Do you write

[Michie]

your childs name on all of the school supplies? I remember one year, I had to write my son's name on all of the crayons. Talk about hand cramps! Then another year, had to put their names on every single piece of notebook paper!


Last year, the teacher requested that we put their name on their pencils, so for this year I ordered her a whole bunch with her name on them, yesterday the teacher told me that she would take them all up on the first day of class and hand them out to whoever needed them. You know how hard it is to find 6 boxes of number 2 pencils the day before school starts?

 

[I Love Pluto]

Please don't forget the names in coats, hats, gloves, sweatshirts, etc. You would not believe how many of these items are not claimed at the end of the year.

 

[daisyduck123]

I print out labels with my son's name, teacher's name, & grade. We stick them on all his spiral notebooks, composition books, glue bottle, etc....everything!
I had his name embroidered on his backpack. (Teacher here...it is soo important to have the name on the backpack for easy return if left somewhere). Lunchbox too.

You know how hard it is to find 6 boxes of number 2 pencils the day before school starts?

My Target, this evening, had a ton of #2 pencils - 24 in a box for 50 cents.
(We don't start school for 2 weeks though).

 

[aprilgail2]

I buy her pencils with her name printed on them and I use the label maker to put her name on everything else-including every single crayon. When I went in one day to help out with a project in class there were crayons on the floor, if they didn't have their name on it they just tossed them into a big box up front. The ones with the names on them went back to their owner.

 

[Annette_VA]

I have sheets of return address labels printed up w/ my sons' names on them and I also have a label maker that does the laminated labels. So, whenever I need to put their name on something, I just use those.


OP, I can't believe you had to write their name on every sheet of notebook paper! That's just insane. I think if I had to do that, I'd be going out to Office Max and getting a stamper!

 

[Bob Slydell]

Fortunately, the supply box we ordered from the school came with pre-printed labels we were able to use.

 

[debbi801]

When they were little, I did. By the time they were in 3rd grade, I stopped writing names on things--with the exception of coats, hats, gloves, etc.