Fold and decorate bookmark corners! Make your favorite characters, cute animals, or a character from a specific book you’re reading! These cute and original bookmarks will get you excited to start reading!
This project is one of the virtual literacy through art classes hosted on Facebook Live from 1:30-2pm every Wednesday and Friday. Materials and instructions are posted here afterwards. Tune into the live classes to ask questions, give suggestions, and interact with other students who are stuck at home!
If you want to watch the recording of the live video, click here!
Materials:
- Origami paper (if you have it) or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Markers (optional)
Intsructions:
If you do not have origami paper, here is how to make a square out of regular sized paper:
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1. Hold a sheet of construction paper vertically. -
2. Take the bottom right corner of the paper and fold it towards the opposite long edge of the paper. Line it up and crease. -
3. Cut off the excess paper on top. -
4. You are left with a triangle that will unfold into a perfect square.
How to fold:
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1. You paper must be square for this to work! -
2. Fold diagonally. -
3. Take the right corner, line it up with the top corner and fold. -
4. Do the same to the other side. -
5. Unfold. -
6. Take top corner and fold down, to create a pocket. -
7. Fold right corner to line up with the top corner again. -
8. Tuck the right flap into the pocket you just created. -
9. Do the same for the other side.
10. And you’re finished folding!
Now decorate! Use construction paper cut outs and glue and/or markers to decorate! You can make whatever you want: your favorite superheroes, animals, movie characters, emojis and more!
