Jenny, 5 Minutes for Mom contributor, shares a look at the Fellowes Neptune™3 125 Laminator. This giveaway post is sponsored, but all opinions remain those of the writer.
As an English teacher, I know the value of technology in the classroom. Â As a mom of a preschooler who plans to homeschool, I understand the value of being able to have classroom technology at home.
Many machines used in the classroom for copying, printing, and laminating are large and cumbersome. That’s why I was thrilled to receive a Fellowes laminator for at home use. Â This small and light machine can fit easily in our small home and be pulled out conveniently for use!
A laminator may seem like a frivolous or unnecessary item for the home, but it has an abundance of uses.
Preserving
My first laminating project was to preserve some of my daughter’s art. Â
She has begun drawing our family and often asks for her hand to be traced. I knew that over the years I would want to preserve some of her work and the Fellowes laminator was quick and easy.
I was able to have her work immortalized in just minutes.
Creating
Laminating is a great way to create your own art or home decor.
I laminated a fun printable to use in a child’s room. Â I also created a chart to help my daughter work on obedience and kindness. Â You can create charts for potty training, reusable calendars, menu planners, and more!
Laminate your recipe cards so they aren’t ruined by spilled food or even create your own Bingo cards and Tic Tac toe pages to be used again and again.
Teaching
As a teaching tool, laminators can come in very handy. Â I made some alphabet cards for my daughter. Â We are working on writing letters, but she has a difficult time doing it from scratch. Â
By creating a tracing paper and giving her dry erase markers, my two-year-old was able to draw her first letter A! There are so many classroom uses for a laminator.
The Neptune3 125 has a feature called InstaHeat Technology that allows for a 1 minute warm-up. It also has AutoSense so the user doesn’t have to go back and forth between settings and wait for the laminator to heat-up or cool down. AutoSense instantly adjusts to whatever pouch thickness the user is laminating up to 7mil. Finally, it has a robust 4-roller system for a superior quality laminate.
The Fellowes Neptune3 125 Laminator was perfect for all of my projects. They took just moments to complete and only required me to slip my project into a self-adhesive pouch and insert it into the laminator. Â
I love the simplicity of the product. There was virtually no setup and no confusing directions to wade through.
I was also impressed with the quality and thickness of the self-adhesive sheets. Â The papers I used came out sturdy and perfectly sealed, unlike commercial laminators, which are often flimsy and detach.
Neptune3 125 Laminator Features:
- AutoSense Technology – Determines pouch thickness and instantly self-adjusts to the perfect setting.
- InstaHeat – Quick 1 minute warm-up for increased productivity.
- 4-roller system for incredible laminating quality.
- Laminates 3mil – 7mil thermal pouches and cold self-adhesive pouches
- Includes a laminating starter kit (ten letter pouches)
Whether you are a teacher, a crafter, or a homeschooling mom there are plenty of ways you can use the Fellowes Laminator. Find out more about laminating projects on the Fellowes Idea Page.
Learn more on their website, twitter, pinterest, and linkedin pages.
Enter to Win
Today, Fellowes is giving one lucky reader the chance to win a Neptune3 125 Laminator, which Includes a starter kit with ten letter pouches. (A $329.95 value).
Leave us a comment telling us what you’d laminate first if you win. Then use the Giveaway Tools entry form below.
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Written by 5 Minutes for Mom contributor, Jenny Nanninga. Jenny blogs atlivingthesweetstuff.wordpress.com about her home, family (husband and sweet baby girl), being a mom, crafting, cooking, her faith in God, and more.
I want to win so I can laminate important documents and memorabilia!
I would be extremely useful since the school year just started.
I would love to win this because it would help with so many projects: scrapbooking, school projects my kids have, business cards….
THis would come in handy with keeping important and special papers free of stains
I want to win it for my wife. She would use it to make crafts and home decorations.
I have always wanted one. I could make so many things to help my grandson in school.
I’d like to give this to my granddaughter for my great grandson.
I am a bit of a craft geek, but I don’t get to spend a lot of time doing it right now. New dog, teenager, new house to think about building, garden, etc. However, about 50% of my must-do crafts involve a laminator, so…perfect!
I would make a chore chart for the kids.
I would love this for my mother so she can help grow her business with laminated cards and flyers.
This would be amazing for our home office!
I have always wanted my own laminator.
Quite honestly mostly for the same reason, to preserve some of my little ones drawings. I think it would be too cute for her to have them when she gets older. I also love the letters ideal and would love to try that with her as well. We’re not too far from attempting our first few tries of teaching her to write letters and numbers. This would just be perfect for that.
Really could use this! I have a lot of stuff that needs to be laminated!
I would like to win this prize because I am a teacher and constantly spend my own money laminating materials. It would be nice to have my own laminator!
This would be great to use in our home school.
my friend would like this
I would like to win because I am a teacher and a Girl Scout leader. I always have tings that I need to laminate
i would love to win. i have always wanted to have a laminator. i take so many things to work and have the HR lady laminate them for me. if i won i would do all my laminating at home.
I would love to laminate our important papers – kids reports, art work, family recipes, etc.
I want to win to make signs and labels for my garden.
I would love to laminate my kids important papers so they never get ruined 🙂
I want to win to use the laminator on all my kids art pictures and personal use.
I would like to laminate my sons basketball newspaper articles
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I would love to have this for our homeschool subjects like math and handwriting.
This would be handy for all my kids art projects.
would love to win this
I would like to laminate some of my keepsake papers to protect them, like kid’s art.
This would be for crafting!
I would love to laminate worksheets that my kids could work on them over and over again.
to preserve my kiddos art
I want to win because this would be great for doing my arts and crafts projects.
I want to win because this will come in handy for school work.
I am going to homeschool my daughter, so I will be laminating…everything! 🙂
I would love to win this so that I could laminate important art work that my children make and important documents that need to be sealed or laminated for protection.
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I watch two great little boys and I can think of lots of thing and projects I can use this for to make activities for them
I want to win to use this for the kids at home
This would be helpful for my teacher hubby or for me at home in organization!
I would love to win because the laminator would help preserve photos my nephew draws for us. We could use it to make luggage tags, protect important documents, and use it for projects.
I’d love to win because I think this would be an awesome asset to our small business. Also, I can think of a million projects that this would come in handy for with my three boys! Thanks for the opportunity!
Would be very helpful in producing awards for scouting activties….. fingers crossed
Would love to laminate daughter’s artwork.
My mom and daughter are both artists. This would be great to keep their artwork safe. I would also use it to make flash cards and games for my daughter for her homework.
I would laminatate pictures and all the kids school projects and drawings
I want to laminate my children’s art
I am in college and it would be extremely helpful with not only assignments and projects, but in keeping me organized as well!
I have always wanted a laminator but can’t afford it. I would love to win this one!
nice. I really need this.
Between my projects, my kids’ schoolwork and my Girl Scout troop I desperately need one of these!
It would be great for projects.
I’d like to win because I like to preserve my kids art work and this is a great way to do it.
It would be fantastic to make permanent pictures to go on the fridge.
I have a special needs daughter and we have to create different visual task schedules, visual reminders for the steps involved in self-cares, as well as emotions guides. It is super difficult to use regular paper or card stock as it gets destroyed so easily. If I won this, I would laminate all of these items so they would be more durable and last us longer.
This would be great to laminate documents and grandkids drawings and such that I want to keep
I would love to laminate my kids awards they get!!
I have documents and whatnot that I would like to preserve as well as keep safe from those little “accidents”.
I would use if for all of the important papers I want to keep.
i would use it to laminate recipe cards from my grandma.
I’d like to protect important papers
I have 6 kids. I need this for soooooo many things!
I want to win because this would be helpful for school projects 🙂
I would love to have this to laminate various projects I do for the school PTO.
I would love to win so I could laminate recipes.
I would love this for all of my different craft projects and upcoming kid’s school projects.
I laminate pretty much everything by hand and this would make it SOOO much easier!
id love a laminator
We do a lot of projects at home with the kids and for work. This would make our time easier rather than having to run downtown to get our things laminated.
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I want to win so that I can laminate my children’s art work!
I would like to laminate my special recipes.
I would love to win this to help preserve my kids art work and certificates!
I want to win this to keep my children’s art work and certificates from tearing up.
Having a laminator for personal use would be so helpful!
I would love to use this to get myself more organized.
my daughter draws some great pictures and there are only so many places to hang frames. This would be a great way to preserve them and keep them all.
A laminator would be soooo useful for so many projects. It could protect fall leaves, certificates, photos….I would love one
I would like to laminate all of my important paperwork such as birth certificate, social security card, etc. I would also use this for laminating recipe cards and more.
This would be great for a local animal shelter who is looking for a laminator.
What an awesome idea to preserve children s art work, I would love to win to be able to laminate papers for my little ones such as tracing letters and numbers and different letter and number games so we are able to reuse them.
I want to win because I can think of a lot of projects I would like to laminate.
It would be perfect for school work and crafts.
I do worksheets for my girls, cursive and more, so this would help keep the waste down. Also, I had a laminator which broke, and had laminated recipe sheets…works wonderfully.
I like to craft and also create posters and flyers for fundraising. Having a laminator would just make things last and look more professional.
I home educate my three children and frequently find myself wishing that I had a laminator for numerous projects and to save on printing. This would be perfect!
I’d love to use it to preserve my kids artwork and schoolwork, etc. I think it would also be great for making labels!
A stack of printables for daily Fam use here
I need to win because I think every mom and teacher needs one of these
Oh I would love to use this! We love to make our own games…Carter and I have so much fun! He loves Bingo..so we make our own bingo cards for the holidays…and things he likes. Some of them have been ruined….with all the play…would love to laminate them all!
I would laminate my kids’ artwork.
to laminate the mydrawings.
I want to win because I can think of several things right now that i would like to laminate!
My daughter just started Pre-K and I would like to laminate her school work!
would love to laminate some of my kids games
I would laminate my daughters artwork@
I want to win because a laminator would be useful to me with some work projects and also fun to use for some craft projects.
I want to win this to use for our homeschool papers and for the support group I belong to.
This would come in handy as I joined the PTO board!
This would help me organize a bit
This would be good for crafts
I have some family- oriented newspaper clippings that need to be preserved and for family documents.
I would love to laminate my son’s awards he received while in the Marine’s.
I’m a Kindergarten teacher, I would use this ALL the time. It’d be nice to work from home and not have to share the laminater at school with the 100+ other teachers!
I’m a Kindergarten teacher, nuff said!
I’m a Kindergarten teacher, nuff said!
I have always wanted one of these…I would laminate art projects and photos as well as crafty stuff.
We homeschool so there’s lots of things to laminate in our house!!
Between grandchildren and volunteer work I’m always wishing I had a laminator! Oh the things I could do! 😉
I’m a kindergarten teacher and love to have an at home laminator to work at hone on projects for my students! I really would love to win this!
I’d laminate some letter writing practice sheets for my kids
I am a teacher and a mom. I could use this for so many things.
It’s a great way to preserve my son’s art projects!
We homeschool (well, we will next year!) But there’s a ton of stuff already that I’d love to use this baby on! Fingers crossed!
We home school and laminate a LOT of stuff throughout the year, so our current laminator is shot!
I would love this to preserve artwork and special awards.
Thanks for the giveaway! =)
This would be so great to have for my niece’s art, my crafts, photos, and the list goes on.
I would love to win because I am a homeschool mom, so it would definitely come in handy!!!
I want to win this because I want to use it to save my pictures and other pieces of important documents!
I have always wanted a laminator, but never purchased one. This would be a great asset to our homeschool tools collection! 🙂
My sons handwriting is in rough shape, so I love the idea of laminating things for him to practice!
I think it would be great to laminate papers/crafts for the kids.
I’d like to win so we can easily laminate things at home and protect them from getting messy.
I would love to use this for my office, my kids art and school projects.
This would open up a whole new area of crafts for us. This would be great!
I want to win so that I could preserve my grandma’s handwritten recipes, for starters. I’d like to laminate all of my recipe card collection.
I would like to win to laminate my kids art work and important papers.
Because I know a mother who’s also a teacher who would love to own one, it would help her out greatly and I’d like to surprise her. 🙂
We have a lot of items that are important and this would be a great way to help keep them.
I like this to preserve so many things my son brings home from school.
I run a moms group and this laminator would be soooo incredibly useful! I also have 4 kids and I am always looking for ways to laminate their class gifts during the holidays… cards, bookmarks and other fun presents for their classmates.
I would love to win this for Holiday craft projects including ornaments and laminate photos to give out to family for refrigerator posting.
I’d like to win because I think I could find many uses for it.
I am about to start preschooling my toddler
As PTA president and a paraeducator, this would come in so handy!!
I would like to win and laminate placemats for my kids dinner place setting.
The first thing I would laminate is our sight word cards. This way they can be used with all my children.
This would be great to keep my daughter’s awards and papers from school.
This laminator looks great for preserving the kids work and our important documents as well. I’d love to own it.
I have never seen anything like it but it would be great to save my memories from the kids
I would love to laminate special artwork or little notes from my kids to preserve. 🙂
This would be AWESOME to have especially for when I help the teachers with their projects!
this would help keep some items safe from moisture
I would use this for important info for my husbands business. This would sure beat make new copies all the time.
I would love to own a laminator! it would really help us preserve things!
will be great for all the posters etc for sports, and obviously school as well.
I would love it for my kids artwork so it would be safe and not get ripped.
This would be soooo good for my homeschooling time!
I have wanted one for a long time.
I’d like to laminate my dd’s awards and school papers.
This would be perfect for my son’s school stuff. To save his work.
I would love to win this for my sister that homeschools her kids. It would be such a sweet blessing and surprise!
I homeschool plus I lead my church nursery. This would be a HUGE blessing!
I would like to win because I love the idea of laminating!
I want to win because this would be helpful for school projects and worksheets.
I plan to homeshool my boys so could definitely use this!
i have so many projects i could use this for.
This would be PERFECT for my homeschooling kids for signs and whatnot!
I would love this for my daughter’s school work.
I would use this for so many things. The list would be endless. Preserving the precious drawings from my grandkids would be the most important.
My youngest is start kindergarten and I would love to preserve her artwork
I want to win this to laminate my kids schoolwork.
I want to win this so that I can laminate important school and work papers.
I have so many photos and certificates to laminate!
I want to win because I could really use this a lot to laminate art work & projects, etc. It would save me time & money since I wouldn’t have to pay to have it done professionally.
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My parents had one when I was younger and laminated almost everything. I would love to have one so I could do the same for my kids.
This would be a great way to save important memories and i would love it!
This would be great for all the artwork, school calendars, schedules the kids bring home from school. Also would work nice for schedules with dry erase markers
I would like to win as there are some pics that I have doubles of that I don’t want to get ruined. It would be a nice way to preserve the pictures.
I want to win because my foster kiddo keeps ripping up my printables. Lol!
it would be so cool to laminate stickers and organization stickers
I would love to win this so I can laminate things like my kids drawing and pictures.
To use at our new business
I want to win this because we have a rather cheap one that never seems to work right. This is a much better quality
A few years back I taught kindergarten for a few homeschooling families, I enjoyed the immensely. The first item(s) I would laminate would be their piles of handmade, lovingly crooked pictures of house, cats and hand tracings. That’s just for starters on laminating.
I would in a school as a social worker and laminate all the time! It seems like I’m constantly making visuals to help our students learn. I’d love to have one in my office to save time.
i would love to be able to laminate important papers for travel or hiking
We are getting things ready for a high school reunion and this would come in so handy to make picture name tags and other items so I would love to win it.
Perfect for my wifes home business.
This would be perfect for my wifes home business.
This would be perfect for my wife who runs a home business.
I would love to win this to use in our homeschooling
I would like to win this for my wifes craft projects.
I have always wanted a laminator
I’d love to win this for my niece
I homeschool, so this would be extremely helpful.
With a family I always have lists and sheets from school that could be laminated.
We do a lot of arts and crafts in our home, and this would be a wonderful tool to have to preserve them and to make various signs.
This would be great to have for school projects and also keeping craft pages.
I want to win this for my daughter, who will be a first time school teacher this fall. I think she would use this frequently for school projects.
I have always wanted a laminator. I work with families with children with autism. My clients range from pre schoolers to adults. I drive about 40,000 miles per year. It would help save my materials that I pay for myself
This is perfect for the crafts and photo collages we make at home!
I’ve been keeping my eye out for a laminating machine to use for charts and activities for my LO and for safekeeping her projects and pictures. I’m already keeping a todo list in my head 🙂
If you have kids you need a laminate machine. I am also a soccer mom and we need these for player cards.
I am a Sunday school teacher and I would love to laminate my Sunday school lessons and craft activities for my students.
This would be great to preserve my daughter’s school projects
It would be great for my business.
I want to laminate my recipes!
Would love it for laminating cute notes from my kids so they don’t get distroyed
I’d love to win because this would be a great way to save the kids are and maybe do some other projects that I haven’t even thought of yet 🙂
I used to have a laminator and it ended up going with my mom, so I could totally use a new one. I love having one for last minute projects 🙂
to protect important documents
For the Grandkids and their school work.
I have so many art papers that I would love to use this on to keep them, so they do not get destroyed. Thanks for the chance to win.
This would be great for materials we reference often (multiplication charts etc.) And I would also use for my SUnday school materials.
I have always wanted to have a laminator so I could laminate my kids artwork to keep forever.
this is so neat the idea of preserving the kids drawings and other artwork! I would so use it for that!
I want won this one for crafts and recipe cards.
It would be great for the kids school projects.
I would love to be able to laminate all of my daughters drawings
This would be super for my daughter the school teacher
I think my daughter would love to use this to laminate some of her art work. Thanks for the chance!
This would help out at our hose to preserve a lot of memories.
As a homeschool mom this is almost a necessity.
I would like to laminate some school worksheets for my kids.
theres been plenty of times this would’ve been helpful, i’m sure i could get a lot of good use out of it.
it’s be great for saving kids artwork
My daughter is always in need of laminating some pictures for her classes.
My church needs this. I have a laminator for homeschool, but they are in dire need of one in the kids classroom at church.
I’d love to win because this would help us with kids’ school projects and tons of other things around the house, keeping us organized!
It would be really neat to preserve some of their school work that they are proud of.
I have a lot of school projects that I would love to use this for
I’d love this to laminate some of our photos and my children’s craft projects.
I want to win to laminate stuff
I’d start with the daily chore charts!
Retired & like to laminate my Grand kids art.
They last longer.
I’m a teacher who is always wanting to laminate things at home before I get to school the next day! This would be awesome to have!!
this would be great for all those craft projects at the church.
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My DIL needs to laminate a lot of things for her job and her reptiles.
I would love to be able to Laminate worksheets to use with my youngest who is almost 3.
this would be great for my kids projects and my husband’s college courses!
I would love to win and laminate my son daily routines, and crafts, Thank you!
i would love to win this so i can make a reusable wipe on wipe off reward chart for doing chores & getting ready for bed. the reward system works
I’d love to laminate the pictures and art projects my daughter brings home!
I would laminate school art projects and photos as well as craft work.
I would like to use it for crafting, and laminating my kids artwork.
I would use it for work.
I want to win so I can laminate crafts and organizational tools.
I want to laminate my kids art, some homework sheets and stuff fir my Girl Scout troops
To laminate my son’s artwork and his other projects and awards
This would be good for labels and crafts
This would be great for my sons art work
As both a child care provider and a homeschooling mom, this would get LOTS of use!
I would love to be able to laminate some math sheets I have so the kids can use them for quick reference.
I’d love to win because there’s been a number of times that I have wanted to laminate something and didn’t have a laminater. This would be wonderful for artwork and drawings that my kids create and for paperwork and receipes that I’d like to protect.
I would love to win because there are so many things I would love to laminate. Pictures, Impiortant documents, photos, etc….
This would be perfect for saving my sons comics he writes
I want to win because this would be helpful for school projects and worksheets.
I would love to win this because I have so many things I need to laminate. First is pictures and icons for my son’s pecs books then I’d laminate a few charts for him like a chore chart in the kitchen with velcro for his icons to stick on. I’d also laminate my children’s art work, school work, awards and family record documents. Thanks for the chance!
I’m into genealogy and this would be great to use for all of the documents I have copies of.
I would like to laminate the boys drawings.
I want to win so I can laminate my children’s awards, art work, and other treasured objects.
When my kids were in elementary school, our PTO bought a laminator and supplies for the teachers. I like the idea of saving paper by making it more durable with lamination. My recipes would be protected instead of covered with food by my slap-dash cooking and baking which takes more care with measuring.