WFMW: Printable Bookmarks and Bookplates

One way to encourage independent reading is to let kids make their own bookmarks and bookplates. (And even if it doesn’t, a homemade bookmark is still more fun than using a subscription card from a magazine, a gum wrapper, or a piece of scratch paper!) You can find pre-made printable bookmarks online (see links below), or try one of these ideas and create your own using a blank bookmark template. I like printing out Creativity Portal’s template (link opens a PDF that includes three blank bookmarks) on cardstock. You can make book plates in a similar manner or use some of the many printable designs available.

• Get out the markers, crayons, and watercolors and start coloring

• Create a collage using sequins, stickers, construction paper, foil, and whatever else looks cool

• Make a design with pressed flowers and leaves and laminate

• List math facts, spelling words, or other drill work

• Write a poem

• Print out a memory verses

• Make a mini-scrapbook page

• Stamp some designs with rubber stamps or custom-made ones carved out of an apple or potato

Bookmarks:

Jan Brett’s gorgeous illustrations make great bookmarks

KidPrintables

Graphic Garden (Click on Bookmarks in sidebar.)

National Geographic Bookmark Factory

Book Plates:

My Home Library

RIF Reading Planet

BookHive

For more Works for Me Wednesday ideas, visit Rocks in My Dryer.