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Before I became a teacher, I underestimated how much work teaching would be and how much of my own money I would spend on my classroom and students! Teachers put so much time, money, and love into teaching and they all deserve a pay raise! Now that I’m a homeschool mom, I am also putting in so much time and money into teaching my three boys.
Over the years, I’ve used various tools to make teaching easier.
Today I’m sharing my top five teaching supplies. Of course, you could buy lots of other supplies, but these are my must-haves!
Top 5 Teaching Supplies
#1 – Home Laminator
I have used my Scotch Thermal Laminator for over 7 years and it’s still working great! I use it to laminate any printables I want to use with dry-erase markers or other printed items that I want to be more durable, such as printable games. Having this in my home is a game-changer and saves me money! Even my husband used it the other day for work! 😉
The one I purchased in 2013 is no longer available, but the one that is most similar is this one..
#2 – Binding Machine
I know this one might surprise you, but I love my binding machine! I have used this so many times! It’s great for making journals, packets, and small booklets. It is also super easy to use.
#3 – Pencil Sharpener
Investing in a good pencil sharpener is a must! I’ve gone through some pretty cheap pencil sharpeners and it’s so frustrating spending money on something that breaks! This Xacto pencil sharpener is great for home or the classroom!
#4 – Stapler
Getting a good, heavy-duty stapler is so helpful! I love this Swingline one because you can staple a lot of pages at once!
#5 – Paper Cutter
So many printables for early childhood require cutting! I love using this paper cutter to save time. It makes cutting a breeze!
Of course, there are many more supplies I could add to this list. These are just my top 5!
For 48 hours, I will be hosting a giveaway for ONE of these items! The winner gets to choose which of the 5 items in this blog post they would like for free! You do need to live in the United States and be 18 years old or older to enter. Enter below and the winner will be notified via email.
I would love to get the laminator! At my school, we are not allowed to use the school laminator by ourselves and it is always so flimsy! Great Idea!
My choice would be the laminator! Being a nanny and now with a hybrid child, that would come in such handy and be so helpful!
I’d love to win the laminator, too!
I would love to win the laminator! Will pay shipping to Canada!
OH I would definitely choose the binding machine! I have 2 special needs kiddos and creating personalized social stories, calendar pictures and portable books and communication boards are a MUST in this house just to decrease anxiety and communicate. Also, could be great for teacher or class gifts for Christmas! Very useful
I would love a new laminator! My laminator just broke and I have been lost without it. That paper cutter is the best ever! I use it all the time 🙂
I would love the home laminator as a new teacher!
I would love a binding machine or a paper cutter!!
I, too, would love the paper cutter. A lot of time is spent trying to cut out pieces or cards for activities.
I would be exited to win any of these items.
Laminator, definitely. I would love to have one.
My choice would be the book binder. I work in a self contained classroom, I use a lot of adaptive education books , so thats a lot of adaptive books for eight kiddos. This would help my classroom so much.
Thank you,
Carrie
I would love to win the laminator! I used to own a Scotch one as well, and it broke recently 🙁 Definitely a necessity as a Special Ed teacher!!
I would love the laminator or binder! I’m a grandma that has watched my 10 grandkids until they went to kindergarten. I’m down to the lady 4! I try to educate them and keep them stimulated throughout the day! I love your blog!
I would love the laminator or binder! I’m a grandma that has watched my 10 grandkids until they went to kindergarten. I’m down to the lady 4! I try to educate them and keep them stimulated throughout the day! I love your blog!
I would most use the binding machine!
I would love the binding machine-I have a feeling it would be a game-changer for homeschooling!
I would love a book bind! I have everything else but this!
My home laminator just died! As an ECSE educator, I laminate EVERYTHING and my school’s machine is always broken down.
I would love the laminator! This would be such a great blessing to me and my two daughters who are also completing their education to be teachers!
I would love to win the laminator. This would be a great tool to have at home.
I would love to have a binding machine!
I would love the laminator. Teaching my grandson Kindergarden this year and that would be great to save things for future.
I hope this is the right way to enter in the giveaway! I love all these!
I would like to win the home laminator because i just started homeschool for my 3 and 4 years old and the best thing is to keep them having fun and entertainted with durable pages and keeping safe the planet not wasting papers
Same here! These would all be useful for everything!
A home laminator sounds wonderful!
Amazing giveaway!!
This is awesome!!! I would love the laminator! 😊
So many good choices! I’d choose the laminator. I LOVE to laminate everything. With little kids using them, it makes them last long, plus with everything going on right now, it makes things easier to wipe down too.
These are all great! My top two would be the paper cutter and next the laminator. Can’t live without them. I would probably add Sharpies! 🙂
I would love the binding machine! I don’t have one in my classroom currently!
What a great giveaway! The paper cutter would be my choice.
What a fun giveaway! I would love the binding machine!
These are awesome items!
It will be great to have a laminator machine.
Oh my goodness… the paper cutter. I have a laminator and binder (MUST HAVES!), but that paper cutter would be a game changer. =)
All great teacher supplies! The laminator is my top pick!
All of those things are must haves! I am the only one that uses the book binder in my school.
I would love a laminator so that the turn around time to begin using a new game would be shorter.
Wow thank you! I rely so much on my laminator, but it is broken 😞 I would love to have another!
The paper cutter!
Thank you for doing this!
The Laminator SOUNDS amazing!!!
Would love a binder! I use my laminator weekly!
I would love the laminator or maybe the paper cutter!
this is awesome! I would love to win the binding machine!
I have all of these items except the binding machine – I always spend lots of money going to shops to bind items for me, my kiddos and teachers. I would LOVE the binding machine, but the other products are MUST haves – I use my laminator for everything around the house too!!!
It’s a toss up between the laminator and the binding machine.
I would love the binding machine
I’d love the laminator!!!
Home laminator, heavy duty 3 hole punch, felt tip makers called amazon basics, paper cutter, and heavy duty stapler
I would love the heavy duty stapler but with us teaching remotely I don’t know how much use I would have for it in class.
These are all great resources to have at home! I could so use an at home laminator.
Omg! I would love to win the home laminator. I love recruiting my team to help me with lamination tasks for my SPED HS class but it’s challenging with us all being remote. I want to recruit my family for help and this would be a game changer!
I would love the home laminator! Making math games is my jam and laminating them means I can use them with both my children!
I love the paper cutter!! It has helped me so much during my teaching career!
I would love to win the binding machine! I have never had one and would be able to use it for so many things in my classroom!
I would love to win the binder! A teacher at my old school had one and I was ALWAYS borrowing it!
Great supplies!!
I LOVE my laminator! Its definitely a must have.
I’d love the book binder!
I would choose the laminator. This is such a wonderful giveaway. Thank you so much for offering this.
All of these offer amazing classroom help!! My own personal paper cutter is on its last leg – I’d LOVE a new one!!!
I would love the paper cutter
I would love to win the home laminator! It would help make all the great art ideas sturdy and savable. Thank You!!
The laminator would be amazing!
For sure the binding machine! We have one at our school, but it is 1,000 years old!
I have always wanted a laminator at home!!!
I bought one of those laminators and it works awesome. I would love the binding machine. I print out my own books for my students all the time and it would be awesome to have something like this instead stabling books together. Thanks for the awesome giveaway.
I would love a laminator! Absolutely a teacher must have – especially when we can’t be in schools right now!
I would love the laminator!
This laminator has been in my Amazon cart!
Wow! You are so generous! I would love the paper cutter!
I would love a binding machine to make more adapted books! I find adapted books work better for my students when we try to do a read aloud.
These top 5 supplies are awesome!
I am a gramma of a 4 year old now but a former Montessori aide and office manager. All these items are sooo important!
I agree with you about finding the perfect sharpener. After 20 years, I am STILL searching for it! The best one I have found so far is actually an old school style one but it never fails to sharpen perfectly. Problem is, you get tired fast if you are sharpening a lot of pencils. I LOVE my laminator and I have the same one. I am not sure it still works though since my kitties knocked over a snowglobe and it broke and the water went all over and into the laminator box.
I agree with you! The old school ones are the best, but do make your hands tired! 🙂 And I’m glad you love the laminator and I hope it still works!
I love this idea. This is very thoughtful. I would love the laminator. Teaching my grandson at home and this would be very helpful.
I would pick the paper cutter- i underestimated how useful that would be as we transitioned into home schooling!
I agree with you on all these supplies! I have and use all frequently, except for the laminator. For that I have to rely on the two very old ones we have at school. They take forever to warm up and sometimes destroy my work by “chewing” it up! So a laminator would be a great addition to my school supplies!
So many great choices! Especially during remote teaching, but I think I am leaning towards the laminator.
All of them are Wonderful Tools!!! I would be happy with any of them! Thank you for your generosity!!!
Would love to win the laminator. Thanks for the giveaway!
I love the paper cutter, it would be so handy in our OT room.
I would love to win the paper cutter. Great give away. Thank you
I would love to win the binder and the paper cutter! I have 2 laminators (which are getting old), so the laminator would be my third choice. The heavy duty stapler would be great for stapling the students’ IEPs (they can become rather bulky).
I love all of your suggestions but the one I can’t live without is the laminator…please!
I would love to win a paper cutter!! I enjoy doing crafts with my kids and a paper cutter would come in handy!
Home laminator!!
Yes, the binding machine.
Binding Machine
I couldnt live without my binding machine. Great giveaways!!!
Paper cutter for sure!
I’ve had a laminator on my wishlist for a while now. Thanks for the fun giveaway!
Love the paper cutter!
I would LOVE to win the binding machine!! This would help me so much with binding all of my adapted books for my students!!
I would love the paper cutter! I bought the Scotch laminator on your recommendation a few months ago and love it!
Yay! So happy to hear you love the laminator!
Oh all of these items would be very resourceful at home or at the workplace! I would have to choose the laminator. As said above at my workplace we are not allowed to use the laminator and sometime our beautiful creation come back in a distorted blob! I also feel that I would use the laminator a lot at home for my child’s artwork and photos. What a great variety of tools! Thank you for sharing.
Love the giveaway as much as your cute ideas and activiites!
I can’t tell you how many times I wished I had a binder! This would be awesome! Thanks for doing these giveaways!
I would love the binding machine. I never even considered owning one- I thought it was one of those magical things that only Staples can do 🤣
Wow! This is an AMAZING giveaway! I have been eyeing a laminator so this would be perfect! I completely agree with all your essentials and have had my Xacto Pencil Sharpener for 13 years!!!
Wow! That’s pretty neat that your pencil sharpener has lasted so long!
The paper cutter!
Thank you for your generosity. May God bless you.
I need a paper cutter. So I would pick the paper cutter.
I love the binding machine. Brings back so many memories from when I was in school!
I would love any of these items for my homeschool classroom. 🙂
I would love the paper cutter!!
The paper cutter would be so helpful right now!
That looks like a great binding machine. I have a stack of things that need binding this year.
The book binder! We love to put together homemade books with the class. 💜
I would love the laminator. I make lots of games. Thank you for sharing and giving opportunities to others as well!!
I could use some these items since I am a home visitor.
I would love to have my own paper cutter!
I would love the laminator!
I am a homeschool Momma and I think the Laminator would be so nice to have!
I would choose the home laminator!
I would like the sharpener!
All such great choices! The binding machine is what I’d love to win!
I would love to have the binder!!
i would love to woin the laminator. You are so generous!
I would live to win the binding machine!!! Thank you for the opportunity
I started following you and using your materials very recently and my girls and I love it!
Thank you! Makes me so happy to hear this!
I would love the pencil Sharpener, mine always breaks.
I would love a laminator at home. I always laminate my games & task cards but have to wait for the person at school to get around to them. It would be great to be able to do them at home.
That binding machine would be so helpful! I’d love to make more booklets for my students.
Wow! I have never seen anything like that stapler but now I want it! It would be great for stapling packets.
Most definitely could use the at home laminator!
All of these are awesome! I would love the binder, I love to make class books and this would help them last longer. Thanks for being so generous.
Definitely the laminator. My group is toddlers, so materials need to be sturdy.
Such a great giveaway! I would love a laminator!!!
yay for giveaways!
I would love the laminate machine.
I would love to win the laminator!
What a great idea, I love it! I have that exact paper cutter and couldn’t live without it…I would love to add the laminator!
Pencil Sharpener would be great, I am always borrowing one from the office. =) Our School supplies the rest….
Amazing giveaway! These are brilliant!
I love having an laminator in my classroom. I would really like the paper cutter or the binding machine.
I would love the laminator! I never realized how much time I get back when I can reuse items over and over again for years.
That is SO true!
Such a hard choice lol but I would love the paper cutter. We usually always cut things by hand since we moved offices.
Binding machine
Awesome giveaway! I would LOVE the laminator! I laminate so many activities for my kiddos but I have to wait to get to work to do it! It would save me so much time if I had my own!
These are all AMAZING!! The binder is my favorite!
I don’t see my post from earlier so here is another one.
Thank you for being so generous.
I would love the paper cutter.
May God bless you.
My first choice would be the stapler, but a binding machine would be awesome also! I have the other things already and you are so right about them being so necessary!
The binding machine or laminator would be excellent!
I would love any of them, but most needed is the paper cutter.
Oh that binding machine would be nice
The paper cutter would be great! My current one is getting dull.
I would love to win the laminating machine, been wanting one to use for my daughter for the longest time. If I could have gotten all the supplies shown, they are amazing, I just love them.
What a perfect list! As a homeschooling mama of 4 (ages 8, 6, 4, 2). Anything on this list would be a blessing. I’d definitely choose the laminator since we get creative with games and activities for learning around here. What a great start to your giveaway!💕
This is very cool! Any of those items would be great! I use my laminator on a daily basis and noticed it sounds like it’s ready to die! I would choose that!
I would love to win the home laminator!
Love them all!
I adore my binding machine and laminator. I use them all the time. I have a slide paper cutter that gets the job done, but that one looks like it would make life a million times easier!
I use my paper cutter all the time. I bought it in college almost 30 years ago! I would love to have a laminator at home. It would be so helpful. 😊
The laminator would be so beneficial to make individual story to song props be more sturdy. These props would allow students to be more engaged, especially during distance learning. They could use these props to repeat the activity with their families too!
I would love the pencil ✏️ sharpener. Yay!
I would love to be able to laminate!!! We have that pencil sharpener and it’s a must. Our hole puncher is too!
Any prize would help make the season bright!
The laminator would be wonderful. My is on its last leg. What a wonderful way to start December.
Pencil sharpener for the win! I’m constantly trying to use the little handheld ones and they just don’t do the trick lol!
I desperately need a decent pencil sharpener! Of course the paper cutter would be nice too…
I would love the mainator! Thank you!
*Laminator
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I would love the laminator. I use it so much at school it would be great to have a small one for those times I just have a few pieces to do.
Sweet give away! I would want a binding machine! It’s on my wish list for one day. Lol 😊😊😊 thank you for sharing your list with us and the giveaway opportunity!
Binding machine!
Great list! I have the other four…. The binding machine would be a game changer! 🙂
I agree that all of those are critical tools!
I already own most of them but I’d love the stapler.
A binding machine would be great for all those laminated materials!
I would love the laminator!! It would make everything last so much longer =)!!
I would love the stapler! Nothing more frustrating than a stapler that doesn’t staple all the pages! Thank you!
All are so great!
The binding machine would be amazing !!!!
Love ALL the items, but after using one of the laminators at work, I want one for myself for those “special” projects!!
These are spot on!! A must for all teachers! I’ve lost count on how many laminators I have gone through over the years. LOL
I love to have the laminator, the one at my work always eats what I need to laminate and it would be a lot easier if I had my own one to take home and so that I don’t have to share with the rest of the school as working in the nursery and all the display and work I have to laminate would be easier to have my own one
I would love the paper cutter or laminator! Both are great items that would get a ton of use!
Wonderful idea! Would love any of those items + sharpies!
I would LOVE the binding machine so I could make books for each of my kids artwork each year to save for when they are older!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I would love the laminator!
Ooh, that binder is amazing!!
I would love the paper cutter!
I would love to win the laminator.
I would love either the paper cutter or the stapler as I use both all the time and the ones that we have at school aren’t the best. I use them to get our Intervention materials ready for all the groups that we have. Thank you for the opportunity.
The cutting board! This would save so much time and make sure that I have straight lines when I’m cutting their school photos to give to family.
I would LOVE to win the paper cutter!!! Thank you!
I would love to have the binder! These are all amazing!
I would love to win the home laminator! I have been wanting one for a while now!
My stapler went walking last summer and the ones in the teachers’ workroom I keep jamming (too many pages) so I’d really love that stapler!
Would love to have a binding machine at home!
I’d love that binding machine! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to bind a project, and having a bunch of three-ring binders and hole punch is just not the same. (I use my AmazonBasics laminator ALL THE TIME, it’s truly a staple in our house.) Thank you for this giveaway!!
Hi! This sounds great!
I would love the laminator!
Wow~this is awesome!
I love this lis! I already have a personal laminator and use the book binder at school. I would love to have my own paper cutter. I have had one on my amazon wishlist but haven’t bought it.
I would love a binding machine!
I would love the paper cutter! I already have the laminator and the pencil sharpener and I love them both!
Thank you so much for helping us all. I appreciate everything you do and on top of it taking the time to do such an amazing giveaway!
I have been looking at binders to save my sanity and also my children from being buried in loose leaf paper!
I would really like the laminator. It would help me with work (I’m working from home as a elementary librarian) plus I could find a lot of uses with my granddaughter!
The paper cutter would be AMAZING!!
i love the stapler, i have one but it broke not that long ago 🙁 thank you for the giveaway <3
These are all great! I think the binder would be great to make individual books for my students. The heavy duty stapler and paper cutter would be amazing as well!
I would love, love the pencil sharpener!
I would love to have a paper cutter in my classroom!
I would love the laminator!!! It has been on my wish list to purchase !!
I would love to win the binding machine. I have everything on the list except that. It would be so useful to have!!! 🙂
I would LOVE to win the Heavy Duty Stapler. It would be AWESOME to have my own, and not have to borrow the one at school when stapling books, or journals for my littles. 🙂
I think the binder would be cool to have! All the possibilities it would give.
I agree all of those are so necessary in teaching. I think I would go with the stapler at this time, though it is hard to choose.
This is amazing! I would LOVE the binder! It would save me money and trips to staples!
Oh how generous! I have always wanted a binder!!
I would love the laminator. It would be so helpful with homeschooling.
i would love the laminator
I would pick the pencil sharpener. My grandson colors with colored pencils all the time and I am constantly sharpening them with a plastic sharpener. Thank you for doing this. You are going to make some parent, grandparent or teacher very happy.
I would love the binding machine!
I would love the laminator! I’ve been wanting one for a few years. There’s always something great that I print out and I say to myself ” I should really get a laminator “!
My students would benefit most from the binding machine. I love to make class books with the students and this would help them last longer!
I would love the paper cutter! It would be nice to be able to have a portable one to work at home sometimes.
I would love the binding machine!!
The binding machine looks so useful- hadn’t known there was such a thing. It would be great to be able to circulate among neighbors too since everyone is homeschooling during these challenging times.
I’d love the binding machine! Thank you!
I would love the binding machine!
A great stapler! Mine always shatters and I Love this giveaway idea!
Hi! I would love the paper cutter! There are so many projects I can think to use it for!!
I bet you have the same green Scotch laminator as I do. I love that thing. It may be slow but it does a great job. I would love to have a paper cutter for home so I don’t have to lug mine back and forth from school.
I need the stapler. My current stapler does not go through a whole IEP.
The binder or laminator would be great
To be able to laminate small things quickly would be wonderful.
I would love the binding machine to use with my Kinders! We love to make class books and this would be a great way to preserve our books.
I would love the Home Laminator. I recently purchased a color printer and we will be going back to in person learning in January. I would love to be able to laminate the games and other wonderful activities I have planned for Centers.
I would love to win a laminator. Teaching from home doesn’t allow the freedom to use the big laminator at school.
Booklet binder is such a good idea!
Good Morning! What an amazing giveaway! I think my favorite would be the heavy-duty stapler!
A laminator for SURE! I work at a colony school and we don’t have the luxury, so I get creative with packing tape 🙂
Paper cutter for me 🙂 thanks!
Excellent choices for must-haves. I never thought of a binder and now I am dying to have one. 🤣
As an early childhood educator, I am always in need of a laminator. All those tools are great but for me the laminator would be my choice.
The pencil sharpener would be awesome!
hope this is how to enter. we would love to use any of these in our classroom!
thank you!!
I would love the laminator. It would be so useful!
A new paper cutter please. I agree with your list of essentials. We have 3 laminators in our classroom!!!!
Such great fun! You are so generous and kind 🙂
I would love love the Binding Machine please!!!!
I would love to receive the binding machine. I love making books and note pads with info for my littles!
What a great giveaway. The paper cutter is my choice 😍
I would love to add a paper cutter to my supplies. Happy Holidays!!!
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I love these must haves! The laminator is great for my bulletin board in my preschool classroom!
This is amazing! I would pick number 2 the binding machine. Would be nice to make my memory books little by little with my own machine. Thanks again for your generosity!
I would love love the Binding Machine please!!!!
Yes, these are all great products for teachers. It’s funny how some of the most simple tools are the ones you use ALL THE TIME. I haven’t tried the binding machine but I’m sure it’s wonderful.
Thank you!
I would love the binding machine!
I would also love to have the laminator! I have had my eyes on one for a long time and just haven’t taken the plunge yet!
They all would be great. But I think I would like the paper cutter.
I would love the laminator!! Thanks
Our school’s laminator has been broken for several months now. I would love to be able to laminate materials again!
These are all great! Thanks for sharing and for the giveaway!
I would especially love the binding machine, but could put that laminator to great use too!
I would LOVE that stapler!!
The heavy duty stapler would be awesome!
Thank you for your generosity with all your giveaways😊
HI!! Love your blog ! The laminator would be awesome! I think this 12 days of Christmas is a great idea 🙂
The laminator would be amazing for this remote teaching mamma with three kids of my own who are doing distancing learning!
Honestly, any of the items would be a blessing to a classroom. I have used all the larger items at our public library. I would have to say the pencil sharpener is a definite must have.
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Oh gracious! A laminator would be the first choice! The paper cutter would definitely save time, but there are so many things I’ve needed laminated and had to do without!
We do home preschool! I’d love to have the pencil sharpener. Useful item we don’t have!
I forgot to say I’d love any of these teacher tools!
I would love the stapler!!
Oh my goodness that stapler looks so nice!
I’d love to win the stapler!!! I’d agree with all of these!
I’d love a laminate machine.
Love giveaways! Thank you!
All of these are great! I would love to get the binding machine!!
I would LOVE the laminator! Or the binder.
I would like to win the binding machine! I think that would be a great asset to use in my pre-k class to make books of student work and student portfolios.
The laminator would be amazing for my classroom! I have been wanting one, just haven’t had the funds!
This is such a generous give away. All of these tools would be very useful, but I would choose the laminator because I don’t have access to that at home.
I always wanted a laminator!
What fantastic supplies! I see why you love them all! The laminator would be so helpful in so many projects!! I could even reuse projects with dry erase markers if they were laminated!
I love my laminator. I have never used a machine to make books.
What a wonderful giveaway! Thank you!
I would love to have the laminator. It would be great to have at home with my little boy. He loves it when I laminate things and he can use the dry erase markers. This is a GREAT give away.
I think the stapler would be great
All of the items you have selected are great. They would work well in the library doing projects with students.
I would love the binding machine. So many times I have wished for one of these!
Honestly each one is a great gift! They would all be helpful, the laminator is my favorite, but a stapler, pencil sharpener, paper cutter.. alllllll amazing! Thank you so much! 💗✨
I would love to win the laminator. I’ve been following you for a long time and have been using your platforms and education print outs to help my son learn as he just turned 3 this last summer. We’ve been enjoying it and he has learned a lot from it. Thank you for doing this give away!
All great supplies to own! I have some, but I do not have the paper cutter! Thanks!
I’d love to win any of these! Woo-hoo! 🙂
What a great idea! I’d love the binding machine!
I would definitely love the home laminator or binding machine! Both of those seem like great tools for at home or school! We do have a laminator at school, but a lot of times I have some last minute things at home or smaller projects that I don’t have time to do at work!
These are all perfect gifts. Thank you for your hard work and generosity.
Love your blog and emails! That binding machine looks awesome and it would be a great tool to have to make some homemade class books.
I would love the laminator or the binding machine.
Wow, this is so generous! I would love the paper cutter!
-Sarah in Florida
I’d love to have my own laminator!
I’d love to win the pencil sharpener! Mine has stopped working and sharpening with a hand sharpener is getting old:)
Thanks.
My daughter is really in to making books and she is only 4 so I would love the binding machine but I love all of them.
The binder would be an excellent product to have. You could create booklets and give as gifts. It would be so much better than just stapling pages together.
What a great giveaway, I love these supplies for homeschool. I would love to a binding machine! Would make packets and printing curriculum so much easier.
Laminator! Gets used almost daily in preschool.
Sharpener or Laminator would be awesome.
In total agreement with you 🙂
I currently have all with the exception of the binding machine – have yet to take the plunge on that purchase yet
Laminators are awesome!
I would adore the laminator. We are homeschooling with special needs and visuals are priority.
I would LOVE to have a laminator at home where I do most of my printing & cutting. My next choice would definitely be the paper cutter.
All of these are must haves!
I’ve been wanting a paper cutter for a long time!
The laminator! Happy days of giving!
I’d love the binder!!
All items are great I sure could use any of them!
Paper cutter or the Swingline Stapler!
The basics would be great…a good stapler or a much used pencil sharpener that doesn’t chew up the wood on the pencil….lol It’s the little things in life!
I’d love the laminator. Kindergarten students are ROUGH on things and paper never lasts.
I would like the laminator
The laminator is absolutely the only way to go, I have to purchase a great deal of my own materials making it difficult to have what I need. The laminator gives me an opportunity to make durable learning materials so I have enough to go around. This would be amazing to win.
These are all fantastic and generous offers! My choice would be the stapler! Thanks so much!
These are all great tools! I’m not in a classroom right now, so I think I’d get the most use out of the laminator.
Ooh I’d love the stapler or book binder— my kids would love it for all the stories/books they write!
A paper cutter would definitely save time!
Thank you this is a great opportunity for any teacher. I have a laminator and cutter, so either of the other two would be a great addition to my classroom.
I would love to get the binding machine. I create workbooks for my students and I am always looking for ways to make them last longer!
The binding machine would be so helpful for our small low income eligible center
Great giveaway. I have a laminator and the cutting board and couldn’t imagine not having them. Would love the heavy duty stapler.
The paper cutter would be so handy!
This is a tough one because in my special needs classroom, I am using all of them every day; and although our school has them all, it’s either a wait or they are always broken. So, the one that I have to wait the most for and is broken the most is the laminator so the would come in the handiest and be so nice to have one of my own. I could get things done so much faster for my students and that in and of itself would be a blessing.
I completely agree with the pencil sharpener. I have used it for years in my primary classroom. I also love my personal straight edge cutter but now I just need the personal laminator. Many teacher friends have one in their classrooms and their center creations seem so much faster than mine. I would love the laminator!
I’d love to win the laminator!!
I would love to have a laminator. Your resources are amazing! This give-away is a great idea for all the tired teachers/mamas out there. Thank you for your generosity!
I have enjoyed your site. I would love the home laminater, all the items are awesome! Thanks
Great list, these are my favorites too, love the stapler!!!
I would love to have the paper cutter!
The laminator please!!!
I completely agree that these are all great supplies. Since I started teaching my little ones about a year ago, I have found that I needed to add some of these. I have not invested in a good pencil sharpener or a heavy duty stapler. Definitely the next items on my to get list!
I would love the cutter
laminator, paper cutter
We love at home crafts. the laminator would be an awesome addition
Everything sounds so great! I would have to go with the laminator. Happy Holidays Everyone!
I would love the binding machine. I had never thought about buying one of those, but now it is on my list!
Super fun giveaway! Those are all great products! Good luck everyone!
Thank you for doing this giveaway!
I’d loveeeeee the home laminator.
This was so much fun last year! I never thought I would want or need a binding machine, but now I think I might need one.🤣
I love my cutter and laminator. Would love to add the stapler or the binder to my collection.
Thank you for considering me.
I’d love binding machine or laminator. All are great!
I would love the paper cutter! It would be so helpful to cut booklets for all the kids in my class!
What amazing prize options. I would love the paper cutter. Thanks!!
I would love to have the Binding Machine!!! So many new ideas are running through my head already!!!! lol
The binding machine would be a game changer in our classrooms!
I would love a new laminator. Mine broke last year and I miss having one so much!
I would love to win the paper cutter!
I would love the laminate! Thanks!
I would love the large stapler or the paper cutter. I have a laminator and it is wonderful. I also use the pencil sharper a lot and it has lasted for many years.
Wow! What a sweet giveaway! Thank you! Such a tough decision to pick from! I would have to say the at-home laminator!
All of these are great! The book binder or pencil sharpener are the only two I don’t have!
Great giveaway! As a homeschooling momma the laminator would be amazing!
All are must haves! A heavy duty stapler is a must have. The copy room never has a working one! 🙂
Thanks for an awesome giveaway!
I would love to have the laminator or the stapler!
I would love to win the laminator! Our school has a very tight budget, as many Title 1 buildings do, and we only have one roll of lamination left for the rest of the year!!!!
Paper cutter! We have been using a small one from my scrapbooking supplies and it just isn’t cutting it!
Bought a laminator and it has been fantastic!
I would love to have a paper cutter to replace the old, tiny, cheap one I’ve had for years.
I would love a laminator but anything would be awesome. Your right teaching is underestimated when it comes to what a person needs to actually teach.
These all look like amazing teacher tools! Thank you for always being an incredible resource for me and my students!
I would love to win a nice durable stapler. It would come in handy this year as I am homeschooling my three children. I am constantly printing and making booklets and things so this would be great. Thank you so much for the opportunity!
Eek! I’ve been following you for years now, and I loved when you did the 12 giveaways last year. I love the products you recommend! Any of these sound like fantastic additions, but the binding machine looks awesome!! So many books!!!
The binding machine would be amazing! Thanks for this opportunity!
I can never find an amazing stapler- they all seem flimsy! If I won, that is what I would choose- if it works great for you, maybe it would be the answer to my stapler prayers! Thanks for hosting these giveaways!!
I would love to win the binding machine. My Grandfather helped invent parts of the original binders and my Uncle ran a factory that produced the binders. I would love to use it to make books with my kids.
I’ve been wanting and needing a laminator for so long! Especially this year with homeschooling my 2 little ones.
Great ideas!!
I would love to have the stapler. I have always wanted one! Thank you for doing this!
Great items! I would love any of them!
I would love to win the stapler. As a teacher there are 2 things I love to do: cut and staple. My principal used to tell jokes how we show up to meetings with something to cut or something to put together and staple. In addition, what a lovely stapler it is! I don’t know about you, but I am always given the cheap ones that break from school.
I’d love to win the home laminator for an amazing upgrade to using clear contact paper like I’ve done since i was a little girl! 😂
I would love the laminator. Right now during distance learning I feel like I am laminating more than ever and my current laminator is definitely wearing down
I have the sharpener and the laminator. Defintely great tools that I use daily!! I would love the cutter. The one here at our school does not work well-the handle is broken. I love to have the cutter to share with my kindergarten team so we can make books for our students .
The binding machine! I already have a laminator and totally agree must have!
I would love the paper cutter, I hate irregular borders lol!!!
Thanks
What a fun giveaway. The paper cutter and laminator would be great for creating visuals and social stories.
I would LOVE a binding machine! Thanks for the chance to win!
I would love to have the binding tool…never thought about having one at home!
I would love that amazing paper cutter! Always so many things to cut!
What a great giveaway! I would love to win the laminator!
These tools would be so helpful! Thanks for the tips!
Thank you for doing this!!!! As a first year teacher (AKA full-time employee working from home and attempting to do virtual school with my kids) all of these would be marvelous!!
Awesome give away! I would love the paper cutter!
I’d love to have my own laminator or book binder! Thanks for the opportunity!
Amen to that! I’d love a laminator! It would by far speed up the waterproofing of materials. Right now I just use packing tape! Lol
Paper cutter!
I think i would have to go with the binder because i don’t have one and can see that being very helpful! I used to bind things all the time when i was working at a school and do miss that convenience!
I just bought a laminator this year and it has made my heart SO happy!! Next on the list is a paper cutter – that would make prepping at home for my early childhood kiddos much easier!! The book binder would be fun too – though it intimidates me a bit!!!
Those are all useful tools. I think I will most need the binding machine. I love making class books.
There are all great items!!! I would love to win the binding machine, until this year I didnt realize how needed it would be!
I’d love to have a laminator or a binder comb! We love making books with the binding comb! Also, I would love to bind all the birthday and Christmas cards I’ve kept!!
I love them all but would choose the stapler.
I really have been thinking that I needed a laminator. Now (if I don’t win it) I will know which one to ask for as a Christmas Gift. And I totally agree with the good pencil sharpener. I actually enjoy sharpening the girls colored pencils. Therapeutic!
🙂 It is therapeutic!
These are all amazing tools! I have always wanted a binding machine though. So many things to make with those!
Amazing giveway! Thank you! Can’t do without great paper cutter 🙂
I would love the binding machine!! So many times I think, “This should be a book.”
I would love to win the binding machine!
I’d love to win the paper cutter!
I’d love to have that paper cutter!!!
All good supplies. Would love any of them. Thank you for the chance to win.
I would love the binder!! I love the products you suggested as a must have!!
The pencil sharpener would be great! My Dollar Store sharpeners are not holding up well.
I would love to win the laminator (mine is currently broken) or the binding machine (because I think I need one now after seeing your blog).
I would get the binding machine! The one we have at school is ancient and SO heavy!!
Wow! These are great. Thanks so much!
I would be lost without my laminator! I have had mine for years and have sent home so many reusable resources that it only has a few projects left before it quits. I also wouldn’t mind the paper cutter.
It would be fabulous to have any of these items for my home or classroom.
Thanks!
Wow! Thanks so much! Thanks for sharing.
I would like to win the Paper Cutter.
I LOVE the binding machine!!! I’m usually making class books, individual work books for differentiation, and even kid-friendly photo albums for the classroom!
Being virtual, I’ve moved them into Google Slides so everyone can see them and be a part, but I do miss the books and seeing their excitement to read a shared book with friends.
YES! A laminator would be a great thing to have at home!
Hmmm so hard to pick because they all look amazing! I guess the swing line stapler is something I would use the most! My staplers never seem to do the job!
I would love to win the binding machine or the paper cutter. Thank you for the awesome giveaway!
Paper cutter would be wonderful. Even the laminator. Thanks for sharing
I would love the paper cutter!
As an OT in early intervention I would LOVE the laminator. In our preschool developmental classrooms we are constantly making communication pics, tracing pages, etc. Having to wait for stuff is hard!
I would love the binding machine! That’s been on my want list for several months now. You have so many great teaching supplies, I use my laminator weekly!
Thank you for doing this giveaway.
I love my laminator, but I spend so much time cuttingout the things I laminate! The paper cutter would be amazing to have!
These are generous giveaways!!! I would love either the laminating machine or the book binding machine:)
I would love to win the laminator!
I could make such great use of the paper cutter! Thank you for setting up these giveaways!
Wow! These are all great supplies…hmmmm…my pick would be the laminator.
I would love the binding machine. It would be great to make booklets for my kinders!
I would love a paper cutter. Ours is so very tired!!
I would love to win the binder. I purchased a laminator as soon as I knew school would be remote again in fall. It is the best little investment.
I would love to win the laminator.
That stapler would be amazing! 😍
I would love the laminator! Mine got broken when I let someone borrow it and I’ve been missing it.
I am entering my 18th year of homeschooling and agree that having some basic supplies makes the job easier. The one item I do not have is the binder. 🙂 Thank you for the wisdom and the giveaway.
I agree with all of them although I do not have a binder which is what I would choose. Definitely can’t live without a paper cutter and a laminator!
I would love the paper cutter!
The giveaway idea is awesome! Great items to choose from. I would love to have a laminator.
I would love the binding machine! It would be sooooo useful!
The laminator and paper cutter would be awesome, as we are teaching from home. Love all the other items as well.
The binding machine would be great to make my kids work. I’m a homeschool mother and this would help tremendously.
wow this is so nice! I would love the paper cutter!
I would love the pencil sharpener!
I have ALWAYS wanted a binder to make class books and student journals. Winning one would make me soooo happy!
I would have to say I want the paper cutter. It is too long of a walk to our work room and having one handy would be SO Beneficial:):)
I would love to have a home laminator to create school things and preserve things at home!
Those 5 are essential. I use the school binder machine and I own my own laminator at home and school – but these 5 would make every day so much more productive.
I am a new homeschooling grandmother. I would love a laminator. Having to reprint things is getting expensive in ink.
Wonderful giveaway. I would love the paper cutter
I have a laminator, but need an upgrade for certain! Great post!
All of these are great practical tools for an educator. I would like the laminator the most . Thank you for doing this.
I would love the binding machine! So many things I could make for my students!
I would love the home laminator! We don’t have one yet. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this giveaway! I would love the laminator ! Thanks again and good luck to everyone !
What a wonderful giveaway! I would love the laminator. Happy Holidays! 🎄 ❄️ ⛄️
That binder machine is dreamy!!!! It would be such a blessing!!
I would love the bonding machine! What a great idea!
Definitely the paper cutter would be my choice.
I have to say that a laminator is a must in my home school. It provides for so many options!
These are all great homeschool needs but love the binder machine the best!!
The laminator 😍
I would love to win the laminator!
I would love any. The paper cutter would be nice!
I would love the stapler…or the paper cutter 🙂
I would love to have a book binder. We are always making classroom books and I am trying to figure out how to put them together To hold up against 3 year olds. My top 5 items used in my classroom are laminator, dry erase markers, a stapler that opens all the way, markers and tissues.
These are amazing items. I would love any of them as we are very limited here where I teach. Then being out in a portable makes things so difficult to have to go to the main building for laminating and use of other items we may need.
I could really use a laminator in my classroom!
The paper cutter would be life!!
I would love the laminator. My school has limited laminating access.
I would LOVE the binder to make adapted books for my preschoolers!
I would love the paper cutter! I have a little one, but a BIG one is definitely needed!!
I would love to get the laminator.
I would love to have the laminator to use in my Sunday school class and children’s church!!
I need that stapler in my life! The one I have just doesn’t get the job done!
What a fun give away! I would love to win the stapler!
All blessings in abundance, The stapler or the cutter would be a wonderful gift to win.
These are all great tools, it would be great to own anyone of these!
This is awesome what you are doing! I could use a Home Laminator!!!!
I would love to win the pencil sharpener! I agree, I have gone through and broke so many little sharpeners. I would love to have a good one that’s similar!
These are definitely must have tools! I would love to have the binding machine!
My home laminator is so loved that I actually have 2!! The lamination is so much better than the school one. What I wouldn’t give for that stapler and pencil sharpener. Having different sized pencils in Kindergarten you definitely need one where you can change the sizes.
I definitely need to get a book binder! This list is spot on.
The home laminater would be great!
I would love a paper cutter in my classroom. Thank you!
Wow! This is amazing! I love everything. I would love to own the book binder!!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO please pick me! I have been wanting a home laminator!
These are all great resources. I would love to have the book binder. I currently have this on my wish list.
I’d want the paper cutter! No more scissors
Love this! I would love the binding machine or the laminator!
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A laminator is a must, for sure! I actually bought one last year with a straight edge cutter attached to it. I would love to have a binding machine. I think It would prove very useful for in classroom projects, portfolios, of journals! It could also be useful with my 4 year old’s many drawings!
I’d love to have a laminator!
I would pick the laminator for sure!! I miss having access to the laminator at school.
Binding machine for sure!! The others are great tools also!!
What a fun idea – thank you!
I love the idea of a home laminator to make things durable and dry-erasable!
I use the laminator the most in order to be able to clean the materials I use after every use. The binder would be my 2nd choice because we create so many class books for our class library.
Thanks, what a great idea! My pick would be the binder.
I would love the binding machine! I’ve never used one, but it looks like a great resource.
This is great! The laminater would be the prize I’d pick.
Any of those gifts would be wonderful to win. I think given a choice I would love to win the laminator. It would get a lot of love.
I would love the laminator…it is definitely a must have for teaching!
Amazing giveaway items! The binding machine would be awesome and open up to making a lot of cute books and keepsakes for the classroom!
I would love to win the binder! We love our laminator and use it all the time, but a binder would really be handy.
Amazing giveaways!! I would love the laminator.
What an awesome giveaway! I would love to have a paper cutter.
The binding machine would be my choice
Wow – as many others have said, these are all great! I think my first choice would be the laminator, but the great pencil sharpener is a close second.
I would love the laminator or binder!
I would love any of those items! Thanks for doing such a great giveaway.
I have a laminator and binding machine. I would love a good stapler (the long ones that reach the middle of small books that need to be stapled) or the pencil sharpener. I could never get a good sharpened to last when I was teaching high school.
laminator
I would love to have the stapler! I love to send home student made books and creations, so this would be so helpful!
Thank you so much for the chance! I would love the laminator!
So fun! I would absolutely love that binder machine! 😀 thank you for the chance to win!
Amazing! I have all of these things except the binding machine so that is the one I’d pick! 🙂
I would love to win a binding machine since I have all the other fabulous must-haves.
I would love to win the laminator. I have a paper cutter and up to this point it has been the best Christmas present ever! It saves so much time. Having a laminator would be great to save time and money by preserving the games and activities I print out or make. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and a blessed Christmas time.
The heavy duty stapler would be amazing!
I’d love the heavy-duty stapler for stapling big IEPS and/or the laminator! Our librarians are in control of our school laminator and they do not allow for teachers to laminate themselves. This could really come in handy!
I totally agree that all those are must haves. I have most of them already, or something similar, the one thing I still need is a good binder, so I would pick that one!! Thanks for doing this!!
I would love to have the heavy duty stapler. I have all of the others and agree 100% they are needed. Thank you for the give away
I would love the pencil sharpener! Thank you!!
I have been wanting a laminator!! Would love to win!
I would love the binding machine or the paper cutter. But in reality I wouldn’t be picky because all 5 of them would be put to good use.
The paper cutter would be so helpful in our classroom!
Oh my goodness. I would love the laminator. I the possibilities are endless!
Would love the paper cutter.
Thank you for the chance to win one of the awesome supplies!
3 of your top 5 are favorites of mine also!! I would love to add the stapler to my resources at home while I am teaching virtually and helping my 6 year old with her virtual schooling as well!
I would love the paper cutter!
The binding machine would be a dream! I am homeschooling my granddaughter and the ability to bind books would help so much!
Great list! I’d love to have a paper cutter!
They are all useful and necessary – need them all!!!!
I can think of so many great uses for a binding machine – would love to have one of those!
I would love to get the binding machine. that would be awesome
The scotch laminator is the best
I would love the laminator or stapler!
I would love the binding machine to make class books!
While covering paper with clear contact paper does work, laminators are a lot better to use.
I would like to win the Stapler or the Binding Machine
I would love to win the laminater as mine is on it’s last leg. The paper cutter would be awesome too!! Thanks
The binder would quickly become a new favorite! Thanks for offering this giveaway!
My poor laminator is on it’s last leg! A few laminator would be my pick! 😁
I would love the paper cutter or the laminator!
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A very useful for me will be the binding machine. Hope you have wonderful Christmas
I would love the laminator! The school laminator is only available at certain times. I would love to have one at home. I teach kindergarten. So many things need to be laminated!
I would love to win the laminator! Thank you for this opportunity!
I would love the binder machine! 😍
The laminator would be my top pick!!! Right now I always borrow my teaching partners. Have a great day!
I would love a laminator so that i can make work sheets for my little one. So far money has been tight and a laminator is pricy. Thank you so much for creating this giveaway to help us out.
A binding machine would be great for many projects with my little ones!
Merry Christmas!
A binding machine would be so fun to make books and send them to my students.
I’d love the binder!
I would love to win the binder! It looks like such a neat tool and would be helpful in making things for the classroom.
I’d love the laminator! What a great giveaway!
I LOVE the pencil sharpener!!
These are definitely teacher must haves!!!
If theses items aren’t a teacher’s best friend I don’t know what would be.
The pencil sharpener would be helpful to me.
I would love the pencil sharpener!!!! I have not found one that lasts!
The Paper Cutter! I don’t have one, and my poor scissors are on it’s last cut. : -(
I would love the laminator. My remote learning business needs this. thanks
That paper cutter❤️
Absolutely love all of these items, especially the laminator!!! Who doesn’t love a laminator?! 🙂
the binding machine would add anew level of fun to my teaching.
I agree… a laminator is essential. My husband has even requested things be laminated–for instance when he had a diagram for a car he is restoring… we scanned and laminated it from the manual so he could look at it with greased up hands and not worry about damaging the book!
I have also noticed I’ve done a LOT of cutting lately, but I’m ok with that and with letting my little loves do the cutting and be ok with their imperfections.
But that binding machine!!! I remember using it in an office and it was amazing!! I hadn’t thought of using it for all the flip charts we have… letters, numbers, fun activity books we’ve made… the uses could be endless! The binding machine would be my pick.
Yes to all of this! My husband has used ours, too. It’s so handy to have at home! And yes, the binding machine is equally awesome!
I would love to win either the paper cutter or the binder.
That binding machine would be a HUGE help! Right now, I have to go into the teacher’s lounge and drag out a 20 pound machine from a low cabinet. This one looks so much lighter. AND, it would be great to have one at home since we still have not gone back to in-person learning since last March.
OH yes! A good pencil sharpener is important!
A binder would be awesome!
These are 5 great choices for classroom essentials. I’d love to have the binder.
You are so generous to offer this prize, Angela!
I would love to have a laminator!!!
The paper cutter at home would be amazing! I use the one at my school all the time!
Ooooh, I would choose the laminator! I often have things that need laminating but our school machine has such thin and flimsy plastic!
I would love the paper cutter. What a great giveaway!
I would love a binding machine. I also have the laminator and it’s amazing. My two kiddos are able to redo the assignments all day long. They love homework.
All of these items are must haves! I’d love any one of them!
I would love a binding machine.
I would love the laminator
They’re all awseome but I’d love the pencil sharpener and paper cutter!
I have everything but the binder. What a great list for those just starting out!
The heavy duty stapler would be great to win!
I would absolutely LOVE the binding machine!
The laminator or the binder!! Oh my! The laminator at work is roughly 100 decades old and quite slow and troublesome to use !
Love the stapler! I never saw such a great one!
All of those essentials are amazing! I never would have given a binging machine a thought but man that would be super cool and useful! I also love the stapler! Too many great choices!
Would absolutely LOVE to have the papercutter in my classroom. We are constantly prepping materials so they will last through our 60 pre-k Speech/Language delayed kiddos each week! The cutters we have just don’t quite “cut” it–literally or figuratively many times. Would also add good quality scissors and circle cutters of various sizes–they save so much time!!
Oh that’s a good one. I’ve never had circle cutters, but I’m sure they are a time saver!!
I would LOVE the laminating machine!!! My oldest daughter just started Kinder and is doing virtual learning at home. This would come in so handy because I can create more reusable items for her to use during class and for study. My youngest will be in Kinder next year so being able to have reusable items would be a money saver!
A laminator would benefit our preschool program a lot.
I would so love any of these!!💗💗💗 Maybe the laminator or sharpener!
The laminator would be my choice, but all are awesome gifts.
Thank you.
The home laminator would be great. Thanks
What an awesome giveaway! Thank you so much! The laminator would be my choice.
I love all the items you posted, but a laminator is definitely number one on my wish list.
A great list! The laminator or paper cutter would be so helpful!
In need of a new pencil sharpener!
I would love the laminator!!! So many daily uses for that!
Laminator or the binder would be nice
My laminator is a trusty companion. I use it all of the time to give resources a longer lifespan. I would love all of the other resources you have listed in this blog post. All would be a boon to me and save me time. I especially like the idea of having a heavy duty stapler as my staplers really struggle to do the job at times.
I love love all of the items. but I would absolutely love a heavy duty stapler.
Eeee, so hard to choose. That laminator and the binding machine are dreamy!
Thank you for sharing this! I didn’t know about the book binder! That’s what I’d choose to add to our classroom.
I would love the book binder. I love making class books and then sending them home for the students to “read” them to their families. Right now i just use rings. To have the books bound would make them last longer.
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I so agree with your wisdom and insight into the top five teaching tools! I would love a laminator. It would be such a help and timesaver.
I would love the laminator or the paper cutter. They are all great products!
Laminating was always my favorite as a teacher!! I’d love one for home school!!
The binding machine 🙂
Great giveaway! I would love to have the binder.
It would be great to have a laminator.
I would love the stapler or binding machine! I have the laminator and paper cutter and sharpener and agree they are must haves 🙂
I would love the binding machine. We have nothing like it at our school. It would also be nice to have the heavy duty stapler.
i would love the lamina tor
I would love the book binding machine!
The laminator or binding machine. But I’d really like the laminator! Great list! Thank you!!
This is awesome! I’d love to win as a new homeschool teacher!
Tough choice! I’m leaning towards the laminator but the binding machine would be awesome too. Both are on my wishlist right now.
the xacto pencil sharpener would be awesome! The manual one we had in our classroom just broke. 🙂
So many fun and useful items!! Any of them would be a win!!!
Teaching Mama is great! Working with preschoolers, a laminator would be my first choice!!
The laminator would be awesome!
I have a laminator-I use it all the time! I think the paper cutter would be so useful!
So many essential tools for our classrooms! If I had to choose just one I’d have to say the binding machine. As a first time stay-at-home mom/teacher my children love reading and writing their own books and this would be a great addition. Thank you Angela for putting together this giveaway.
so cool! I’ve been wanting a laminator forever!
I was literally just looking up laminator machines for home use! that would be great!
I would love to win the laminator with multiple kids learning at home it would be great to have papers laminated for them to share over and over again!
I would like to win the paper cutter
I would LOVE the binding machine! I teach Writing at Special Ed School and my kids would LOVE to take home their stories and collections in a more “published” form like this! Thank you for the consideration!
I would love the laminating machine or the paper cutter!
This list is spot on! I use my school laminator because the scotch ones seem to small for all the laminating that I do.
I already own everything else but the binding machine….I saw a kids-made calendar project that I wanted to try this year but it required a binding machine… Maybe for next year?
These all look so amazing! I am a first time homeschooling mama and we are currently serving as missionaries in the Amazon of Peru. So I don’t have any of these nifty tools. If I do win it will be a tough choice between the Laminator and the Binder. But we plan to be visiting the States in April for furlough and have a US address!
The paper cutter! 🙂
Yes please I the give away. So need them
I would love to win the laminator. I just got my teaching degree in Early Childhood Education in May of this year. I am a new teacher and would greatly appreciate a laminator for my classroom.
I would love to have this paper cutter! I have access to a laminator or I would pick that first haha. This is a great list! Love your blog!
The laminator would be amazing, especially since I am working from home and don’t have access to a laminator anymore!
Thank you for sharing!!!
ID love the laminator!
I do a lot of dry erase with my daughter
What a nice giveaway!! I agree with all five of your must haves as a Pre-K teacher too. I don’t have a good stapler, so would love to have a nice one like that!!
I would love a paper cutter! I am always making things and a paper cutter would be so much easier
This is great! The laminator would be perfect for so many preschool activists that they like to do over and over again
I know what Scotch laminator you’re talking about. I bought one in 2013 as well & have been using it since. That said it’s a real tough one between the binding machine and the paper cutter. I feel I’ll get the most use out of the binding machine though because I LOVE making social stories for my kids, especially when NEW things are about to happen & a binding machine would make these books look so much better & would allow us to re-use it again and again.
I think it’s great that you’re doing this for other homeschooling mamas and teachers out there.
I would love the binding machine! I have access to a laminator and often print and laminate interactive books for speech/language therapy, but binding the pages together would be so perfect!
Paper cutter is what I need!
That laminator looks amazing and so does the pencil sharpener.
I would love the pencil sharper!!!! We are currently using an old turn handle one and it gives me blisters! Thank you so much for the opportunity l!
i would lo love the laminator.
These would all be great to win! Especially the laminator or paper cutter. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, you have captured all of the must-haves!
My choice would be a laminator. As others point out, “special training” is required for use laminators. To be able to get things done, and be efficient, instead of waiting for someone to do my job, would be fabulous.
I would love to have the pencil sharpener. That look like a good one!
All items are “Awesome”… Over the 20 years + I have had most all of them. Right now I only have the shredder
I would love the laminator!
Any item free would be much appreciated!!!!!!!
That heavy-duty stapler looks amazing!
I have yet to get a binding machine. But the personal paper cutter is a serious GAME CHANGER. I even have given them to my children’s teachers as holiday gifts. Love them!
Definitely the book binding machine – it’s on my “want” list.
I have had a binding machine on my wish list for awhile! Thanks for the chance to win!
The laminator is such an amazing giveaway! It is perfect for starting the new year in a more sustainable way, allowing therapists, teachers, or homeschool parents an option to reuse materials over and over again!
I would love the binder as I do not have one currently! What an awesome giveaway! Thank you!
All of them! But the book binder would be really neat to have on hand!
Hi! I love all of these supplies! I started homeschooling before COVID happened and all of these are so useful! I love my laminator! It is so useful, but mine is so old and on its last leg! I would love a new one! I’ve never used a binding machine, but I can imagine all that I could do with it! O would love the binding machine!
I would choose the heavy duty stapler. Your 5 choices are needed by every teacher!
Every teacher needs ALL of these! I would love the binding machine. So handy!
I would love the paper cutter because I am constantly cutting and creating emergent reader books for my students.
The binding machine would be a life saver. I’d love to be able to make “published” books out of my student’s writing so that I can make a section in our classroom library that is filled with their own work. That would help them see that they are REAL authors and illustrators. Thank you for this chance to win one!
Wow! A binding machine would be wonderful! Thank you for your generosity!
I would love to get the binding machine. It would be perfect for the home packets we send home since we have been virtual since March. 🤞🏽
I would love the binding machine! Our K students love classmade books, but our school only has 1 binding machine – and it does not work very well anymore.
I would love to win the Stapler, I work in the school library so that would be super handy to make mini books and to repair magazines with.
I have an at home laminator and use it all the time!!!
I would love to win the laminator! I’m a new preschool momma and I need the basics to keep me going.
I am so grateful for all of your ideas- resources I could not have done without this year! This is such a beautifully, generous offer and should you choose me I’d be so grateful to have a heavy duty paper cutter! Thank you, thank you for all that you do!
I would love the binding machine.Both of my daughters love books and it would be cool to make them their very own books. Plus it would make our small space much more organized instead of having bulky binders everywhere!
I would love the binder! What a great thing to have!!
! would love the laminator!!! thank you!
Great suggestions for supplies Angela.
I desire to enter but don’t know if I did it correctly. My top pick would be the laminator 😘
Thanks for sharing your recommendations!
I use contact paper to “laminate” papers/activities right now…but I’ve thought about how nice it would be to have an actual laminator, so that’s the teaching supply I would pick.
The laminator would be fantastic and well used.
I’d love any of these things, but I don’t have a binder!
laminator, most definitely
I am asking for a laminator for Christmas this year, so it would be great if I won that
My laminator just broke and it is by far my favorite too!! I have t laminate even more things this year due to increased cleaning protocols at school!
I would love a laminator. I laminate a lot of printables I find online for my daughter. I usually use laminating sheets . All of these things are great suggestions. I need a new stapler so I’ll look into that.
THANKS for the giving spirit! I would love a laminator or a binding machine!
I would love to win the stapler or the binding machine! Or really any of the items on the list!
Binding machine would be amazing!!!
I have a laminator and I agree it’s a total must have. Next I think I need a good pencil sharpener!
Love giveaways! THE laminator would be very helpful with homeschooling!! I could save so many resources for the next kiddos to use.
I would love to have them all for my school. I would share them all with my kindergarten team.
The binding machine would be great for my classroom! I would love to make more class books with my students.
I would love to win the paper cutter. Mine is so old!
I would love the pencil sharpener. Nothing beats a nice sharp pencil!
I would love to win the binding machine!
What an amazing giveaway!!! You Rock!! I would love the binder machine. It would make class books and other projects a dream.
Pencil sharpener!! I seriously need one. All of mine break our pencils and it takes so much effort to make a pencil sharp without the lead breaking.
These are all good choices and I love my current stapler and sharpener. Being a new homeschool grandma, I would just die for a laminator. How nice that would be, Thanks for even offering a choice of any of these items. Very generous.
Happy Holidays
I would LOVE the binding machine!
I would definitely love the laminator! Currently using shipping tape and protective binder covers to keep some of my daughters school work durable.
I would love to win the paper cutter!
I’d love a new laminator or the stapler! I imagine the stapler would be easier for some of our other crafts.
I’m not at teacher but I work at a school and I can guarantee this is all very beneficial. My parents were immigrants and their highest education was Elementary, unfortunately my siblings and I did not have help with our homework and never had a story read to us before bed time. As a mother of a Kindergartner and a 2 year old, I THANK YOU very greatly for all that you have provided, I hope to give my kids everything and as nice as it would be to give them materialistic stuff, I’d prefer to give all the educational help they need to see them succeed higher than what I can. I hope to win one device in particular, it would benefit me in helping my little ones go above and beyond.
Oh how exciting and would definitely love to win! 😃
I would love the binding machine! To bind books and packets for my remote students would be easy and convenient
I would love to have the binding machine or the paper cutter more so the paper cutter.
All would be great tools to have. You have picked some really good ones.
I think I would use the paper cutter the most!
I would love the laminator. I have one and it is on it’s last leg because I use it so much!
I’m always looking for a good pencil sharpener!
I would love the binding machine. Already thinking of ideas for it. I didn’t know that even existed. Happy Holidays! This is so sweet of you to do!
These are all great! I would love the laminator.
Thank you for the drawing!!
The binding machine would be amazing! We don’t have one at our school and I love to make books of the kids’ writing for our class library!
I would love the binding machine. I don’t currently have one in the classroom. Looks like it would be a great addition. Thank you for this amazing giveway!!!
These are all awesome! My first choice would be the laminator or paper cutter. Thanks for all you do.
I think I would pick the laminator, though the binding machine is a very close second!
This is a hard choose but I would probably have to go with the laminator. I use it for my preschoolers but also for my own personal children as well.
I would love to win the binding machine.
Thanks for thinking of us and for hosting this fun giveaway. Any of the items would be great for the classroom.
I would love to win the pencil sharpener. It is a necessity in the classroom.
That binding machine or the long arm stapler would be awesome!
Awesome giveaway! This is a great thing that you are doing. Thank you!
These are all great must- have products! The laminator and paper cutter are top!
Thank you
I would love love love the binder!! I can think of tons of books to make for my class with it!!
I agree with your 5!! I have all except the binder. I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to win the binder!! Thanks for the opportunity!
I’d definitely go with the laminator! I’m pretty sure we’d use it for school, work and things around the house!
I have a laminator, which I use all the time, but I’d love the binder!
This is a great gift-away for teachers. Thank you.
All of those things are awesome! I think I would choose the laminator have Breyer quality laminating for the things I would use a lot with my students. The school laminator while wonderful uses the thinnest film.
What thoughtful items! I think my top ones would be the laminator and binder. Thank you!
I need the binding machine to make social stories!
I can’t make up my mind which I’d like to have, they all are great ideas!
I would love the laminator!
I’d love the heavy duty stapler! I have all the rest and know how great they are!
My laminator is on its last leg and I use it ALL THE TIME! That is top of my list!
I would love to be able to bind some of the little books we make!
I’d love to win the binding machine!
What an awesome giveaway! I would love to win the binding machine! Thank you so much for doing this. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
So many great items. I would like to have the binding machine. But definitely a hard choice.
All great supplies! I would love any for my classroom!
I would love to win the pencil sharpener! I only have a handheld one and my pencils are always breaking.
I would love, love, love any of them!
Love your must-have list! I have a laminator and that same pencil sharpener. It would be hard to choose between the binding machine & heavy-duty stapler!
I would love to have the stapler!
I would love to win the laminator!
I would love the paper cutter! So useful!
They all are great but I’d love to win the laminator!
I would like the binding machine. Thank you!
I would love to own the binding machine. So portable and useful. I would be convenient to have one at home to work on projects. All of the tools are helpful and top rate.
I would love to receive the paper cutter as mine has a crack in it.
I would like the laminator!
I would love the binding machine! I love having my home laminator and my paper cutter! They are truly game changers!
I would love to win the binder. I have the other supplies and couldn’t function without them. I would love to be able to make workbooks and bind them.
I would love either the laminator or the paper cutter. I’ve had my laminator for many years, and I think that any day it’s going to break. The paper cutter would save so much time instead of using scissors to cut paper up.
I love my laminator too, but never thought about having a binder at home!
I would love the laminator!
I would like a laminater
I would love the paper cutter!! It would make my prep work go a lot faster!
Binding machine. I think this would be useful tool to crate mini books the children out together.
I would love the laminator! So many useful ideas here!
I would truly love the paper cutter! Would make work at home much faster.
I think the binding machine would be wonderful!
I would love a binding machine!
I would love the binding machine. I didn’t even realize these were something you could own personally, but as a new teacher who loves to stay organized this tool would be FABULOUS. It just seems so fancy haha.
This is awesome and much appreciated by teachers! Merry Christmas!
The Laminator!
The laminator or the binder would be so cool.
I would absoultely love a new laminator! My current one has lived a good life and its on its way out the door, i’m scared to use it. (it ate my paper and started to smell like melted paper/fire!)
A laminater would be awesome but any of the items would make creating materials easier.
I would love the laminator! Working with a toddler this is a must as we review over and over!
The binding machine would be super useful!
Thanks so much for recognizing the hard work of teachers and others with this offer! I would love to have the binding machine!
I would love the paper cutter. I can’t cut a straight line😂
i would love the binding machine – i would like to make my remote kids learning binders
Thank you so much for the giveaway! I’d love the laminator because all of my school laminating is too thin and it curls up.
Hello! I would love the paper cutter as I am always making supplies for my classroom and it would be a life saver rather using scissors all the time.
The big stapler is something I could use! I print little books for the kids that need to be stapled and my old one is not always up to the job!
These items are all great! I would select the laminator for my class. You can never laminate enough. LOL.
I wholeheartedly agree with your choices! I’d love the paper cutter. I have a smaller one that will do a page or two at once, but I love the style you included for doing larger batches at once.
I would love to win the laminator! It seems like the perfect addition to any homeschool space!
Oh, my! For a crafter and a Gramma homeschooling 6 year old twins girls, a laminator would be a dream come true! Oh, what we could find that needs laminating! Thank you for all the hard work you invest to support those of us that are filling our days with teaching and filling our nights with lesson plans!
Oh a binding machine is such a great idea!
Great giveaway! Since I already have my laminator (that I LOVE) I would LOVE the binding machine!
I would love the binding machine! Whenever we want something bound, we usually take it to Office Max or Staples. Having my own would be so convenient, especially for homeschooling my little one.
A binder would be awesome to have students make their own books that they would write.
I would love the binding machine
I would LOVE that heavy duty stapler!!! My little stapler drives me crazy.
I would definitely pick the laminator! I used to have one at work and I miss it so much!!! Being part of a homeschooling pre-K pod, which is outside only, I am just dreaming on having one to make cards, games, printables etc. more durable.
You’re awesome for doing this giveaway. Thank you for the opportunity! I would love to win (crossed fingers and toes) laminator please.
I would love the laminator!
I would love the pencil sharpener or the paper cutter. Thank you!!🙏🏼🤞🏼👍🏼❤️😀
I would love the binding machine! I didn’t realize how useful it was until distance learning became a big thing because of COVID-19. The grade level team I work with decided to print copies and bind them together using the school’s binding machine to send home for students to use during distance learning. It keeps all their worksheets together and there are no lost pages. Having my own binding machine would be great!
I would LOVE to win the laminator. I’ve been thinking of buying for to use at home with my 2 year old grandson…and the new one coming soon. WINNING it would be even better!!! Thanks for the opportunity!
I’m torn between laminator and paper cutter as I can’t count on how many occasions I wish I had both in our homeschooling journey. But still I think laminator is absolutely the most helpful thing!
I was saying just yesterday how I would love to have my own paper cutter! The one at school is dull and doesn’t cut correctly!
Would love to win the paper cutter. My other one recently broke and could use a good heavy duty one!!
Our preschool would benefit a laminator greatly.
I would love to win the laminator! I used to own a Scotch one as well, and it broke recently 🙁 Definitely a necessity as a Special Ed teacher!!
Man, I have been wanting a laminator for a while now!
The laminator would be great!
The binding machine would be top on my list!
I would love to win the pencil sharpener. I have a great laminator that I would not be without.
I would love the laminator 🙂 as it would save me a lot from the print shop.
I would love to have a binder! Love the give away.
HANDS-DOWN the Laminator is the MUST-HAVE for any teacher–I’m actually giving one to my daughter-in-law (3rd grade teacher) and my daughter (high school teacher) for Christmas this year! 🎄
I’d personally LOVE 😍 to win the paper-cutter–I literally was just looking on Amazon last night for one to have at home–it would make things SO much easier for me–well, for my husband since I always recruit him for Sunday Night Laminating/Cutting Parties💃🏽🎉
Ohhh that laminator would be awesome to have! You picked some definite must haves!
I would LOOOVE to have the binding machine!!!! I never thought I would use it enough, but now I’m realizing I would use it A LOT! HAHA!! Thank you so much for these giveaways!!!
Paper Cutter for me! Merry Christmas!
I would love the stapler! These are awesome top 5 teaching supplies!
A laminator would be wonderful
I would love a laminator. I have two of the sharpeners, two cutting boards (one small and one large), the school has the binding machine, and the book stapler for our use.
The laminator would be ideal! There is always something that world be better laminated!
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I would love to have a laminator. There are so many things you can do with this!
The binding machine would be fabulous to win ! I have always wanted one of those ! There is one at school, but it is always AWOL – maybe in another classroom, work room, etc. Never can be found when I need it ! Always have to hunt it down…
I would love the heavy duty stapler.
I would love the laminator! My ECSE preschoolers are always needing things laminated and I have to pick and choose due to limitations and estrictions in the building!
I would love the super duper stapler or the book binder for all of my great resources…making sure they stay organized.
I would love the laminator! I can think of so many ways it could be used!
Well they’re all great items! I’d go with the paper cutter!
Laminator or binder would be nice
I would love the binding machine! I totally agree about the laminator being a must have! I love mine and use it all the time. I do make class books for my preschool class, so I would definitely use the binding machine.
The binding machine looks really cool! I would love to have one in my classroom to make books for my PreK students. 🙂 thank you for the recommendations!
I would love to have the paper cutter!
This is awesome! I would love the binding machine!
I would love to receive the laminator or the paper cutter. Both are vital to teaching. Thank you!
Man, they are all great!! I’d like the paper cutter!!!!
I think the binding machine would be an amazing addition to my teacher tools.
I would love the binding machine. So handy!
That laminator looks amazing! I’d definitely choose that.
This is so generous of you. I think I’d select the binder. Fingers crossed
I would love a paper cutter! Or a wonderful stapler! Oh the choices!!
I would love the laminator
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us and hosting this fun giveaway!! I would be so excited to win one of these!! Thank you again!
I would love the binding machine!
I would love the pencil sharpener!
I’ve been wanting my own binding machine for a long time.
The laminator would be awesome to have at home in emergencies or if the school laminator is not working!
All these tools would make any teacher happy. The binder is something I never thought about, but could really put THAT or the laminator to great use😊
I would LOVE a be a heavy duty stapler!
What an awesome thing you are doing! Love your blog!! The binding machine would come in super handy as our school doesn’t have one and the teachers often ask. However, any or these items would be wonderful to win 🙂
This is so great! I think I would love the binding machine. I have a co-teacher who got a laminator for us. Thank you so much for your site and these givewaways!
I would love the binding machine! it would be so fun to make books for the kids
I was actually just telling my kids we need an amazing pencil sharpener 😂 ! That would be awesome to win!!!!!
Great prizes! I would love the pencil sharpener!!
I would love to be blessed to win the laminator! I make so many resources for my Pre-K kiddos. Thanks for the opportunity!
I would love to win the paper cutter.
The laminator would be my number one choice. Thanks for the recommendations and info! 🙂
I would love them all but I think I would use the laminator the most.
Thank you for doing these giveaways! All of these supplies would be beneficial and very much appreciated. But, if I am only choosing one, I would go with the laminator!
I would love the laminator or the binding machine. Both would be extremely beneficial in providing parents/caregivers with learning materials and activities, especially since we are only conducting virtual home visits due to COVID-19. Thank you!
I’ve been wanting a laminator.
I would like to win the stapler. My kids frequently use them, and broke quite a few in the past!
I would love the laminator.
These are all great choices! I probably need the pencil sharpener the most but would love to have any of them ::)
Oh my gosh! I just put this exact laminator on my christmas wish list (sent to my family) I would love it!
Hi , I would love the binder , I would make a lot of use for it homeschooling my 4 kids