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I love being creative and making things…but it’s amazing how long it takes me! I started this quiet book when my oldest was about nine months old. I finished it just before he turned four. BUT, I love how it turned out!

I found a lot of ideas from Pinterest and put together all of the pages I liked the most. I tried to make every page as entertaining as possible. For example, with the painting page, even though all the colors splotches are removable, I also added a paintbrush.

 

                      

I tried to add as much to this page as possible. The spots are removable, the egg lifts up to show a baby dinosaur, and the ribbons of lava add texture.

I LOVE this page. It’s probably my favorite. However, I worry about the buttons. When I was making this page, my oldest was old enough to not put things like this in his mouth. Now my youngest is in that phase…

Consider the age of the child(ren) and make sure pieces like this are big enough for them.

                          

The beads I found didn’t have all the colors for a perfect rainbow, so I just tried to use a good variety of colors. Plus, my son’s favorite color at the time was black, so I had to add that!

                           

A Few Tips:

• Use pictures from coloring books or clip art
• Use good Crayola crayons
• Color with the white crayon first and then do the colors over the white
• Use non-adhesive velcro (for everything but the buttons). The goop on the back of the adhesive kind gets stuck to the sewing machine needle.
• A zig-zag stitch is strong and puts less pressure on you to make all the sewing lines perfect

 

I had fun making the basket for this page. I like that it adds depth! Plus, there are enough apples that my kids can practice counting as they pick apples or put them back on the tree.

                     

My sons love cars, so this page was a given. I added velcro lights to add as much to the page as I could. I do have one regret with this page…I didn’t think the garage/parking spots through. Yeah, my kiddos can stick a Hot Wheels car in there, but it won’t stay. There is no where to put the car to transport the quiet book.

I wish I’d noticed this before I finished sewing the page. I would have liked to either put velcro on the opening so it could stay closed, or I would have made material cars and put them on ribbon that was sewn in the garages.

What kid doesn’t love bugs! I much prefer my kiddos to pretend to put bugs in a jar than to actually collect real life bugs!