Am I giving away a plastic page protector? Perhaps! 🙂 You can help me figure that out in a minute. Right now, I’m eager to learn how you use those nifty plastic sleeves that protect papers and much more. I was just asking myself what we did before plastic page protectors hit the marketplace, and then I remembered! We used those devilish little lick-’n’-stick hole reinforcers. Remember those? They tasted icky, and they were difficult to position correctly. Thank goodness for plastic page protectors!
Now about that giveaway! Share one (or more) ways you use these cool plastic covers, and your name will instantly be entered in our first giveaway of 2013! Just be sure to leave your comment on this blog post by Monday, January 14. You’ll also need to tell what you’d like to win: a book from The Mailbox, a pack of plastic page protectors, or both! 🙂
Eager to hear from ya!
Diane
PS: Remember, we’re still purchasing suggestions for ways to recycle and reuse holiday items. Check out “Holiday Recyclables“!
Congratulations to Melanie! She’s the winner of our giveaway!
I use page protectors for play dog play, making patterns, and just keeping my originals neat while in storage.
I would like to win both a book and plastic page protectors! 😉
We make class books at our preschool where each child draws a picture for the book and dictates a description of his/her picture. The we assemble the book with plastic page protectors as the covers and use a spiral binder to bind the book. Then each child gets to take the book home and share it with family. The plastic covers make the book last for a long time.
Wow! The plastic page protectors can be used in a variety ways. One way I like the best is to have my students use them as white boards during class or at stations in my classroom. Just slide whatever paper they’re working on into the case and use a vis-a-vis marker to complete the work. They can then correct it and then wipe it off. At math centers in my room it limits the amount of students who use that one station for the day. It also is a great way to save paper usage in my class as less paper is being used.
I use plastic page protectors with 120 hundreds charts. Each child has a chart they keep in their binder. We use them with expo markers to help us add and subtract, count by 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s, and today we worked on number puzzles using the 120 chart. The plastic page protector helps keep the chart safe and clean. The expo markers wipe off easily and make using the chart over and over again a cinch!
Plastic protector sheets are great for organizing all my themes. All I have to do is pull the protectors out of my notebook and copy. I also use the sleeves for whiteboards. A program that I use did not have enough whiteboards so I copied the board and slid the copy into a sleeve.
Protector sleeves can also be use to make a quilt. Tape or staple the sleeves together, slid in students work to complete the quilt. This idea can be used again and again. I put the quilt in the hallway and change themes often. One idea I used my protector sleeve quilt for, my first grade students did a research report on American Symbols. As the students completed the work we placed each report, along with pictures, in a sleeve and displayed it in hallway for all to see.
I attach a few page protectors in the homework folder. In each page I put the weekly homework for the entire month. My kids just take out the page as indicated in the calendar. It saves me time and effort and keeps the activity sheets well organized.
I use page protectors to put together my units that I’ve planned. I can keep everything in order and have all the materials I need for master copies.
I use page protectors at the writing center. They are especially helpful for children to trace letters correctly for fine motor skill development.
You can insert workbook pages. Using dry erase markers allows the pages to be used over and over.
These work good to protect photos.
I would like to win a book and plastic page protectors.
Thanks.
These are great to protect children’s art work.
I’d like to win a book and some of these page protectors.
I use plastic protectors for so many things. I use them for activities for the kids to write and wipe off, make class books, to keep my papers organized. I use them to keep paper puzzle pieces together and when you tape the top it is a quick laminate if you don’t have access to a laminating machine!
I would love a book as I have a long wishlist!
Thanks!
Jen from Ohio
I like to use the page protectors as wall hangers, we can put the children’s drawings, art work or written work in them and they are so easy to switch out and replace with a new sheet. The children like to see their work on the walls.
I would like to win both also!
Ah, page protectors, how I love them! I use them to store magazine articles, workshop handouts, and other items that I like to keep for reference. I also like to draw things like letters on blank sheets of paper, and put them into page protectors so that kids can practice making the letter by tracing them with a dry erase marker.
Page protectors are also great for arts and crafts. You can, for example, have the kids paint a picture of a snowy landscape. Slip it into a page protector, add white glitter “snow”, and seal the page protector closed with clear tape. You can now make it “snow” in the picture by turning it upside down and shaking.
Oops, I’d love to win a Mailbox book! I buy page protectors in bulk, so I usually have a bunch on hand.
I teach elementary computers. Each class can earn points each time they come to my class. After they reach the class goal, they earn a reward.
I printed off tracking sheets for each class, put them each in a plastic page protector, and hung them on wall. This way, I can keep track of the points with a dry erase marker, then erase them and start over one rewards are earned.
I’d love to win both items! 🙂
I use page protectors for my binders – to keep originals neat. I also use them with my station game boards …. I just slip the game board into the plastic sheet and I don’t have to worry about laminating it. Then to top it off, when we are done using that game, it’s all ready to be placed in a binder for storage. 🙂
(and I would like to win both the Mailbox book and page protectors) 😉
In my Pre-K class, I have several uses for page protectors. First, I use them to protect my lesson plans. I always have them sitting out to refer to during the day/week and the plastic keeps them from getting soiled from paint, etc. They are also useful for keeping our recipes nice and clean. The children are able to use/handle them while they follow a recipe for a delicious snack. Thirdly, I love to use the protectors in our Writing Center. I keep a copy of our alphabet (with visual cues – arrows – for directions) in enough protectors for each child in the class. They can use erasable markers or erasable crayons to trace the letters for practice, erase them and start all over. I also have practice sheets with their names on them in the protectors so that they can practice writing them at any time. Then we have other pre-writing skill papers in the protectors as well. And the list goes on and on! Great way to save on paper and they are reusable year after year!
I would love to win a pack of page protectors. I never seem to have enough because I always come up with something new to use them for. A free book would be a great bonus as well. Thanks!
I use the plastic covers to put calender pictures, magazine pictures and childrens art work in them to let everyone enjoy. Hang them up or put on shelf.
I would like to will both a book and a pack of protectors.
I use these all the time in my classroom. They are great for literacy stations and math games. Instead of laminating I just use these. They are wonderful because you can use dry erase makers on them too. I also use them on my reading focus wall as poster holders for the skill, strategy and genre of the week. It makes is so I don’t have to laminate all of the posters and I also don’t have to punch holes in them with push pins or staples either. I just put the push pin through the center hole on the page protector instead 🙂 I’d love to win page protectors and a book!
I use them to store my patterns in a large notebook. Then I just pull the pattern out in the page protector and trace no need to take your pattern out. Since I started this I haven’t lost a single pattern./
I also use them to protect pages on the writing table. The kids can use them with a dry erase marker and they are then just wiped off.
Book or page protectors either one.
Teaching small hands how to form letters (dry erase stations), change the page and let them go! Everyday a new letter/number adventure. Play doh mats keeps mess in one place and you can change the theme from moment to moment to encourage little hands to make carrots for snowman noses or seashells on the beach!
Holding file games and the parts for each file folder station, puzzle pieces for name games (personal to each child), or to hold story pieces for independant/group reading.
You can also use them for unfinished art projects, homework missed while sick, notes to parents.
Is there anything you cannot use them for?!
Love more page protectors! thanks for this!!!
I use sheet protectors to hang up important visual aids in the classroom and to also protect class pictures. The students love to see there work hanging up and I live to keep it for them until the year ends.
I use them to do small group activities that can be reused. (letters, numbers, name practice, etc.)
Of course, I would like both a book and plastic page protectors to use with it!
Plastic page protectors (love that alliteration!) help me to keep my originals clean and free from accidentally being used. I love the convenience of printing a document with the student version on one side and the answer key on the back. The clear protectors also allow me to make a clean copy without removing the page from the protector sleeve. I then just attach the completed assignments to the top of the page protector with a paper clip. Now I have all of my papers to grade with the answer key with them.
Im use the plactic page protestcor to place in the center of pocket folders using the prongs that are in the middle for our first grade “DAILY FOLDER.” This page protector holds a newsletter that explains the functions of our folders and how to use the left pocket and the right pocket. Also, parents can use this middle clear sleeve to place lunch money, small notes, or other small items so it catches my attention quickly and they are less likely to get lost or become “unseen” when they fall behind the short pocket flaps that come with the folder.
I would like to win the pkg. of plastic pg. protectors and a Mailbox book please?! (O:
Thanks very much,
Jana C.
Great to store nice notes I get from students, parents, boss-I stick on to a paper and put in to the protector…
Would love to win both!
We use the page protectors on our parent bulletin board. We tape the page protectors to the board and then slide the notices inside. It makes it quick and easy to change menus, newletters, etc. each monthwithout having to get out the stapler.
Page protectors are great for student reports.
I’d love to win a book and the page protectors
I use page protectors to keep tax receipts safe and protected.
Would like to win a book and more page protectors.
I use the plastic page protectors to put the directions to Math centers. I also hang the daily TEKS (Texas Esesntial Knowledge and Skills), which is district requirement, in the front of the classroom. I have also had my students keep their weekly poems that they used for fluency in them.
I would like both a book and pack of protectors.
I use these page protectors to protect important papers.
I would like both the page protectors and a Mailbox book.
Thanks so much. Awesome
I use the page protectors to keep important papers. They are also used to keep track of data for my data notebook. Finally, reading passages are put in a protector for fluency practice.
I’d like both – page protectors and a book.
Thanks!!
I use page protectors to keep important papers nice and organized in binders. I also use page protectors to keep printed directions for games safe from little sticky hands. I’d love a book and page protectors.
I use plastic page protectors all the time! My favorite way is to put tracing pages (to practice writing letters/numbers) in them and then let students use dry erase markers to write on them. That way the pages can be used over and over.
I can always use more page protectors or books!
You could use a page protector over a passage and have students use dry erase markers to underline the main idea in one color and the key details in another color. They would do this with each paragraph in the passage.
I make classroom books using page protectors in 3-ring notebooks. I can re-use the protectors each year. 🙂
This is not my idea but I really like it! Print out sheets of Capital and small letters I.E, Aa and then put them in a plastic page protector and take them to the play dough table. Let children form the letters on the page protector using play dough.I would like to win both book and page protectors too:)
Plastic page protectors are so useful in the classroom. We use them with fluency passages, game boards that come with our math program, and in our students’ take-home folders. I also use them in the classroom as part of ever-changing displays/centers; it is much easier to change out menus, center work samples, etc.