The soft developing book will help the child to improve, learn new things. Mom will sew it from rags, braid, beads left over from needlework. This soft educational book is a great gift for a child. Such a toy will help the kid develop hand motility, attention, visual perception, thinking, and introduce him to colors and shapes.
Design ideas for a development book
- Try to keep the pages of different colors so that the child can distinguish between them from infancy. It's good if there are inscriptions with the name of the color here. Then he will remember how these words are spelled.
- So that the child can develop fine motor skills, thinking, come up with tasks for him. So, the pages can have elements that are attached to the base using Velcro or buttons. For example, vegetables that need to be "planted" in the garden, apples and mushrooms, their child will attach to a hedgehog. Having removed the element with buttons, the child will see something interesting behind it. Having unfastened the zipper, the baby will unfold the wings of a ladybug.
- On some pages, pockets need to be sewn so that the child can put objects of a suitable shape and size there. On others, sew a sneaker made of leather or fabric so that the child learns to tie the lacing, thereby gaining the necessary skill.
- So that he can braid the braids, sew a few ribbons next to it, Show the baby how to do it.
- So that the child knows the count, number the pages, sewing a certain number to each in order.
- Each page of the book is dedicated to something. For example, one is a garden theme, another is an animal, a third is a rainbow, and the fourth is a marine theme.
How to make a cover of a soft development book?
Its dimensions depend on how you want the soft developing book to be. Take a fleece or felt with your own hands. These fabrics are soft and keep their shape. You can use both canvases at once, one for the top of the binding, the other for the inside.
The rectangle should be of such a size that you can still add 1 cm seam allowances and 5 cm for the center fold. If you have appliqués on the cover, then sew them on the front side first. Then fold the two canvases of the page so that the wrong side is at the top, sew along the edge, leaving 15 cm free on the small side. Through this hole, you turn the blank onto the front side, put a rectangle of padding polyester in it smaller than the cover.
Another option is to make individual pages, make holes in them with a special tool, fasten rings here so that the pages are laced by connecting them.
You can join them with a patch, one edge of which you will sew to the first page of the binding, the second to the last. This patch needs to be swept over each page so that they look like an accordion from the side of the binding.
Do-it-yourself soft book - master class
Now you know how to make a binding for her. And here's how to style one of the pages. Ask your child to put fruits and berries in a vase, they will be attached using buttons and Velcro.
To make the page you will need:
- rectangle of fabric;
- segments of the canvas;
- large buttons;
- needle and thread;
- buttons;
- Velcro;
- thin synthetic winterizer.
Master Class:
- Cut out all the details that will be sewn onto the page from thick fabric. Better if they are paired.
- Sew both layers of round berries with a zigzag stitch, also make a loop in the center with a sewing machine, cut through it. Sew a strawberry. Attach a green ponytail to it.
- Cherries can be crocheted in a circle. On the reverse side, sew buttons to them, paired elements of this fittings, as well as buttons - to the page of the book.
- Take a 20 x 20 cm cloth of fabric, the same is superimposed on it. These parts are combined with the front sides, stitched along the edge, leaving a gap through which the resulting bag is turned onto the front side. It is necessary to iron its seams, then insert a sheet of padding polyester inside, which is 1 cm less than the page on all sides. Sew the gap on the hands.
Now the child will be able to attach berries to an impromptu vase with the help of buttons or Velcro, buttons.
If you want him to know the seasons well, then make 4 pages for such a soft book for toddlers. To create them, you need:
- base fabric;
- bright threads;
- scissors;
- tape measure;
- pins;
- needle;
- braid;
- threads;
- beads.
To create books, you can use the most unexpected materials, for example, cloth napkins, household rags. If they are patterned, flip over to the wrong side. Cut out the trees from the green napkin. Since they are colored all year round to show the winter landscape, cut out the snowflakes, decorate the trees with colorful balls from napkins of a different color.
If a child spends the summer at the dacha, for sure there is a pond with fish. Transfer this theme to a textile book by cutting out algae, fish, aquatic vegetation from napkins or felt.
In spring, the ground is covered with bright green grass, flowers bloom. Tell all this to your child by making the appropriate applique on the page.
In autumn, clouds appear more and more often, but the sun is still shining. You can also sew braid here to keep it raining.
If all the elements suit you, then you can sew them directly onto the pages of the book. Sew on large parts on a sewing machine, sew small ones on your hands.
Where there is an autumn landscape, sew a thin braid on top, and firmly tie beads to these ribbons from the bottom.
Since soft books for children contain quite a lot of small elements, attach them firmly, but do not leave the child while playing with such an object. If you want a typewriter to drive around on the cover of the book, then make small vertical cuts on it in the center, thread a ribbon here. Sew the car to the base. Fasten the edges of the tape on one and the other side of the cover.
This is how a soft educational book looks from the inside.
It will be enough to tie it on a ribbon and you can close the book.
It will be interesting for kids to invest various items, so put pockets in the form of a locomotive on the book. Make various animals out of felt. Have the child put these passengers in open cars. Sew on the buttons in the form of wheels and you can send the train on the road.
For the child to develop fine motor skills, scribble cobweb-shaped threads on the page of the book, sew plastic rings here. Let the baby thread the braid through them, creating a spider web.
Cut out a gym shoe from fabric or leather, sew rings vertically in the center so that the child can thread a lace through them, learn to tie shoes. These skills will be very useful to him, as well as the zipper.
For such a page of the book, you need to take:
- the cloth;
- lightning;
- woolen threads.
Cut out the jacket, sew it onto the page of the book. Baste the zipper in the center so that the child can button these clothes, at the same time learns to button his jacket.
For kids, you can advise one more page that a soft developing book will have. With their own hands, children will be able to dress dolls, thereby learning this simple lesson.
To do this, a doll from a dense base is sewn onto the book, you need to attach Velcro to it. Cut out the garments of this toy. Place a pocket closet nearby. Put the doll's clothes there, on the back of which you will pre-sew Velcro. Have the child dress the doll in the correct order.
Kids can be advised to make another page of the book. Sew a thin elastic band here, pull on beads, balls, buttons, fastening them tightly. The child will surely like the proposed toy.
Playing with the first book in his life, the kid will learn how to assemble a pyramid by height and color. To do this, take:
- the cloth;
- filler;
- Velcro;
- a needle and thread.
Cut out rectangles from fabric of different colors, sew them along the edges, leaving a small end free. Insert the filler through it, and then sew. Sew Velcro on the back to the resulting sausage, attach their paired parts to the book. Have the child assemble the pyramid, first with the help of his parents, then on his own.
He will surely like to put the bear to bed, cover him with a blanket. With such a toy, the child himself will soon fall asleep for the company.
So that he knows that evening is coming, it's time to go to bed, make a figurine of the month on the next page. When the baby wakes up, he will look at the sun with pleasure, which will smile at him kindly.
Do-it-yourself educational book for baby boys
Young gentlemen love cars since childhood, so use them to create a soft educational toy.
Take:
- colored fabric;
- buttons;
- small household sponges;
- felt-tip pens.
Use scissors to cut out the cars from the sponges, glue large button wheels to them, paint the cars. Use fabric and sheet filling to make pages for the book. For the child to study the numbers, sew them one by one on each page in the form of a pedestrian crossing.
Sew on only the right pages, the left ones will become the garage. Attach Velcro here, as well as on the back of the cars, so that the child can park their vehicles at night.
If the children are small, it is better not to attach buttons to the lips, but to draw wheels. Or you need to tirelessly monitor children during such a game so that they do not harm themselves with torn off small objects.
For another book for toddler boys, use a bold fabric. Your child will love playing the fireman you create from fabric.
Let his car have a rising boom, this can be done by securing two elements with two buttons. Make a gate with a Velcro lock so that, if necessary, the child can open them, get to the building on fire. The braid will turn into a brigade, the boy will like to play with such objects, to feel like a firefighter.
Soft books on the topic of home farm and vegetable garden
You can also make soft books on this topic. It is a wonderful experience for the little ones, they will learn the names of the animals, they will know how to care for them. You will tell you what vegetables can be grown, how to collect and stack them.
Let's start with a home farm.
The chicken and duck are cut out of felt, and other items of the book are made of the same material. Let the door in the house open, for this, sew a button on it, and next to it is an elastic loop. There will also be a swing-open window, fix it with two ribbons.
A fence is made from rectangular strips of fabric, turn the green fabric into grass and into the crown of a tree. Border the pages with folded strips of fabric. After that, a soft book is ready to buy, of course, which you can, but it is very expensive, and your own can be created from the remnants of matter.
Indeed, to create vegetables for the garden, very small patches are needed. Cut out triangles from the orange ones, sew them in the form of cones, stuff through the upper hole with filler, sew green fleece tops here. So the carrot is ready. To "plant" it on the garden bed, place the braid horizontally, sew it so that the roots fit between the seams. Attach a large pocket next to it, here the child will put the crop.
Place a bunny nearby, let the baby know that this animal loves carrots very much. Also, in such a book, you can sew a flower in the form of a pocket, into which a bee will fly in and collect nectar. The butterfly flies over the flowers, so it will also be very appropriate here. You can sew a zipper between its back wings, when you zip it up, it will turn into a semicircular bug. Unzipping the snake will transform it back into a butterfly.
If you want the child to know that caterpillars appear first, and after pupation they turn into butterflies, then make the body of this insect separately in the form of a sausage. The child will insert it into a ribbon between the wings, thereby turning the caterpillar into a butterfly.
The bee is made of yellow fleece, black strips of braid are sewn across the body, you need to attach a ribbon to it.
The child will learn about the garden, pets, if the next book is made of fabric.
Sew the characters out of felt, attach Velcro to them from the back. Then your beloved child will arrange them in the right order, gradually learning this. At the same time, he will get acquainted with the Turnip fairy tale.
Make secret corners in the book so that the baby gradually finds them. Let the hedgehog live in the mushroom house, only opening the door will it be possible to find this animal, to the great joy of the child.
Children learn that chickens are the babies of chickens by opening the brooding hen's wing.
Tell the children how apples grow in the country. Make such a fabric applique in the book, place fruits here using Velcro. Let the baby pick them off, put them on the hedgehog's needles, and fix them in the same way.
Apples on a tree can be arranged in another way, by sewing buttons on it, and loops on them. The fruit itself is made of red or yellow felt or other similar material.
Educational toy for girls
It is performed in the same way, but here it is slightly different. The baby will surely like to dress the doll, as mentioned above. She will also be interested in hanging clothes on a rope, taking them off.
To make such a book, you will need:
- felt;
- fleece;
- thin elastic band;
- clothespins;
- hairpins.
From felt, cut a rectangle measuring 40 by 20 centimeters, from the same fabric, but in a different color, make the same. To the first one you need to glue a green leaf in the form of grass, sew on the fabric, cutting it out in the shape of a basin. It is from here that the girl will get the linen to hang it on the rope. Use a thin elastic band for it.
Cut out various pieces of clothing from fleece and felt. Let the child hang them on a rope using real clothespins, hairpins.
The next textile book is made in pink colors that girls like.
To do this, take:
- the cloth;
- beads;
- button;
- wax pencils;
- threads;
- beads.
Sew the pages of the book from the main fabric, if it is dense, you can not put a synthetic winterizer or non-woven inside. Attach the cat's applique to the cover, tie a bow, and embroider the child's name.
Inside, you can sew a ladybug by making a slot in the center, insect cubs will penetrate here. For the girl to learn how to weave a braid, on the next page there will be an appliqué of a young lady with long hair made of yarn.
In order for the girl to learn accuracy from infancy, attach an organizer for pencils and a handkerchief on the next spread. Velcro flowers next to the vase hint to her that she needs to place them in this container. The closet with linen stores dolls' things, which the child will gladly put on them. But you read about this earlier, the young mistress will also like this kind of entertainment.
Perhaps she will want to become a doctor if she opens the next page of the soft book. In the pockets there are various animals made of felt, on another spread there is a wardrobe, opening which the child will find the items of the simplest help, learn to provide it.
Learning to count using a soft educational book
This is how, in passing, the child will remember how the initial numbers are written, if you remember to number the pages. For him to learn to count, make the following soft educational book. To create it you need:
- base fabric;
- laces;
- large beads;
- marker.
You will make pages from thick fabric. Making holes with an awl or other similar object, you will fix several laces horizontally, having previously strung a bead of a certain color on each.
When promoting them, count with your child. To make your kid learn to draw numbers, make fabric appliqués. Sew on the pocket where the crayon will be stored. Then the child will be able to get it out and circle the numbers, thereby learning how to draw them.
In the same way, you can introduce children to some letters, then make syllables and short words from them.
This is how, in a relaxed atmosphere, playing, the child will be able to develop and improve, learn new things. It is very important for parents to show him how to handle certain objects so that a soft developing book really becomes such.
To make it easier for adults to make it, we suggest watching a fascinating story.
How to make a page for boys so that they know what kind of transport exists, you will learn from the following video.
The girl will be happy to play with a book made in the form of a house, put the doll to bed, wash it in the bath, wash things in a typewriter.
