Question for notebookers...

[Candace C]

Last year I put all of Hannah's stuff into a "notebook" or scrapbook. I like it, but it's very bulky and I feel like it might fall apart.

So, this year I'm wondering about doing the 3 ring binder with clear/plastic page protectors.

But...if those of you that use these pages, do you just stick your mini-books and things that open down in the plastic page to where you can't open them?

I love the scrapbook idea, but just can't find scrapbooks thick enough or with enough pages for what we do. And the spiral I have found on several starts coming apart after you've looked at the book a few times.

Thanks!

[Hollie in SC]

Well, I stick ours in page protectors. You could also glue them onto cardstock and insert them that way. :)

[Candace C]

Hollie, thanks! I had thought about the cardstock thing...

I guess what I'm wondering is have you found anyway to be able to open the little books and such with the page protector method??

[Hollie in SC]

I guess what I'm wondering is have you found anyway to be able to open the little books and such with the page protector method??


:no: I haven't, but I'm not exactely burdened with creativity genes. ;)

[Heather W]

what you can do is put the book on cardstock and put it near the edge of the page protector so that you can put the cover outside the protector and open to see the inside that way. That only works for books you open to reveal one thing on the inside.

Well that also requires side openings like the CM album protectors. Hmm....

You could just cut a window right in that spot. Or just plan to pull the cardstock out of the holder to view what is on that page.

OR skip the protectors and glue stuff to cardstock to go in the book. Mine haven't worn too badly.

Candace I need to know what you do that needs to be so wonderfully presented!! Where are those pictures on your blog??:)

[Candace C]

Heather, you crack me up! While I do have a LOT of pictures on my blog, I never took pictures of our notebooking stuff...mainly because it was just MY way of "scrapping" the whole year...I just kept everything we did for the whole year and then pasted it in a scrapbook. I had a title page, etc, but nothing way cool or anything. :)

I do some of the lapbooking stuff, but just keep it all in 1 notebook for the year...so like on HSS, for Salamander room, i'm doing the little tabbed book on vertebrates. Stuff like that...I print off booklets from enchanted learning all the time...you get the point. Nothing fabulous, just wondering how people look at those things in the page protectors.

I guess we just will pull them back out if we want to look at them. :D

[Marcygirl]

Candace, what about using cardstock and then 3-hole punching the pages and putting them into a 3-ring binder? You still have a scrapbook feel to it, but not the page protectors. You can use whatever size 3-ring binder you need to comfortably fit the pages.

[Melissa in St Louis]

What if you made your "little books" (I don't know how "little" we are talking) and slipped each page into a small 4x6 photo album. That way, the small pages are in small page protectors, and you could remove the cover or whatever and attach the whole thing to a regular sized page protector in your binder....does that make ANY sense?? :unsure: I can visualize it, but not sure how to explain!:sad:

[Cari]

This is why I alternate between lapbooks & notebooks -- I haven't found a way! I just get a cute little box to keep the finished lapbooks, and stick with more flat things when I'm on a notebooking roll.

Cari

[Esther-Alabama]

I am moving to the 3-ring binder this year, too. We don't get REAL creative with out pages, BUT I have decided when we do a lapbook, it will be put into a paper 3 prong folder, then put into the binder. I borrowed this idea from Kendall's recent post about doing this. It will probably require a little more from me to prepare the folder for the paper to go in, BUT I think it will be worth it for the few times my boys get creative with lapbooks. :eyes:

[Sheri]

You can cut the page protector. Just slip the item in and cut a flap in the page protector or a hole the size of the minit-book.

[Amanda Williams]

We use page protectors with a three ring binder and just pull stuff out when we want to look at something. The girls want to TOUCH the things they've made anyway, so this works for us. ;)