Label Your Child’s Personal Items for School and Activities

Personalized Name Labels

Before you send your child off to daycare or preschool, it makes sense to invest in some personalized clothing labels.  Young children seldom look after their belongings and often lose coats, sweaters, blankets and other personal belongings at school.  Once a cherished piece of clothing goes home with the wrong child, it is rarely returned to its owner.  Rather than learning this lesson the hard way, like many parents do, why not label everything right from the start?

As children grow, they start participating in after-school athletics and spending more time at friend’s houses.  By the time they realize a favorite sweatshirt or jacket is missing, it is nearly impossible to track it down.  Simply adhering a personalized clothing label to the kids’ belongings can make it much easier for people to return lost items to your child. 

As a parent with grown daughters, I found that we always had someone’s flip-flops, blanket, pillow or PJ’s in my daughters’ rooms.  Unless the owner claimed them and stopped by to pick them up, these items often made their way into dresser drawers and closets until they were finally discarded.  When I think about how often this happened, I wonder why I didn’t think to invest in some personalized clothing labels back then.

Personalized clothing labels can also be used for homemade luggage tags, for identification purposes on the clothing of small children, and on camping equipment.  Most labels can be made in two, three or four-line versions, so it is possible to include the full address and phone number of the owner on the label.