How to Fold an Origami Paper Heart Bookmark – Valentines or Mothers day

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Today’s feature is on How to Fold an Origami Paper Heart Bookmark, for Valentines, Mothers Day, or any day!

Wonder what Mother’s Day gift idea to present to you today, when I spotted a gold-colored chocolate bar wrapper on my desk. Mmm…. an origami heart bookmark to go with a nice gift? Mom’s large golden heart needs to be acknowledged, right?!

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Materials

Use a nice & new square piece of quality paper (rather than a choco covered bar wrap!!), that is about 1/2 the width of a chocolate bar, or a ‘normal’-sized bookmark heart. For a little gift for mom/oma/a woman friend, you can of course, give her a nice chocolate bar, and an origami (bookmark) heart.

How to Fold an Origami Heart Bookmark

Super easy and fast to make!

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How to make an origami heart bookmark

Collect Materials

Get yourself a nice piece of paper. The nicer the better.

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how to fold an origami heart for mothers day or valentines

Square your paper

Ensure you have a square piece of paper (Do NOT fold over diagonally like I did here!! Instead: just check that your paper is square. If you have a beautiful piece of paper, then use a ruler to ensure that it’s square. Don’t mess with the paper).

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how to fold an origami heart for mothers day or valentines

Fold your paper for heart

Open the paper back up.

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Four-fold your paper

Fold the bottom half of the paper in half.

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How to make an origami heart bookmark step 5

Fold Heart Bottom

Make 2 diagonal fold, up to the top 1/4 line. You’ll see this at the back of the paper.

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How to fold an origami heart step 6

Fold Heart Bottom

Fold the paper in half.

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How to fold an origami heart step 7

Fold Heart Top

Turn it over, and tuck in the two corner.

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How to fold an origami heart step 8

Fold Heart Top

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How to fold an origami heart step 10

Fold Heart Top

Fold over the two pointy bits again (= top of the heart).

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How to fold an origami heart step 9

Voilà Heart!

Turn over the paper and voila: there is your heart.
(sorry, stuffed up the numbering on the images)

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how to fold an origami heart - step by step tutorial - step 11

Cut to Size

Cut off the sides, to make it into a tidy bookmark.

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how to fold an origami heart - step by step tutorial - step 12

Heart as Bookmark

Place the bookmark on the book, for a fun gift.

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how to fold an origami heart - step by step tutorial - step 13

Heart as hint

Better still, place it at a page with ‘a clue’.

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how to fold an origami heart - step by step tutorial - step 13 - makes a Mothers Day Gift

Golden Origami Heart

Then show up with a surprise gift that she will truly love. (I would like these kind of surprises….)

Origami Hearts Decorations

See how the heart actually can stand up (picture 14)? Well, you can make different sized hearts and have them stand around in your living room, or bedroom on your night stand. Put them in your Feng Shui ‘Relationship’ Corner. Then, good things are bound to happen.

There you have it. This was my idea #2 in Mothers Day Week. Find 2 different type of Mothers day bookmarks here. Tomorrow, a new kind of Mothersday project.

MOTHERS DAY WEEK

  • Day 1: Swirly Scarf, easy knit project (1 skein wonder)
  • Day 2: How to Fold an Origami Heart Bookmark (today)
  • Day 3: .. surprise, come back tomorrow.

btw. last week was OWL CRAFT – WEEK. Did you see it?

First published April 24, 2012; updated January 16, 2022


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