Make Your Own Activity Book

I love seeing kids with books. It is great to see children reading and entertaining themselves with something besides the TV. But also... books out there can cost a pretty penny. We received a simple book and all it really says is, "Ill finish playing then goodnight" "I will eat then goodnight" "I will take a bath then goodnight" and that cost.....7 bucks....really!? Honestly? 7 dollars!? What genius thought that plot line out. Probably the same person who invented the Dora The Explorer song, "I'm the map I'm the map I'm the map I'm the map I'm the map I'm the map....I'm the map!"
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So I personally have not gone out and bought any books for the kido. I just can't get myself to do it. But what I have done instead is make my own books. I have already done a post on my ABC book, but here is a fun activity book that you can do for you kids.

Activity Felt Book, all you need is...

Many different colors of felt

Craft Glue

Embroidery thread

Large eye needle

Iron-on fusible webbing

Any knick knacks that you can add on, buttons, yarn, beads

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Make sure you get some colors that will be good for the back grounds (the actual pages). And then get colors for your items (ideas - garden with flowers, house, bedroom, playground, dress up doll)

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First cut your cover and pages out. Then cut out the next larger items, such as grass for the garden, frame for the house, or doll to dress up. Use the iron-on fusible webbing for these larger items (grass). Once they are fussed on the items, place them where they need to be for their page.

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Now cut out the little items from your felt; stems and petals for flowers, pants and shirts for dolls, sun for sky. Use the craft glue to combine stems with petals and such.

Before you stitch the book together you need to make sure that you have spaced your book correctly. Excluding the cover, place the pages with blank on left, picture to build on right. On the blank LEFT page, glue a large square (on ever side but the top) that will be big enough to hold the items for the right page. This will make a nice little pouch.

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To attach all the pages together, to form the actual book, use the thread and needle to make a nice Blanket Stitch on the spine of the book. You can also use the blanket stitch around the edges of the pages to give a nice look.

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Now you will have a simple and fun book for you child. These are light weight and great for taking to church, doctor offices, in the car, or even good for quiet time. You can make them pretty detailed also by adding buttons or stitching beads into the pages, cutting out numbers and making detailed animals. These are really fun to make and you can even try letting your child make their own.

And just to let you know, that hopefully, when I get some more made I will be starting an Etsy site and will have them available to buy.