils and colored tips.
Black Widow 24 Wax Soft Core Colored Pencils
Just for fun, here are Sugar Skull "Smens" scented black ink pens. The scents include Strawberry, Orange, Cotton Candy, Grape, Pineapple, Lemon-Lime, Blueberry, and Black Cherry.
Sugar Skull Smens - Gourmet Scented Pens, 8ct
Here are black pencils from Ticonderoga, just waiting to help you jot down your darkest thoughts and deepest secrets. (That you might change your mind and want to erase later!)
Ticonderoga Wood-Cased Pencils, Pre-Sharpened, 10 Count
Cybergoths might enjoy writing with these gorgeous shiny silver holographic pencils from Ticonderoga.
Ticonderoga Noir Black Wood-Cased #2 Pencils, 12 Count
Here are spiderweb pencil pouches that goths can use inside their 3-ring binders.
CBBYY Goth Spider Web Pencil Pouches for Binder
These are Crayola's broad line (thicker) black markers. You'll have plenty of black ink to use to make your macabre artworks.
Crayola Black Broad Line Markers 12ct
These extra large crayons are perfect for chubby little babybat hands to hold onto them.
Crayola Large Black Crayons, 12 Count
You can use these Mystical Fortune Teller black pencils to write with, OR you can rub the barrel of one at random, while thinking about your question. It will turn colors and reveal your answer!
SNIFTY Mystical Fortune Telling Color Pencils
For pirate goths, here are skull & crossbones pencils with white erasers.
Fun Express Wooden Skull & Crossbones Pencils
These sugar skull colored pencils come in a gorgeous decorated tin. I can't wait to color in my El Dia de Los Muertos adult coloring book with these!
NPW-USA Sugar Skull Color Pencil Tin Set, 12-Count
Think of all the spooky little black creatures you could form from Crayola's black Model Magic modeling clay!
Crayola Model Magic Modeling Clay 4oz
Goth Notebooks, Journals, Paper and Stationery
If you're like me and want to take paper notes by hand, or write in your journal during class, here are some elegant, morbid and spooky notebooks and composition books you can use. You might also like to see some gothic stationery for your creepy pen...
I absolutely adore this gothic bookshelf sticky note pad! Great for writing down quick eerie thoughts.
Bookshelf STICKY Note | Memo Pad | Gothic Stationery | Books
Here's a basic black marbled composition notebook you can turn in for assignments. Probably want to have a half dozen on hand for your upcoming school year.
Black Marble College Ruled Composition Notebook, 7.5x9.25, 160 Pages
You could choose to take notes in class in this Haunted Mansion Journal instead of in a boring notebook. This journal features black and purple damask wallpaper designs on the endpapers. On the front it says Home of 999 Happy Haunts. Inside, the pape...
The Haunted Mansion Journal | Disney Store
I'd love to take notes or write an essay in this elegant black and white floral composition notebook. So pretty!
College Ruled Composition Notebook, Black Damask, 7.5x9.25, 160 Pages
Here's an elegant tone on tone black damask composition notebook with 100 sheets of paper inside.
Composition Notebook, College Ruled, 100 Sheets, Black Floral Damask
Here's a dark red damask pattern on a college ruled composition notebook. Perfect for vampiric essays!
Composition Notebook, College Ruled, 100 Sheets, Red Floral Damask
This is a spiderweb college ruled notebook you could use for classwork, or planning your Halloween haunt DIY projects.
DHGPTS Spiral Journal Notebook, A5, 60 Pages
Use black, silver or colored gel pens and markers to write on this black sketch paper.
Pacon Sketch Diary, Black
Here's a great morbid skull notebook for goths who love purple and lavendar.
College Ruled Skulls Notebook Halloween Purple Gothic
Here are sticky notes with Edgar Allan Poe and his quotes emblazoned across them. Use them to annotate your book or textbook, or to bookmark cool pages in a gothic magazine.
Unemployed Philosophers Guild Edgar Allan Poe Sticky Notes
If you need to jot something down quickly, here are Edgar Allan Poe sticky notes you can write on! There are four different designs.
Unemployed Philosophers Guild Edgar Allan Poe Sticky Notes
Goth Planners, Binders and Folders
Keep your dark academia school papers and notebooks together and organized with these gothic binders, planners and folders. I've also included some planners to help keep your school year organized.
Use this Graveyard Haunts tear away planner pages set to plan your spooky school weeks and months. They're from the PaperHaunt shop on Etsy.
Graveyard Haunts Planner Notepads - Tear-away Calendar - Tombstones and Ghosts - Gothic stationery
Pastelgoths and Summerween fans might enjoy this pink pastel vampire's coffin themed daily hourly planner notepad.
Vampire's Crypt Daily/ hourly planner Notepad- Spooky Cute Goth stationery
Keep your papers and schoolwork organized with these spiderweb binder clips.
Binder Clips - Black Web | Spiderweb | Halloween | School Supplies | Office | Teacher Gift | Goth | Spider Web | Journal | WFH
Here's a to-do list planner for the 2025-2026 school year for goths. It has bats all over the front. Inside, there are spooky cemetery decorations on the weekly planner pages.
Goth Checklist Planner, To Do List Planner, 2025-2026, Personalized Weekly Planner, Bats
Here's a gothic snakes tattoo art style clipboard to keep your school papers and homework organized.
Gothic Snake Mystical Clipboard School Office Supplies
Organize your witchy schoolwork with this Witchy Mystical Goth Clipboard, featuring stars, moons and celestial bodies.
Celestial Witchy Mystical Moth Goth Clipboard School Office Supplies
If you're the sort to really, really plan your future ahead, here's a gothic 5 year planner with goals, focus and to-do lists. Calendar weeks start on Sundays.
2025-2029 Five Year Monthly Planner with Goals
Here's a Skull-themed weekly planner for 2026. It comes with some stickers that say Vacay, Party, Celebrate, Cheers, Meeting, Office, Lunch, etc.
2026 Skulls & Spells Medium Weekly Monthly Planner
Here's a gorgeous black and purple floral Witch's Flower planner for 2026. It includes weeks and months, plus stickers you can use to annotate your days.
2026 Witch's Flower Medium Weekly Monthly Planner
This gothic anatomical heart planner for 2025-2026 includes a space for passwords and contacts, plus goals and notes. Inside, there are some Edgar Allan Poe themed illustrations.
Gothic Planner 2025-2026: 18 Months Weekly
This Waiting for the Night 2025-2026 planner includes moon phases. It comes with four sticker sheets.
ConQuest Waiting for the Night 2026 Weekly Planner, Goth Tarot Design, Spiral-Bound, 7x9