Animal Bookmarks

This week Ariel came to me with some bookmarks she had made herself. I thought they were fantastic! I love how cute they look eating the pages of a book. She has made lots of different animals, mostly birds. I took a couple pictures to share with you.

If you love to read, this is a perfect craft to make with your children! It's so simple. All you need is a couple different colored sheets of paper, scissors and some glue sticks.

These are the first two she put together, a dragon and a blue bird. I love the dragon! He's so cute!

A cat and an iguana!

Two more birds... They are, of course, Ariel's favorite to make. I think she should add some wings to the birds.

First, you can print out the template here, or make your own. It's a pretty basic, easy shape to cut out. You can make it as large or as small as you want. This is going to make a medium size animal.

On the side with the two triangles, you want to fold each of them in towards the middle. They will make the head of your animal.

Now we're going to work on the mouth of your animal. It is the part you will see outside of your book giving it the appearance of eating. You can add some sharp teeth, a tongue, a beak... Whatever your animal needs to complete their mouth. You want to make sure to glue it in between the two triangle pieces of the head.

The fun part is adding all the accessories to make it your animal. Ariel is making this one a penguin, so she's adding a white stomach.

You can draw eyes on, or make them out of paper. Ariel really likes to make hers with three different colors, the white of the eye, the iris color, and the pupil. I think the more detail you put into it, the nicer it comes out.

Simply adorable! We had to showcase our bookmark on a book of penguins. It only seemed appropriate.