Hello, friends! I made my son a quiet book a while ago. Actually, about 18 months ago. It has just been sitting in a closet because I didn't have the grommets to finish it and make it into a book, rather than pages of muslin fabric. So here it is, almost 2 years later than previously anticipated... drumroll please!
TA-DA! The quiet book. We really struggle with keeping Jude's attention during church, (we sit in a confined pew for one hour) with a VERY active 2 year old, it's quite an accomplishment if he didn't escape from our bench more than 5 times.
I made this book all from ideas in my head, no pattern, no nothing really to go off of, other than my superbly awesome ideas. I did all of this before I had my cutting machine, so all of the shapes and letters were all cut by hand. The "pages" are muslin (I just used the cheapest kind) that is 12" x 12". All of the shapes and letters and anything on the pages is felt. I did a lot of hand sewing, because I frankly really suck with my machine.
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| The alphabet, obviously. |
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| Hopefully this can help him learn how to button his own coat... |
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| I did the sew-on snaps for everything. I did want the tearing velcro sound in the middle of a very quiet Sacrament meeting... I think that sound is annoying. |
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| Learn the colors. I had wanted to do a rainbow, but then I decided to something a bit more original. It took me forever to figure out how to cut the umbrella pieces. |
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| Shapes, don't look to closely at the sewing I did with the machine, it's a little skeewompus. |
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| I LOVE LOVE these pages, they are for counting. Each number has it's own abacus made with a shoestring, and star beads, can he can slide back and forth as he counts. It goes to 10, I just didn't take a picture of the other page. |
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| This is probably Jude's favorite page. He is obsessed with cars, in all their varieties. |
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| "The Garage" |
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| The seasons pages, Spring's raindrops are snaps. Summer sun's ray's are snaps as well. |
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| The leaves, the snowman's hat, nose and buttons can all come off too. |
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| It does keep him quiet. |
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| Mostly... |
