Personalized Items for Kids

At a young age, it's important to teach your child the value of originality, standing out from the crowd and being oneself. One way to help teach that is by allowing your child to love his name and his personal hobbies. A child's name is special to that child, because it's one of the many qualities that sets him apart from other children. Focusing on hobbies and talents is one method of making each child feel unique and important. Personalized gifts with names, dates and personal images help to reiterate these important values to the child.

  1. School Supplies

    • Make school more fun for your child by giving her personalized school supplies. You can have her name put on pencils and pens, pencil cases, spirals and backpacks. With personalization, she won't lose her supplies in the chaos of a classroom, and the supplies will excite her more than general supplies that look the same as everyone else's.

    Holiday Gifts

    • Give a personalized holiday gift to a child, specific to whatever holiday is coming up. For example, purchase a personalized Easter basket, bag or bucket and place hidden Easter eggs inside. Buy a personalized ornament for a child to hang on a Christmas tree, with his name and date of that particular Christmas, or get a Valentine's Day teddy bear wearing a shirt with the boy's name on it.

    Memorabilia

    • Help make memories even more special and fun by providing a child with a personalized photo album or frame. The frames could include the child's name and favorite colors and drawings of some of her cherished sayings. The photo album could display a picture of the child permanently placed on the cover of that album.

    DVDs

    • If your child loves television and idolizes childhood stars like Dora, Spiderman, Barney or the Care Bears, purchase an animated DVD that places your child's image into the DVD itself. Your child becomes a main star in the video, with his name spoken and his image shown throughout the story. Your child will be amazed when he sees himself as a star hanging out with other childhood stars.

    Party Favors

    • A birthday party isn't official until there is a theme involved. To make the birthday extra special, hang party banners with her name on it. Send out party invitations with her name on the front of the card, along with images that coincide with the theme. Decorate a birthday cake with the theme and her name and age, and allow each guest to remember this special day with a goody bag full of personalized candy wrappers, pencils and other simple things that they can take home with them.

    Labels

    • Instead of purchasing a specific object that will permanently display a personalized logo, give a child personalized labels, so she can choose where she wants to stick these labels, whether it be on a backpack, a piggy bank or a jewelry box. When she grows out of the theme of the labels, such as Barbie, you can replace the labels with something more mature, such as with a certain sport or animal.

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