One Easy Alternative to Laminating Flash Cards

If you don’t have access to a laminator or if you are just looking for an inexpensive alternative for laminating flash cards, I have a trick that will help you out today.

This method is less expensive and allows you to print or write the flash cards on paper instead of card stock if you like. It also reduces on the laminating in our landfills because it uses something that can be reused over and over again with different flash cards.

I often mention this technique in our products that have flash cards or playing cards because it is so easy to do.

Now, let’s look at what it is.

An Easy Alternative to Laminating Flash Cards

To begin with you’ll need:

• flash cards (approximately 2 1/2″ by 3 1/2″ for this demonstration)
• playing cards or card stock pieces that are 2 1/2″ by 3 1/2″ in size
• card sleeves/protectors

Step 1: Insert a playing card or piece of card stock into a card sleeve. This strengthens the flash card.

Step 2: Insert the front of the flash card in front of the card.

Step 3: Insert the back of the flash card behind the card.

Done. Now you have a covered flash card that you can use over and over again.

What’s nice about this method is that when you are finished with one set of flash cards, you can simply pull the old ones out of the card sleeves and insert new ones.

Also, there are card sleeves available in other sizes that you can use, but you would have to create your own cardboard backing to replace the playing card or simply print the flash cards on card stock.

By the way, my flash cards are designed to fit the standard card sleeves so you can use this method with them. See my flash cards for teaching math, music, geography and more on this page.

I hope you found this alternative to laminating flash cards helpful!