Felt Quiet Book with Snaps!

 Felt Quiet Book with Snaps! Quiet books and sensory games are so fun for kids and great teaching aids!  You will need: Hot glue/gun scissors Felt (various colors) Sewing machine (optional) Snaps and snap setter Cut out felt shapes to make whatever scene you want. I did a landscape with grass, tree and sun. Hot glue the bulk of the shapes onto the background. Once it's glued...it's snap time. You can set as many snaps as you want. I did 5 flowers. (You could change up the scene for various seasons or holidays!) Stab the awl through the fabric where you want the snap set... Pierce the pointy snap part through the awl hole... then set the snap receiver on top. Put them carefully into your snap pliers...and squeeze! Easy as pie! The back is perfect and the top is ready to snap! Cute! Repeat the process until satisfied! Now we need some flowers. I cut five flowers from felt. And used the same technique to set the other sid...

Lego I Spy with my Little Eye Book!

Lego I Spy with my Little Eye Book!  We love Lego! Before we had kids, my hubby and I would buy Lego sets on date night. Way more fun than a movie and dinner! I had this GENIUS idea while playing with the kids the other night. We spread out a big blanket and poured out all our Lego pieces! (seriously, probably $1000 worth of Lego right there) And it went something like this: "Can anyone find a 2 by 2 black brick?...If anyone sees a red 2 by 1 give it to me" I thought...this is totally an "I SPY" game! AND I totally love an I spy book...they are so fun... so engaging and perfect for travel or quiet books!  So, I made one. I took pictures of all our little Lego pieces scattered...and used photoshop to add  some words in silly rhymes...and it was 4:30 in the morning...so they are silly! 19 pages of fun. (Feel free to play along...print them off or make a book for personal use only!) Then I loade...