Today in stores you can find a variety of educational toys for babies. But not all parents are satisfied with their price or quality. It turns out that with minimal needlework skills, you can independently make a wonderful educational book that will not only teach your baby a lot, but will also become a symbol of your parental love and, possibly, will be inherited by future grandchildren!
It is necessary
Bright plastic ring binder; fabrics of various textures and colors, including felt and fleece; thermoapplication; synthetic winterizer and non-woven fabric; rustling materials (for example, plastic bags or candy wrappers); Velcro and elastic bands, laces and colored zippers; buttons, beads and beads; cardboard and colored paper; threads, needles, sewing machine, glue
Instructions
Step 1
Before getting started, think over a sketch of a future book. Try to depict what you have conceived on paper at least schematically, in general terms. Decide what size the book will be. You can come up with such a design so that the pages can be freely removed and new ones inserted. For this purpose, a small, brightly colored, ringed plastic binder is available from your office supply store.
Step 2
In order for the book to be disassembled and new pages added, loops must be sewn onto each sheet. You can, on the contrary, make holes in the pages.
Step 3
Insert a layer of padding polyester into the pages to add extra volume. If the cover of your book is going to be sewn from fabric, reinforce it with cardboard inserts.
Step 4
Glue the small details of the plots of the book pages invented by you with non-woven linen and stitch them to the background with a "zigzag" line. More details are enough to cut out of the fabric and sew on.
Step 5
For the manufacture of movable elements, a piece glued with non-woven fabric, stitch to a piece of fabric, fill with padding polyester, carefully cut along the contour and attach with Velcro. So you can make a page with moving figures (stars in the sky, the sun and clouds, numbers and letters, apples and mushrooms on the back of a hedgehog, etc.). These figurines can also be made from non-crumbling materials such as fleece or felt.
Step 6
Make a page with colorful geometric shapes. Sew rustling elements to some pages or insert cellophane into the sheets themselves. This technique will undoubtedly attract the attention of a curious crumbs. The kid will surely like various hidden figures, for example, a bug under a leaf or a bunny behind the door of the house.
Step 7
Consider a lacing page to develop fine motor skills. Attach a picture of a shoe with holes through which you can thread a lace. A page with a zipper sewn on it will teach your kid how to use it. Elements from fabrics with different textures and various sewn-on buttons and beads will help the baby to get acquainted with the sizes and colors, and develop attentiveness.
