Clip Bookmarks: Heart and Strawberry

A heart and a strawberry with little faces sit on ordinary paper clips. Each figure is made of two halves with the end of the clip sandwiched between them: you slip the clip onto the edge of a page, and the figure peeks out over the top.

• Easy
• 2 bookmarks
• 4 pieces
• 2 paper clips

Make it with your phone cameraLesson code: 6450

On VanGami the template appears over your sheet through your phone camera — no printer needed. Trace it, cut, fold and glue. Below are all the steps in text.

What you’ll need

• Letter sheet — office paper, 80 gsm (20 lb)
• Markers
• Pencil — and eraser
• Scissors — small
• Glue stick — or PVA glue
• Paper clips — 2 pcs, regular metal ones, 1⅛–1¼ in
• Book or notebook — to try on the bookmarks
• Glass — phone stand

Steps

Trace

1. Heart and strawberry: outlines. Trace four figures with a solid line: two hearts on top and two strawberries under them. You’ll cut along these lines.
2. Heart and strawberry: drawing. The left ones are faces: copy the eyes with highlights, the smile and the cheeks with thin lines. The right ones are backs: the strawberry gets only leaves and seeds, and the heart has no drawing.

Color

3. Color: heart and strawberry. Hearts — pink, strawberries — red, leaves — green, cheeks — pale pink. Eyes, smiles and seeds — black; leave the highlights in the eyes and the highlight on the heart white.

Cut

4. Cut out: heart and strawberry — 4 pcs. Cut out the figures along the solid line. Cut the strawberry’s leaves along their points, going into each notch from both sides.

Glue

5. Heart on a clip. Lay the heart’s back piece face down and cover it completely with glue. Put the paper clip on top, narrow end up (that’s the end with a single loop): its top centimeter lies on the heart, and the rest sticks out below the tip. Cover it with the front piece, edge to edge, and press.
6. Strawberry on a clip. Same thing: the strawberry’s back piece face down, glue all over it, the clip narrow end up, ⅜ in in. On top goes the strawberry’s front piece, leaves lined up with leaves.

Check

7. Slide it onto the page. Once the glue has dried a bit, slip the clip onto the top edge of a page: the page goes between the clip’s loops from below, and the figure stays above the edge.

Done. Your bookmarks are done. Take them off and put them on any page — the clip holds tight.

Make it with your phone camera

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