Printable Bookmarks for Kids

April 12 is DEAR Day, otherwise known as Drop Everything and Read, a concept made popular by Beverly Cleary’s Ramona books. (It’s April 12 because it was her birthday.)

Reading is worth celebrating all the time, and I thought it would be fun to help encourage kids to read more and to celebrate DEAR Day by sharing some printable bookmarks you can use with your kiddos in the library space in your classroom or at home.

If you want to learn more about Beverly Cleary and her books you can do so on her website, or learn more about DEAR Day from Reading Rockets.

Parties Made Personal has a massive collection of printable bookmarks for kids and adults alike to print and color. There are 13 pages of bookmarks in all, with themes ranging from weather to ice cream, space to bugs. I love the cactus ones!

Artsy Fartsy Mama has some super cute unicorn bookmarks for kids to print and color. You’ll want to break out the glitter crayons or gel pens for these to add a little sparkle.

Skip to My Lou has a collection of reading themed bookmarks to print and color. I Like to Read Past My Bedtime is my favorite because that’s still me.

Have a fan of Baby Yoda (“his name is Grogu,” as Din Djarin would remind us) in the house? Grab these bookmark printables from Rock Your Homeschool.

Printablee has some reading themed bookmarks as well as some with geometric doodles and flowers you can color, great for kids and adults.

Make DEAR Day or any day more fun by building a reading fort (or just pile pillows on the floor), grabbing your favorite snacks and reading books (silently, of course!) together.

Looking for even more printable bookmarks for kids? Check out this collection I gathered a couple of years ago.

[Photo: Artsy Fartsy Mama.]

Leif Erikson Day is celebrated on Oct. 9, and it’s a great time to learn more about the Vikings and why we still remember Erikson all these years later.

If you don’t know about Leif Erikson (sometimes spelled Eriksson), he’s believed to have been born in Iceland, and is considered the first European to set foot on continental America, more than 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has a printable mini book about Leif Erikson and the Vikings for kids to read and color. It talks about who the Vikings were, what kind of ships they used, how they got to America and more. It’s a good overview for younger kids to use.

A good unit study is available from Simple Living Creative Learning, which includes a page where kids can write what they know, what they want to learn and what they learned through the unit, as well as information on the Vikings, longships, helmets, clothing and more.

Get a printable Viking unit study with reading passages, comprehension questions and other activities aimed at grades 4-8 from Creative Classroom Core at Teachers Pay Teachers. (And see more Vikings content from TPT here.)

Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus has some great unit study ideas, too, including suggested books and videos. The post includes information about the Viking voyages, society, mythology and ships, as well as some vocabulary and a list of famous Vikings. While you’re over there also check out her free printable lapbook, which includes mini books on ships, a timeline, a Viking women coloring page, draw your own Vikings, geography, ancient runes and more.

Piqolo Kids has a lesson on Viking women with (available for purchase) worksheets about a day in the life of Viking women. Even if you don’t grab the printables there’s some good resources on that page and a link to a video on Viking women.

Learn how to draw a Viking ship with instructions from Drawing How to Draw, or grab Vikings coloring and labeling worksheets from Kids Puzzles and Games.

There’s a Leif Erikson Festival annually in Norway, Michigan, which you can learn more about here.

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