Needlework lessons: how to make a bookmark out of paper with your own hands.

Bookmarks for books should be in each house and not in one copy. The hostess will need this accessory in order not to lose important recipes in cookbooks. The student in each textbook must also have a bookmark in order to quickly find pages with homework. And even very little ones can put this thing in a book with their favorite fairy tale or beautiful picture. We offer you to bookmark books with the kids. It is not difficult to do this, especially since the work will use the most affordable and easy to design materials. After studying our article, you will learn how to make a bookmark out of paper with your own hands. The proposed options are placed according to the level of complexity of execution: from the simplest to the more complex. Choose the one that can be done by you or your child.

Even a five-year-old will be able to carry out this particular version of the product. You will only need to watch that he used glue and scissors correctly. How to make a bookmark out of paper with your own hands in the form of a corner? Everything is simple.

1. From double-sided colored paper, cut a strip of 5-6 centimeters wide.
2. Bend the workpiece in half, outline the center and expand.
3. Perform a “corner”. To do this, bend the right side of the strip towards you at the middle mark. In the same way, bend the left side of the product. It turns out an angle of 90 °.
4. Cut the bottom edge of the product straight or in a semicircle.
5. Glue a small strip of paper on the inside of the craft, connecting the left and right halves of the product.
6. Decorate your bookmark with applique or pattern.

That's all, literally ten minutes and the corner for the book is ready.

Origami Bookmark

In order to make such an accessory, you will need paper and a few minutes of your time. How to make a bookmark out of paper with your own hands in an origami way? Follow the step by step instructions.

1. From a paper cut a rectangle measuring 10x14 centimeters.
2. We bend the lower left corner of the workpiece to the very top and smooth it by hand.
3. We bend the upper left corner in the same way to the lower side of the product. It turns out a part with an angle on the left and two straight corners on the right.
4. The corners of the right side of the product are bent to the left to the base of the triangle. Now the right side of the craft has the shape of a trapezoid.
5. The resulting "tail" is refilled inside the product (in the pocket).
6. Hand iron all bends and corners.

Corner bookmark done! It can be decorated with stickers, drawings, applique.

An accessory for books made of narrow multi-colored stripes of paper looks bright and beautiful. For its implementation, you will need such materials: thick double-sided colored paper, scissors, a stationery knife, a ruler, glue.

How to make a bookmark out of paper with your own hands? Description of the manufacturing process

1. From paper, cut a strip 6 cm wide and sheet-sized in length.
2. Mark with a pencil the vertical lines every 1 centimeter.
3. Put a ruler on the line and cut it with a clerical knife, stepping back from the top and not reaching the bottom by a centimeter. Thus, draw all the strips outlined (there will be 5 of them). If the product is performed by a child, then you can cut with scissors. You will only need to help him incise each line.
4. From paper of different colors, cut strips measuring 1x6 centimeters.
5. Weave horizontally each of these blanks between the vertical stripes of the main part, gluing the ends. Make this way the entire bookmark. It turns out a dense woven fabric.

Now you know how to make a bookmark with your own hands out of paper. Such accessories are always useful to you and can be a good addition to the gift book. Good results in needlework!