Tutorial: Circus themed quiet book

Alicia from Felt With Love Designs shares the first in a series of posts at So Sew Easy showing how you can make a circus themed quiet book. Each post will show how to make a different page, and will include templates for all the pieces. The first post shows how to make a page with a circus tent puzzle. It’s shown here all assembled on the tent background. The tent background is actually a pocket that holds all of the pieces.

Click below to go to her first circus quiet book post:

Learn to Sew a Circus Quiet Book (Part 1), by Felt With Love Designs

[photo from Felt With Love Designs on So Sew Easy]

Quiet books or busy books are educational book/toys made with age or development appropriate activities for babies, toddlers and preschool-age children. They are interactive and tactile. These books usually involve a cause and effect result as well as visual aids to teach fundamental learning skills. These books also develop hand and eye co-ordination. You can find more patterns for making Quiet or Busy books here Etsy.

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