Labelling school uniform

Kelinik

Its that time again when I find myself with mountains of school uniform to name. I was wondering what the other parents do as this year the school has said writing names in pen won't be acceptable (what I normally do) so I've got to find another way. The kids came home with adverts for labels to buy but when I looked on the website it was going to be over £10 per kid! I just want a resonably quick and easy way of naming all the kids bits and considering that includes summer and winter uniforms, tights and socks, lunch boxes, juice + water bottles, shoes, pe kits + bags, reading folders, aprons, colouring kits etc etc and so on I'd rather not use anything that needs sewing lol! :eek:

Any ideas please?

mariejader

I opted for the iron on ones last year from the school uniform shop on the high street they printed the name on while I waited and away I went and ironed them on, fantastic I thought.

A few washes later and they all peeled off so my advice is stick with the ones that need sewing sorry not what you want to hear

juno

How old are the children? Could you teach them to sew? My mum made me do mine!

snoozer

You can get iron on name tapes (you do write the name on in indelible pen but I would have thought that was acceptable).

BTW I once ordered one set of embroidered name tapes for my two and put one initial in front of the surname and the other after eg L Smith C, then when sewing them on folded under whichever initial wasn't wanted so one would read L Smith and the other Smith C.

Kelinik

They're only 6 and 4 so might be a couple of years before they're safe with a needle lol!

Clever idea with making one label do both kids btw!

thriftmonster

The sew on ones look expensive but they can be reused - I just remove them at the end of each year and this is the eigth year of using for ds1 and they're still fine - so year on year the cost is quite cheap

dlb

I never have used iron on or sew on lables, i always used to write there name on the lable, but after losing so many items ( and unfourtunatly some parents do cut out the lable if their kids bring home the wrong stuff, school told me as much!) So what i now do is i have a laundery pen, the sort that doesnt wash off.

I turn the item inside out and write their names in a unusual place, ie on the jumpers it is written on the inside of the arm, on the trousers in the hem of the leg.
Then if items do go missing i go into school and they check the lost property and also check the school jumper box when the kids are doing pe for me. I have had lots of items returned this way.

honey28

I bought my kids sew on ones online somewhere and they weren't that dear. I will try and find the website. I keep taking them off old/too small uniforms and reuse so in fact working out v cheap - especially if I get 14 years each out of them!

I remember when I was at school my mum bought my brother nice name tapes with his full name - eg Joe Bloggs. I got them folded over to show just the surname - Bloggs- I always felt hard done by this and still bring it up and joke about it:D

chatta

What a cheek, :eek: I always used an indellible pen in the label and things somehow got back to me even if it meant I had to call into lost property every now and again What are they going to do, burn anything incorrectly marked.

tiredwithtwins

I do what thriftmonster does and just reuse them on new items.
I have 3 at school ... and as they have a very unusual surname, i just got the labels printed (about £4 for a couple of hundred) with their surname on.
dd will be sewing her own this year - thanks for that tip!

nickj_2

if you go into M+S they will print iron on labels while u wait , i think you get 50 for £3- £4 if you've got 2 kids put one initial before the surname and one after