Quiet Book: What's for Lunch?

I didn't finish my quiet book in time for our trip in September.  Then it kind of got pushed aside while I worked on all of our Halloween stuff.  But it is back out again!  At this rate, it might be done for Christmas (um...maybe next Christmas)!

I finished this page this morning.  It is a little lunch box with some sandwich fixin's: 2 slices of bread, a piece of turkey, peanut butter, grape jelly, lettuce, tomato, bacon, and a slice of cheese.

I had so much fun making this felt food.  I kept thinking up more things I needed to make.  Unfortunately there was only so much room in the little lunch box so the banana, ham, egg, pickles, onion, mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise and juice box all got nixed.

There are still tons of sandwich possibilities though.

I figured it could be a fun learning game, he can take orders and make sandwiches to practice listening and memory, work on sequencing, or just some fun pretend play.  And when he is all done everything fits neatly into the lunch box.

See all my quiet book pages HERE

Quiet Book: Let's Bake Cookies!

I finished pages 2 and 3 of my quiet book!  (You can see page one here).

These pages will help my son learn shapes, he will get to practice matching shapes, and have some fun pretend play too!

He can roll out the dough with the rolling pin.

The cookies are all attached with Velcro.

Then the cookies go on the baking sheet to bake.  I put plastic netting inside the spatula so make it a bit sturdier, Andrew can use it to get the hot cookies off the baking sheet.

After the cookies bake, they can get iced.  The icing comes with sprinkles already on it, if only decorating real cookies was this easy!

The icing shapes get matched to the cookie shapes and Velcro on.

Then you can enjoy some cookies with your friends! The leftovers can get stored away in the cookie jar.

Quiet Book: Three Little Speckled Frogs

This is my newest craft project, a quiet book for my son.  I have been thinking about making one for sometime now, I think he will really enjoy it. 

We are planning a plane trip next month, all the way across the country so my kids can meet my grandparents.  The thought of flying for several hours with a 21 month old and a 2 month old makes me very nervous.  I am hoping this book will keep A occupied some!  Also, it is a good thing I started it a month in advance because it is a bit more time consuming than I thought it would be, this could take me all month!

It is all sewn by hand which I don't do very often but am really enjoying.  It is nice to be able to sew where ever I want instead of being stuck in the back room all by my self, most of this was sewn while watching the summer Olympics :)  

This is my first time trying hand embroidery and I have been kind of making it up as I go along.  I have a ton of respect for those crafters who do all that stunning hand embroidery, this stuff is hard!

This first page was inspired by children's song "Five little speckled frogs" only I just have three frogs :)