Plastic Sleeves

Gotta admit-
I LOVE plastic sleeves!

Or, I guess they are sometimes called 'page protectors'

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Those clear sleeves that you can slide any sheet of paper into.  

They're three-hole punched so you can put them in a binder.

I love them because you can use dry-erase markers on them and they 

wipe off easily!

Super easily!

And, I can give Dash any type of sheet to work on and they simply become re-usable because I insert them into a plastic sleeve!

Lately, Dash has been SUPER into mazes.

It started with the back of a children's menu at a restaurant.  

Then, he kept asking when we could go back to that restaurant because he wanted to do another maze.  

I had purchased a book of kids' mazes from an educational store years ago when I was teaching. 

 

I thought of ripping out the mazes and giving them to Dash but I wanted to keep the originals in case I ever needed them for teaching, in the future. 

I thought about photocopying the whole book for Dash- ugh.

I thought about scanning and printing the whole book for Dash- yuck.

And, then it hit me!  Plastic Sleeves!

I've been inserting the originals into plastic sleeves and he can do the mazes with his dry-erase marker and then simply erase it when he is done. 

My originals are still in tact!  

And, the best part-
Dash can  redo  the mazes as many times as he wants!

We've been using plastic sleeves for all sorts learning activities.

Dash is much more eager to do any learning activity if he gets to use a dry-erase marker instead of a pencil!

So, next time you are at Target, pick up a small package of page protectors/plastic sleeves.  

They kept Dash and his binder full of mazes busy for hours!