There's room for creativity when it comes to making bookmarks. But first off, here's the obvious: The best ones come with a book. Try picking a theme. My five-year-old son, Nick, once made three laminated bookmarks with simple line drawings of a cannon, a rifle and a sword. We tucked these in with a gift certificate to the local bookstore and gave them to our favorite murder-mystery reader. Your kids can make bookmarks out of paper, wallpaper, ribbon, fabric or yarn. Fancy bookmarks can have beads or ribbons hanging from a string on the top or can come decorated with rubber stamp patterns. Postage stamps, tickets, cartoons and tiny drawings can be laminated in Con-Tact paper. My family especially likes to use this technique with those photo-booth pictures, the ones that come in a strip.