More Crafty Links for Handy Librarians

Posted by Surrural Librarian on Aug 09 2008 | Libraries, Simple Fun

Here’s another short list of links for the crafty among you…

These handmade fabric bookmarks and these made from chopstick wrappers would be great for keeping third-grade hands busy during longer read-alouds.

These very cute bookplates would be a nice giveaway.

Decorate your library walls with a cool inexpensive vinal wall decals (buy one of their designs or customize your own) or go low-rent and maybe just a little bit edgy with the Rasterbater which is not nearly as bad as it sounds. “The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size”

And if your handwriting is as bad as mine, Wordle can help jazz up your displays. Here’s a title cloud I made for my DCF display:

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One Response to “More Crafty Links for Handy Librarians”

  1. # Glynis Miller

    I love the DCF title cloud–it is such a cool idea. I’ll definitely check out the sites you mentioned for sprucing up displays.

    13 Aug 2008 at 2:55 pm

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