Felt Play Book

I'm gonna go ahead and tell you that I did NOT make this since having a baby this summer. I made it about a year ago but Rowin still pulls it out every so often. He played with it today so I snapped a few pics and thought I'd share. 

I don't know how to sew (even though my mom has tried to teach me countless times) so this is a 100% hot glue project. It does take some time but anyone could do it. You will need:

*Felt-a variety of colors

*Hot glue gun + glue

*Permanent or fabric marker

*Fabric scissors

*Ribbon or string

*Hole punch

*Ziplock bags

For the cover, you can decorate it however you want. Then punch three holes on the left side. This will be how you bind the book with ribbon later on. Here's what mine looks like.

On the back of the front cover, I hot glued a ziplock bag. Just put a line of glue across the top of the bag so that it sticks to the page but you can still open it. I did this for every page-the back of one page held a ziplock bag with the pieces for the next page. You can make the pages whatever you'd like. Here's what I did:

*Fish

*Butterfly

*Ice Cream Cone

*Shapes

*Cars

*Food

*Name

*Rainbow

Here are pictures that show each page with and without the pieces.

I made a couple of these for friends and some other pages that I did were dolls (where you add the clothes) and flowers (where you add the flowers to the stems).

I think the pictures are pretty self-explanatory. Some of the pages have things hot glued on and some pages just have things drawn or outlined in permanent marker. The pieces for each page are stored in the ziplock bag.

Once you've made all of your pages, hole punch every page, making sure that they all line up. I also added an extra piece of felt for the "back cover". Then tie a piece of ribbon through each hole to bind the pages together.

Time consuming, yes. I'm not gonna lie. But it's literally just cutting and gluing. I think I made the whole thing in about three nap times.