The end of the school year is rapidly approaching, and with my youngest set to start Reception in September I’m already thinking about all the kit he’ll need, and crucially that it will all need labelling!
Never underestimate how easily children lose things at school. My boys go to a huge primary school with 120 kids in each year, so if they happen to mislay a fleece, if it’s not labelled you’ll just never see it again.
When Sam’s PE kit comes home at the end of each term, without fail there will only be one plimpsole. What has he been doing in PE since he lost it – hopping?! On the upside at the end of half term it suddenly reappears. What goes on at school is a genuine mystery to me.
So let’s move on to the labels themselves. I favour the bright and colourful, so ever since we’ve needed labels i’ve shopped with Stuck On You.
My verdict: The website is fab and you can customise the colours, fonts and even choose little drawings to make them individual to your child.
The iron on labels truly stay put, the stickers have remained really well on water bottles and packed lunch boxes and the shoe dots are totally essential for helping kids find their generic pair of black shoes in the pile in the corner of the classroom.
I always opt for the value packs which give plenty of choice and means you can keep labelling things throughout the year if you’ve got a stash of them waiting in a drawer.
For Arlo’s first year at school Stuck On You kindly sent me the Kids Designer Value Pack to try which you can see here. I love the fun designs and badge to put on his bag. I’m keeping it as a surprise for just before he starts, but I know he’s going to LOVE it!
Price £29.99
Pack includes:
50 Name Labels
50 Clothing Labels
1 Bag Tag
For Sam I usually get the 5+ pack, but as I’ve got a fair few left i’ve opted for the Split Pack to top up what I have.
£14.99
Pack includes:
25 small name labels
25 iron on labels
Win win win!
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socks! There must be a sock eating monster somewhere in our home as all four of my kids lose single socks!
My little girl has a Tangle Teezer which she loves but which we spend hours hunting round the house for at least once a week!
school cardigans especially in this hot weather.
Nice prize
Dummy
His rattle! so annoyinh.
school jumpers
SHOES!! SHOES!! SHOES!!
They put them down then when you ask where their shoes are its like erm they have went missing from where i left them so unless it’s a magic pair of shoes they have which can walk without people using them then it must be a ghost.
My nephew loses his school sweater all the time! x
I’ve subscribed via YouTube x
+1’d on Google + x
dear god it has to be socks i have about 18 socks with no pair
I agree with some of the other posters – socks. We seem to go through so many!
Sunglasses and then moans he cant go out without them!
Hats – winter or summer it doesn’t matter, they all go missing never to be seen again!
For some reason my son always looses one sock in PE – he then walks around with just the one sock on rather than put his football socks or take both socks off and go bare foot!!! It makes me laugh when I see him come home with just one bare ankle peeping from his trousers!
Socks !!!
Has to be socks!
socks
Socks
PE shorts!
SCHOOL JUMPER AND THEIR TIE ….. on the 4th tie for my son this year 🙁 @chanson2010
subscribed via you tube as nicci cowdell-murray
following on google + as nicci cowdell-murray
Socks and gloves are the nightmare items for going missing – but just one of each pair !
his sunglasses
subscribe on youtube
follow on g+
He lost his books more often than not although I think that was a ploy for him not to do any homework.
His head is the only thing he hasn’t actually lost- my teenager.
Google+ed it!
In this sunny weather he always seems to lose his sunglasses!
I’ve subscribed to Youtube
+1 on Google
water bottle – weekly!
Homework-he always loses it, although saying that, I found his homework sheet in the bottom of his drawer the other day! Cheeky!
School jumpers – I don’t know what happens to them! he takes them off and they never return
hair bobbles!
i follow on bloglovin as ashlallan and with google plus as ashleigh allan
PE t shirts
School jumper,I’ve probably bought about 6 this year!Luckily our school is really good and if it’s labelled will always return it promptly.
Jumper.
Following on pininterest.
Her colouring things. x
Socks!
Dummy
Hair bobbles and clips… I’m constantly buying more. Her socks too 🙂
school cardigans especially in this hot weather
shoes .x
water bottles
socks
all done on you tube .x
and on g+ from Hannah staveley
Hats, I’ve lost count of the number we have lost over the years.
Definitely hats!
Cardigans and Jumpers!
socks
Socks!
His shoes
her fleece, and they are not cheap to replace
Their coats. I don’t know what they do with them!
Shoes
Subscribed on YouTube as Maya Russell
Socks!
Her mickey mouse toy xx
Her doll 🙂
His patience! That and his angry birds stickers.
glasses
I’ve subscribed to You Tube channel 🙂
My nephew is always losing his homework satchel and his t-shirt, don’t know how he manages
During the colder months our daughter always loses one of her gloves. Think I will just buy several pairs of the same gloves, so I can just replace the one shes lost
I have followed on google+ as emma lowe
Library books
his coat
school cardis, ive lost count of how many
Hairbrushes
My little girl just seems to endlessly loose all her hair clips. You would think pretty hair clips and bobbles are really cheap, but when you need to buy them all the time to replace lost ones then they soon add up 🙂 eek!
Followed on Youtube 🙂
His socks
Socks
homework
Socks!
a cardigan or jumper
subscribed on you tube
done on G+ too
his ipad
socks!
Her school cardigans 🙂
One glove and we’re left with one useless one!
Teddy
Reading books are always walking off
Cardigans 🙁
Socks ;D
Gloves! At least they’re not needed at the moment!
Socks!
Coats. Seriously.
Hats – I just don’t know where they go!
socks!
The tv remote
OMG has to be ‘George’, a six inch tall stuffed hippo shes had since she was a toddler and always takes to bed with her. We spend most nights searching the house for him and have found him in the strangest places, my most favourite being one of her sandals in the cupboard under the stairs!
My little girl is forever losing her gloves and hats
School cardigan
her bunny forever searching for it 🙂
His shoes
Their comfort blankets – seem to spend forever trying to find them!
His school jumper
Socks – I have no idea where they go!
My son loses his PE kit the most often; it all has his name in it too so not quite sure what happens to it. I’ve had awful thoughts of him finding a huge bag of his long lost PE kit in one whole chunk at the end of the year, phew!
scarfs and gloves
teddy x
shoes! They always seem to be vanishing oddly enough
Her lunchbox 🙂
Socks
these would be perfect for my little ones pe bag inside his shoes
Her hat, gloves or scarf!
Subscribed on YouTube. The link to my YouTube profile is: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Fnj1KcalTDkdR5H5XFpjg
Followed and +1’d on Google+ as Alexandra McGahey
The television remote!
slippers!
His school jumper.
Socks. At least one of each pair.