Paint on nursery clothes!!

[Colliewobble15]

What’s everyone’s best tips for getting paint out of nursery clothes? Little one is coming home covered in it most days , I don’t send her in ‘nice’ clothing but still can’t afford to keep buying even the cheapest of clothes to send her in😩 any tips appreciated!

Send her in those same ‘paint clothes’. Nursery clothes always have paint stains. The non paint stained clothes stay at home.

I’d agree with Pp just send her in the paint clothes, red paint never , ever comes out the rest will fss as de over many washes.

Yep, as PP said, have 'nursery clothes', that she wears only to nursery and they can be as paint stained as you like. Don't worry about it. As long as it's clean it's fine

For getting it out, I'd try using fairy liquid on the stain with a little bit of water, give it a rub and then in the washing machine.

Ours had smocky overall things at nursery. Under them they wore old/scruffy clothes, you know nursery/play clothes. Children are supposed to get dirty, as are their clothes.

You can’t. Just accept it and maybe send her in the ones with paint already on. I know it’s hard though. I hate sending them in looking a mess

I buy bundles of clothes from vinted or Facebook classed as 'playwear' super cheap. They are bobbled, stained, awful designs- perfect for nursery! Nobody cares what they wear. Paint stains or any stains are fine. We have a drawer full of nice stuff strictly forbidden for nursery and a drawer full of nursery clothes also worn in the muddy garden. If nice clothes get ruined, they're relegated to nursery drawer.

Her clothes just need to be washed clean, they don’t need to be stain free. Just use the stained clothing. They will only get more stains.

I agree, send her in the clothes. My DD went to nursery with a jumper that has a small hole in it today, where she snipped it with a pair of scissors at nursery a few weeks ago. It’s otherwise brand new, so she’ll continue to wear it 😂

Keep the clothes for nursery. 2 years of mine coming home encrusted would have been extortionate. The overtly feminine ones get donated back to the nursery once she’s grown out of them and the unisex ones are going to my DS when he starts (lucky him)

Just wash the paint marked ones and keep using them. Think of it as practice for reception when they come back with black white board marker on their school sweatshirts. There should be a rule that schools can only hand out whiteboard markers that are the same colour as the sweatshirts

DD2 is going to nursery in paint-stained stuff that DD1 wore! As long as it’s clean, paint stains aren’t an issue. One tip I found is to buy bright and heavily patterned stuff like florals as it’s harder to see paint stains on!

Fairy liquid scrubbed lots with an old toothbrush then wash as normal. This is the only thing I’ve found to work and I feel like I’ve tried every trick on the internet 😂

I HATE ‘washable’ paint and markers 🤬

That’s the entire point of nursery clothes :)

When you next buy her clothes for nursery, get her all black leggings and colourful (not pale/ pastel) tops. The paint will then blend into the tops and black leggings won’t look too bad with colours all over!

This is a bloody pain (and I say that as someone who used to work in a nursery and thought the parents were 'precious' for complaining, until I became one myself) My daughter went to a nursery where they didn't have any aprons! 🤦‍♀️ I mean why?! I ended up sending in one from home and stressing could they please use it, as we were constantly chucking and paying out for new clothes.
It's also really bad for the environment to treat clothes as so disposable!

I think its great for kids to get stuck in and messy, but it can mostly be managed without ruining clothes....washable pens and paints, aprons, puddle suits and wellies.

Wash as normal and send her to nursery in the clothes that are already stained. They’ll be clean just slightly discoloured.

Surely nobody is throwing nursery clothes away because they have paint on! We have 7 pairs of navy leggings and a variety of tops. The leggings don’t show the marks and most of the tops have paint on. It is so wasteful to get rid of things with marks when it’s inevitable that everything gets messy at nursery!

Wait until school 🤣 a few weeks into reception and all the white polo shirts are stained forever.

Soak in cold water. Hot water will set the stain.

My nursery seem to serve all food with tomato, so the paint stains just blend with the tomato stains 😭
I try to buy super cheap tops from Sainsbury's and Asda in the sale and only send toddler to nursery in those. I am coming to terms with the fact that DC's clothes just have to be stained but clean for nursery.

My son’s pre-school provided aprons and the kids were trained to wear them for any kind of messy play. His clothes were therefore fine 95% of the time. It was a brilliant system! :D

His holiday club however! No aprons to be seen and I was scrubbing paint from his clothes every other day for weeks 😭 I also ended up sending an apron in for him.

Soak in cold water as soon as possible rub with a stain remover bar or solid soap or washing up liquid to get the worst out then wear with paint on.
We inherited a bunch of clothes with paint on, we don't wear them on nice days out but playing at home or at nursery, when she was at nursery, she wears them. I also darned small holes in knees for day to day clothes to keep them in circulation a bit longer. Kids should be covered in paint and grass stains!

Vinted! My DS will be starting nursery after Christmas and I’ve already starting buying him some second-hand ‘nursery clothes’ that he can get as much mud, paint, food and whatever else on as he likes.

I just sent mine in with the same stained clothes. I was fine with nursery clothes being covered in paint, but when they had painting outdoors in winter and her new coat came home covered in thick black paint I wasn’t happy.

Soak in cold water the wash with bio detergent.