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| The bracelet clips on and off the page so she can play with it. |
Sorry this is a long post. I have a lot of pages.
I planned on this project taking a while but because I made 27 pages it took a lot longer than I anticipated. I wanted a large variety. Easy, for my daughter now and a little more difficult for later, so I made a lot more pages than planned. I put them into two books. A easy book and harder book. I looked on line for different ideas and looked at tons of quiet books. I copied the pages I liked into a word document for a reference.
One blog recommended to figure out all the items you need and then go shopping so you don't go to the store a ton of different times. I tried to do that. But when I went to buy the felt I wasn't sure just how much of what I would need. I bought about 5 of every color and about 30 white sheets. I figured I could take back what I didn't use but didn't want to go back a ton of different times. I'm so glad I did it that way. I bought some cute fun buttons for detail but they are a lot more expensive so I kept it limited.
On thing I did that really helped was I put eyelets on the side where the rings would go to help reinforce the pages.
Some of my items like the horse, football and cover are minki fabric that I had leftover from other projects. My daughter loves texture and I thought this would be a fun extra.
There are a few extra pages I made up that I didn't see anywhere else. The wheels on the bus page with the Sesame finger puppets is extra because my daughter LOVES Sesame street right now. Also I made a cookie monster that you put cookies in and out of his mouth because she loves cookie monster.
I wanted to do something creative for the shape page. So I made a robot and I got the idea for his image from Word World. I then made the buttons on his body the shapes and I made a pocket that opens for the shapes to go in and out of.
I also used the fabric you can put in your printer for the words and my Nemo page. I couldn't have made the fish look that cute and it made one page much more simple!
I am so excited to give this to my daughter for Christmas! She saw a few of the pages as I made them and would cry until I let her see them. I think it'll be a hit!! :0)
