Spread cheer and great reads.
Use our printable template, or design your own bookmarks. Then add your favorite big-hearted book recommendation to the back, and start ripples of bookish kindness.
Potential Recipients
Share bookmarks with patients in a nearby hospital, residents of a local nursing home, or anyone who could use some cheer.
Include bookmarks with a community book drive.
Give them as gifts to friends, teachers, neighbors. Or leave them (and perhaps a copy of your recommended book) in a Little Free Library.
What you’ll need
Print one of DGT’s bookmark templates: Explore a Story, Pass it On or blank.
Art supplies: Crayons or colored pencils, scissors, clear packing, and tape or laminating paper
Instructions
Read any of the titles in our Read with Empathy collection.
Decorate your bookmarks with colors, colored pencils, or markers.
Cut around the outside of the bookmarks.
On the back, recommend your favorite perspective-expanding book or leave a cheerful note.
Seal with packing tape or laminate. (Optional)
Hide your decorated bookmarks (and perhaps your recommended book) in a Little Free Library, stash them in library books, or gift them to others!
Reflection
Why did you recommend your chosen book?
Why is it fun to read books about characters and experiences different from your own?
People talk about kindness having a “ripple effect.” What do you think that means? Let’s imagine the ripple effect our bookmarks might have.
Resources
Browse the lists in Doing Good Together’s Read with Empathy collection for your next picture book favorite!
Take it further
Restock a Little Free Library.
Leave encouraging sticky notes - along with bookmarks - in your favorite library books.
Donate favorite books to a shelter or children’s hospital.
Host a book drive for a shelter or organization in need.
Volunteer to read to seniors at a nearby nursing home.
Browse the projects in our Big-Hearted Families Tookit!
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The recommendations we offer are based solely on our mission to empower parents to raise children who care and contribute.