How to make a children's book with their own hands - advices on the choice of material and style, useful tips and photo ideas

First books for kids to help parents

It is believed that while a small child is playing, the house is quiet, and many parents want to diversify the gaming process. At the same time, books in the children's room appear when the baby is already interested in bright pictures, learning the alphabet and reading or writing skills.

Wonderful books made of soft materials, sewn by hand can be used to play with a child from his early years. Such products are different enough bright and attractive design, interesting design and the baby or baby girl will spend a lot of pleasant time playing with them.

What materials can be used for the craft

On the shelves of specialized stores are sold soft or silent books, the material of which is felt. The idea of its use can be easily reproduced in the home, because it is pleasant to the touch and easy to handle, has a number of characteristics:

• offered in different colors, from such a material you can make different blanks for the book;
• it is easy to sew and glue, for processing the edges of the different elements you do not need special technology, the material does not delaminate;
• a toy made of felt will last a long time and will not lose its shape or external appeal.

For the creative process almost no paper is used, and to replace felt can soft and durable felt. In addition, any fabrics can be used to create silent books, the game with which will soothe the baby and promote the development of fine motor skills of the fingers.

Interesting layouts and a description of the pages of the book

Making an interesting and really developing book with your own hands is not difficult, but it will take some time. When preparing a particular project, it is necessary to think carefully about the layout of the book, focusing on various photos and ready-made versions of products. The book itself can be divided into several sections, which will be devoted to certain subjects and differ in their content:

1. Color Palette. Children learn to recognize and distinguish colors from childhood, but memorizing their names will help an interesting game implemented on the pages of a soft book. You can use a rainbow silhouette and colorful strips attached to the sketch with velcro;
2. Simple shapes. For learning shapes (circles and squares, triangles and stars) you can use a page with a city panorama. Houses and street lamps, windows and roofs, the design of the sky will help quickly and easily memorize basic shapes and geometric shapes;
3. Vegetables and berries. Plastic plaques of toys in the form of basic berries and fruits can be replaced by a separate page of the book. Such a makeshift garden is easy to fill with pears and apples growing on the trees, plant tomatoes and cucumbers on the bushes (on Velcro), make a vine;
4. Animals and birds. The green page of the forest glade with soft fir trees will be a home for forest animals and birds. In such a clearing may live a hedgehog and a fox, a bear cub and a bunny, and on the branches of the spruce will successfully place the nest of a tit or a sparrow, the same characters can be used on other pages;
5. Numbers and Counting. A beautiful page with a flower (don't make more than 10 petals) and ladybugs or multi-colored buttons will make the process of learning to count as easy as possible. While the baby has not mastered the numbers, you can use this page to study colors or simply for educational games, comparing large and small objects using different blanks;
6. Letters and their labels. Large letters are better stored separately or dedicate a separate book to the study of the alphabet. On the letter page, you can use the soft figures to make simple syllables from them and put them into words, choosing deaf and voiced sounds, developing and training your child's speech.

Special attention is paid to the design of the soft and beautiful cover, which is sure to attract your child's attention. The pages may differ not only in content, but also in color, which will help parents quickly navigate through the improvised content. For the production of game and training elements, it is better to use elements that are different in texture, colors and shades and are easily recognized by the child.

Example of making a page of a book with an account

Make a useful and interesting for the child book better in your free time, paying attention to the preparation for the upcoming creative process. You will need soft felt and an appropriate template for the page, Velcro and scissors, the theme of counting is implemented in the design of the seabed:

• To make a page blank, one sheet of thin foam rubber is used, and felt of the corresponding color is sewn on both sides;
• The resulting blank (60x30 cm) is divided in half and marks are made, at this point the sheet will be sewn to the main book;
• to decorate the seabed can be pebbles and seaweed (cut out of felt or formed from woolen threads of different colors);
• The main elements of the page will be the inhabitants of the seabed, they are used to master baby quantitative calculation;
• filling an interesting page can be sea stars and dolphins, goldfish and starfish, they are cut from soft felt;
• For making three-dimensional sea creatures you can use a certain pattern and different colors or shades of material;
• To fill the toys, you can use standard fillers or take cereals (buckwheat, rice or millet, seeds) which will give them texture;
• The velcro sewn onto the improvised and pre-decorated seabed will help ensure a good level of fixation of the toys.

The finished page is sewn into the book or used as a separate book for learning quantitative counting skills. Over time, this page can be supplemented with numbers and signs (plus and minus, multiplication and division, equal), mastering the basic basics of math.

To make a book it is easy to use a master class and it is important to decide on its theme and materials, choose sketches and choose the right size. Pages fixed on plastic rings will be the first teachers of the child, but for the full development of the baby should play with it together using the book as a fascinating textbook.

Photo idea of a homemade children's book