We hand out a bookmark with every student loan at our library, for all sorts of reasons. Because kids like to know what page they're on. To make it easy for students to know what page they're on without bending book corners (to make it easy for them to do the right thing). As a freebie. As a promotional item promoting the library and our current theme. Because we can.
If you follow the tag for bookmarks on this blog, you'll find a bunch of the ones we've made using Publisher and coloured cardboard (
click here or over on the tag cloud on the right on the word 'bookmarks').
With a limited budget (but a confetti-style approach to bookmarks) I'm always on the lookout for inexpensive and clever ways to create fun bookmarks. By and large, I don't go for laminated-precious, but ones we can hand out with generosity and enthusiasm: so they need to be inexpensive.
One thing we're about in the library is facts and information. So, get yourself one of these:
...which isn't a tricky find in an op shop/garage sale for a couple of dollars. Study the pages:
and realise that the column widths line up on either side of the page (in this edition: check if you have a different year's edition). A bit of guillotine work slicing along the space between the columns and you have hundreds of bookmarks for less than five dollars. Bargain! Fun facts and information which the kids enjoy (and which can be tied into a wider library promotional theme if you wish). The columns lining up means you can read front and back, and if a pic gets sliced, oh well - read the current entry in the current copy of the Guinness Book of Records, waiting for you at your school library!
Here's another facty-book find with equally good potential:
That one cost me a whole four dollars at an op shop. Thick and full of bookmark potential, hundreds more for very little money.
Tune in tomorrow for another cheap bookmark idea.
Cheers
Ruth
*GIFSL = Good Ideas For School Libraries
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