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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.

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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

Arlo's labels for back to school

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

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Stuck On You have very generously given me 2 x £20 vouchers away – one each for two lucky winners!

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Comments

  1. Tracy Nixon says

    socks! There must be a sock eating monster somewhere in our home as all four of my kids lose single socks!

  8. adeinne says

    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.

  13. Alfredo Vazquez says

    I agree with some of the other posters – socks. We seem to go through so many!

  15. Rachael G says

    Hats – winter or summer it doesn’t matter, they all go missing never to be seen again!

  16. Beky Austerberry says

    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!

  22. nicci cowdell-murray says

    SCHOOL JUMPER AND THEIR TIE ….. on the 4th tie for my son this year 🙁 @chanson2010

  25. Jan Bailey says

    Socks and gloves are the nightmare items for going missing – but just one of each pair !

  29. Irene Wright says

    He lost his books more often than not although I think that was a ploy for him not to do any homework.

  36. angela sandhu says

    Homework-he always loses it, although saying that, I found his homework sheet in the bottom of his drawer the other day! Cheeky!

  37. Sarah says

    School jumpers – I don’t know what happens to them! he takes them off and they never return

  41. Ani Costa says

    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.

  70. Alexis Pettie says

    My nephew is always losing his homework satchel and his t-shirt, don’t know how he manages

  71. Ema J Lowe says

    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

  77. Nicole Melainie Squires says

    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!

  100. Kelly Hooper says

    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!

  108. Helen says

    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!

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