If you want to remember the page where you stopped reading your favorite book, today's master class will come in handy. If children often asked to bookmark them for books, this article will be useful. Making crafts is a very interesting and curious activity. They will take a little time and this will save the family budget from unnecessary trips to the store.
DIY bookmarks in the shape of hearts
Such bookmarks for books are made from old postcards of the Soviet era or special decorative paper. Pages with landscapes from magazines and newspapers can also come in handy.
Materials and tools: old postcards or decorative paper, cardboard, plain white paper, stationery glue, scissors and a pencil.
Stage 1
A sheet of plain white paper is taken. He bends in half diagonally.
Stage 2
An oval is drawn in the corner of the folded leaflet, as in the photo.
Stage 3
A heart-shaped leaf is cut out along the line of the oval. He will become a template in future work.
Stage 4
The resulting heart is placed on a postcard and encircled with a pencil.
Stage 5
A smaller heart shape than the previous one is cut out of cardboard.
Stage 6
All the resulting parts are glued together. If necessary, a cardboard heart is glued into the middle between all sheets to keep the shape of a bookmark made by yourself.
How to make a bookmark for a book with your own hands on an elastic band
Such bookmarks will be hard to lose. The whole secret is in the sewn elastic, which will always gently compress the necessary pages.
Materials and tools: plain white paper, thin fabric with a pattern (it is recommended to use chintz), felt, scissors, pencil, washing gum, needle, thread, elastic for clothes, glue, brush for applying glue.
Stage 1
On white paper, the shape of a simple sleeveless summer dress is drawn.
Stage 2
The resulting pattern is cut out and superimposed on the fabric. A small dress is cut out according to the pattern.
Stage 3
A cut out dress is placed on a piece of felt. It is required to glue the first to the second with glue. At the end of the work, some time is expected during which the applied glue will dry thoroughly. In this case, there is no need to process the fabric along the edge. She will not crumble.
Stage 4
When the glue dries, the excess felt is trimmed to the shape of the dress.
Stage 5
Using a needle with a thread, a seam is sewn around the edge manually. It carries a purely decorative function.
Stage 6
A piece of gum is taken in hand. Both ends are sewn by hand. The seam is placed on the back of the bookmark for the book.
Stage 7
A rectangular segment 4 cm long and slightly wider than the width of the elastic is cut out of felt. Using glue, he seals with himself a place for stitching the two ends of the gum.
The bookmark is ready! If desired, the ends of the elastic bands can not be stitched. It is enough to stick one tip to the cover of the book, and the other to the craft. To hide the place gluing is also better with a piece of rectangular felt.
DIY bookmark in origami technique
You can assemble such a bookmark in a couple of minutes. It is not at all a pity to lose her, since making a new one is as simple as that. And best of all, to teach this child the tricks - and he will collect it as needed.
Materials and tools: cut decorative paper of rectangular shape.
Stage 1
Rectangular paper bends horizontally and vertically in half.
Stage 2
In the horizontally folded state, the left and right corner are bent upwards in turn, as shown in the picture.
Stage 3
The paper folds into a kind of envelope.
Stage 4
The four upper corners of the future bookmark, folded by yourself, are bent inward.
Everything, an unusual and simple bookmark from paper is ready!
DIY bookmarks using scrapbooking technique
Bookmarks in this technique are romantic and amazing. You can absolutely give them as a gift. They will definitely be used if at least someone in the family reads books or magazines.
Materials and tools: decorative paper, cardboard, scissors, glue, bows, hole punch.
Stage 1
The rectangular shape of the future bookmark is cut out of decorative paper.
Stage 2
The right edge of the rectangle can be made wavy for a change, if the texture of the pattern allows.
Stage 3
Cardboard is cut out under the base of the bookmark and glued. It will keep its shape tight for many years of use.
Stage 4
A hole is made in the top of the bookmark with a hole punch. Through it, a ribbon is put on a craft and tied on a bow.
Stage 4
A bookmark made of paper with your own hands can be decorated with a decorative flower, half beads, sparkles.
Stage 5
A bookmark made in such a style as in the figure below can be presented to a man, for example. She is restrained in several English themes. By the way, the buttons on the craft are glued, not sewn. This is an important point.
How to make do-it-yourself paper bookmarks for children
All bookmarks of this topic are made strictly of cardboard. Only he is able to live any longer than the rest of the materials in contact with the kids.
Materials and tools: color or decorative cardboard, clerical glue, scissors, pencil, washing gum.
Bookmark 1
This romantic craft is for girls.
The assembly technique is simple. Two forms of hearts are cut out of cardboard: a small size and a little larger. A smaller heart is glued to a larger one. However, it is important to apply glue only on the upper part of the roundness of the craft. Otherwise, the paper tab will not pinch the sheet. After the glue dries, the craft can be used.
Bookmark 2
This craft will amuse the kids every time the book opens.
The essence of the work is simple. Rectangular shapes are cut from a sheet of colored cardboard. With a pencil they draw long noses and trunks. Scissors along the line, these noses and trunks are cut. Toy eyes and horns are glued to bookmarks. The second layer of the same rectangular cardboard must be glued, only from the bottom, like a substrate.
Bookmark 3
This bookmark is a real mood enhancer. He will always fill about a cup of tea, which it is time to drink while reading a volume of Dostoevsky, given for reading at school.
The shape of a circle is cut out of paper. A copy of it is cut out of cardboard. They are glued together with glue. But in the upper part of the craft a rope is inserted in advance. A double folded piece of paper is glued to its other tip. It symbolizes a bag of tea, supposedly dropped into this mug. Great idea!
Bookmark 4
The idea of such a bookmark lies in the children's cartoon about Carlson. Kids will be pleased and fun to see her every time.
A do-it-yourself paper craft is made of white cardboard. A semblance of a cartoonish ghost is drawn with a broad smile and arms raised up. A smile is cut through. It is for her that the bookmark on the sheet is held.
Do-it-yourself wicker bookmark for paper books
The most difficult thing is to make a bookmark out of paper with your own hands using the manual weaving technique. The simplest is braiding.
Materials and tools: colored paper, double-sided adhesive tape, scissors, ruler, hole punch, piece of any rope or tape.
Stage 1
Strips 1.5 cm wide of two colors are cut out of paper.
Stage 2
Strips in the amount of 3 pieces are taken. They are glued with duct tape as shown.
Stage 3
On top of all horizontal strips, another horizontal one is glued.
Stage 4
The weaving process begins directly. The design unfolds with its only angle up. A white strip bends from the right side to the left side.
Further, the mirror - on the other hand.
Stage 5
All the other strips are bent alternately: either on the right side, then on the left. The pigtail is slowly and surely braided.
Stage 6
The ends will remain at the end of the paper pigtail. They are cut off with scissors. The bottom of the bookmark strips is glued with double-sided adhesive tape.
Stage 7
A hole is made in the top of the bookmark with a hole punch. The tip of a rope or ribbon is inserted through it. A knot or bow is tied.
