How to Crochet a Tiny Dinosaur Bookmark for Beginners

In this post, you'll learn how to crochet a tiny dinosaur bookmark featuring a dinosaur face at one end that will sit on top of your book with a small white circle on the other end to hold it in place. For this, we have brought a step-by-step tutorial for beginners from Crochet Treasure. The project allows for creative color choices from green to parrot and pink.

However, in the tutorial, the tutor uses a light green base with dark green spikes and a white chain. This bookmark is for absolute beginners and provides a cute way to mark your place in books. It also has a quick completion time and perfect for gifting to little ones.

We have provided the complete video guide at the end of this post. For getting more insights about this dinosaur keychain project, follow through with us below.

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Skills Used: Techniques like the magic ring provide a seamless start for working in the rounds, while single crochet (SC) provides structure for the dinosaur's body. Increases and decreases shape the head and tail. The tutorial also emphasizes precision in assembling features, such as spikes and eye.

Guide Span: 34 Minutes

Personalization Tips: Personalization options include experimenting with different color combinations famous of which are green and dark green, blue and dark blue, green and pink, etc. Adding embellishments like small bows, buttons, or embroidered initials can enhance its uniqueness. For an educational twist, consider attaching a tassel or charm shaped like a book.

Tiny Dinosaur Bookmark Tutorial

The step-by-step instructions in this crochet dinosaur bookmark tutorial makes crocheting such accessory very easy, from shaping the dinosaur’s body and adding spikes to creating a functional chain for practical use. The project offers both fun and creativity. Ideal as a gift or personal accessory.

Making the Dinosaur Body: Begin with a magic circle and crochet five single crochets (SC) into it.
Increasing and Shaping: Add increases in the next round to reach 10 stitches, then continue with single crochets to form the body.
Decreasing and Stuffing: As the head and body shape narrow, stuff firmly before closing the base.
Adding Features: Insert safety eyes between rows three and four, leaving five stitches apart.
Spikes: Crochet four small spikes using magic circles and attach them symmetrically along the back.
Creating the Chain: Crochet a white magic circle for the base of the chain.
Chain 50 (or adjust length based on your book size), then attach the other end to the dinosaur’s base.
Final Touches: Assembly: Securely sew all parts together and weave in loose ends.
Glue Application: Affix safety eyes with glue for durability.

Supplies Used

Following are the crochet supplies used by the tutor for crocheting this tiny dinosaur bookmark:

Yarn: Light green for the base, dark green for spikes, and white for the chain.
Hook: 3mm crochet hook.
Notions: Safety eyes (5mm), scissors, darning needle, and glue.
Stuffing: Polyester fiberfill for structure.

Stitch Guides

If you want to revise the stitches used for crocheting the tiny dinosaur bookmark, check out the following guide:

SC (Single Crochet): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through both loops on hook.
INC (Increase): Make two single crochet stitches in the same stitch.
DEC (Decrease): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, insert hook into next stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through all three loops on hook.
SL ST (Slip Stitch): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through both the stitch and the loop on the hook.
CH (Chain): Yarn over, pull through the loop on the hook.

The tutor advises viewers to follow along closely and offers suggestions like using a stitch marker if needed. A helpful tip is to make sure you stuff the dinosaur firmly for a neat finish and to shape the head properly.