Easy and Inexpensive Bookmarks

Looking for an easy reading incentive for students?  Here are some quick and easy bookmarks to make to give to your students.


Okay… so I know that I’m not the first person to have ever figured this out and it’s clearly not rocket science… but I can’t believe how easy it is to make my own bookmarks with scrapbook paper!

My students love bookmarks… like really love… I had no idea that they would be so popular. However, buying bookmarks online is expensive “like $1.50-$2.00 each expensive” which is over $50 per class!!  As well, most of the bookmarks I see would not appeal to my middle/high school aged readers.


While wandering the stationary aisles of Micheal’s Craft Store one day trying to think of something I could make with the beautiful stacks of scrapbook paper, I realized I could make bookmarks!  There are tons of teen-friendly papers and when I buy the books on sale I can make 200-300 bookmarks for less than $15!


And it turns out my students love them!  They ask for themes (they can’t wait for the Valentine’s Day bookmarks I’ve promised!) and love when I add new ones to my box of bookmarks.

I usually use a 12″x12″ book and I can get 10 bookmarks per page.  For the Valentine’s Day bookmarks above I used a 6″x6″ mini-book and got 5 per page.


I just got this awesome pad of comic book themed paper on sale!! Can’t wait to cut these up into bookmarks – my students are going to LOVE them!!