I made this little quiet book for my baby girl for Christmas. I’ll be honest, going through her hands (she likes to chew on books- guess she’s hungry for knowledge?) I’m no sure how long it will last, but I loved how it turned out and wanted to share it in case you are making a quiet book, too, but are short on ideas.

Materials
*blank board book
*permanent markers
*stamps
*colored construction paper
*various printed scrapbook paper
*embroidery floss*washi tape
*reflective paper
*wood glue
*clear tape
*various 3-D objects (for the cover)
*card stock stickers

I’ll give you a few how-to’s for each page, but I mostly just want you to be able to look at my pages and see if it gives you ideas for your own book for your own little one. Good luck!

Front Cover Buttoms on scrunched cloth, felt shapes, raised letters, and washi tape on the right (covered washi tape with clear tape for extra protection)

Flowers are from a scrapbook print paper, washi tape for stems and surrounding edges. Washi tape on edges secured with extra clear tape Fish page is made up of little fish I cut out of textured cardstock (to make them fun to touch) and the jelly fish has a few strings of embroidery floss wood-glued on, then covered with the jellyfish itself

Textured shapes on the right, two colors, so you can focus on learning the shapes Rainbow string page, I attached each piece with clear tape on the top and bottom, then re-inforced the whole thing with a ton of wood glue and the blue piece of paper on bottom and top. Bonus? Stretch the thread tight and it’ll give a quiet ‘ping’ sound when your child flicks it

Left is reflective paper glued on adn then surrounded with washi tape (reinforced with clear tape, of course) Right is pink scrapbook paper and sticky die-cut shapes, so they are raised up from the page and fun to touch

Alphabet stamps colred in on the left, and circles with numbers on the right- makes it easy to learn counting, right?

Simple enough- colored rectangles to practice learning colors. The right is a heart where a picture of my baby girl goes, I just haven’t put it in yet- so then she can lookat it and say, “Ah, my mama loves me”…. ok, she won’t say that, but I will certainly tell her that’s why I put her picture in the heart

Tags: quiet book

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