DIY Bookmarks for Kids to Make

Did you know that March is National Reading Month?  Celebrate National Reading Month and encourage your kids to read with these fun and easy DIY Bookmarks!  They are easy to make and great for kids to use to keep their places in their favorite books! 

We love to read around here.  I try to be mindful of reading aloud to both boys each day.  It’s something fun that we do together and it’s something that I want to encourage all of our kids in as they get older. 

As a parent, I want to encourage them to read for learning sake – to find new information and facts.  But even more, I want to raise readers who simply enjoy reading for reading sake.  

We want to make reading fun for our kids.  

Since my oldest has started reading chapter books and working his way through his own activity books, he often needs to mark his spot and keep up with where he is in his reading. 

After being asked a lot of times for a page marker, or having to carefully move books that were left open to a specific page, we decided to make our own DIY bookmarks.

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Make Your Own DIY Bookmarks

Honestly, these bookmarks are so simple to make, it feels almost silly to write a full tutorial on it, but more times than not, simple is best.  So here I am, giving you a simple idea that you will hopefully be able to use in your home or classroom to encourage creativity, a love of reading, and allow kids to take some ownership of their reading as they create their own bookmarks.  

Supplies

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• Colorful card stock paper
  • You can also use construction paper, especially if you plan to laminate the bookmarks. 
• Stickers
• Markers
• Paint Sticks
  • Basically, easy decorating supplies that you have on hand. 
• Paper cutter
  • This is the one that we have had forever and it’s perfect for projects like this. 
• Laminator, optional

Directions

• Using your paper cutter, cut card stock paper into strips of desired width.  We cut ours into strips about 1.5 inches wide. 
• Allow kids to choose their color of bookmarks and decorate how they wish. 
  • There really is no right or wrong way to decorate the bookmarks.  We ended up using a mix of paint sticks, markers, and stickers from our craft cabinet.  
• Once children are finished decorating their bookmarks, you may choose to laminate them.  This will preserve them as children use them again and again. 

We ended up making several of these DIY bookmarks and keep them in a little stack on our family bookshelf so they are easily accessible.  

These bookmarks have been a simple, but fun addition to our reading time as our boys are so proud to go get a bookmark that they made when we need to keep our place in a book that we’re reading.  

What Do You Think? 

Do your kids enjoy reading?  What are your favorite ways to encourage a love of reading in your children? 

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