To provide a binding assistance plate requiring no lift-up or reverse of bound old newspapers or old magazines when these old newspapers or old magazines are bound with a rope and enabling a powerless female to bind them up easily, rigidly and joyfully.

Four projections in total are formed one by one in the vicinity of a middle part of a long side and a short side of a rectangular plate material, and each of the protrusions has a slit for use in temporarily fixing a binding rope. In addition, the plate material is constituted as a cute mascot-like binding assistance plate for newspapers or magazines that is classified with colors for portions where the bound items such as the newspapers are put to facilitate their confirmation, and at the same time, is analogous to a shape of animal and the like by changing its shape or adding the expression of a face to it.