Simple Modern Fletcher Kids Backpack Review
The preschool backpack parents keep re-buying in a fresh print every August.
Simple Modern's Fletcher 12L kids backpack averages 4.8 stars for lasting a full school year. Here's what buyers love and the water-resistance catch.
Bottom Line
If you're outfitting a 3-to-6-year-old for daycare, preschool, or kindergarten, the Fletcher is an easy yes. Buyers overwhelmingly report a full year of use with the bag still looking new, it's light enough for little kids to carry, and the print options keep them excited to wear it. Just know it runs about $40 and isn't water resistant. For most parents here, it's the one they buy again.
IT COMES HOME LOOKING NEW
Durability is the loudest signal in these reviews. Parent after parent sends the bag through a full school year—summer camp, rough handling, the works—and pulls it out the next August still looking new. One mom ran it through the washing machine, against the hand-wash tag, and reported no damage. The reinforced stitching and thick polyester come up again and again.
LIGHT ENOUGH FOR A TODDLER, ROOMY ENOUGH FOR THE DAY
For the 3-to-6 crowd it's built for, the fit lands. At 1.1 pounds it's light enough that toddlers carry it themselves. The straps are padded, and the zippers move smoothly enough for small hands to work alone. Inside there's real room: a folder, a lunch box, a tablet in the padded sleeve, plus snacks and a spare outfit. Several buyers repurpose it as a diaper bag.
TWO HONEST CATCHES—PRICE AND RAIN
The catches are two. It's pricey for a preschooler's backpack, and despite what some buyers assume, the spec sheet lists it as not water resistant. Treat rain as its weakness, plan for the roughly $40 price, and you're getting a bag most parents re-buy in a new print the next year.
