SUMMER’S nearly over — parents, control your glee — and we’ve got the cure for your tween’s back-to-school blues:

color! And lots of it.

Say goodbye to the mauves and burgundies of autumns past. These days, this famously finicky age group wants nothing but the best and brightest. From graphic tees and hoodies to jackets and jumpers, everything practically screams, “Look at me!”

We asked two Broadway pros — 11-year-olds Cassady Leonard, who plays Jane Banks in “Mary Poppins,” and Jeremy Gumbs, the young Simba of “The Lion King” — to model a few of this fall’s coolest looks. Here they are, all punchy plaids, great graphics and bold basics.