How do I format a 2008 macbook pro

I am getting a new Macbook Pro and want to give my 2008 to my grandson. I have the original Macbook Pro OSX disks (2), but had upgraded to Leopard and then to Lion. Lion is the current OS, but that was a download. I no longer have the Leopord disk as I gave that away with a Imac I formatted to a local charity.
All I really want to do is clear all of the hard drive space since I am not too concerned with security and would like him ot have the Lion OS.
Should I be doing a full format so he gets a 'clean' mac, or is there a way that i can clear all of the data and leave the OS as is?

Create a new user with Admin privileges, and then delete your current user ID. That will take out anything you installed, outside of the operating system. For completeness, I would then bring up Disk Utility and erase free space.
Alternatively, you could boot into Lion recovery mode (command and R keys held down while booting), bring up Disk Utility, erase the hard drive (recommend writing zero's to the hard drive, as this also resets the hard drive bad block table), then reinstall Lion. That's as clean as it gets. If you have any other software to load from backup, do that. Done!

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