Bookmarks

Do you ever use a paper cutter to trim projects?  Are you left with tons of strips of colored paper? Put them to use as bookmarks!

I have a cardboard box sitting near the classroom library that I constantly fill with pre-made and recycled bookmarks.  My students are free to take as many as they need. 

One of my library rules is to use a bookmark (instead of folding over page corners!) and this box is just the right size to hold hundreds of bookmarks.

What a great way to recycle simple paper scraps into something useful!