Labelling strollers

[August2010]

What is the best way to label a stroller for WDW? Do you use a luggage tag or is there a better way?
Also how safe are strollers while you are on a ride? Have any ever been stolen before?

 

[KathyK]

When our kids were stroller-aged, we did about 10 trips. We put a big, colorful ribbon on it to find it right away in the sea of strollers. We never had a stroller taken, and we never had anything taken from a stroller. Sometimes, we would leave a stroller at an attraction for hours (while we walked elsewhere with the kids) and left stuff in the basket underneath, and it was never a problem.

IMO, people are too busy having fun to try to steal from a child.

 

[Duckiedee]

My favourite "label" I read about, I think in the Unofficial Guide, was to put a 'used' diaper with added rootbeer for effect and tie it in a clear bag to the handle. Hee hee!

 

[Manda]

We always fly down, so during our stroller years, we'd just leave the gate check sticker hanging on it. It was nice sticky tape with our first and last name printed on it, so that was good enough for me. Over time, DS had his Maclaren completely covered in those Mickey stickers they always hand out to the kids, so that made it stand out fairly well as ours.

 

[kirs10a]

I made a sign (from the DISign board) with our name, laminated it, and attached it to our stroller with binder rings. We never had a problem with anything in our stroller....we left the "little stuff" but always took the bag with the camera etc. with us.

Our stroller was easy to find because of the BIG full page sign attached. I saw other signs, but nothing as big as ours....it was helpful!

 

[nrod]

We went in 2008 and I had a luggage tag on the side, but also put a return address label under the stroller. This way if it was stolen and the luggage tag removed, we'd still know it was our stroller. I also used iron-on letters to spell our last name on our Buggy Buddy cup holder and tied an orange bandana on the handle to make it easy to find. We had no problems during that week - or since! (Well except one of the letters is falling off our name. )

 

[ckquan]

We went to the fabric store and bought 3 yards of bright yellow nylon fabric. We used binder clips to attached it to the hood of our stroller. Because of the color, we always found our stroller right away. It also was very useful when it rained; kept our DD and stroller dry. We would also leave little things in the stroller but always took the diaper bag, purses, cameras with us. Never had any problems.

 

[OwlDisneyGirl]

My favourite "label" I read about, I think in the Unofficial Guide, was to put a 'used' diaper with added rootbeer for effect and tie it in a clear bag to the handle. Hee hee!

I'd heard this one too and thought it was great!!

When we've rented I haven't worried about it, but with our own we'd always tie a bright colored bandana on the handle to easily pick it out.

 

[momofrrr]

I always used a bright colored head scarf. We never had a problem with things being taken from our stroller. We usually rented one instead of packing one on the plane and on and off the bus. We just put it in the budget for the week.

 

[r&kmommy]

I have never labelled our stroller, but I do tie bright colored bandannas to the handlebars. That way it stands out in the stroller sea

In all our years we've never had a stroller stolen.

 

[loveysbydesign]

I made an iron-on for the top of our stroller! Figured others would be less likely to steal it of my kids pix. were on the top hood!

I also stick a sticky address label to one of the bottom metal bars.

 

[4HOLIDAYS]

Never had a problem and I would say there were at least 30 trips or more with singles, doubles and more with theirs. Ours, I put a bright label my DH has from the bus which is very hard to get off so it made it easy to spot and I think less likely to mess with. We have left blankets, gifts in the bags, swords,...and never had anything touched. We just take what I don't want to risk, cameras, diaper bag,personal tote or backpack.

 

[jimjules2000]

We tied bright yellow caution tape to our stroller. Sometimes when you are on a ride a cast member will move strollers around to keep the area clean and organized, so your stoller may not always be exactly where you left it. So make sure to use something VERY bright to mark it with.

 

[jaleaton]

I put a bright green guilt trip on ours. Meaning, a little laminated card zip tied to the stroller that read "Please don't take my stroller! I need it. xoxo, The Baby", and had a picture of the baby beside the text. The stroller was fine every single day, and easy to spot since it is orange, and my tags were bright green.

 

[huffjoann]

I doubt one would get stolen but do make sure to take valuables with you on a ride but your extraneous snacks and etc no one will bother,, HOWEVER,, do NOT panic if you come out and cannot locate yours,, they often "repark" them more neatly or closer together and yours might be over a few rows etc,, this happened to me a ton 2 weeks ago and usually it only took an extra minute to locate it so a very colorful scarf etc is great for this to make it got faster.

 

[MyCathryn]

We have our last name embroidered on the back of our "Disney Stroller". We dont really use it anywhere else. Works out great. We made a bag to put it in for the airplane. Fabric was my Grandmothers from the 70s so no one could say it is theirs. LOL.

 

[tigger51276]

My favourite "label" I read about, I think in the Unofficial Guide, was to put a 'used' diaper with added rootbeer for effect and tie it in a clear bag to the handle. Hee hee!

OMG LOL I actually snorted while laughing...thank god I didnt have anything in my mouth!!

I have never labeled my stroller, but for the longest time I never really saw big jogging stroller there until the last couple years so I was able to pick mine out pretty quickly. The last couple of years it's been a little harder as more people are using bigger strollers, but I always leave personal stuff in my stroller so I'm able to figure out which is mine. I hardly ever leave stuff I couldn't replace though on occasion I've left my video camera and regular camera before. The only thing I've ever had stolen in the 6 years I've been using a stroller there was a Disney rain poncho on a rainy day that was keeping my DD's stroller dry while we went on a ride. We just picked up a new one at the next store.

 

[maxiesmom]

Unfortunately while it happens very rarely, strollers do get stolen at WDW. Seems there is a big e-bay market for them.

If you want to be on the safe side, you can lock the back wheels of your stroller together. That way it will be too hard for anyone else to push yet the CMs can still move them if they have to clean up the stroller parking area.

Never leave anything you value in the stroller. I stupidly left my new camera in one, and it was gone by the time we got back to it. No one babysits the strollers, and there will be no one around who knows that that person grabbing a package out of your stroller shouldn't be there.

 

[SFRN97]

I made an iron-on for the top of our stroller! Figured others would be less likely to steal it of my kids pix. were on the top hood!

I also stick a sticky address label to one of the bottom metal bars.

This looks great would love to do something similar would you mind sharing how you found the pattern?

 

[Mrs D]

This looks great would love to do something similar would you mind sharing how you found the pattern?

That is one of Donatalie's stroller tags. You can find her thread here and her stroller tags on her photobucket and 4 shared sites. She no longer personalizes, but you could easily do it in word or ask another designer to do it for you. Natalie is fine with people downloading her DISigns for their personal use. Here's the how to on personalizing it yourself.

jtanddolly also makes license plate/stroller tag disigns. You may personalize it yourself or request her help.

Last but certainly not least is Kellybell who also does beautiful stroller tags. She does personalize.

I'm sure there are many others on the Creative DISigns forum, these are just a few I know off the top of my head.

HTH!