Design Your Own Custom Shoe Charms: Fun Ideas & Examples of Personalized Clog Decorations
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November 15, 2024
You know those little holes on the tops of Crocs, clogs, and on the sides of rubber beach bags? They have recently become a popular spot for bite-sized bits of personal expression and messages. Pioneers of custom shoe charms include school-aged kids, high school pupils, college students, and healthcare and hospitality employees who are on their feet all day.
In this article, we’ll give you all the ideas, inspo, examples, and information you need to make your mark with this recent trend–and help your most important stakeholders do the same.
What is unique about custom clog charms that makes them a great giveaway?
In addition to surging popularity among youth audiences, custom clog charms offer a unique customization opportunity. You get to determine the shape and colors of personalized shoe charms, which are brought to life in 2D or 3D, making your design pop more than a flat imprint on a surface. What’s more, each charm or chart set can come with an optional full color printed display backer to complete your branding and message, at an additional charge. Customized shoe charms also have multiple uses, to bring more views to your branding or message. These fun pins don’t just decorate clogs, they can also fun up keychains and beach bags made to display them. Here are our best-selling choices:
Who should design their own custom shoe charms?
If you’re looking for a unique little gift to give students or employees, personalized shoe charms may be just the thing you’re seeking. Small and affordable, custom shoe charms are a creative way to share a message, provide recognition, or say thank you.
Many industries can benefit from giving away personalized shoe charms for a wide variety of events, celebrations, and recognitions. Here are just a few ideas:
- Businesses: Companies use them for promotional purposes, featuring their logos or mascots to increase brand visibility. Healthcare organizations that employ nurses and aids who are on their feet all day are particularly happy to receive these charms.
- Event Planners: For events like weddings, birthdays, family reunions, community events, and corporate gatherings, custom clog charms make unique and memorable favors.
- Schools and Universities: Educational institutions can use them for school spirit events, student prizes, back-to-school or end-of-school events, graduation gifts, proms or dances, or as part of fundraising activities. For colleges, personalized shoe charms can be a great recruiting tool and used in acceptance packages, or for welcoming freshmen to campus or upperclassmen back to classes.
- Non-Profit Organizations: Non-profit groups might use custom rubber shoe charms as accessories to raise awareness for causes or as thank-you gifts for donors.
- Sports Teams: Teams often create custom PVC shoe charms for fans, featuring team logos or mascots. They are great for soccer, football, baseball, or basketball teams.
- First Responders: Police departments and fire departments that put on or participate in programs for kids and community events can create fun souvenirs that participants will love.
- Gift Shops: Anyone who wears clogs will want this type of giveaway as a souvenir to remember their vacation or visit to a museum, zoo, park, or historical site. They are also perfect for DJ giveaways, or as a remembrance of a special concert or night out.
How to make shoe charms:
The easiest way to make custom shoe charms is to work with a professional partner like Crestline. Start by creating a simple flat rendition of your design, whether that be a logo, mascot, or symbol. If you don’t have a design in mind, Crestline’s team can create one for you!
We’ll make sure that your chosen design works well with our unique customization technique, which layers up to four colors of rubber to produce personalized shoe charms. While your charms design can contain four colors, the design of your optional backing display cards can dazzle in full color photo quality printing.
Crestline’s art services team will work with you to make sure your design looks incredible on the finished product.
We helped Racine Kenosha Community Action Agency create these adorable designs.
What would you like to promote in your community? Talk to us and we’ll come up with something equally delightful for your organization.
How do you use bulk shoe charms?
Giving away fun, creative, or cute custom shoe charms is an excellent way to build goodwill with students, employees, or community members. Offer them as part of a school spirit day or at a community health fair table. Visitors will be tickled to get a fun charm that can not only go on crocs or clogs but also on keychains, zipper pulls, and more.
For further inspiration on how to use personalized shoe charms as great giveaways, take a look at what Crestline customers are doing:
Amarillo College created a group of school spirit charms including their logo, mascot, and the logo of the college radio station, and loved their results.
“We're thrilled to share how much of a hit our promotional shoe charms have been with students! These fun and colorful accessories have been a fantastic way to add personality to shoes and create a sense of community on campus. The quality and creativity of the product have truly impressed us, and it's clear that students are loving the chance to customize their kicks. A big shout-out to the team behind these charms for producing something so engaging and memorable—these little charms are making a big impact!” - Sunny W., TX
The City of Flagstaff’s Police Department created these shield themed clog charms.
“We hand our charms out to citizens at community events, also a lot of our employees have them as well. Recipients love them!” - Allison H.
The Windsor Middle School in Colorado created personalized charms to motivate students.
“We use the charms as prizes for our Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports program. The students get tickets for positive behaviors, put those tickets into a drawing and if they are chosen they get to spin the prize wheel and the charms are one of the prizes! The students have really enjoyed the charms, our high school has the same mascot, so they will be able to carry them over from middle to high school.” - Jaycee V.
Here is the art they used.
And here is the finished product ready to style up the streets.
The The US Army Corps of Engineers of Paint Creek Lake in Ohio wanted a novel way to convey their messaging to the community and chose custom made shoe charms. The charms depicted a safety vest, a slogan about using them, and a website for more water safety information. Here’s what they had to say about their strategy and the public response:
“These clog shoe charms are being used to promote water safety in a fun eye-catching way. Reactions to these have been SO EXCITING. Kids and adults loved them and as soon as we put them on the table they were gone. We love working with you guys and appreciate the excellent customer service.” – Savannah D., USACE Paint Creek Lake.
Make it a package deal
Consider pairing custom clog charms and custom rubber beach bag charms with charm accessories and other trending gifts that are popular with young audiences:
