one for me please : the right kind of label

Back when I was first preparing the preschooler to start day care, I perused kids mags and websites looking for the perfect labels for his clothes, bags, lunch boxes and little toys.

Finding labels that met my his cute + affordable + functional needs took a while (have I mentioned I'm very picky?) but eventually I came up with these.

Being the er, discerning person that I am, I spent ages deciding on the colour combination plus icon for his labels. The star or the penguin? Red, orange or blue? Oh the choices!

So when Bright Star Kids became a baby space sponsor recently I was cheering. We already use their labels on the preschooler's, well, everything. My fave buy is the Preschool & Daycare Labels kit: a wee pack with labels in a variety of shapes and sizes and suitable for everything from pencils and drink bottles to blankets and bags. It also includes a generous supply of these shoe stickers in the shape of feet. Aren't they the cutest? And so nifty when sorting the preschooler's shoes out from the bunch at going home time.

p.s Also, as an aside, can I mention how cool it is that clothing labels have changed so much in the past 13 years?! When the baby space teen needed labels for his tiny items back in the 90s they were very boring: white with black writing and they fell off his clothes. Not so now :)