Labeling Your Child's Clothing

Walmart has fabric markers that wash out and don't ruin the clothes. i used a Brother label machine and loosley stitched my son's name into all of his clothes.

Hi J C
I work in a childcare setting with 18 month- 2yr olds. Some of my kids come in with iron on labels on their clothings. I guess you can purchase the labels at a fabric store then print them out at home on your computer, then use an iron to iron on the label to the clothes. Majority of the parents just use a black sharpie marker and mark it on the tags. Hope this helps.

For clothing I love Mabel's Labels http://www.mabel.ca/ Their adhesive clothing labels are indestructable.

I also have used Stuck on You https://www.stuckonyou.biz/usa/index.asp
The labels are really cool but they don't have adhesive clothing labels, just iron-on, which I don't like. They have great designs and great cutomer service.

I use sharpies on the label inside the clothes dont have to worry about tags falling off etc

I wrote both of my children's names on small pieces of fabric with a sharpie and stitched it into one of the inside seams on the clothes. I donate all of their clothes when they no longer fit, so all I have to do is remove the homemade tag. Hope this is helpful.

I know it's a pain to label everything, but it can be really helpful. It's not just about an item getting returned to you if it's lost. It enables the staff to resolve arguements amoung the children and to help them get dressed more quickly.A lot of children have the same or similar items.

I used a "Rub a Dub" marker. It's specifically designed for fabic and wrote on the label.

Some other things I've seen ... sewing a label onto the clothing so it can be removed at a later time... using fabric paint... and there's always the sharpie.

I label the tags with a sharpie, just with the last name or the first initial of our last name in case I used the clothes again with a future child (and I did, less than a year later!). I only label the stuff I care about. Anything else, fair game for the other kids. ;-p I figure, what goes around comes around. Your daughter can identify many of her clothes, I'm sure (especially her boots and jacket). My son has been in daycare for 16 months and there's never been a mix-up or missing clothing. I don't even bother to label my daughter's stuff (she's 8 months so it doesn't travel to the playground or on walks or anything).