Origami Corner Bookmark

Total Time: 10 minutes

Supplies:

• 1 square piece of paper
• Stickers (or crayons)

Steps:

1. Take a square of plain or patterned paper. Size is not too important. Fold and crease the square in half diagonally.

 
2. Fold in half again

 
3. You should now have a triangle like this.

 
4. Open up the paper. If you have a patterned and a plain side as in the photos, make sure the plain side is facing up

 
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5. Fold and crease two opposite corners to the centre

 
6. Then fold in half in the same direction

 
7. Fold the left hand top edge to meet the centre fold

 
8. Repeat on the right hand side

 
9. Your paper should now look like this

 
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10. Turn the whole thing over

 
11. A little bit of a squeeze at the edges will reveal a pocket

 
12. Fold and crease the two points up into the pocket

 
13. Your corner bookmark is now ready to decorate

 
14. This one has been decorated with stickers, but you could use crayons instead if your paper is plain.

 
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15. Now you know how easy it is you can make all sorts of designs

 
16. The bookmark slips over the corner of your page to remind you where you are up to

 

Jackie Schlageter

July 22, 20211 found this helpful

I love the idea of this bookmark. I love to read and being disabled I am not able to do the crafts I used to do. This would be something I could do and I could make them as gifts for the Holidays and for birthdays, anniversaries and other special days for family and friends.