Saturday, February 11, 2012

Quiet Book pages preview

I've been working on a quiet book since January and it's coming along great! It's a lot more work and money than I had thought, but it should last through 2 generations because it's made of the finest materials. I used the extra firm Pellon for the pages because it is so versatile and drawing on it works great! Elizabeth loves it and I have to keep the pages hidden until I'm done or the pieces will all get lost.

I still need to serge the edges together, add eyelets to put in a binder, and make the cover, but here's what I have so far:


Shape matching
Zipper ladybug (smaller ladybugs have counting spots)
Try on the ring
Try on mittens (with plush inside)
Snap on balloons
Stoplight (Lights attach with velcro)
Button the flowers 
Buckle the collars
Help the chef eat his spaghetti (pulls through hat)
Barn with animal finger puppets
Season tree (grass is pocket)
Weaving
Braiding
Tell the time

Soon to come are a shoelace page, finger animals, and a dress up page.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

How to Keep Kids Busy on a Plane


Play catch with a Koosh ball

Stickers (window vinyl stickers are fun too)

Coloring books – non circular crayons

Magnetic dolls

String beads or lacing cards

Finger puppets to tell stories

A new book

Make a pretend cake

Bubble wrap

Have a dress up party with hats, feather boas…pretend to be someone famous traveling

Wrap and unwrap toys with tin foil

Play “Who’s that?” with family pictures

String Cheerios on dental floss

Toy cars on a felt mat

Uno or go fish

Potato head

Read a book together

Co-author a book: Write down your child’s dictated story on a pre-stapled stack of paper, and ask him to supply the illustrations.

Plastic animals on a felt mat

Take silly pictures

Wikki Stix or pipe cleaners sculptures

Make a ball out of 3 bags of rubber bands

Spy on another row (with binoculars, notebook)

 Bungee toys off of the tray table or arm rest with elastic tape ( or a cut rubber band)

Sunday, January 15, 2012

A nice Picture

I'm not sure who took this picture,
but I downloaded it because it captured childlike
joy so well. I love it.