Quiet Book - Matching Game

I found some dump truck buttons on Etsy and thought they would make a perfect matching game for Kellan's Quiet Book.  Actually a pretty hard matching game - they're all the same shape, same wheels, but all have two different colors on them.  My next challenge was that there weren't enough different color combinations.  So I problem solved that #likeaboss and used markers to make some new color combos.  

I had to really think through this one.  For the game to be fun more than once, you have to be able to move the pieces around, so I cut out a lot of little squares.  I sewed Velcro to half the squares and hand sewed a truck button to half the squares and then sewed the Velco squares and the truck squares together.  Then I cut flap pieces, sewed those to the background pages, finally I sewed Velcro under the flaps.

My mom and I played it and it was very fun!

Thinking of making a Quiet Book - an assortment of felt will help get you started!

Quiet Book Part 5 - Sock Matching Page

What Quiet Book would be complete without a matching page?

I found this idea on a blog called Imagine Our Life and used their pattern:
http://www.imagineourlife.com/2011/09/22/sock-matching-quiet-book-page/

This was possibly the most time consuming page.  I made three of each sock design, then sewed two of those together, with a magnet in between them and then sewed one to the page with a  magnet behind it.  I used regular strength button magnets found at Michael's, and they're not quite strong enough.  Michael's also had "super strong" magnets, that I used for the fishing page, which I think would've worked better with this page as well.  http://www.michaels.com/pro-mag-neodymium-magnets-.5%22/10382640.html#q=magnets&start=42

 

 

As I'm posting this blog, I remembered that I wanted to find a couple fun buttons for the washing machine.  #workinprogress

 

 Hope you all have a great day!