Make a Bookworm to Help Urge Your Child to Read
by K Hupp
Making a bookworm from construction paper can be a fun way to encourage your child to read. It’s fun and easy to do. It’s also a project your child can do with you.
The supplies you need to make the bookworm are construction paper, scissors, and tape or sticky adhesive. You can mount the bookworm’s body segments around the walls in your child’s room, on a bulletin board, or even on your refrigerator.
First draw a large head of a worm and neck on a full size sheet of construction paper and cut it out. The neck should only be about 4 1/2 inches wide. You can draw eyes and a smile on the face of the bookworm, if you like.
Next, using several sheets of different colors of construction paper, fold the paper in half lengthwise. Cut the paper in half along the lengthwise fold.
Cut the half sheets of construction paper into sections about 2 inches wide across the paper. They will be approximately 2 inches by 4 1/2 inches in size. The strips will be the segments to make the body of the worm.
When your child finishes reading a book, mount a different colored body segment behind the neck of the worm. Do this each time your child finishes reading a book, increasing the length of the bookwork.
You can let the bookworm become as long as you like, taking into account the amount of space that you have to work with. If you place the bookworm around the walls of your child’s room using sticky adhesive, the bookworm can represent hundreds of books. If you are using a bulletin board or the refrigerator as your surface, the bookworm will be shorter, but will be able to have many body segments.
For even more reading incentive, let the bookworm become a game, with a reward for reading a certain number of books. For example, let you child pick out a movie to watch after 10 body segments are in place. Or let them choose their favorite meal for dinner after reaching 25. You can keep things simple, or you can become as extravagant as you like. Only you will know what works best for your child.
I can assure you that bookworms really do help to urge children to read. When I was in the 3rd grade, my favorite teacher made a bookworm for the whole class. It reached all the way around the classroom more than once. It was such a fun project for all of us. I’m certain that was the year that I fell in love with reading.
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