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Complimentary products received for review purposes. As always, all thoughts are my own.

I’m very fortunate to have made it all the way to first grade with my oldest before having a lengthy back-to-school shopping list for her.

One thing I quickly noticed is that her teacher requested that every single item she would be bringing into the classroom would be labeled with her name on it. I thought that sounded perfectly reasonable until I realized that this meant that every crayon, marker, pencil, eraser, etc. had to be individually labeled; labeling the box wasn’t sufficient!

Yesterday I stuck labels on 41 items, and I consider myself very lucky because that number could have easily been larger.

Perhaps what surprised me most of all, though, was that when I finished putting all the labels on, I still had a very ample supply of labels left over which will be great for anything new I have to send in later this year, and even for next year.

I used the school labels value kit from Bright Star Kids. Right now it’s $34.95 (on sale!) and it comes with 190 labels. You have the ability to customize the color, the design and even the font for your labels. I opted to only use my daughter’s last name on the label so that her little sister could use them, as well. Unfortunately, that means that I can’t show you our particular labels, but here’s an example of labels from the value kit:

My only complaint about Bright Star Kids is that my order took 2 weeks to arrive. It looked as though it was shipped internationally (perhaps from Canada? I can’t remember exactly) and I found that very confusing, since there is no mention on the website of the company being international. Since school is starting up soon for many people, I just wanted to give you a heads up that it might take a while for your order to come in.

Otherwise, I found the quality of the labels to be quite good, and I expect this value kit to be able to get both of my girls through 2 years of school before it’s time to get more labels. I’m very pleased with the value!

Anyone else out there having to label individual crayons and the like? Is this the new normal?

I wrote a few months ago about some things that I learned during Darah’s first week of daycare. One of the things I realized was that I needed name labels for children on everything that belonged to my daughter. Unfortunately, I didn’t know that custom name labels existed, so I took permanent magic marker to her bottles and her bottle caps. Within a week, the permanent (yeah right) marker had washed right off! I really wasn’t interested in having to write her name on her bottles every single week. So I did what I always do…I searched for a solution. Surely there was a mom out there who had come up with a way to label stuff for kids!
Yes, indeed, there is a mom out there who has done exactly that. Meet Kristin, the owner of the fabulous Etsy shop MyTwoBabes! Kristin is a mother to twins, so she knows how easy it can be for items that belong to your babies to get mixed up, misplaced or sent home with the wrong child. She put her 8 years of experience in the graphic design field to work and has created some truly incredible labels that are just perfect for daycare, school or most any other place where your stuff just might not make it back into your hands without having your name label on it!

I received a daycare package from Kristin, which contains 30 size 1″x.25″ labels and 14 size 1.5″x1.5″ name labels for children. These labels have been working hard for a solid month for us, and I have not had a single one fall off or need to be replaced! They have been through the dishwasher and have been hand-washed, all without any problems. I have the smaller labels on her pacifiers, bowls, bottle caps and her spoons and I’ve put the round labels on her bottles. I haven’t lost anything that’s been labeled so far, while I had lost a few things prior to using these labels. I’m finding that the labels help my daycare providers out and are saving me money because I’m not having to replace lost items.

I really love that the daycare package comes with a large number of labels. As Darah grows into different bottles, pacifiers, cups and bowls, I’ll have labels on hand to use. I also really love the peace of mind I have knowing that nobody else is using her binky or her bottle on accident!

Name labels from MyTwoBabes are made with premium vinyl products with thermal printed names and color. The base of all labels are white and the color choices are sky blue, raspberry, apple green and lilac. There are also 4 cute font choices from which to choose.

Buy It! This fantastic label set is a steal at $9.00. We all know that just one nice bottle can cost more than that. Save yourself a whole lot of stress and pick up a set for your child today.

Edit: This Giveaway is now closed

Win It! One very lucky Stuff Parents Need reader is about to score a name labels for children daycare package of your very own! This contest will run until Friday, February5th at 7:59pm CST when a winner will be selected via random.org. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to my email before a new winner will be selected. Open to residents of the United States. Make sure your email address is either in your comment or in your profile or else I can’t let you know that you won!

How To Enter

Mandatory Entry: Check out the labels at MyTwoBabes and let me know the color and font you would choose for your daycare package. Choose wisely, because if you win, you will get what you picked!

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I received samples for review purposes. The opinions expressed in this post are strictly my own.