Children's books from fabric. Soft educational book: a miracle on every page. How to make an educational book about the world for a baby

20.09.2020

A soft book for children with their own hands is a great gift for both your own and someone else's child. The kid will be happy new toy, and the parent - to the fact that his child can acquire new useful skills in the gameplay. We invite you to learn more about what a do-it-yourself soft book is. Book ideas and several workshops are included.

Why do we need soft books?

Soft books contain many details, different in texture, color and size. While playing with such textbooks, the child:

develops;
gets acquainted with different forms and flowers;
develops visual perception, attention and thinking;
develops tactile skills.

Do-it-yourself developing soft book: ideas

The number of ideas for soft books depends on your imagination. For inspiration, you can go shopping and look at existing educational toys or look on the Internet.

DIY soft book (ideas):

	Description
Clasps	Make a picture with several elements that are connected to each other with buttons or buttons. Place on the page a few snakes and other fasteners behind which something interesting is hidden. Make lacing.
	Each page is new color. That is, different elements in the same tone and it is desirable to make an inscription with the name of the color.
	The page contains the contours of objects and a pocket with them. The child must place the object on the appropriate contour. Figures can be attached to the page with Velcro or buttons.
Collecting pictures	On the page there is only a frame of something, and the child needs to assemble the whole part. The principle is the same as when collecting a pyramid or a puzzle.
	The scene on the page contains ribbons that need to be braided.
	Interaction with numbers.
	An example of such a book: a train with wagons is sewn to the page, and the child needs to put animals in them.

Much more interesting are options that combine several functions. For example, you need to open the doors of the house, which are fastened with several different fasteners. And behind the doors are the contours of the figures, inside which the color is signed. It turns out that the child needs not only to open the doors, but also to arrange the figures according to the contour and color.

What do you need to create a soft book?

A do-it-yourself soft educational book is created using the following materials and tools:

pages (felt, cotton, silk, and so on);
fabric for details and objects in the book (it is better to opt for felt - it is soft and pleasant to the touch);
Velcro, buttons, snakes, lacing, latches, buttons and other possible fasteners and fasteners;
beads;
tapes;
threads;
rings for connecting pages;
filler for the cover and details of the book (for example, synthetic winterizer, holofiber, and so on);
chalk or a special fabric marker (needed to create templates and notes);
needles;
scissors;
sewing machine.

Making the basis of the book

The basis of the book is its cover, to which the pages will be attached.

Master class on how to make soft books with your own hands (cover photo attached):

Decide what size you want the book.
Draw a rectangle on the back of the fabric. Its length should be more than the intended size by about five to ten centimeters. This stock is the front side of the book. The wider it is, the more pages can be placed in the book.
Make two of these patterns. You can use two different fabrics- one is needed for the outer cover, the other - for the inner.
Cut out two templates with a margin of up to a centimeter on each side.
Mark a ribbon whose width is equal to the width of the front side of the book, and the length is equal to its height. Add from five millimeters to a centimeter to each side. Cut it out.
Put a few rings on the tape to secure the pages. Better use three.
Decorate one of the pieces of fabric on the half of the front side - this will be the cover. You can cut out figures from felt and sew or glue them on, sew on beads, fasteners, buttons, embroider words or numbers. Get creative.
Sew the ribbon with rings to the right side of the other piece of fabric vertically in the center. Be sure to evenly space the rings.
Sew the two sides of the cover together, leaving right side a small hole in the middle.
Turn out the cover.
Push the filler evenly inside the cover. It should not be very much, but you need to fill it very tightly.
Sew up the hole
Sew on ribbons for tying.
Cover is ready!

Sewing pages for a book

Book pages can be made in two ways:

full reversal;
page by page.

If you make a spread, then the size will be the same as for the cover. If you sew each page separately, then just reduce the size by half.

All work comes down to the following:

cut two pieces of fabric of the required size;
make the necessary details for the page (cut out the figures, sew them, and so on);
sew the pages back side leaving a small hole;
turn the fabric inside out;
fill it with padding polyester, holofiber or something else;
sew a hole;
insert special rings into one of the sides of the page (rings on the cover tape will be inserted into them);
if there are none, then you can simply make small cuts and sheathe them so that they do not fray;
sew on all the necessary details.

The page is ready.

Tip: in order to save time and simplify the process of work, the pages can be made from colored felt or other dense fabric that holds its shape and does not wrinkle. Just cut two pieces and sew them together. You don't need to hit.

DIY soft book: ideas with numbers

To acquaint a child with numbers and teach counting, you can make books with numbers with your own hands. Options for implementing ideas:

Cut out numbers and some objects from any fabric (for example, felt), it can be different. Their number must correspond specifically to the figure. You can place everything as follows: a number is sewn on one turn, a pocket with objects (for example, small carrots) is sewn on the other. The child must lay out the number of carrots indicated on the page.
Cut out the numbers from dark cardboard or other thick paper and stitch them to the pages. Make a bag for the book, which will store the chalk and cloth. Let the child learn how to write numbers. He will simply draw the chalk on the pattern, after which it can simply be erased.
Make abacus on the pages of the book (we will consider a master class below).

Page with numbers

Master class on making a page with numbers:

On the page, mark the lines for the ribbons with pins.
Take ribbons or thick yarn folded in half and large beads.
String beads on each ribbon. Their number should be from one to ten. It can be less if the number of tapes does not fit on the page.
Embroider the numbers on the page or on a separate ribbon. Ten ribbons - ten numbers.
Sew the ribbons with beads to the page. This can be done in two ways:

make small cuts in the fabric of the page and thread the ends of the ribbon into them, tie knots from the inside or sew the ends;
sew the ribbons directly to the page, and sew the ribbons to hide the ends of the yarn.

6. Sew a tape with embroidered numbers to one of the sides of the “account”, if you made one.

Page with numbers is ready!

Page with clasps

To develop motor skills and teach a child to use buttons, snakes, hooks, and so on, pages with fasteners, on which game form it is proposed to unfasten the snake or tie the shoelaces.

Soft (master class for making a page with fasteners):

Draw all the details on the felt. In the given example, this is a jacket, mittens, a skirt, a torso (you can wear a blouse), a neck.
Cut the jacket in half vertically.
Sew a snake into the jacket.
Zip up the snake.
Sew on the page all the details in the following order: neck, body (blouse), skirt and mittens.
Sew a jacket on top of everything.
Make a scarf.

One of the variants of the page with fasteners is ready.

Another idea for such a page is shoes with laces. Let the child learn to lace.

Page "Dress the doll"

Dress up the doll is a game that helps the child make the right decisions.

Do-it-yourself soft book - a master class on sewing the page "Dress the Doll":

Cut out the necessary details from felt: doll, hair, clothes and shoes.
Sew Velcro on the back of the doll and to the page.
Sew Velcro to each clothes and shoes.
Cut out a wardrobe from felt.
Sew the cabinet to the page in such a way that you get a pocket.
Sew hair onto the doll, make a face (glue the fabric, draw with markers or embroider with thread).
Stick the doll to the page, and put all the clothes in the closet.

The page is ready!

Another option for such a page is “Seasons”. Sew on the tree and pocket. Make leaves (green and yellow) and flowers. Let the child place them on the tree, depending on what season you say. For example, spring - green leaves, summer - flowers, autumn - yellow leaves, and in winter the tree remains empty.

Advantages of a soft book

Do-it-yourself soft books for kids have a number of advantages over other educational things and simple books:

there is no printing ink on the pages;
used to create it natural fabrics and materials;
soft book is washable;
soft toy and educational book in one item;
bright;
one book can contain many educational items (for example, buttons, fasteners, zippers, laces, hooks, and so on).

Disadvantages of a soft book

There is only one drawback - the pages contain a lot of small details that a child can swallow.

Therefore, do not let your child play alone with the book and keep a close eye on him while learning.

A fabric educational book is an interesting and useful gift for a baby. It is not at all necessary to buy it for a lot of money, you can do it yourself. To do this, you do not need to be a professional seamstress or an enthusiastic needlewoman, sewing such a thing on your own is very simple.

About the benefits of developing fabric books for children

Such a book is able to captivate the baby for quite a long time, which the mother can devote to herself or homework.

Such books, unlike cardboard or paper ones, can be crumpled, twisted, tried to gnaw, wet - absolutely nothing will happen to them. If necessary, they can be washed and ironed, and the book will serve for a long time.

For sewing books, various fabrics are used, such as fur, felt, or various fillers, for example, cereals, rustling candy wrappers, bells. This contributes to the development of tactile sensations of the baby.

Thanks to many details, such as laces, lindens, zippers, buttons, buttons and others, fabric book promotes the development of fine motor skills and teaches the child to independence. In the future, the baby can easily button up a jacket, shirt, tie a knot, etc.

With the help of this wonderful educational toy, you can learn colors, counting, letters, seasons, the concepts of “day-night”, “big-small”, geometric figures and much more. Here everything will depend only on your imagination.

You can take such a sensory book with you anywhere, and the child will be busy with useful work when it is necessary to behave calmly.

At what age should it be used?

Fabric books must be made according to the age of your child:

Children under 1 year old can only be offered options in which there are no small fastened parts.
Starting from the age of 1, you can already place large parts on the pages that can be removed and attached back, for example, on lindens.
At the age of three, the content of the pages can expand. There are already a lot more various fasteners and fasteners here, simple games that can be played together may appear in the plot of the book, role-playing games in the form of a fairy tale.
For the older guys preschool age like it more difficult option, developing logical thinking. Here you can place a finger theater based on a specific fairy tale or cartoon, complicated games and tasks.

materials

For sewing a children's book from fabric, natural materials are used - felt, fur, leather, woolen threads, chintz, silk, linen, etc.

It is better to choose bright colors (red, blue, green, purple, white, black, etc.), they are more attractive to children, especially young children.

Make sure that the color of the plot matches reality. For example, a dog cannot be of blue color and the sea can't be yellow.

Choose the right pattern for the fabric. If Balloons can be “flowered” or “peas”, then for spruce you need a plain green fabric, the pattern in this case will be inappropriate.

You may also need:

cardboard;
synthetic winterizer;
cotton wool;
threads of various thicknesses;
ribbons of different colors and widths;
different types fasteners - limes, magnetic buttons, zippers, buttons, etc.
fabric applications;
beads;
laces of different colors;
rustling candy wrappers;
cereals;
small stones;
bells.

Your imagination, shown when creating the layout of each page, will tell you what else you need to purchase.

For information on what materials can be used to sew educational books, see the following video.

How to get started?

Before you start sewing a book for your baby, you need to:

Consider the number of pages.
Show your imagination and work out in detail the plot of each page;
Think about what each spread of the book will teach the baby, and what elements are needed for this.
Choose the shape and size of the future book. The easiest shapes to sew are square or rectangle. For those who have sewing skills and are confident in their abilities, you can choose more difficult shapes - this is a circle, oval, boat, flower, sun - it depends on your imagination, sewing skills, the thematic content of the book.
Decide how the pages will be attached to each other - you can mount on ribbons, strips of felt, using rings or laces. The most comfortable size is approximately 20 cm wide and 25 cm long.

On small pages you will not be able to place all the material that you would like, and looking at the pages big size, the child will get lost, get tired quickly, and attention will be scattered.

Select or draw patterns yourself that you will need. There is no need to look for any specific patterns for your book, you can even use children's coloring books.
Calculate approximately how much material and various decorative elements you will need for tailoring. Get everything you need.
Take your free time to create a unique book for your beloved child.

Walkthrough and Basic Principles

The principles of sewing books from fabric are the same, only the content of the pages changes:

In order to sew the pages, you will need to cut them out of the fabric and sew them on three sides (in case you chose a square or rectangular shape).
Next, we fill the resulting pocket with material for sealing - it can be thick cardboard, foam rubber or synthetic winterizer - and sew the pocket.
The design of pages and covers is more convenient to do until you have sewn a pocket, that is, on the felt cut out for the page. On it you sew applications and various details in accordance with your idea.

At the stage of decoration, fasten various accessories, ribbons. Then two sheets of felt are sewn together so that the wrong side is hidden.
The algorithm for sewing a book cover is approximately the same. The difference is that you need to leave a supply of felt for the spine, the size of which depends on the thickness and how many pages you will make. Do not forget that the cover should be denser than the pages. To do this, if you are sewing a book out of felt, you can fold it in half.

Master Class

We offer you a master class on sewing a simple book.

You will need:

11 sheets of felt 20*20 cm in size for sewing pages and 20 sheets 15*15 cm in size for details;
needles and threads, the color of which should be matched to the page and details, pins;
magnetic buttons - 5 pcs;
buttons for decor (butterflies, birds) - 10 pcs. It is better to choose buttons from natural materials, for example from a tree.
6 beads in black and white;
2 white flat buttons and 6 black buttons;
hat gum will need 1 m of black and 1 m of purple;
50 cm black and 50 cm white Velcro tape;
simple buttons - 4 pcs;
20 g of holofiber as a filler or you can use a synthetic winterizer;
15 cm of ordinary rep tape;
1 m each of blue, white and blue zigzag rep tape;
zipper: 15 cm and 20 cm.

Here are approximate calculations for sewing a sample book. It is better if you have the necessary materials with a small margin (felt, ribbons, Velcro, holofiber). Depending on desire or availability in stores necessary materials you can change them easily.

For sewing pages, use the above algorithm. In this case, it does not change. Seams can be done by hand or with a sewing machine.

The elements attached to the pages are sewn separately.

If you sew with your hands, then choose a “needle forward” seam for removable elements, “behind the needle” for elements that will be sewn on, and a “loop” seam for processing pages.

When sewing elements on linden, it is better to sew the part on which there are hooks onto removable parts, and the soft part of the linden to the page itself. It will be much more convenient to use the book, because if the book closes without removable parts, its pages will remain safe and sound.

If you want to make the pages more rigid, you can use thick cardboard or tarpaulin, rather than padding polyester. We will fasten the pages to each other with the help of felt, cutting it into strips. Patterns in this version are very simple, we draw them by hand.

The first cover of the book will look like this. On it we have an inscription and a cute lamb, as well as a button for fastening the book.

On the first page we have a flower and ladybugs that are attached to it with magnetic buttons. With the help of this page you will learn colors with your baby. It is also well suited for consolidating counting skills from 1 to 5.

On the second page there is a large ladybug. Its wings are connected by a zipper, and under them there is a pocket where you can put the ladybugs from the previous page.

A beautiful apple tree grows on the third page. With the help of a linden, flowers or apples are attached to it. This apple tree will help you learn with your child the stages of tree development and the seasons (spring, summer). You can complicate this page if you first make a large pocket where you will put removable elements, and sew only the trunk and bare branches on top of it, the foliage will also be attached with a linden.

In this case, you will need two options for the crown of the tree - spring and autumn.

So you will expand the developing possibilities of this page. In spring, green foliage and flowers will appear on the apple tree, in summer apples will grow instead of flowers, in autumn the foliage will change its color to yellow, and by winter it will fall off.

On the next page, we will house a cheerful hedgehog harvesting. With the help of Velcro, you can attach mushrooms or apples from an apple tree to its needles.

On the second, a jellyfish will swim in the sea. Instead of tentacles, we sew multi-colored ribbons and beads on the hat elastic. We sew the sea in the form of a pocket and we can release tenants into it, with whom it is worth introducing the child before that.

On the cover we make a pocket with a zipper for removable elements and embroider the contours of the pyramid on top. We sew the details of the pyramid separately and attach them to the contours with the help of a linden.

An interesting book for your baby is ready! She will surely become one of his favorite toys, because she was made by his beloved mom!

Little children are very fond of soft educational books, on the pages of which great discoveries await them. They get acquainted with animals, plants, develop color perception, imagination, fine motor skills solve fun puzzles for attention and quick wits. This is the perfect study guide - it can not be wrinkled or torn and you will not want to part with it.

A developing soft book can be devoted to any one topic, or it can be a collection of various game stories. The more books your child has, the better. If you know how to sew at least a little, you can easily create several of these books with your own hands.

If you have no idea where to start and how to sew a developing book, a master class will help you. To do this, you will have to put a lot of time, work and effort, but how much joy the baby will get when he picks up your wonderful creation! And how much fun you yourself will get from creating stories, games and interesting ideas!

Materials and tools

You will need a lot of materials for a developing book with your own hands. You can find something in your stocks, and you will have to buy something in the store. Approximate list of tools and materials:

Sewing machine, sewing threads, wool and floss, sewing needles.
Pieces of cloth different sizes, colors and types.
Sintepon for stuffing soft parts.
Braid, ribbons, cords, beads, beads, buttons, bells, clasps and other trimmings.

Operating procedure

The principle of sewing soft books with your own hands is always the same. Only the creation of plots and design differ. The general algorithm is:

We cut out double or single pages from the fabric, sew them on three sides, put in a padding polyester and sew up the fourth side.
On the pages, depending on the theme, we sew plot applications in the form of animals, flowers, vegetables, berries or fruits. It can also be trees, numbers, cars, houses and everything that you have planned to display in your book.

We complement the plots with bells, butterflies, small soft toys and other decorations that help in various game situations.
We sew the finished double pages in the middle of the product, and we fasten the single pages together with the help of eyelets, ribbons or laces.

Helpful Hints

There are a few secrets that will help you sew a book with your own hands:

Try to choose only natural fabrics for your baby.
Fill the small details of the book with rustling material. Children are very fond of rustling toys.
Characters, flowers, fruits that you want to place on the pages can be cut out of fabric with a cartoon plot, or you can buy ready-made applications in the store.
To make it interesting for a child to play with your book, try to make educational elements interesting. Let them unfasten, take out or untie.
We bring to your attention interesting master classes on sewing developing books with their own hands. We prepare all the necessary materials and start creating!

A soft bunny with a cute bow settled on the first page. There is rustling material in one ear, and a small bead in the other.

On the second page - a bunny garden with a basket. The kid can harvest in a basket, and when he grows up a little, he will learn to count carrots.

On the third page, a flower grows, in which a bee lives with buckwheat inside and a caterpillar. When the baby pulls the bee, the caterpillar connected to it crawls into the flower.

A butterfly lives on the fourth page. Her body is tucked under an elastic band. This is a chrysalis that, when put in place under an elastic band, turns into a butterfly.

The fifth page is devoted to toys. The pyramid is made up of blocks different lengths on Velcro. The child will develop motor skills by disassembling and assembling the pyramid. On the sixth page, a bear sleeps. It can be laid to sleep, covering with a blanket.

On the covers, on the one hand, a pleasant to the touch sun shines, and on the other, a velvety moon with an inserted cord and stars hanging on it. They can be pulled in one direction or another.

We will need: cotton fabric, sintepon, threads, ribbon, braid, lace, buttons, beads, small toys and accessories.

Operating procedure

Step one: for a two-page spread, we cut out two rectangles measuring 15 cm by 30 cm from the fabric. We fold the rectangles with the right side to each other and sew on three sides. We turn out and insert the rectangle of synthetic winterizer. We sew the fourth side with a hidden seam. We sew the part around the perimeter on a typewriter or manually. In total, we make two such reversals.

Making a fleece bunny. Cut out a circle (head) and sew with a blind seam. For the ears, we cut out four parts, which we sew together in two, turn inside out, fill with rustling material, lay a bead and sew to the head. We embroider eyes, a mouth, we sew a bow and buttons.

We make a sleeping bear in the same way as a bunny. We sew him a nightgown. From velvet fabric, sew a blanket to the bottom edge of the page. We attach Velcro to the top of the blanket.

Step two: make the cover. Sew on the loops of the braid, as shown in the figure. crochet we twist the lace in a spiral and sew the loops on top with a hidden seam. It got sunshine. On the back cover, we cut out a month from the fleece, cut through it and overcast two loops. With a hidden seam, we sew the month to the cover and thread the lace with stars through the loops.

Then we make a page with a carrot. We cut the orange fabric with cones and sew five carrots, filling them with padding polyester. top we sew carrots together with tops of green fleece. We sew an elastic band and a basket of brown fabric onto the page. For the pyramid on the page in the center we place sticky tape. We sew sticks, to which we attach Velcro from the bottom side.

Step three: do flower meadow. We cut out a flower, a twig and a leaf from the fleece and sew it with a hidden seam. We do not sew up the top of the flower, a bee will live there. At the bottom of the flower we leave a small hole for the lace with the caterpillar. At the bottom of the page we sew grass from the braid. We cut out the butterfly and sew it on, as shown in the diagram.

We sew a bee from yellow velor, decorate it with black braid, sew a lace with a caterpillar to it and place it in a flower, stretching the caterpillar out through the lower part of the flower. We sew a butterfly chrysalis from white fleece, embroider eyes on it and attach it to the page with an elastic band. We decorate the clearing with buttons in the form of flowers and a ribbon bow.

Development book page - master class

We will need: red fabric, colored threads, buttons, buttons.

Operating procedure:

Cut out a page of fabric measuring 20 cm by 20 cm.
We draw a sketch on paper, then transfer it to tracing paper and cut out templates from it for transfer to fabric.
According to the templates, we cut out a vase, an apple, a tomato and a strawberry from the fabric. We make loops on an apple and a tomato. Crochet cherries and sew buttons to them. We also attach a button to the strawberry.
We sew a vase, buttons and buttons onto the page. Then we connect the finished page with the back half of the page, sew them on three sides, turn them inside out and fill them with padding polyester.
We sew the fourth side with a hidden seam. On the side we punch two rivets for lacing the pages.

DIY educational book for girls - master class

We will need: colored fabric, multi-colored threads, buttons, beads, lock, wax pencils.

We sew page spreads, as shown in the first lesson. We make a cat applique on the cover and cut out the letters of your child's name. We sew all this, as shown on the cover. On the first page we place the application of a ladybug. In its middle we make a pocket with a lock, in which her children will live.

On the second turn, we sew on the application of a girl with a long braid, which the baby, playing, will braid. On the second half of the turn we sew a handbag with a pocket. On the next turn, we have an application of a laundry basin with a pocket and a clothesline stretched between the trees.

We make clothes with Velcro so that the child can take off and hang up clothes. On the next spreads, we sew the rest of the applications, as shown in the figures.

DIY educational book for a boy - master class

We will need: colored fabric, small sponges, buttons, felt-tip pens.

Operating procedure:

We sew the pages of the book in the same way as in the first lesson. The size of the book will be A3.
We cut out cars from sponges, glue button wheels to them and color them.
On each turn, we alternately sew the highway with pedestrian crossings in the form of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, as shown in the diagram. For cars with Velcro we designate a parking space.
On the back cover, glue three rows of Velcro tape. This will be the garage.
We design the book as you wish.

A few ideas for interesting and informative pages of a developing book

On this page, the kid will be interested to learn how animals are treated.

The little boy will love to play fireman.

A very good idea for a developing book is a home farm.

Having mastered your first master class and gained experience, you can easily sew such a soft book with a pen, as in the photo above.

Several Yet wonderful options development pages.

Sewing a developing book with your own hands is a huge field for your imagination and creativity. We hope that after passing our master class and being inspired by our ideas, you will be able to create bright, funny and instructive books for your baby.

A developing book for a child is a wonderful project that will bring joy and benefit to any kid! Delight your children with this book or sew a wonderful gift for a future or young mother. We will tell you in detail how to sew a developing book with your own hands and provide you with a pattern of the main details.

Developing book: choice of materials and options

How to sew a developing book for a child with your own hands? In terms of sewing technique, even beginners can do this project. However, be prepared to spend a lot of time, and be patient and careful!

The easiest way is to sew a developing book from felt and materials whose edges do not crumble (fleece, some furniture fabrics, suede, leather, etc.). This will save you from having to overcast the edge of the parts, which will save a lot of time. However, most of these materials are solid colors, so we recommend adding at least a few backgrounds and patterned fabric details to bring the book to life.

If you use a thin fabric, reinforce it with non-woven fabric. The pages of the book should be fairly dense, so each of them will require a layer of reinforcing material. It can be a bead or tarpaulin, and even thin plastic, if your machine can handle it.

For attaching removable elements, we used Velcro. It can also be sewn or punch buttons and magnets. The clasp of the book can be made on a buckle, magnet or carabiner.

There are several ways to bind a developing book. We will tell you how to sew a fabric book cover - this is the easiest, although not the fastest way. You can, for example, install eyelets on each page and connect them together with special rings that are sold in scrapbooking departments. This binding will allow you to later add new pages to the book.

Draw a sketch of your book in advance and think about what accessories you will use. If you are sewing a book for absolutely small child(up to 3 years), avoid small parts. For example, in our book, on the page with the seasons, instead of making several small circles with leaves or snow, you can make the crown of a tree in one big detail.

Pages with clocks and tic-tac-toe are also designed for children over 3 years old. In order to plan your own pages, we recommend using the help of the Internet, where you will find many options for designing a book using words such as "Educational book" or "quite book".

So, let's sew a developing book for a child with our own hands!

Pattern and cutting

Print out the pattern on A4 paper. Cut out the details.

Our book has a size of 15x20 cm in order to use half an A4 felt sheet as a background for 1 page. Cut out 6 background pieces and 2 cover pieces without allowances. Cut out reinforcing parts: 1 per sheet if using plastic or other dense material, or 1 per page if using a thinner seal.

Please note that all elements must be indented from the edge of 1 cm, for subsequent edging!

Page "Seasons"

Cut out the outline of the tree from the freeform brown felt, fitting it into the outline of the page. The width of the tree trunk is 2 cm. For the same pattern, cut out two 6x20 cm rectangles for pockets. Cut out three circles A, one circle B and one piece C from four different materials: light green, dark green, white and orange (spring, summer, winter and autumn).

For spring foliage, cut out several white circles of different sizes, maximum 1 cm in diameter. For summer foliage, a few red apples or other fruits, if desired. For the sun, cut out one circle A and one circle D from bright yellow material. You can also carve a moon or a cloud from the appropriate materials.

For each detail (except wood and pockets), cut out its exact copy from the additional material to which Velcro will be sewn. These lower parts can be of different colors to save material and recycle scraps.

Lacing page

Cut out the soles of the shoes using the cut out pattern. For the second sole, flip the pattern in a mirror. Then cut off the toe and cut out the inner oval, cut the resulting piece in a straight line on the pattern. Cut out two mirrored "nose" shoes, adding 0.5 cm of allowance along the bottom edge.

Cut out the cut-out part of the top of the shoes 4 times, mirroring them in pairs, so that you get a two-sided part for the right and left shoes.

"Sorter" page

Cut out 4 geometric shapes from material of different colors (square, cross, triangle and circle D). In the background part, cut out the shapes corresponding to the pattern, the cut out parts will become the basis for removable elements. Cut a 1 cm wide zipper pocket outline at the top. Cut a 15 cm wide x 30 cm long rectangle of fabric that will be the background for the details and the lining of the pocket that best contrasts with the main background of the page.

Page "Puzzle"

Draw a square with a side of 12 cm and draw a grid with 2x2 cm cells in it. Arbitrarily arrange geometric shapes (squares, stripes and polygons) on this grid, filling the entire plane. Cut out the shapes and use this pattern to cut the multi-colored parts, as well as the lower part of these parts from any material. Cut out a pocket-rectangle 6x15 cm.

Tic-Tac-Toe Page

For chips, cut out 10 circles A from white material and 10 circles for the bottom of the chips of any color. You will also need 4 strips of suede 13 cm long, or you can simply lay a line to outline the field of play. From red and black material, cut 5 crosses and 5 zeros. You can also embroider these characters with thick thread.

Page "Clock"

Cut out 2 arrows from white material and 2 arrows from black. Cut the black arrows a little along the contour so that when applied, a white edge peeks out.

For the dial, cut out 12 circles A from white material and 12 circles from dark (for example, gray) material. It is desirable to make the lower details of the same color, as they will become the color of the numbers. Cut out a piece for a 5x15 cm pocket.

COVERS AND BINDING

For the front cover, cut out 5 circles D from materials of different colors and textures. If desired, cut three pieces of multi-colored ribbon 7 cm.

For the top part of the binding, cut out a 10x6-7 cm rectangle. For the inside of the binding, cut out a 9x20 cm rectangle (for the same number of pages as in the example). If you are using loose material, add a hem allowance.

To tie, cut two ribbons of 30 cm each. For edging, you will need a straight or oblique trim. You can use a ready-made inlay 2 cm wide or cut ribbons 3.5-4 cm wide and equal to the length of the page.

Also prepare:

Velcro 1 cm wide (about 30 cm white and black, one color can be)
Zipper length 15cm
Interlining
Buttons, beads
Threads, cords, ribbons
eyelets

Page "Seasons"

Sew red "apples" on dark green details. Sew Velcro squares (soft part) onto bottom circles. Connect the lower and upper part with a stitch along the contour.

Sew white “flowers” on light green parts by hand with white thread. With a yellow thread on large "Flowers", embroider the middle. Sew Velcro squares (soft part) onto bottom circles. Connect the lower and upper part with a stitch along the contour.

Stitch the "winter" white circles with their Velcro bottoms. By the same principle, complete the details in the autumn range.

For the sun, cut out rays on a larger circle, as shown in the photo. Sew Velcro onto the bottom circle. Lay the piece with the rays between the bottom and top piece and sew along the outline of the top circle.

Sew the tree detail in the center of the page. Try on the foliage and sew the second halves of Velcro (harder, with hooks) into place. Also sew Velcro for the sun in the upper right corner.

Sew a buttonhole on the details of the pockets. Fold the pieces to form a pocket with a flap, and sew along the sides to the page, placing the pockets on the sides of the trunk. The bottom edge of the pockets must be indented 1 cm from the edge! Sew on buttons.

Lacing page

Sew in pairs the upper and lower parts for the right and left shoes along the inner contour, as shown in the photo. Punch holes and install eyelets for lacing.

Position the soles of the shoes on the page, taking into account the background image, if any, and pin it. Place the "toes" of the shoes on top and pin them as well. by the most top layer pin the eyelet pieces and sew along the contour with a straight stitch or zigzag (depending on the type of material used).

"Sorter" page

Stitch geometric shapes from two parts, sew Velcro to the bottom in advance.

Pin the lining to the page and sew along the outline of the cutouts and the bottom edge of the zipper. Sew along the center of the Velcro contours.

At the level of 5-6 cm, fold the fabric up again and pin to the top edge of the page.

Sew along the sides and top of the zipper and along the sides of the pocket itself, covering the sides of the pocket lining.

Page "Puzzle"

Complete geometric shapes - puzzle pieces. Sew Velcro on the bottom. On long parts, sew several Velcro or one large one.

Sew a pocket along the bottom edge. If desired, decorate the pocket with eyelets and a cord with buttons and beads.

Tic-Tac-Toe Page

Sew the playing field lines with suede cord or stitch with black thread. Sew two Velcro strips on the top.

Sew Velcro on the bottom, and stitch the top and bottom along the edge.

Page "Clock"

Stitch the details of the arrows. Cut out the contours of numbers from 1 to 12 on twelve white circles. Sew Velcro to the lower parts, and stitch the cut out circles with numbers on top.

Step back from the top edge of 7.5 cm and sew the arrows in the center of the page, placing the smaller arrow on top. On the right side, thread the thread through the bead or button, and then reinsert the needle into the same hole. On the wrong side, pass the thread through a small flat button. This mount will allow the arrows to rotate.

Sew a pocket at the bottom.

Covers

On the back cover, draw the alphabet with chalk or soap and stitch the letters along the outline with colored thread.

Sew colored circles on the front cover, and a button with beads in the center.

At the bottom, pin the multi-colored ribbons folded with loops, and sew a piece of felt on top.

Binding

Fold the pages in pairs and cleave. Sew along the edge.

Prepare the wraps. Fold the cut strips in half and iron. Then unfold and fold the edges to the ironed middle line and iron too.

Unfold the facings and pin right sides inward with the edge of the pages. Start pinning the piping from the middle of the long side of the page, from the side where the binding will later be - then the junction of the piping will close.

Pin by matching the edges of the piping and the page to the very corner, then fold the piping at a right angle and continue on the other side.

Sew along the entire edge to the width of the fold (about 7 mm). Bring the line to the corner and, turning it at 45 degrees, bring it to the edge. Cut and start stitching again near the corner.

Turn the facing right side out on the other side of the page and tuck it up and pin it to the base. Sew the facing by hand with a blind seam, bending the corners to one side.

In the cover pages, insert ribbons under the facing for tying. Tie knots at the free ends of the ribbon. You can do stitching if you wish.

Take the rectangular part of the inner binding (larger rectangle). If necessary, hem along the long sides. Step back 6 cm and pin with the second sheet of the book, placing the binding in the center of the page, closing the edges of the facings. Bind around the edge of the page, pin it off.

Sew close to the edge of the page. Use the zipper foot.

Step back from this page at least 3 cm (if the page is very thick with protruding parts, step back more) and attach the next page in the same way.

Now attach the covers to the binding without folding the fabric. Sew and cut off the excess.

Today in children's stores you can find a huge number of different educational toys. However, not all parents are satisfied with either their price or quality. Yes, and I want such a toy to serve longer, not bother the baby.
There is an alternative to purchased toys - things made by oneself.

First option

Such toys have many advantages that are not available in their purchased counterparts. Firstly, such a thing can be modified as many times as you like. Your toy will grow with your child. Secondly, it will be cheaper than constantly buying new things for the baby. And yet, in such an object you can put a piece of your soul, your love for the baby. While playing, he will be surrounded by your care for him.

What educational toy can be offered for a child so that it is interesting, useful, and even changes as the baby grows? Sew him a developing active book. If you make it of a special design, where you can take out the leaves and put new ones in, then your idea will last a very long time and will teach the young researcher a lot.

What do you need to prepare for your homemade?

We will need fabrics of various textures and colors, thermal applications, synthetic winterizer, interlining, rustling materials (cellophane bags), Velcro, buttons, cardboard and colored paper, laces, elastic bands, in general, everything that will help us in a creative idea is useful.

Look in your closets and stash - the fastest thing is that you will not have to buy something else in order to sew a book.

First, think over a sketch of your book, draw your plan on paper, and then start working with the fabric. Also decide on its size.

In order for the book to be disassembled and new pages added, sew loops on each leaf, or make holes in them. Now the whole structure can be assembled on a ribbon, or curtain rings.

You will need to put a layer of padding polyester into the pages to make them soft, and cardboard can be placed in the cover and one will be dense. Glue small details with interlining and stitch to the background with a zigzag. Large patterns simply cut out of the fabric and sew with the same seam. If you want to individual elements were convex, then leave a small hole and fill them with padding polyester.

In order to build "movable" elements, you need a cutout glued with interlining, stitched to a piece of fabric, filled with padding polyester, cut along the contour, and attached with Velcro. Thus, you can make a page with elements that can be moved (starry sky, sun with clouds, numbers, letters ...).

You can make an active page by attaching the clippings to the page with a string and sewing on a string for which you can pull and release the pictures. Using this technology, you can make an aquarium page with “floating” fish, or a flower field where butterflies will “flutter”.

For the development of fine motor skills, make a lacing page. To do this, attach a picture of shoes with holes through which you can thread the lace.

Make a page with a pocket or button purse - let the baby learn to fasten and unfasten it. You can put a key on a string in the pocket.

On some pages, sew on rustling elements, or you can put cellophane into the sheets themselves. You can make any picture three-dimensional and fill it with cellophane. Using this technique, you can make a cutting-grass that rises, and a bug sits behind it. Such a game will attract the attention of the child, help in the development of fine motor skills.

You can make a page-house in which everything will open and close, and the figures behind the windows and doors can visit each other (elements with Velcro). You can also attach a cut top with plastic bottle with a neck on which you can screw the lid.

Make a page with geometric figures of different colors (circle, square, triangle).

The page on which the lightning is sewn will teach the kid to use it.

To make figures that can be moved, moved, it is better to use non-friable fabrics such as fleece, felt.

Sewn on various buttons will help the baby to get acquainted with the sizes and colors.

Elements from fabrics with different textures will develop fine motor skills of hands, attentiveness.

It should be borne in mind that children really like various hidden figures, for example, you pick up a leaf, and under it there is a bug, you open a window, and a bunny sits behind it.

So we got a book-assortment. However, you can come up with a toy with a specific plot: seasons, clothes, going to visit, wildlife, numbers and letters. Although such a craft requires time, patience and strength from you, it will be a great gift for your child.

Such a book will develop the baby, and will also be very useful on a walk or, for example, in a clinic, when, while waiting for an appointment, you need to keep the child busy with something.

Second option

This is such a big book. 10 cm foam rubber inside the pages.

A rustling tree with fruit buttons and berries hidden in grass pockets; 2 - a rustling apple, the leaves also rustle and are attached to the buttons ...

The sun is soft with rustling rays and a three-dimensional ribbon rainbow sewn on one side (Every Hunter Wants to Know Where the Pheasant Sits - to study the colors of the rainbow); a house made of soft fabrics, the door opens with Velcro and Cheburashka peeps out there.

Butterfly with voluminous wings with Velcro along the edges and with different squares; ladybug - a pocket with a zipper, you can hide something in it.

Flower with petals from ribbons of different colors; soft shiny bulk star, with buttons around.

A ship with smooth rustling sails, you deflect them, there is a duck-captain; denim train - buckwheat inside, for fingers

The fish rustles with voluminous fins and Velcro tail, the tape is thin like algae, the buttons are like pebbles; whale - dense fabric, soft cotton fin and tail, fountain from the bag.

The back cover of the book is a side feeder. You can not sew the book, but limit the loops and tie them with a ribbon, so the book will turn out to be a transformer, and you can add or change pages.

Third option

Sew your own developing soft toy the book is simple: the sheets of the page - a double material with a layer of synthetic winterizer - are sewn together, forming the most ordinary book, it is unusual only in that everything in it is made of fabric, and therefore it is easily erased, does not tear, and you can play with it from the moment you the child began to grab something with his little hands.

The subject of applications can be absolutely any - animals, berries and fruits, cars. I made my book out of what was found at home, but there was a piece of coarse calico from a sheet. It had a funny score on it. Number and drawing. Three kittens, five hedgehogs and so on. This is what I took as a basis.

She sewed on cut-out appliqués in a zigzag pattern, somewhere she sewed on beautiful children's buttons, somewhere she added Velcro and bows.

If there is no beautiful material with different pictures at home, then you can buy thermal applications, their only drawback is the price.