Nursery clothes in winter

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Daughter is 2.5. Should I send a coat, hat, waterproof gloves (accepting these will get lost) or the suit things? They play outside when possible and have a large garden.

Below a certain temperature, our nursery won't have the kids play outside.i think a good jacket, hat and gloves should be fine :)

A waterproof all-in-one with a hood and gloves clipped onto the sleeves (you can buy short lengths of elastic with clips on each end to hold them on)
And name labels on everything, including both gloves!

Another vote for all in one!

Buy supermarket own-brand / primark and write her name in permanent / fabric marker on the OUTSIDE of everything - coat, gloves, and hat. That’s the only way I ensured things didn’t get stolen at nursery.

Ask the nursery, some have waterproof all in ones for the children.

Ours just ask for warm coats and wellies to be sent in

I'm leaning toward coat with gloves because they'll have to put her in it every time to go out and a suit is a fair it harder.
I learned the hard way about labels, her shoes went missing

I used to buy cheaper gloves/hats for nursery and accept they'd go missing periodically. My nursery had a big basket of hats/gloves though and they'd ensure all the kids had them to wear.

I would ask nursery what they would prefer. At ours we only send a coat and wellies. They provide waterproofs, gloves, hats, scarves, etc. The reason is because they get wet and they have to change them constantly. So it's much easier to have an endless supply of warm dry hats and gloves (which they wash and dry at the end of the day) than to have kids whose parents only send it one or two pairs ending up cold and wet and complaining about ones that get lost.

In nursery I keep a padded puddle suit, wellies, hooded jumper, gloves, hat and scarf.

Daily my son then wears his winter jacket and trainers so the nursery staff could choose whether he wears the jacket or puddle suit

That way on a daily basis I don't need to remember his outdoor clothes! Nursery have sufficient storage for this though on personalised pegs so lots of the parents keep wellies and puddle suits there.

If she is out of nappies (or is likely to be soon) then I would go for separates rather than an all-in-one - much easier if she urgently needs the loo.

I label pretty much anything that leaves the house these days!