I know it is still two months until school goes back but a conversation over at Mummy Smiles had me wanting to share these great school book covers! A few years ago during the Back To School sales I discovered these great “Spencil” plastic slip on book covers! I was looking for something to put over some old contacted books I had at home for Master O’s artwork. But they are great for school books!
The Front.
This cover we have had for 2 years and it still looks as good as new! They are sturdy , excellent quality, with a dedicated place on the front for their name and subject. This one is the A4 book size but they come in exercise book and scrapbook size.
The inside of the cover.
You simply “slip” them over your book. They are wipeable and come in a HUGE range of designs for both boys and girls!
The Back
Each design is different on the front and back. They are extremely affordable with each cover retailing for between $2-2.50 each. You could even remove the cover at the end of the year and reuse it the following year!
Easy, affordable and stylish a hands down winner for covering books! The one catch… I can’t buy them this year as Master O’s school has requested texts books be covered in clear contact! Wish me luck….I HATE CONTACT!
To view the full range of “Spencil” book covers click HERE
I was in no way paid for this post, I just love clever ideas and want to share them with the flock!
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Yay – they look brilliant!!! I can’t wait to get mine now! It was a fairly significant investment for 3 booklists full but I figure it’s worth every cent. Thank you so much for sharing!
I can also recommend the Spencil covers, I’ve bought the monster ones for my son for next year, and the penguin ones for my daughter (they chose their own designs). They look soooo cute, and I got all the kids’ books covered sooooo quickly (compared to how long it took me the last couple of years, when I first covered my daughter’s books in pretty paper, and then put on clear plastic covers that I bought from our local newsagent).
That’s brilliant! I’ll definitely keep these in mind for next year’s books.
These look great! Thanks for the heads up. I think Contact is the work of the Devil. hehe.
You just made my freaking day! I have NOT been able to find these in Exercise book size ever! Thank You Thank you Thank You.
will have to check out the site – I prefer the clear ones, then I can wrap the books in anything I want (wrapping paper, posters of favourite people, comics, brown paper with cut outs, easter egg foil – tedious, but very effective) and protect with the slip on cover instead of fiddling with contact. Contact is an art! GL with the text books – have a pin ready for your air bubbles!
Sooo much nicer than the plain, flimsy plastic ones we had in school!
Oh my, thank you!! Mr 5 starts school next year and I have been dreading having to contact books, I have even been formulating a blog post about how much I am dreading it, haha! Now I will just write one singing your praises instead, lol.
Seriously though, thanks
Kristen
Awesome idea. I keep meaning to get some of these. Thanks for the reminder. With six kids going to school – contact makes me want to scream and go crazy. Thanks x
I used to love covering my books and folders! I used to cut pictures out of magazines and then use clear contact. But, until the kids can do it themselves, these seem like a great time and money saving idea to me! Thanks!
There are a few of these types of covers out there now. That Contact is really time consuming.
I think the best value slip on covers are ezcover, you can recycle them too. ezcover.net.au
I love them! Cooper is not yet at school but I am so glad we have graduated from contact! oh how I loathe the!
I can recommend the school book covers at ezibooks Australia (www.ezibooks.com.au) – they look as good as new after a whole year and are the best price I’ve found. You can order online and get them delivered. I’ll be ordering more this year.