Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Quiet book (finally!)

I started a quiet book for Rebecca in the fall. I didn't really buy much for this except for a few pieces of felt in colors I didn't have and some eyelets. I had everything else already. I've had the first pages of the quiet book done, but I just needed to get eyelets in to hold the pages together. I finally did that yesterday, so here's the first pages.

This is the cover:

The flowers button on and off and are double-sided, so they can be switched around and flipped over.

The gumballs are have velcro and come off and have matching stitching on the globe.

The mailbox flag goes up and down and the cover has velcro, so it can close.

The barn doors open and have a pocket inside for the animals.

The clock hands move around.

These are the animal finger puppets, which Rebecca loves!

And the back cover. I stitched our last name on the back in case we take it to church and leave it or something.

It's a fun project, but takes a lot of time! I have a couple more pages done, but they need a page to attach to the back before I'll add it to the book.

2 comments:

The Lady of the Holler said...

Such a great idea! Great job! You've inspired me to think about making one. ;o)

Jennifer and Stephen Meeks said...

Thank you:)

That's great! Here's some of the links I found:

http://oopsey-daisy.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-book-templates.html

http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/2009/07/quiet-book-templates.html

http://quietbook.blogspot.com/

My sister found lots of free lap books to print. I didn't know about lap books until I'd started this. I guess that would have been easier, but this has been fun:)