Amazon Prime Day Deals and Steals

Are you a teacher looking for the best Amazon Prime Day deals and steals for your classroom?  If so, you are in the right place!  We are keeping an extra close eye on it all so you don’t miss out on anything!  Before we go any further, here are some must-know tips!

What is Amazon Prime Day?

Prime Day is a global shopping event where Prime members can shop hundreds of thousands of deals sitewide, with new deals starting as often as every five minutes.  Amazon has officially announced that Prime Day 2018 will begin at 3 p.m. ET on Monday, July 16th and will run through Tuesday, July 17th.

How do I shop Prime Day deals?

All teacher and classroom deals will be found and posted right here on this post.  We will continue to come back and update this post throughout the day to keep you up to date on everything!  You do need to be an Amazon Prime member to shop these deals so if you aren’t already, you should do this today and receive a 30-day trial.   Some perks to being an Amazon Prime member includes free two day shipping.  You can also benefit from their free music and videos to use in your classroom!

Shopping Tips & Tricks

• Download the Amazon app to get a $10 credit the first time you sign in
• Join our Facebook group to see what other teachers are finding
• Add lightning deals to your cart before the sale is live
• Add items “to your list” and you’ll be notified when the sale goes live
• For the deepest discounts jump on Spotlight Deals before they’re gone
• Follow Amazon on Facebook and mark that you’re attending Prime Day

Current Classroom Deals

UPDATED ON 7/17/18 AT 10:22 A.M. CST

We have found some early-access deals that are already discounted!

• Girl, Wash Your Face (not a teacher book but one of my favorites!)
• Elephant & Piggie Books– LOVE these!
• Rosie Revere Engineer– great for STEM
• Cricut Explore Air 2– save 30%
• Laminating Sheets– 100-pack, 3 mil, 8.9 x 11.4 inches
• Vintage Laptop Backpack– so cute and affordable!
• Astrobrights Paper Pack– $13.43 for 500 sheets
• iPad Charging Station– save 33%
• 12 Bottles of Elmer’s Glue– save 65%
• Expo Dry Erase Markers– $11.53 for 12 bottles
• Magnet Building Tiles– save 50%
• 9×12 Dry Erase Pockets– save 27%
• Fruit Infusion Water Bottle– save 65%
• Echo Dot– save 40%
• Box of 192 Mr. Sketch Markers– save 67%
• Electric Crayon Sharpener– save 48%
• Extra Wide Laminator– save 56%
• Flair Pens– save 60%

Wishlist Items

The teachers in our Facebook group have come up with a wish list of items that we are crossing our fingers and hoping to be on the sale.  Here are some things we have our eye on:

• Laminating Sheets-one can never have too many of these!
• Astrobrights Paper– give me all the paper.  This paper is perfect for those bright, eye-popping centers, posters, and handouts for the classroom.
• Cricut– It can cut vinyl, paper, card stock, etc. It can do any fonts you own to make banners, bulletin boards….almost anything you want.
• Instant Ink Printer– there are specific printers that are compatible with the HP Instant Ink program which is how I print EVERYTHING!
• Microphone– teachers have been loving these for their classroom…great way to increase engagement! (I am on the waitlist for this one!)
• iPad Charging Station– the cords drive me crazy so this is a great solution
• Pencil Holders– these are nice for those rolling pencils that end up on the floor all day
• Finger Lights– spice up read to self time with a little finger light and dimmed lights…so fun!