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How to Use Page Protectors in the Classroom and Home

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I use page protectors everyday as I home school my kids.  Page protectors help with messes, storage and helps make many pages reusable for less paper consumption. INK AND PAPER SAVER One of the most common uses for page protectors is using them to make games and worksheets reusable.  In the picture above, we were playing a place value game .  We placed the recording sheet inside a page protector, so we could play as many times as we wanted without having to print a new page each time! LESS MESS WITH PLAYDOUGH Another use for page protectors that has saved us a lot of time cleaning is using them for playdough mats.  My oldest uses sight word mats to practice her sight words and my four year old uses the alphabet mats to practice letter formation.  The playdough does not stick at all to the page protectors, and it makes for such an easy clean up! STORAGE AND PLANNING I also use page protectors to help me plan out my year and then use the pages to store the different a