Sew-On Woven Tapes at a low price?

Threebabes

Ive had sew labels, what a nightmare to sew on. Used iron on labels, eventually fell off. Now use a permanent fabric pen, quick and easy. :-)

*onlyme*

narabanekeater wrote: »

are sharpies washproof please?

Yes they are.

Savvy_Sue

Have just remembered, not so much for school uniform but for school holidays and cub camps etc I had a rubber stamp made with our surname, and stamped all their clothes. Saved HOURS!

It washed out after a while, and it's hard to do on black socks, but mostly it was great!

mishkanorman

having spent several hours at the end of last term wading through tons of lost property I would say avoid the marker pens/writing on labels as even though you may still be able to read it a stranger may not be able to decipher it, equally use their name and not some secret code you've devised so YOU know its theirs !

msb5262

Hi all,

Just a plea to parents to get EVERYTHING possible named.

I teach Year 5 and last winter I had to spend hours calming down an irate mother whose daughter's coat was missing. This was naturally a brand new £30 wool coat, not some tatty old waterproof, and of course it wasn't named. The mum was blaming me as the class teacher for the fact that her daughter's coat had gone walkabout.

Hilariously the coat did of course turn up - in the Year 6 cloakroom area where her OTHER daughter had left it, mistaking it for her own identical and also unnamed coat!

When the missing coat turned up, after I'd wasted teaching time getting a search organised, I'm afraid I handed the daughter a pen and asked her to put her name on the label...
...that family haven't mislaid anything since!

If clothes are named, they will find their way back to your child in the end but please SHOW your child where and how they are labelled; this way they can quickly check any garments they spot which might belong to them.

BTW I'm now about to start sewing name tapes onto 10 pairs of socks for DS2...not least because I'm so mean that I can't bear the idea of having to replace them in 3 months.

MsB

Savvy_Sue

I have NO idea how well this would work, but I saw these advertised today. Allegedly re-usable and washable, but some children probably wouldn't tolerate them too well!