Nights with the scissors
Word walls, name tags, birthday charts and themed borders mostly get cut by hand, one shape at a time, often after hours.
Class Press is an A4 die-cutting kit made for Australian teachers: a desk-sized press, bold starter dies and printable templates, all for under $400.
Word walls, name tags, birthday charts and themed borders mostly get cut by hand, one shape at a time, often after hours.
Big school die-cutters are great until they're in another building, booked out, or missing the dies you need this week.
Home craft machines are built for card-making: delicate dies and small runs. A classroom needs bold shapes in class-set quantities.
Chosen for classrooms first: bold shapes, simple to use, and ready on day one.
An A4 hand-crank die cutter that sits on a desk. No power, software or blades to change. Crank it and it cuts.
Letters, numbers and shapes sized for displays you can read from the back of the room.
Ready-to-print word walls, labels and seasonal displays in Australian English, made to pair with the dies.
Lay coloured paper over the die and slide it between the cutting plates.
Turn the handle. The press rolls the plates through and presses the die into the paper.
Push out the cut shapes, ready for the wall, the craft table or the kids' desks.
About cutting several sheets at once: the press is built to cut more than one sheet of 80gsm paper per pass on bold shapes. Very detailed shapes may need fewer sheets. We're testing samples now and will publish real numbers before anything goes on sale.
Join the list and we'll tell you when the kit is ready. There's nothing to pay and no obligation.
Class Press started with a simple question: why is cutting a class set of shapes still so slow? We're working directly with manufacturers to build a kit around what classrooms actually need, and we test every sample ourselves before anything goes on sale.
Schools, suppliers and resource partners are welcome to get in touch.