I have to give a shout-out about one of the best things I've purchased for my classroom in a long time. I bought it on Amazon.com and it's the Purple Cows Hot & Cold Laminator! I use this thing all of the time! I used to have to wait for "laminating day" to get things laminated and sometimes pieces would get lost after a trip to the laminator. But now, I can laminate whenever I want to. This laminator is for small items (8 1/2" wide or smaller), and that's perfect because I mostly laminate small items. The lamination at my school is thinner than the lamination pockets that come with the Purple Cows laminator. I find the lamination at the teacher store to be thinner, as well. I think that they must have ordered thinner laminate than they used to have in previous years. Last year I had my student name tags laminated at the teacher store in August and they fell apart in the fall...so frustrating! Of course you can laminate stuff at the big-box office supply stores, but it's super expensive.
I ordered my Purple Cows laminator last summer for $25 which included 100 hot pockets in different sizes. I still have some left a year later. The Purple Cows laminator does hot and cold laminating, but I admit that I've only tried the hot lamination. This laminator is small enough in size, so I can take it back and forth between school and home easily. If you're a bit of a control freak like me and you want to just get things done immediately, then you'll love having this laminator in your classroom!
Here's a photo of a couple of the things I've recently laminated.
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