Good ideas for school libraries: 7. International Women's Day (including a banner)

I know it's past for this year, but it will come around next year...
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We had bookmarks, because as you know if you read this blog, bookmarks are something we do:
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The colours of IWD are the suffragette colours, green and purple.  Quote burgled from the IWD 2009 page for the front, link and library name on the back.

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Banners, with a twist.  Plain purple homespun cotton fabric ($6/metre from Spotlight).  Made as described yesterday.

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This is the foyer, including our lovely foyer bookcase/showcase, with various books about women.

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What's the writing?  As announced on the whole-school assembly, all the girls and women of our school were invited to sign the banners.  Interactivity!  We had lots of takers, as you can see - a busy lunchtime, and quite a few requests since then to be allowed to add names/messages.  And lots of people reading them.  We asked the signers to write something positive about girls/women.  Like I did:

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And I would like to report that it almost worked.  Some people slip in ads anywhere, don't they?

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What you need: Bookmarks: three colours of green paper, bookmark created in Microsoft Publisher using a fancy font from scrapvillage.com.

Banners: plain lilac homespun cotton, banner stuff as outlined in yesterday's blog entry, green marker pens (and whip out some black ones if two green ones aren't enough), old newspaper to put under the banner while it's being signed (the pen goes through), a slot on the school assembly...

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The girls liked signing.  The boys often wanted to know when International Men's Day was going to be (same month as Movember).  I know I could have let them sign too, but I guess a point was being made...

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