Personalized Beach Towels for Kids

Personalized beach towels for kids get used all summer when the child picks the design and can spot the name from across the pool. Our shop towels take a name in 30 fonts and 10 text colors, in 22 × 42 for younger kids or 30 × 60 for older ones, from $19.90.

How to choose a personalized beach towel for a kid

Start with the child rather than the towel: let them pick a design they love, choose the size by their age, and print the name they answer to in a color that stands out. A towel a kid chose is the one they look for when swim time is over.

Four decisions make the towel:

• Design: their own pick, by animal, sea creature or sport, as sorted in the table below.
• Size: 22 × 42 for toddlers and younger kids, 30 × 60 for older kids and teens. Our guide to how kids' towel sizes compare sets these two against the sizes sold elsewhere.
• Weight: Standard 360 GSM is the lighter towel, and Premium 450 GSM is the heavier one; the FAQ below helps you pick for a child.
• Name and text color: the part that makes the towel theirs, covered in the fonts and colors section.

Every design costs the same: $19.90 for a 22 × 42 Standard towel and $22.90 for Premium, or $23.90 and $26.40 for the 30 × 60. Gift retailers commonly price personalized kids' beach towels at about $13 to $40.

Every towel is printed on one side only: the polyester face holds the picture and the name, and the back is cotton. Our guide to printed, microfiber and cotton towels compared explains that build. Looking for a towel with a child's name? Every design in our beach towel shop takes one online.

Kids' beach towel designs for girls and boys

We don't sort our towels into girls' and boys' designs, because kids choose by what they love, and many of our patterns come in pink and lavender as well as blue and green. Start with the animal, sea creature or sport your child talks about most, then let them pick the colorway.

Our designs are patterns and animals rather than cartoon characters, and every one of them takes the child's name. Let your kid choose from the pictures in the shop, then you choose the size.

Pick a towel design

Fonts and colors that help kids find their towel

Kids usually find their towel by its color and picture first and read the name second, so make both easy: a text color that contrasts with the towel's colorway, and a font with plain print letters. Then check the preview at phone size; if the name is hard to read there, it will be hard to read from the pool steps too.

1. Contrast beats a favorite color. Light letters belong on a dark colorway such as Navy or Teal, and dark letters on a light one such as Sunny. A name close to the towel's own color disappears.
2. Use print letters for early readers. A child learning to read knows upright print letters from school, while looping script or a decorative font can turn their own name into a puzzle.
3. Give each sibling a different design. Two kids with the same pattern in different colors still grab the wrong towel; a tiger for one and fish for the other settles it at a glance.
4. Tie it to the rest of their gear. If the swim bag, goggles and water bottle are green, a towel in a green colorway makes the whole kit read as theirs.
5. Write down what you picked. Keep a note of the design, colorway, font and text color, so when a younger sibling asks for a towel, you know exactly what the first one looks like.

With 30 fonts and 10 text colors to choose from, try two or three combinations in the preview before you order. The one your child reads out loud first is usually the keeper.

Name ideas for kids' beach towels

Put the name people actually call your child on the towel, and add more only when the towel goes somewhere another child might have the same one. A pool with the family is different from a cabin with twelve campers. These ideas cover most kids:

• First name only: "Theo", clean and quick to read on a 22 × 42.
• The nickname they use: "Birdie", if that's what Harper's friends call her.
• First name and last initial: "Avery R." for a class or a swim group with two Averys.
• First and last name: "Finn Barrett" for camp, as the camp section explains.
• Initials: for a tween or teen who thinks a first name looks babyish; the monogram section has the details.
• A title they've earned: "Big Sister" or "Big Brother", a towel for the older child when a new baby arrives.

Copy the spelling from the child's school or camp registration, so the towel matches the name on every list the staff will check.

Personalized beach towels for toddlers

For a toddler, choose the 22 × 42 size, a bold picture they can recognize and a short first name. Toddlers can't read yet, so the tiger or the seashells is how they find their own towel; the name is for the grown-ups at daycare, swim class or a grandparent's pool.

Standard 360 GSM is the lighter of our two weights to carry in a diaper bag, and Premium 450 GSM is the heavier towel to wrap up in after a swim. Toddler boys and girls choose the same way older kids do, from the animals, sea life and ball sports above.

If a toddler's swim school wants a towel for the whole class, our page on swim team towels with every swimmer's name covers group orders like that. For a blanket with their name to go with the towel, see our baby and kids name blankets.

Monogrammed beach towels for kids

A monogram on our shop towels is printed: type the initials in the order you want, pick a font and a text color, and check the preview. Monograms suit tweens and teens, while younger kids usually recognize their first name much faster than three letters. For a stitched monogram, embroidery is available on cotton towels by quote.

A traditional three-letter monogram puts the last-name initial in the middle, often larger, with the first and middle initials on either side. Many families simply type the initials in the order they say them, and the shop sets the whole monogram in the one font and text color you choose.

A larger center letter, a frame or a crest counts as your own artwork. Send it with a request for custom towels by quote, as a 300 DPI PNG or a vector file, and check the free proof before anything prints.

Up close, the two kinds differ: printed initials are part of the towel's printed face, while embroidered initials are raised thread on a cotton towel. Our embroidery on cotton towels page covers the stitched kind.

Personalized camp towels with names

A camp towel printed with your child's first and last name is already labeled: no laundry marker, no iron-on tag, and a much better chance it comes home in the right duffel. Pack a 30 × 60 for the lake or the pool, and a 22 × 42 for a day camper's backpack.

• Full name in a plain font: a cabin can have two Theos, and the counselor sorting a wet pile reads the last name.
• Check the packing list: many camps ask for one towel for the waterfront and another for the shower, and the named beach towel is the waterfront one.
• Weight for the trip: Standard 360 GSM is the lighter one to pack in a trunk or duffel, and Premium 450 GSM the heavier one for lying on the dock. Compact travel towels sold for hiking are a different item, usually much smaller and made for drying off on the trail rather than lying in the sun.
• Order before the packing deadline: the towel is printed before it ships, and transit depends on the shipping option picked at checkout. Have it shipped home so you can check the name before drop-off, and if camp starts soon, contact us first.

Towels for a whole camp

Camps that want every camper in a matching towel can keep one design with the camp name or logo and change only the camper's name from towel to towel. Send the camper list with each name spelled as it should print, the logo as a 300 DPI PNG or a vector file, and the first day of camp.

Pricing and timing come back in a free quote within one business day. There's no minimum and there are no setup fees, volume pricing is included in the quote, and every name appears on a free proof before printing.

The order goes to the camp office as one shipment, with shipping charged on top, or you can pick it up free in Alpharetta. No logo yet? Our team can help groups put a design together.

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Getting kids' towels ready for summer

Order kids' towels in spring, ahead of the first pool day, the camp packing list or an end-of-year party, because each one is printed before it ships. Four kids' towels add up to more than $75, the order total that currently qualifies for free Standard shipping. Near Atlanta, pick free Local Pickup in Alpharetta when you check out, and we'll tell you when the towels are ready to collect.

Hosting a kids' pool party? Our page on pool party towels with every guest's name covers the guest list. For older kids heading off to college, see dorm towels with names. Once your child has a favorite, personalize a towel in the shop.

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