Our 1st Attempt at a Felt Book

I have been waiting and underestimating my son's attention span in doing long projects.  He surprised me when he sat through the whole process of planning/talking, cutting and assembling his own felt book (with a little help from moi).  We used felt material available at any craft store like Micheal's or the Dollar store. 

Some of these stores may provide pre-cut shapes for kids that are not cutting yet and in honesty its time saving.  But my son insisted on cutting his own shapes. We traced them on paper first and then used the template to cut out the shapes on the felt material (similar to cutting for your sewing projects).  He is really into ocean animals these days and we had a blast doing it! Here is a sample of his work (with the exception of the sea horse):

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Felt Books are fun to make and the learning opportunity is great! Kids of any age can work with felt to learn sewing or just for fun projects. They are sometimes called "quiet books", so that your child can sit quietly playing with his/her felt book.  They are easy to play with as the shapes stick (felt-on-felt) and dont require any gluing or taping. You can make a felt book on any theme that you interested in such as:

• Farm Animals
• Ocean Animals
• Safari/Jungle Animals
• Safety (i.e. road signs, etc.)
• Bugs or Insects
• Calendar theme (i.e. time, months, days of the week, weather)
• Graphing
• Counting/Numbers
• Alphabets
• Stories (fairytales/fables)
• And many more

Here are a few books that you can use to get started on your felt projects:

Hope you enjoy felting with your little one! 

Happy Felting, 

Annie