Best Method to Label Clothes for Daycare?

I use the online company "Mabel's Labels" out of Canada for my stickers. They are great! They have many different sized and colored labels for names. You can do the whole transaction online, and they send you the labels quickly. They have small labels for clothing tags, shoe tags, iron-on labels, bottle and sippy cub labels, hanging dog tags for luggage or bags, and more! The labels even stay on through the wash and can be taken off easily when you need them to come off. Their customer service is also superb. The website is: http://mabelslabels.mabel.ca/.

Good luck to you!

Occasionally in the military, one would get promoted, but not have time to sew on the patches/stripes.

Guess what' fantastic? Elmers Glue.

One it DRIES the stripe is on there fairly sturdily, as long as it doesn't get wet. Wrestling sturdy. Then just toss in the wash, and the glue and patch wash right off.

(That's also a trick for having really *sharp* creases in your pants, btw ;)

~Z

PS...our son's preschool had us put each outfit in a plastic bag with his name on the bag. Tossing in an extra ziplock with just underwear I found to be invaluable.

I ran into the same problem, and decided to buy cheap outfits at walmart, just for his extras at daycare. I black permanet marker them.
that way im out $10, and not have to worry about ruining there good clothing, and can hand them down or consign.
Or just choose your not so favorite, instead of buying and just use them for the extras, when there dirty wash and bring same back.

lolol-- I'm 64, J. - and still looking--- I have three '''manuals''' ;
1. 39 years of parenting and preschool teaching and grandparenting,
2. A list-serve for parents and professionals who have children with FAS or FAE, and
3. Mamasource---

Regarding labeling his clothes--- I'd recommend that you use sew in label--- iron on tape can sometimes ruin clothes when you try to get it off--- but a loosely hand-sewn in label can easily be snipped out with no damage whatsoever ( attaching the labels on the inside of clothes and be careful that the label won't be rubbed off -- so not on the waistband of jeans- they are often tight - so on them-- put the label down near the bottom of the leg where it's loose-

Blessings,
J. - aka- old Mom

You can make your own sew-in labels with a sharpie marker on bias tape or other woven tape from the fabric store. Turn under or use "fray-check" on the cut edges then hand stitch onto the garment.

We used the fabric marker pens and they worked well for us as tags bothered him. We just put his initials on the underside the tag where it did not show when we donated the clothing later.

I've used labels through a company called Oliver's Labels. They have large & small waterproof labels, iron-on & shoe labels, & different sized bag tags. The ones I use most often are the mini labels that I put on my son's sippy cups & other small things. I've been using these labels since last summer & the things I labeled back then still look like they were just applied--very durable. They have a stick-on version for clothes that you just stick on the care tag then once your child outgrows the outfit, you can take the label off.

There are over a dozen designs in addition to labels with various food allergy warnings. The neatest thing about this company is that all of the labels (except for the mini ones) have a cool tracking system on them in case the item is lost! There's a free shipping offer on orders over $30.

Here's the link: http://www.oliverslabels.com/H.

Hope that helps!

--J.C.

You can buy tags at the fabric store and sew them in. Then just unstitch when done.
I recommend you just get extras that you don't care about and send those. Most likely, the clothes you send will sit unused until he outgrows them anyway.