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these cute little monsters will nibble on your books and keep your place
This project is cute and imaginative, easy to make, and could be a great little gift to slip inside a card. Encourage reading! Encourage crafting! Encourage monsters!

Posted by TallysTreasury from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada • Published 7th February 2014 • See TallysTreasury's 7 projects »

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Step 1
Cut out the body template piece - the square-with-two-triangles-attached shape.
Step 2
Trace this template onto your pretty piece of card stock (or onto the plain piece of card stock that you intend to decorate), and cut the shape out.
Step 3
Using your ruler and the tip of your mechanical pencil with no lead showing, score a line (drag the tip firmly along the paper so it makes an indent) along the edges of the square that connect to the two triangles.
Step 4
If you want, cut a square of pretty paper slightly smaller than the one you used for your template and glue it onto the square portion of your shape.
Step 5
Fold one triangle inwards along the line you scored, so it covers the upper half of the square.
Step 6
Apply glue to the underside (the side still facing up) of the second triangle...
Step 7
... then fold that glue covered triangle over onto the first triangle.
Step 8
As in step 4, if you’ve used plain card stock and want to glue fancy paper on top of it, cut a triangle out of your fancy paper that’s slightly smaller than the folded-over triangles of the bookmark. Glue the smaller triangle on top of the larger, folded-over ones.
Step 9
Cut out the eye and teeth pieces from card stock and glue them in place (the teeth get glued behind the long edge of the folded-and-glued triangles).

Try making up other monstrous features, like horns or wings or long forked tongues. Cut out different features to make a bookmark that looks like a cat, or an elephant, or an iguana.
Step 10
Use by slipping over the corner of the page you wish to mark, like a pocket.