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Quiet Books. A Great Craft You Can Make for Your Little One
This is one of those “Where Have I Been!!?” posts. Actually I already knew about these, I just didn’t know I could make one. I’m talking about Quiet Books. My sister has a Noah’s Ark one from her son’s baby days (he’s now 18) that she would let Sweet Peanut play with in church. She loved it so much I would kind muss about wanting more. But looking at the one she was playing with, with all the stitching, I knew I could never recreate such a masterpiece. That was before I discovered you could make them with felt. AND that I can sew a bit better than I thought. Still not great but passable.
Quietly, secretly, while I slept. Okay I’m being dramatic. But it seems that there is this whole community of women making these lovely books and expanding on the ideas. Using them as teaching tools and such for their little darlings.
Where have I been??!!
Anyway while browsing through some of these an idea hatched.
My Sweet Peanut is an active six but I still think I would like to sew up one for her at times when we’re away from home and she may have to sit still or something. The beautiful darling has an affinity for things I make her so I thought she might like one to take in the car .
Some of the pages I’ve been thinking of are: Hair Braiding, Tic -tac-toe (when someone else can play too), the dress up doll one, writing or note taking. I would love to do a chess one but that might be too much.
I’ve rounded up some nice pages around the internet so you can have an idea of what I’m talking about.
The Bungalow Boutique had this nice option of a section to write letters. I thought this would be nice if you're making your Quiet Book for a slightly older child (like me).
Leafy Tree Top Spot has a very tic tac toe section in her book. I'm thinking tic tac toe too because we like to play a good game of this... I mean Peanut.
An ABC Quiet Book tutorial. Very cute.
From Elisa Loves. Her book is made from fabric as opposed to felt.
This is from the Quiet Book blog. I liked this page as idea for my Big Girl Quiet Book. Peanut likes to do hair.
