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From YouTube: 4 Bookmark crafts with Katy

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In this video Katy shows you how to make 4 different bookmarks. You can download the templates here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a0o6SmP2GhfPO9NLr0fehMWVa8-OhIWD/view?usp=sharing

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Hello Dwight and welcome back to another library, craft video. My name is Katie and today I'm going to be showing you how you can make these bookmarks here and I'm going to be showing you how you can use some paper and cart and pens, pencils and crayons that you have at home to make some really cool bookmarks for your books, and there is a template down in the description below that you can download for free for some of these, but you can also draw your own. It's totally up to you. These are your bookmarks.

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You can be as creative as you want to be and, as always feel free to pause the video at any point. If you need to slow down a little bit and catch up with what I'm saying so, let's get on with it. Shall we.

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So, first of all, I'm going to show you how to make these corner monster bookmarks, and for this you need a square piece of paper and you just need to fold it in half diagonally like this like I'm doing here and then bring the top corner down to the fold like this, but only off one side like that, and then you need to take one corner and take it up to meet the top corner like this and you, then you need to take the other corner and fold it up like that and then, once you are done, you need to open it up and then tuck each of the folded corners into the other corner.

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Like this. There we go just tuck them in and then you will have the corner bookmark shape and that will then go over the page in your book, and here I am doing it again for you just so. You can see what I'm doing a little bit faster, but hopefully you can see what I'm doing and I'm using origami paper here, because I have quite a lot at home. But if you don't have our agama code, but you can just use printer paper and cut it into a square.

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So once you have your shapes, you then need to cut out some teeth.

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If you want your monsters to have teeth, I cut some out of some white paper and just used a glue, stick to glue them in, like that and I'm also adding some eyes so I'm using some white paper just to little circles and then I'm going to add the pupils on with my black pen, and it for you here is: if you leave a tiny white circle in the eye in the eye people it looks like it is the shine on the eye, and it gives a little bit more life and finally I added some tongues, and that's just two bits of color paper or white paper that you color a specific color to make your nice tongue and there we have the bookmarks and just getting my book here and I am now showing you how you book might work.

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So you just put it on the corner and it looks like the monster is eating. The page.

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So now I'm going to show you how to make a unicorn bookmark, and this unicorn is on the downloadable resource in the description below. If you want to color this one in, but you can also draw your own unicorn, it's up to you. But just remember. If you want to draw your own unicorn, don't draw the tail because we're going to add the tail later on. So you can stick your unicorn onto a piece of card and color it in.

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However, you want and then cut it out carefully with some scissors like I'm doing here and then once you've cut it out, take a hole, punch and add a hole where the tail would go. And then you need to find something to make a tail with I'm, using some multicolored string that I have at home. But if you don't have any string, you can use some ribbon. You can just use some thin strips of paper or some yarn or wool or whatever.

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You have and just add a few bits to the tail and you can tie it through the hole and then cut them all to the same length like I've done here and there we have a unicorn with a really fun tail and then the tail is the tassel of the bookmark. That sticks out of the book to show you what page you are and then the unicorn just sits inside like this, so have a go at making your own Unicom bookmark.

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So now we're going to make a dog and cat bookmark and again these are available for you to print and download and use yourself. If you want to draw your own animals, you just need to draw a head and paws off whatever animal you like like this and then cut them out, and once you have cut them both out, you then need to stick them onto the card and you can use whatever card you have at home.

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If you don't have any card that you would craft with, then you can just use a cereal packet or some packaging, the of something that you've got in the post. That's absolutely fine, and once you have your animals cut outs, you then need to stick them down with some glue onto the card, and you don't need to put any glue on the paws, because we want the paws to go over the page to mark where we are in our books.

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So all you need to do is glue on the head part of the animal, but leave the paws so that they can be a little flap on the card like this and once you have stuck both of them down and you are happy with them, then you need to take a ruler, and this is just the 15 centimeter ruler.

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What you have in your pencil case is absolutely fine and then draw around this ruler, starting at the bottom of the paws, like I've done here and just draw around it, and then that will be the base of your bookmark that we will put inside the book and then once you have drawn out the whole bookmark, you then need to decorate them and you can color it in.

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However, you like I'm using some crayons, but you can color it in with your felt tip pens, crayons, pencils, whatever you like, and you can color your animals to look like realistic animals or you can decorate them. However, you want to you, can extend the body onto the bookmark itself.

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I did that with the cat I colored it in the same color, but with the dog I, just colored, the dog in the dog colors, and put some paws onto the rest of the bookmark, because I thought that would look quite nice and different, and once you have colored in your bookmarks, you then need to cut them out very carefully cut out the long part that we drew and then all around the animal's head.

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And once you have done that we will have two bookmarks and if we go and get our book we can put them in and we can put the paws over the top of the page that we are apt in our book and then the animal will just stick out of the top and they look very cute. You can experiment with drawing whatever animals you want. You don't have to download the resource. You can make a whole zoo of bookmarks. If you want you.

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And finally, we're going to make a rocket bookmark again. This rocket is available on the download. If you want to use it or you can draw your own rocket, maybe you can invent your own spaceship. That would be really really cool and then you just stick onto a piece of card or a cereal packet and color it in I'm coloring, my rocket in with some felt-tip pens, but you can use whatever you like and I'm, also going to write my name on the rocket.

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So people know that it's my bookmark, but if you don't want to write your name or you don't want to keep this for yourself, maybe you can give it to somebody else. Someone who loves reading- and you can do that with all of the bookmarks in this video. Maybe you can give it as a present to surprise somebody just to brighten up their day. Maybe you can write their name on the bookmarks or you can write a nice kind message on the back and then whenever they find it in their book, they'll be reminded.

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So once you have the rocket colored in, you just need to cut it out and then that's really done. That's all you have to do and when we get our book we put the fire behind the page and the two arms of the rocket in front and there we have a rocket bookmark that you can blast off. If you want to.

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So here are all the bookmarks in my books and I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope. You are inspired to create a nice bookmark either for yourself or for someone else who loves reading as a nice act of kindness and yes, I'm going to go and do some reading now and I'm definitely going to be using these bookmarks.

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