Easy Paper Horse Corner Bookmark for Kids - Red Ted Art

Well… we have made a UNICORN Corner Bookmark before, but I couldn’t resist turning it into a “regular” horse corner bookmark in time for the Year of the Horse for Kentucky Derby fans too! Of course all love all unicorn crafts and as they are so very easily converted into horse crafts…. and here we show you how!

Learning Objectives and Educational Opportunities

As with all our crafts, having some CREATIVE fun is the key objective of making our activities. They are designed for some “down time” to complement the lesson plans and seasons throughout the year. So as always.. students are encourage to have fun and explore this craft as creatively as they wish.

However, are are some of the more formal learning opportunities:

Origami elements focus on basic maths skills & symmetry
Reading and following instructions
Fine motor skills
Fun seasonal activity (Year of the Horse) or farmyard theme complimentary activity

Supplies needed to make a Horse Corner Bookmark:

Paper in the desired horse colors (15x 15cm/ 5.5 x 5.5 inch for the origami base is popular – plus paper scraps for the horse’s features)
Black pen for details
Scissors
Glue stick

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Watch the horse corner bookmark video here, or follow the step by step instructions below!

Basic Origami Corner Bookmark

First you will need to make a square out of your paper. Corner bookmarks need squares of paper, but here we show you how to create that perfect square!!

Creating a square from rectangular paper to make a bookmark corner

Take your A5 sheet of paper and fold over one corner to create a triangle.
Cut off the excess and rotate your triangle so the long edge is at the bottom and the right angle faces up. Make sure the top of the triangle is looking up and you have the long edge running perpendicular.

Fold the lower right corner up to meet the top right angled corner.
Repeat for the left side.
Fold these two back open.
Flip down ONE of the top sheets and crease.

How to make an Origami Bookmark Corner — Final steps of the Origami Bookmark Corner

Now fold the flaps you created back up and tuck INTO your bookmark.
Repeat for the other side
Congratulations, you have just created your basic Origami Corner Bookmark!

How to make a Horse Corner Bookmark

First shape the bookmark into a horse’s head:

Shape the bookmark: First we need to shape the corner bookmark. Flip it so that the full square/ diamond is facing your way. Make sure the chunky part of the bookmark is pointing up.

Cut away the bottom quarter (image left( and then shape a muzzle and ear (image right).

Next cut your additional horse shapes

Cut the features: You will need a mane, a forelock, a little pink part of the ear and an eye.

Assemble your horse bookmark

Glue the features in place.

Fold down the mane and forelock.

finishing touches to your horse bookmark

Add the finishing touches with a pen to your horse corner bookmark.

And finished! Happy Reading!

We have mroe Horse Crafts for you to check out (they are both the same, though we like to show the potential that these horse craft have both “in general” and for Chinese New Year and the Year of the Horse 2026):