Reusable nametags

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Reusable nametags
By Georgia Teacher

A third grade teacher at my school bought the clear plastic name tags that you just slide each person's name into. She reuses these each year.

I use laminated construction-paper Ellison shapes that I attach to the children
by taping a safety pin on the back. (Put the tape on the hook side, not the sharp side.)
I've also taken the same laminated shapes and punched a hole in the top, then just put the safety pin through the hole. The safety pin shows, though, and you know some kindergarteners just have to mess with them if they see them. I quit using the yarn-necklace tags the year that I heard about

the little boy who died after his jacket-hood string got caught on the slide.

If you just want them for guest days and sub-days, you'd be better off keeping some prepared computer labels in you desk drawer and instruct the sub to put them on the kid's backs so they won't peel them off and make them "lose their sticky."