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Below are themes we've previously used for our swaps. If you have a suggestion for a theme, please post it here. Remember, themed swaps are every other swap.
How about a service person theme? Military, firefighter, police, president, etc as a main character/ adversary. Or a road trip theme for summer. A book about traveling or taking a trip.
Or a book that mimics a reality show. The main character is a singer (American Idol) or dancer (Dancing With the Stars) or is overweight (The Biggest Loser) or pregnant young (16 and Pregnant), etc? You pick the show.
Here are some off the cuff:Paranormal/supernatural
Humorous
Multicultural (written by someone from or written about a culture different than your own)
Classics
Animals as characters (e.g. Charlotte's Web)
Illustrated or Graphic Novel
Great, thanks Vicki!Okay, between Vicki and my suggestions we have 9 themes. Give me 3 more, and that'll last us for 2 years worth of themed swaps! I'll run them through a randomizer to get the order in which we'll do them.
3 more? Anyone?
How about a romantic theme? A book in which two characters fall in love?Food theme
Religious
Sports related
I have a few ideas:Poetry (might especially be good for next April, which will be National Poetry month; we missed it for this year)
Various rounds of favorites (Favorite Authors, fave book as a kid, etc.)
One I think we could really have fun with and get creative:
Mash-up. Take a couple of books and combine them into 1. Something silly to play with and have fun with.
You know, like The Forest of Toads and Diamonds = a mash-up of
and
. A zombie fairytale. ;)
Misty, I love the mash-up idea!Here's a couple I came up with:
Alphabet-themed bookmarks would last us a while!
So, first month would be A, and your book title needs to begin with A, such as Malinda Lo's Ash.
For difficult letters like Q and Z, perhaps we could make concessions and allow the author's surname.
Books originally written in another language/set in a different country. This month's book, Battle Royale inspired this idea.
Love the alphabet idea too. Can we plan past the end of the year? Seems like too many good choices!
Yes, a lot of great ideas! I will put them all through the randomizer and we'll use the first six to come up. That'll get us through a year of swaps (since it's only every other swap that has a theme).
Ok, so round 14 will be readers choice? Sorry I haven't been doing this long enough to follow the pattern. It seems like the last 2 were themed (sci/fi, fantasy and LGBTQ). The reason I ask for clarification, is that I would like to maybe get started on a few ideas that might take a little longer to execute. Just want to start planning. Thanks!
From the way it looks, odd numbers are themed. Even are free choice. We always have a free choice round after a themed one.
Sheri wrote: "Ok, so round 14 will be readers choice? Sorry I haven't been doing this long enough to follow the pattern. It seems like the last 2 were themed (sci/fi, fantasy and LGBTQ). The reason I ask for cla..."Yes, Amy is right. Every even numbered swap is a free choice swap. You can use any YA book you want for those rounds.
Every odd numbered swap has a theme. The next round we'll do is going to be a free choice, since we are just shipping swap #13 with a theme.
I'm a bit intimidated by the mash up. I have NO idea what to do. Good thing I have a while to think about it!
I have half of my mash up planned. I think it'll definitely be an interesting one. I'm more worried about the multicultural one.
Mash up isn't until December(ish)!
Ok...Here are the bookmark themes through the end of 2012!
Feb. 2012 Swap #20: free choice - use any YA book you like
Mar. 2012 Swap #21: Mash-up - use two different YA books together to make a single bookmark combining them both
Apr. 2012 Swap #22: free choice - use any YA book you like
May 2012 Swap #23: Graphic or illustrated novel - use a YA appropriate graphic or illustrated novel
Jun. 2012 Swap #24: free choice - use any YA book you like
Jul. 2012 Swap #25: Classics - use a YA book that's been shelved on GR as a classic
Aug. 2012 Swap #26: free choice - use any YA book you like
Sep. 2012 Swap #27: Poetry - use a YA book written in verse
Oct. 2012 Swap #28: free choice - use any YA book you like
Nov. 2012 Swap #29: Service person - use a YA book featuring a service person as a main character
*skipping December- holiday break!*
Nov 2011 is Food. Nov 2012 is Humorous.:)
vicki_girl wrote: "Nov 2011 is Food. Nov 2012 is Humorous.:)"
Yep, we're planning WAAAAYYY ahead. No thinking 'til 2013! :)
I'm going to make an executive decision about the swap for December- there's not going to be one! We only had 5 participants for November, and December is a crazy busy month, so we'll skip it and continue on in January.
Woooooaaa...you really have planned! Looks great! I'll try to get back in the game in January ;)
Okay, we skipped December AND January! Who's ready to create?
Hello :-) Wanted to let you know that my blog is doing a book and bookmark swap if you are interested :-) http://www.teachmentortexts.com/2013/...
Wild Things: YA Grown-Up
Books mentioned in this topic
Battle Royale (other topics)Ash (other topics)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth (other topics)
Toads and Diamonds (other topics)
So far, these are what we've done for our themed rounds:
*Recipient's choice (recipient listed 3 faves and maker chose 1 to represent)
*Fairy/folk tales
*Judge a book by it's cover (maker used a book they'd only seen and never read)
*Award Winners
*Fantasy/Sci-Fi
*LGBTQ
*Multicultural
*Paranormal/Supernatural
*Food
Our non-themed swaps (even numbered swaps) are free-for-all rounds. The bookmark maker gets to decide which YA book they'd like to represent.