shhhh.....it's a qUiEt BooK...

I've been crafting lately. I'm currently on a self imposed break because the laundry wasnt getting put away, dishes weren't being unloaded, ect. etc. I started this project 110% aware of the fact that we currently don't have kids to even play with it when it's done. And even if we did have a kid it would still be a while until they could start to understand the activities in the book. But regardless of this I have been working on this quiet book almost daily. I don't know what it its, maybe it's that I spend all my Sundays in Nursery-land, and lots of time towards running our little ward nursery, but all I seem to want to do lately are kids crafts. I was seeing ideas for Quiet Books all over the craft-blog world so in December I finally attempted one of my own. I'm justifying my kid crafting while currently "kid-less" by knowing that I'm sure I would never be able to find time to start, let alone finish this when we eventually do have children. And anyways its fun. It's something to do while we're watching a movie or Mckay's playing the boring Nintendo :)

There are a million different kinds of quiet books to make, and I plan on making more but for this one I'm optimistically planning on an alphabet book, each letter has a page with some sort of activity to go along with it. Here's how far I've gotten:

A: Apples- the apples will eventually be buttoned to the tree, this will help our kids to learn the basic motor skill of unbuttoning. so...unbutton the apples, put them in the basket.

B-Balloons, each balloon has a double that is sewn to the page, the balloons velcro on , so the kids will learn to match colors.

C-Catepillar, the individual circles are velcroed to the page, this will help them learn to count. take all the circles off and have them put them back in order. basic basic.
D-Dominos. I had a hard time deciding what to do for D but finally decided to do dominos because Mckay played with them when he was little. This will help with learning numbers and colors when they have to match the ends of the dominos, these are also velcro-ed to the page.
E-elephant. This was unfinished when i took the picture. just imagine a big box that says "elephant food" in the right hand corner filled with hand sewn peanuts and heads of lettuce. This is another page to help with counting...."feed the elephant 3 peanuts and 2 salads..." easy

F-farm. This page is quite possibly my favorite so far. My mom is over achievement days and she was talking to me one day about wanting to make finger puppets. I found a shop on etsy where she makes felt finger puppets. $5 dollars for each... no thanks, so I made some myself, very far from perfect but still so fun to make :)

eventually the pages will have letters on them. I don't know much about sewing, so I've just been hand stitching everything and sort of making things up as I go. 6 pages down....20 to go... hopefully it gets finished :)