These little bookmarks are so sweet and really simple, they only take a couple of minutes to make and you can create pretty much any design. They make lovely handmade gifts from children and are also great as party bag fillers too! To decorate ours, we simply cut our design out of different coloured card and stuck it to our bookmark, we had a animal theme going on because our little boy is animal mad but you can make any design you like!
What you will need:
1 Piece of card or origami paper A ruler Scissors Anything to decorate (we use coloured card and glue)
step 1) Cut a square from your piece of card, you can make 2 bookmarks from 1 A4 sheet.Step 4) Repeat step 3 on the other sideStep 7) Take a lower corner, fold it upwards and tuck it tightly under the triangle you just made
Step 2) fold your square in half to make a triangleStep 5) open your bookmark back out to a triangleStep 8) Repeat step 7 on the other side
Step 3) take one of the lower points and fold it up to the middle pointStep 6) on the front layer only, take the top point and fold it to the bottom line. It should fit in the fold line you just createdStep 9) that’s it, you’re finished! all that’s left to do is decorate your bookmark. We turned this one into a shark, you can see it in the photo above!
If you've followed the blog at all you will know that my son is mad about all things under the sea. He loves learning about the ocean environment and its inhabitants though his books and we read some of national geographic kids ultimate oceanpedia almost every single day. He loves watching documentaries together too and more often than not hes the one teaching me something new! It was actually him who gave me the idea for this cute paper plate jellyfish
Today I'm back again with another pipe cleaner craft! We had so much fun making these yesterday and came up with some really fun little ideas. I think though that these pipe cleaner snail magnets are my favourite of the day. They're just so adorable and once you get the hang of them they're really easy to make too. We have a whole garden full of them on our fridge right now!
How sweet are these little pipe cleaner apple magnets? It took us a couple of tries to perfect them but now weve got them figured and wanted to share them with you all! In fact, we've got so good at making them that it only takes us a few minutes on each. My son recently Made some sweet apple and worm cards for his teachers as due to current situation he wont be going back to school this year and he wanted to make extra to gift them too. Such a sweet little idea!
