Question: Preserving child's book

[Karen]

I just wrote down the words to a story my 3 yo dd told me and had her "draw" on each page. A very rudimentary book! Any ideas how to preserve these pages? I am thinking that laminating them will make them too hard. I will hit the crafts store, but thought some of you might have ideas.

TIA, Karen

[Lynda-WA]

I bought a laminator at Wal-mart for 50$. It came with a 15 foot laminating cartridge. A 30 foot one costs 20$. All it is is a crank system that runs two sheets of laminate together but I'm really happy with it. The laminate is sticky on one side where they stick together. It isn't as heavy as the hot laminating stuff like at schools but this is acid free laminate so it's suitable for long term items like keepsakes and scrapbooking.

[kathleen]

I would laminate them. Some office supply stores or print shops laminate and one I have used even has different thicknesses of laminate (think referred to a mil). You could probably have the laminated sheets bound with plastic comb binding or spiral binding at a print shop, too.

How sweet. Definitely something worth preserving!