Bradburn’s Parent Teacher Stores

Good store for teaching supplies! Also would be good for a parent with young kids. There are lots of games, workbooks, stickers, posters, art supplies and more. It’s not huge, but you can find pretty much anything teaching related.
I am a teacher, and I brought a teacher visiting me through a teacher exchange program here. She was from Uruguay and had money to spend on buying supplies for her classroom. $ 150 later, we were walking out. Success!

As others have stated, I am not a teacher but I love this store.
I love there selection of stickers, rubber stamps and supplies for making posters. My work on occasion has required me to make motivational/​sales posters and I have found many fun things to give them a fun twist.
It is also a great place getting gifts for the little people.
The staff is very helpful and friendly. I can see why teachers love this store.

I should give a disclaimer and confess that I used to work here in high school. So I wasn’t exactly new to the store. Not only had my teacher mom dragged me there every summer, but I had to stock the shelves and do the displays throughout high school. However, I have to give credit where it’s due and it’s a damn cool store. I’ve just moved from another city and went to another teacher store to get stickers for a project and the whole time I walked around that other store, I kept thinking «This just isn’t as cool as Bradburns»
I bought my son an easel for a Christmas gift. A chalkboard/​whiteboard easel. But I was having the hardest time finding a decent box of colored chalk (not sidewalk chalk) and a chalkboard eraser. Plus, I couldn’t find a decent box for all of his crayons. So I figured I’d go to Bradburn’s remembering all of the crayola stuff I’d had to stock. Sure enough, they had everything I needed. Chalk, eraser, crayons, plastic pencil boxes…plus stuff I didn’t even realize I’d need like a smock (for under $ 10!), crayons specially made for a whiteboard and a rolling pin for his play-​dough. Then I let myself roam the aisles and found so many other cool things – giant floor puzzles, wooden puzzle racks, BrainQuest games for all ages. .. just tons of stuff that I have a new appreciation for now that I’m a parent. Really cool stuff! I bought a book for him about how he shouldn’t pull the dog’s tale and signed up for the mailing list.

No, I am not a teacher. However, I love office supplies. Well, not office supplies as much as really really nice pens. Whenever I want a really nice pen, in any color really, I always go here, because they have a huge selection and they don’t care at all if you stand there and test them out for hours on end before purchasing one. Let me tell you, this was vitally important to me in law school since I took all my tests handwritten… imagine 4 hours of writing about contract law with a bad pen… seriously, Bradburns was a savior.
Otherwise, this is a great little store for teachers. They have everything you could want from paper to decorations to those ridiculous posters everyone had in their first grade classroom. It’s a one stop shop. It’s also great for kids that like to play school. I had a friend growing up that loved to come here to make her fake classroom. I am not kidding, her basement was a fake classroom… I was a little jealous.
It’s not cheap like a Wal-​Mart but it’s not expensive either. Definitely a good place to stop for office supplies, school supplies, or just random pens… like me.