Quiet Book Project

So a couple of months ago I decided that wee man DESPERATELY needed something to keep him occupied and centralized at church. Why do you ask? This kid...Is a BALL full of energy! At home it's no problem because he pretty much rules the house and does what he pleases, but when you try to make this energetic 15 month old stay in one place he doesn't agree much. SO. With that I started panning over pages and pages on Pinterest trying to find things to inspire the pages for a quiet book. And with the help of my awesome hubby I even have a few links you can check out to give credit to those I actually stole their ideas directly from. So without further a due, here's Robby's quiet book. :-)

The inside and the outside. I used button holes and 2" rings to put the pages on.

If you're interested...I followed this ladies tutorial on how to make my cover. I wouldn't really say one thing was difficult in particular in making the cover. She gives good instructions and I really liked how it turned out. The button holes were the hardest part to make because I don't have that setting on my sewing machine, so I had to make them up on my own. Also, I believe her rings show on the outside, but if you want them hidden like mine you simply only rip through one layer of fabric. I'm sure having it go through more than one layer gives more stability, but I liked having the rings hidden. And while we're talking about the cover, mine was made out of flannel. Most of the tutorials I checked out they said they made theirs out of flannel as well. 

Snap to close the book.

All done! Now for a peak inside...The pages! :-)

Little house page.

And there's us behind the window!

Nothing behind the door, but it still opens!

Cute little robot page. The yellow one has a shoe lace to lace and un-lace, and the blue one has buttons and his tummy spins.

I read that every quiet book has to have a zipper page, so here is ours.

Shapes page.

I stitched the shapes behind to help with matching and have velcro on each shape.

Nice little bead counting page.

Cute little veggies just hanging out in the garden!

The little potato and carrot have little pockets in the ground.

And the tomato and corn have velcro.

Apples and a basket to put them in.

Apples have snaps.

Now this...Is prolly my 2 pride and joy pages. Just because I spent SO much time working on them and they're SO cute! Now with most of my pages I was inspired from someone else's pages and then did my own thing. But with these I pretty much took everything from this talented ladies blog. I LOVE these pages! She has templates and directions for all the little characters too!

Jungle pages!

Page 1

The monkey and lion have velcro.

And...all the little animals are stuffed. I think you can kinda tell from this picture.

Page 2

Little hippo has a nice pocket in the pond to cool off in.

And the little snake hides in the grass.

Isn't he cute!?

Under the sea! The jellyfish/octopus (You be the judge) has velcro on the back.

Fish bowl.

Velcro on the back of the fishies.

3..2..1..Blast off!

The ship moves up and down the yarn.

Well that's all folks! Everything you see on the pages was mainly created with felt. I LOVED that because the felt was so cheap! I think I spent $8 on about 20 pages of felt, plus it doesn't frey and it's very durable. It took many nights of needle pokes and patience but it was SO much fun to do and I definitely feel accomplished for making it. If you'd like to see where some of my other ideas streamed from you can check out my Pinterest here Can't wait to make one for each of my kids!