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A Little TipsyDid you know you can
use clear contact paper to laminate at home? I had some things I wanted to reinforce to protect them from little hands. Basically, so they would last more than five minutes. I wanted to be able to laminate any time I wanted without running out to the copy shop. This works great and is easier than I thought.
I saw these
cute color matching cards from
Homeschool Creations and loved the nice clear photos. I printed them on card stock and then measured out and cut the clear contact paper. I left an excess of about half an inch on each edge so that I would not have to be too careful. Then, I carefully peeled off the backing, put a sheet on each side, and rubbed out any bubbles. Last, I trimmed the edges and cut them up.
I also found this
chore chart template over at Controlling My Chaos. Though my little one is a bit young for chores, he loves to help out and I wanted another way to reinforce good behavior.
I "laminated" it and now I can add and erase check marks each week. He gets so excited every time he gets a check mark. He signs "more" and says "more checks." Then, I tell him what he get the checks for and tell him another "chore" he can do to get more checks.
I love being able to laminate at a moments notice and it is so much cheaper! When I called the UPS store they said laminating was 99 cents a page. I bought my roll of clear contact paper at
Wal-mart for just under $6 and have already laminated 15 pages. It is about half gone. Score!
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Comments (4)
I just bought a roll of contact paper on sunday because i've been wanting to laminate some cards with bible verses on them as magnets so little guy can play with them on the fridge. All you have to do to turn a piece of paper into a magnet is get a roll of magnetic tape, cut a piece and laminate right over it too. Works great. I plan to do this with some shapes/colors and some numbers (we have alphabet magnets already).
I might just be making a chore chart too. I didn't consider that I could just wipe it clean after writing/drawing on it. Do you use a dry erase or a wet erase marker?
We use contact paper all the time. It works great and is much cheaper than having it laminated.
ooh cool ideas <3
Ooowww...I love the color matching cards! I'd never thought about contact paper, either! We've used page protectors & dry erase markers to write on and erase within binders for practicing spelling words and such though.