The children are back at school and with that, they’ll need bookmarks for their studies. We made these AMONG US origami bookmarks yesterday. My youngest boy brought them to school and immediately his classmates requested for them too. My boy happily told them, “Okay, my Mummy will help to make them for all of you”
It’s the school holidays now so let’s make an origami whale.
OK so it’s the school holidays and I just wanted to do something different with my entry. Hehe. This is not my usual entry. There is no step-by-step instructions but just comic of my two kids because I’ve posted a step-by-step instructions on how to fold an origami whale back in 2009. If you need the full instructions, click here.
It has been quite some time we did not touch on origami. If not for all the emails I’ve been getting requesting for origami, it might have just slipped out of my mind. I’ve just been too engrossed with paper art, foams and painting lately 😛 Sorry peeps 😀
Ok, let’s get started. Let’s make an origami fox today 🙂
Back in my school days, I loved making bookmarks for my friends. As students, that was what we often used. Want to try making an origami heart bookmark for your loved ones? Let’s go..
Origami Heart Bookmark.
Fold in half to make a crease.
Cut along the crease with scissors.
Fold in half to make a crease and fold back. Fold both sides to make creases again and fold back. You should get four columns.
Fold to make a crease and fold back.
Using the recent crease as your guide, turn the paper and fold and turn back.
Fold to meet the center line.
Fold the other so both meet the center line.
Fold backward in the dotted line.
Push the upper part up and flatten it.
Do the same for the other side.
Fold and turn over.
Your origami heart bookmark is done. 🙂
Have any other bookmark ideas? Share with us here and we’ll link it back to you. 🙂
Look in the mailbox each day and you’ll see many leaflets/brochures wasting there. Why not turn them into something nice and useful? Let’s make an origami frame out of these papers.
This frame is particularly useful for pre-schools that uses the children's photo and name to tag their book shelves, shoe rack and etc. It is inexpensive and very simple to do.
You'll need to cut the paper into a square. I line it with another piece of paper to make it 'harder'.
Fold it half.
And half again.
Open.
Fold all corners to the middle and open.
Fold one end to the line.
Fold again.
And again. Repeat for the remaining three.
Cut a picture and paste it inside. Paste the four flips onto the photo and your photo frame is done. Put a double layer tape at the back if you wish to stick in onto the children's bookshelves, etc.