The First Page of my Quietbook

A couple months ago I decided that I wanted to make a quiet book. I had seen so many cute and educational ideas and got really excited to make my own, but with student teaching I really hadn't found any time to work on it. I am now done with student teaching and am waiting for graduation (this weekend) and have some spare time.

I found some really cute and FREE patterns online. My favorite place to look for patterns is a blog called Imagine Our Life. Stephanie has the cutest, and most practical quiet book pages I have ever seen, you should go check her blog out!

So I went ahead and printed off some of the patterns I liked and cut them out. Then I went ahead and glued the pieces on some (what my grandma calls) oak tag or some small sheets of poster board. Before I bought the poster board I had some of those cream colored file folder laying around so I glued some of the patterns on that.

After I glued the pieces on I cut them out again so that they had the poster board glued to the back. I do this because I am hard on things and with the stiff paper on the back the pattern pieces will go through more tracing and handling. I know this seems like a long process, but it will pay off. Especially if you plan on using the pattern more than once. I keep each patterns little pieces in a little zip lock baggie and put the baggie in a page protector in my "Quiet Book Binder" with a picture and the website I got the pattern from.

So after I finally got all my paper pieces cut out, glued down and cut out again I was ready to actually start making some pages. Yay!

Now I needed to decide what page to do first. I ended up doing the snowman page I found on Imagine Our Life. This is what the page will look like.

http://www.imagineourlife.com/2012/11/14/snowman-quiet-book-page/
You can find the directions and supplies at the link above.

Cute, right! On the backside of the head there is a girl snowman face and the snowy hill at the bottom has pockets for the pieces! I love it and it totally goes along with the weather here in Iowa. I have yet to find the cute little snowflakes Stephanie has on he page. I checked Joann's Fabric, but no luck. Here is what I have done so far.

I have all the pieces cut out now and about half blanket stitched. I love how it is turning out and can't wait to post the finished project. :)

I would love to hear about your quiet book pages and where you get you patterns so make sure you comment below!

UPDATE!!!!

Here is my finished snowman page, I love it.