Logistics of gloves/mittens at school?

howleyshell

I'm thrilled that D's pre-school takes them outside in pretty much all kinds of weather.

However... can someone PLEASE help me understand the logistics of sending gloves or mittens to school?

They don't fit in his pockets to store them while in class.

I can't see him putting them inside his back pack and then getting them back out for outside play time.  

I remember gloves/mittens that had strings attached and were strung thru the child's coat.  Do these still exist?  They suddenly seem brilliant where just last year I thought they'd be an exercise in frustration and filth.

Advice please?

 

Rink08

We've (my siblings, myself, and now DS) always put our hat and gloves in our coat sleeve. Just shove them in there. That way you have to take them out to put your coat on and you don't lose them.

forrest19

We have clips that attach the mittens/gloves to their coats.  You can find them at most stores by kids mittens, they are elastic with pincher clips on each end.  It's great, they stay on well and we've never lost mittens at school.

nsees

Rink08:

We've (my siblings, myself, and now DS) always put our hat and gloves in our coat sleeve. Just shove them in there. That way you have to take them out to put your coat on and you don't lose them.

Ditto this! You can still get the clips too

April37

forrest19:

We have clips that attach the mittens/gloves to their coats.  You can find them at most stores by kids mittens, they are elastic with pincher clips on each end.  It's great, they stay on well and we've never lost mittens at school.

I use the clips as well.  You can find them at Walmart by the baby/kids department and they only cost $2 or $3 bucks.

Pesky

Yep, mitten clips.  Wal-mart has them for cheap.

neverblushed

Here's how I handle this:

 --mittens until the child can get gloves on 100% solo with little difficulty.

--when we take off winter gear, we put mittens inside of the hat, then stuff the whole ball into one of the sleeves of the coat.  Have the child smoosh the hat/mitten ball down to about the elbow of the coat.  If schools have coathooks instead of cubbies, the jostling can knock stuff out of pockets, but a hatfull of mittens inside the sleeve tends to stick pretty well.

Both of my kids have lost mittens or gloves from their backpacks or pockets, but neither has ever lost winter gear when it was stuffed in a sleeve. 

 

VTbride05

How about taking a piece of ribbon and attaching it to each mitten with a few stitches? Easy and cheap enough.

jlw2505

Either put everything into the sleeves of the coat or stuff the mittens into the hat.  At both of my kids schools, they have cubbies and at younger DD's, they stick the hats/mittens into the cubbies.  At older DD's school, the hats/mittens are in the cubbies until they go outside and then they have a drying rack where everyone puts their stuff and we grab it from there when its time to go home.  It actually works great.  Both of my kids take backpacks to school and anything they are not wearing to and from school stays in the bags and my kids know to get it out of the bag for going outside.  This works for summer as well when they wear hats.  Trust me, after doing it everyday, the kids get into the routine and its second nature.

Teachk

Walmart!

SpartanGirl

WalMart has the mitten clips near their gloves.  We use those to attach the gloves/mittens to their coats.  Their hats are stored in the sleeve of their coat.