Book Buddies - Bookmarks

Bookmarks

These are fun and easy bookmarks! To make the bookmarks you see below, I checked out the "mini" Ellison die cuts from my district media center. I had a parent volunteer help me cut the shapes out of various colors of construction paper and tag board. (We did this activity close to Halloween, so some of our shapes were related to Halloween and/or Fall. We also used basic shapes like hearts, footprints, and crayons.) For the actual bookmark, we cut strips from white tag board.

The fourth grade students brainstormed sayings that could be written on the bookmarks. These sayings included:
Falling Into a Good Book
I'm Nuts for Reading
Dig Into a Good Book
I Love to Read

During the activity, the 4th graders helped their younger book buddies with making sure they were spelling the words correctly and getting the shapes glued on. The opportunities with this project are endless!
Submitted by: Jennifer

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