In September we've got our annual holiday and Ben's first trip on an aeroplane. So I'm busy making a busy book to keep him... well... busy!
Among Ben's favourite toys are a set of jungle animals at his Nanny Twiglet's house. This gave me my inspiration for a busy book (sometimes called 'quiet' books, but I'd rather think of my boy being busy rather than being quiet).
I swiped a lovely piece of jungle fabric from my mum for the bag I'll make to contain the busy book. This gave me lots of ideas for colour scheme and creatures...
So I thought up lots of ways to use fabric animals to keep Ben busy including textures to stroke, buttons and beads, ribbons to pull, zipped pockets to open and puzzles using velcro.
These parrots have velcro bottoms to stick them to their nests!
These ribbon snakes can be pulled through the button holes...
Here is my zebra finger puppet in the making...
While playing with another busy book made by Nanny Twiglet, we discovered Ben loves looking under flaps. I've incorporated this idea in the book and each page has a little creature hiding under a flap.
Behind Elephant's ear hides a little bird...
Behind the bushes on Froggy's page hide some of his little friends...
Up in the tree high above the parrots' nests is a hungry caterpillar...
Lots of happy faces to play with in the busy book...
Ben has been very good sitting in his high chair and watching me sew. It looks like Lion and Zebra are already a hit with my No. 1 customer! (and those of you keen-eyed followers of Nanny Twiglet's blog will see that Ben is playing with the completed Hungry Caterpillar high chair tray cover that appeared on Twiglet's WOYWW post back in June)
Hope you've enjoyed my preview of the busy book! Come back soon to see the finished one.
I'll try and visit a few desks this week on WOYWW :-)
Happy crafting x x x
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