Developing book toy with your own hands. We sew a developing book for a child

mental and physical health child - the main task of parents, educators and other professionals. From birth, the development of the baby goes on continuously and every second. To improve the efficiency of this process, it is necessary to the world varied, bright and informative. For this, certain conditions must be created. One option is to make educational books with your own hands.

Types of educational toys

The leading activity of the child from birth to three years is a game. This fact must be taken into account and actively used in the development and education of the baby. Any game is impossible to imagine without toys. But they should be useful for the child and correspond to his age characteristics.

It is not at all necessary to buy a toy or a developing book that is useful for development in a store for a lot of money. It can be easily made independently from improvised materials. There are many ways and step by step instructions how to make a toy or how to sew an educational book with your own hands.

Such items can be divided into several categories:

• books;
• cubes;
• panels and rugs;
• pillows;
• stands;
• houses;
• animal figures, etc.

In this article, we will talk about how to make educational books with your own hands. We will also consider the purpose of such toys.

What are educational books?

As a rule, such cognitive toys are intended for children from one year old.

By purpose, they can be divided as follows:

Why do they make soft developing books with their own hands? They stimulate the development of fine motor skills of the hands. This has a positive effect on the mental development of the child, as well as on the formation of speech.

Materials for the manufacture of educational books

It is often thought that the manufacture of an educational toy or book requires expensive materials and special skills. Not at all!

In order to make educational books with your own hands, it is enough to have a desire. Here you can use various improvised materials, such as:

• paper and cardboard;
• fabric, including felt, fleece and even knitwear;
• artificial fur;
• leather or leatherette;
• threads of different thickness;
• tapes;
• Velcro;
• buttons;
• beads;
• cords;
• buttons;
• bells, bells;
• rustling cellophane wrappers;
• cereals (rice, peas, buckwheat);
• ready applications.

Developing books made of fabric are very interesting. You can combine it with your own hands different kinds: cotton and felt, silk and knitwear and the like.

Cardboard and paper book

This type of product is intended for children from a year. The book may contain information about a single animal, color or shape. It can be done using a photo album, files, cardboard and plastic rings. Consider how a do-it-yourself paper developing book is made. A master class on making this type of book is described below.

Necessary materials:

Manufacturing steps:

1. For a book using a photo album or files, fill each page (file) with cardboard the same size as the file. To do this, cut out cards from thick paper to fit the page. If the book will consist only of cardboard, without files and an album, then you need to cut out pages from dense double-sided material of the same size.
2. So, we are making a developing book with our own hands. Photos can be cut from magazines, coloring books or just draw yourself. You can also find pictures on the Internet, and then simply print them out or take a picture of the necessary items, and then insert the photos into an album.
3. Options for placing images on the page:

• one large picture on one page;
• one large photo and several small ones;
• image + poem or short story.

4. Insert pictures into an album or file. If the book is without files and an album, you need to connect the cards together with plastic rings, after making holes with a hole punch.

To make a cardboard book last for a long time, you can laminate the pages before binding.

Do-it-yourself cardboard-fabric educational book: master class

This type of product is similar to the previous one. It is suitable for children from one year old.

Necessary materials:

Manufacturing steps:

1. With the preparation of the foundation, a cardboard-fabric educational book begins. We make patterns with our own hands from separate sheets of thick cardboard of the same size.
2. Next, we cut a blank from the fabric in the form of two horizontally located pockets. The size of one part is equal to the size of a cardboard blank. We sew along the edges and in the middle. We get two identical pockets.
3. Then we insert a cardboard blank into each of them and sew it on a typewriter. The base is ready!
4. We add developing elements consisting of threads, buttons, lacing and other types of sewing accessories.
5. We put the blanks with pictures and developing elements together and sew them in the middle on a typewriter, thereby connecting them together and forming a book.

Felt books

Do-it-yourself educational books made of felt are very popular with children thanks to their bright colors and soft texture of the material. The manufacture of such toys is in many ways similar to the manufacture of products from cardboard and fabric. Their topics can be very diverse and depend on the tasks. Such a book is suitable for children from 6 months (without using cardboard) and from 1 year (with cardboard).

Necessary materials:

Manufacturing steps:

1. Page formation. To do this, you need felt, which must be cut into rectangles of the same size. Next, we sew two rectangles together with an overcast seam on a typewriter or manually. If the basis is cardboard, then it must be inserted between the layers of fabric, and only then sewn.
2. We decorate the finished pages of the book with the help of applique, threads, sewing accessories, lacing, based on the subject of the book and the developmental tasks set.
3. Connecting pages. When they make educational books for children with their own hands, there are many ways to fix the pages:

• stitching by hand.
• fixing the pages with a kind of felt binding. To make it, you need a strip of fabric: the length is equal to the length of the page of the book, and the width is the total thickness of all pages plus the distance between them. For convenient opening and closing of the book, the distance between the pages should be 0.2-0.5 cm.
• If there is cardboard at the base, then it is better to make double pages (turns), and they should be stitched in the middle, according to the principle of fastening sheets in a regular notebook.

Do-it-yourself soft developing books are easy to make. They are very amusing to kids, arouse interest and thus stimulate their development. Let's look at several options for making pictures for educational books.

Sun

To make a figure of the sun you will need:

• yellow fabric;
• threads, cords;
• scissors;
• needle with thread.

From the fabric, cut out two circles of the same size. Between them at the edges we add threads and cords of different thicknesses, sizes and textures. These will be rays. We sew the resulting blank and fix it on the page of the book. You can weave pigtails from the rays or tie them into ponytails, and make eyes out of buttons.

This option is perfect for studying color, shape, the concepts of "day" and "night".

Octopus

In order to make an octopus, you need:

• stencil cardboard;
• textile;
• scissors;
• buttons for making eyes;
• cereals or small bells;
• thread with a needle.

We start creating an octopus by making a stencil. To do this, you need cardboard and a pencil. On the cardboard we draw the body and tentacles of the octopus, and then cut out the stencil along the contour. We apply it to the fabric, after bending it in half, circle it, and then cut it out. It turns out two identical blanks. We sew them together.

We add grits to the tentacles or sew bells on the bottom. We set the buttons in place of the eyes and attach the octopus to the page of the developing book.

This option contributes to the development of fine motor skills, which favorably affects the mental development of the child, as well as the development of speech. In addition, with the help of an octopus, you can form concepts such as color, marine life.

Butterfly

To make a butterfly you will need:

• stencil cut out of cardboard;
• felt;
• textile;
• scissors;
• thread with a needle.

We put the stencil on the felt and trace along the contour with chalk or a pencil. Cut out the resulting workpiece. From the fabric of the same color as the felt, cut out a square a little larger than a butterfly. We sew the fabric to the page of the book in the form of a pocket in which we hide the butterfly.

By the same principle, you can make several multi-colored pockets and butterflies, and then place them on the page of a developing book. You can also hide in one pocket not one, but two butterflies of the same color, but of different sizes.

This option is perfect for the formation of the child's concepts of color, size, insects.

Velcro applications

To make applications, you need to prepare:

• felt;
• scissors;
• Velcro;
• needle with thread.

First, we cut out the figures necessary for the book from felt: animals, wagons, a train, cars, etc. Using a needle and thread, we attach Velcro to the figures. On the page of the book where the figures will be attached, a thematic background should be selected, that is, a railway for a train or animal houses and the like.

This option can be used to develop thinking, get acquainted with the outside world, theatricalization of your favorite fairy tale.

Lace appliqué

Children are very fond of lacing something, so this addiction can be used to advantage. As an idea, you can apply an application consisting of shoes with laces. How is such a developing book made with your own hands? Its patterns are very simple, and the result will greatly amuse the baby.

To make such an application you will need:

We make shoes from fabric or felt using a stencil. We make holes for the laces, decorate them with accessories. We sew the shoes to the page of the developing book and tie the laces.

Thanks to such an application, a child can easily learn what shoes are like, develop fine motor skills hands, learn to pull, pull, lace.

Whatever version of the product would not be chosen, it will always be of interest to the baby. And do-it-yourself educational books made by yourself will bring the child not only double benefit, but also joy, since they will also contain a piece of maternal warmth. And this is one of the most important components of the development of a small person.

In order to sew a developing textile book for a child, you need to stock up on a bright plain cotton fabric, thin synthetic winterizer, felt different colors, beads, buttons, buttons, ribbons, cords and other interesting little things that every needlewoman probably has.

Almost everyone can make toys with their own hands. For this, you need wish, step by step master classes with a photo, well, preferably, patterns)

Also for work you will need: a transparent plastic cover from yogurt or mayonnaise, a transparent quick-drying glue, a magnet in the form of a thin plate, a rustling film, a bell, a small carabiner, soap or chalk for drawing lines on fabrics, cutting scissors, household sewing machine, iron.

Making a developing book includes 3 stages

Stage 1. Page preparation

First of all, it is necessary to cut out the pages of the future book from fabric and synthetic winterizer. The most convenient for kids is the size of the book is about 20 * 20 cm. So cut out the pages should be 22 * ​​22 cm in size.

The fabric page must be applied to the synthetic winterizer and along the perimeter lay a fastening machine line 3 mm from the cuts.

After the required number of pages has been prepared, you can proceed to the 2nd stage of work on the book.

Stage 2. Book cover and page design

In a developing book, not only the pages should be interesting, but also the covers. You can, for example, depict a large bright flower, the core of which will be made of a transparent plastic cover. Under it you can put multi-colored beads. Flower petals can be made from hard felt in different colors. The background of the cover is harmoniously complemented by colored buttons. Thundering from any movement, shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow - this cover will not leave any child indifferent.

The theme of the pages can be anything. When working on a developmental book, it is important to adhere to simple rule, - thanks to the artistic design of the book, the child must acquire and develop new skills and abilities, broaden his horizons, and train his memory.

This is where a variety of techniques come in handy. You can attach elements to pages using buttons, buttons, magnets. Inside the characters sewn onto the page, you can put a piece of rustling film.

You can intentionally "hide" some elements so that the child looks for them. So, for example, you can put a bee inside a flower, ladybug- under a piece of paper, candy - in a felt envelope. Other elements, on the contrary, should be large, bright, immediately conspicuous and call for action, for example, a butterfly “flies” on a thin cord, on a snail’s shell there is a bright button that needs to be moved in a spiral under a thin mesh stitched on top.

Young children are very fond of different sound effects. Therefore, you can place a plastic buzzer or a bell under an element on the page, for example, under the hat of a mushroom house. A window in the house, behind the curtains of which you can see someone's face, and a door that can be thrown open by unfastening the carabiner can also arouse additional interest in the little reader. And behind the door, too, there may be someone who lives in this forest house.

You can switch the child's attention from the natural world to toys familiar to him, cubes, pyramids, balls made of felt. They can be attached to the page using adhesive tape.

The back cover of a textile book can also give a child a surprise - just make a simple pocket on it and put candy or even cards with riddles about the heroes of the book into it.

When all the invented pages are designed, you can proceed to the last stage of work on the book.

Stage 3. Book mounting

Covers and pages must be sequentially and in pairs sewn together. To do this, they are folded face inward and stitched along the sections, leaving somewhere a small hole for eversion. At the same stage, loops and ribbon ties are provided and sewn. With the help of eyelets, the pages can be gathered together on a ribbon, and the strings will serve as a kind of fastener for the book. The stitched pages are turned inside out, ironed, the hole is sewn up. Then it remains only to assemble the textile book into a single piece.

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Do-it-yourself soft book for children is great gift both your own and someone else's child. The kid will be happy new toy, and the parent - to the fact that his child can gameplay gain new useful skills. We invite you to learn more about what a do-it-yourself soft book is. Book ideas and several workshops are included.

Why do we need soft books?

Soft books contain many details, different in texture, color and size. While playing with such textbooks, the child:

• develops;
• get acquainted with different shapes and colors;
• develops visual perception, attention and thinking;
• develops tactile skills.

Do-it-yourself developing soft book: ideas

The number of ideas for soft books depends on your imagination. For inspiration, you can go shopping and look at existing educational toys or look on the Internet.

DIY soft book (ideas):

	Description
Clasps	Make a picture with several elements that are connected to each other with buttons or buttons. Place on the page a few snakes and other fasteners behind which something interesting is hidden. Make lacing.
	Each page is new color. That is, different elements in the same tone and it is desirable to make an inscription with the name of the color.
	The page contains the contours of objects and a pocket with them. The child must place the object on the appropriate contour. Figures can be attached to the page with Velcro or buttons.
Collecting pictures	On the page there is only a frame of something, and the child needs to assemble the whole part. The principle is the same as when collecting a pyramid or a puzzle.
	The scene on the page contains ribbons that need to be braided.
	Interaction with numbers.
	An example of such a book: a train with wagons is sewn to the page, and the child needs to put animals in them.

Much more interesting options that connect multiple functions. For example, you need to open the doors of the house, which are fastened with several different fasteners. And behind the doors are the contours of the figures, inside which the color is signed. It turns out that the child needs not only to open the doors, but also to arrange the figures according to the contour and color.

What do you need to create a soft book?

A do-it-yourself soft educational book is created using the following materials and tools:

• pages (felt, cotton, silk, and so on);
• fabric for details and objects in the book (it is better to opt for felt - it is soft and pleasant to the touch);
• Velcro, buttons, snakes, lacing, latches, buttons and other possible fasteners and fasteners;
• beads;
• tapes;
• threads;
• rings for connecting pages;
• filler for the cover and details of the book (for example, synthetic winterizer, holofiber, and so on);
• chalk or a special fabric marker (needed to create templates and notes);
• needles;
• scissors;
• sewing machine.

Making the basis of the book

The basis of the book is its cover, to which the pages will be attached.

Master class on how to make soft books with your own hands (cover photo attached):

1. Decide what size you want the book.
2. Draw a rectangle on the back of the fabric. Its length should be more than the intended size by about five to ten centimeters. This stock is the front side of the book. The wider it is, the more pages can be placed in the book.
3. Make two of these patterns. You can use two different fabrics- one is needed for the outer cover, the other - for the inner.
4. Cut out two templates with a margin of up to a centimeter on each side.
5. Mark a ribbon whose width is equal to the width of the front side of the book, and the length is equal to its height. Add from five millimeters to a centimeter to each side. Cut it out.
6. Put a few rings on the tape to secure the pages. Better use three.
7. Decorate one of the pieces of fabric on the half of the front side - this will be the cover. You can cut out figures from felt and sew or glue them on, sew on beads, fasteners, buttons, embroider words or numbers. Get creative.
8. Sew the ribbon with rings to the right side of the other piece of fabric vertically in the center. Be sure to evenly space the rings.
9. Sew the two sides of the cover together, leaving a small hole in the middle on the right side.
10. Turn out the cover.
11. Push the filler evenly inside the cover. It should not be very much, but you need to fill it very tightly.
12. Sew up the hole
13. Sew on ribbons for tying.
14. Cover is ready!

Sewing pages for a book

Book pages can be made in two ways:

• full reversal;
• page by page.

If you make a spread, then the size will be the same as for the cover. If you sew each page separately, then just reduce the size by half.

All work comes down to the following:

• cut two pieces of fabric of the required size;
• make the necessary details for the page (cut out the figures, sew them, and so on);
• sew the pages with the back side, leaving a small hole;
• turn the fabric inside out;
• fill it with padding polyester, holofiber or something else;
• sew a hole;
• insert special rings into one of the sides of the page (rings on the cover tape will be inserted into them);
• if there are none, then you can simply make small cuts and sheathe them so that they do not fray;
• sew on all the necessary details.

The page is ready.

Tip: in order to save time and simplify the process of work, the pages can be made from colored felt or other dense fabric that holds its shape and does not wrinkle. Just cut two pieces and sew them together. You don't need to hit.

DIY soft book: ideas with numbers

To acquaint a child with numbers and teach counting, you can make books with numbers with your own hands. Options for implementing ideas:

1. Cut out numbers and some objects from any fabric (for example, felt), it can be different. Their number must correspond specifically to the figure. You can place everything as follows: a number is sewn on one turn, a pocket with objects (for example, small carrots) is sewn on the other. The child must lay out the number of carrots indicated on the page.
2. Cut out the numbers from dark cardboard or other thick paper and stitch them to the pages. Make a bag for the book, which will store the chalk and cloth. Let the child learn how to write numbers. He will simply draw the chalk on the pattern, after which it can simply be erased.
3. Make abacus on the pages of the book (we will consider a master class below).

Page with numbers

Master class on making a page with numbers:

1. On the page, mark the lines for the ribbons with pins.
2. Take ribbons or thick yarn folded in half and large beads.
3. String beads on each ribbon. Their number should be from one to ten. It can be less if the number of tapes does not fit on the page.
4. Embroider the numbers on the page or on a separate ribbon. Ten ribbons - ten numbers.
5. Sew the ribbons with beads to the page. This can be done in two ways:

• make small cuts in the fabric of the page and thread the ends of the ribbon into them, tie knots from the inside or sew the ends;
• sew the ribbons directly to the page, and sew the ribbons to hide the ends of the yarn.

6. Sew a tape with embroidered numbers to one of the sides of the “account”, if you made one.

Page with numbers is ready!

Page with clasps

To develop motor skills and teach a child to use buttons, snakes, hooks, and so on, pages with fasteners, on which game form it is proposed to unfasten the snake or tie the shoelaces.

Soft (master class for making a page with fasteners):

1. Draw all the details on the felt. In the given example, this is a jacket, mittens, a skirt, a torso (you can wear a blouse), a neck.
2. Cut the jacket in half vertically.
3. Sew a snake into the jacket.
4. Zip up the snake.
5. Sew on the page all the details in the following order: neck, body (blouse), skirt and mittens.
6. Sew a jacket on top of everything.
7. Make a scarf.

One of the variants of the page with fasteners is ready.

Another idea for such a page is shoes with laces. Let the child learn to lace.

Page "Dress the doll"

Dress up the doll is a game that helps the child make the right decisions.

Do-it-yourself soft book - a master class on sewing the page "Dress the Doll":

1. Cut out the necessary details from felt: doll, hair, clothes and shoes.
2. Sew Velcro on the back of the doll and to the page.
3. Sew Velcro to each clothes and shoes.
4. Cut out a wardrobe from felt.
5. Sew the cabinet to the page in such a way that you get a pocket.
6. Sew hair onto the doll, make a face (glue the fabric, draw with markers or embroider with thread).
7. Stick the doll to the page, and put all the clothes in the closet.

The page is ready!

Another option for such a page is “Seasons”. Sew on the tree and pocket. Make leaves (green and yellow) and flowers. Let the child place them on the tree, depending on what season you say. For example, spring - green leaves, summer - flowers, autumn - yellow leaves, and in winter the tree remains empty.

Advantages of a soft book

Do-it-yourself soft books for kids have a number of advantages over other educational things and simple books:

• there is no printing ink on the pages;
• used to create it natural fabrics and materials;
• soft book is washable;
• soft toy and educational book in one item;
• bright;
• one book can contain many educational items (for example, buttons, fasteners, zippers, laces, hooks, and so on).

Disadvantages of a soft book

There is only one drawback - the pages contain a lot of small details that a child can swallow.

Therefore, do not let your child play alone with the book and keep a close eye on him while learning.

Developing book for kids with their own hands.

Author: Rak Anna Vasilievna, teacher primary school MOU gymnasium No. 1, Millerovo, Rostov region
Material Description: I bring to your attention a description of a soft developing book that you can sew with your own hands. This material can be useful for mothers of babies, grandmothers and caregivers working with babies (mothers can be involved in the work).
Target: all-round development of the child.
Tasks:
develop fine motor skills,
develop the thinking, speech of the child,
cultivate love for mother, grandmother.

Since childhood, we have all heard the phrase more than once: Best gift- one that is made by hand. You can disagree with this, but a bright and joyful period is coming - you have become a mother or grandmother. Among all the pleasant troubles, the question arises of where to get good, harmless, useful and educational toys?
I answer: sew with your own hands!
Pros:
environmentally friendly materials (after all, we take natural fabrics for work),
safety (all fragments are soft),
positive energy (so much love is invested!),
developmental purpose (each fragment with some kind of task).
Minuses:
I didn't find them.
When my grandson was born, I decided to sew him a soft educational book. Before starting work, I drew future pages, thought it over, prepared necessary materials- and this is what I got:
1. This is the cover of a book. Artyom really likes that the book bears his name. The thermal sticker is attached with an iron, the letters are scribbled on sewing machine.

2. We unzip the “zipper” on the boot - a mouse lives inside (it lies freely, not sewn). The toe of the boot is on the Velcro fastener.

3. The shoe will help the child learn how to thread the lace into the holes. The boot mouse loves to get into the boot.

4. The pyramid can be disassembled and then assembled (all fragments are Velcro). The top element on the big button.

5. The wheels of the truck are double-sided, fastened with buttons. The driver and passenger periodically change places.

6. Butterfly, apples and fungus are fastened with Velcro, the hedgehog's prey can be swapped.

7. A worm lives in an apple under a leaf - you can get it by turning the leaf away. The butterfly was once a caterpillar - this is the body of a butterfly, it can be separated by pulling it up.

8. Merry Christmas tree, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden and a bag with gifts. Each element of the Christmas tree is Velcro, you can put a small souvenir, sweetness in the bag.

9. "Make" a snowman. Each lump is separated, they are on the buttons. The broom can be picked up by pulling it up.

10. The pocket on the last page (on the cover) is not without reason: so that the details that the child separated are not lost, we put it in it.

Now my grandson is 4 years and 3 months old. He loves his book very much and periodically “rereads” it. Fine motor skills develop, attention develops, speech develops, and we, looking at him, rejoice.

Soft developing book will help the child to improve, learn new things. Mom will sew it from patches, braid, beads left over from needlework.

Ideas for designing a developing book

1. Try to have the pages of different colors so that the child from infancy can distinguish between them. It would be nice if there were inscriptions with the name of the color. Then he will remember how these words are spelled.
2. So that the child can develop fine motor skills, thinking, come up with tasks for him. So, on the pages there may be elements that are attached to the base with Velcro or buttons. For example, vegetables that need to be “planted” in the garden, apples and mushrooms, their child will attach to the hedgehog. Having removed the element with buttons, the child will see something interesting behind it. By unzipping the zipper, the baby will open the wings of a ladybug.
3. 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.
4. So that he can braid pigtails, sew a few ribbons next to him, Show the baby how it's done.
5. For the child to learn the score, number the pages, sewing a certain number to each in order.
6. Each page of the book is dedicated to something. For example, one is a garden theme, another is an animal theme, a third is a rainbow, a fourth is a marine theme.

How to make a cover for a soft educational book?

Its dimensions depend on what you want the soft developing book to be. Take your own fleece or felt. These fabrics are soft and hold their shape. You can use both canvases at once, one for the top of the cover, the other for the inside.

The rectangle should be large enough so that you can add 1 cm seam allowance and 5 cm center fold. If you have applications on the cover, then first sew them on the front side. Then fold the two canvases of the page so that the wrong side is at the top, stitch along the edge, leaving 15 cm free on the small side. Through this hole, turn the blank on the front side, put a smaller padding polyester rectangle in it than the cover.

Another option is to make separate pages, make holes in them with a special tool, fix rings here so that the pages can be laced up by connecting them.

You can combine them with a flap, one edge of which you will sew to the first page of the binding, the second to the last. This flap should be basted to each page so that from the binding side they look like an accordion.

DIY soft book - master class

Now you know how to make a binding for her. And here is how to design one of the pages. Ask the child to put fruits and berries in a vase, they will be attached with buttons and Velcro.

You will need to make a page:

• fabric rectangle;
• pieces of cloth;
• large buttons;
• needle and thread;
• buttons;
• Velcro;
• thin synthetic winterizer.

Master Class:

1. From thick fabric, cut out all the details that you will sew onto the page. It is better if they are in pairs.
2. Sew both layers of round berries with a zigzag stitch, also make a loop in the center on a sewing machine, cut it through. Sew a strawberry. Attach a green tail to it.
3. Cherries can be crocheted in a circle. On the reverse side, sew buttons to them, paired elements of this accessories, as well as buttons - to the page of the book.
4. Take a sheet of fabric measuring 20 by 20 cm, 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 out on the front side. You need to smooth its seams, then insert a sheet of padding polyester inside, which is 1 cm smaller than the page on all sides. Sew up the gap on your hands.

Now the child will be able to attach berries to an impromptu vase using buttons or Velcro, buttons.

If you want him to know the seasons well, then for such soft book for toddlers make 4 pages. To create them, you will 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 them to the wrong side.

Cut out Christmas trees from a green napkin. Since they all year round have a color to show the winter landscape, cut out snowflakes, decorate trees with colorful balls from napkins of a different color.

If a child spends the summer in the country, 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 the child by making the appropriate application on the page.

In the fall, more and more clouds appear, but the sun still shines. You can also sew a braid here to make it rain.

If all the elements suit you, then you can sew them directly onto the pages of the book. On a sewing machine, sew large parts, sew small ones on your hands.

Where there is an autumn landscape, sew a thin braid on top, firmly tie beads to these ribbons from below.

Since soft books for children contain quite a lot of small items, attach them firmly, but do not move away from the child while playing with such an item.

If you want a typewriter to drive around the cover of the book, then make small vertical cuts on it in the center, thread the ribbon here. Sew the machine to the base. Fasten the edges of the tape on one and the other side of the cover.

This is how the 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 sew pockets in the form of a steam locomotive on the book. Make various little animals out of felt. Let the child put these passengers in open cars. Sew on buttons in the form of wheels and you can send the train on the road.

In order for the child to develop fine motor skills, sew threads in the form of a web on the page of the book, sew plastic rings here. Let the baby thread the braid through them, creating a web.

Cut out a sneaker from fabric or leather, sew rings vertically in the center so that the child can thread a lace into them, learn to tie shoes. These skills will be very useful to him, as well as zippering.

For such a book page, you need to take:

• textile;
• lightning;
• woolen threads.

Cut out the jacket, sew it onto the page of the book. Baste a zipper in the center so that the child can fasten these clothes, at the same time he learns to fasten his jacket.

For kids, one more page can be advised, which will have a soft developing book. With their own hands, children will be able to dress dolls, thereby learning this simple task.

To do this, a doll from a dense base is sewn onto the book, Velcro must be attached to it. Cut out the garments of this toy. Place a closet in the form of a pocket next to it. Remove the doll's robe there, on the back of which you will sew Velcro in advance. Have the child dress the doll in the correct order.

Toddlers can be advised to make another page of the book. Sew a thin elastic band here, pull beads, balls, buttons on it, firmly fastening them. The child will surely like the proposed toy.

Playing with the first book in his life, the baby will learn how to assemble a pyramid by height and color. To do this, take:

• textile;
• filler;
• Velcro
• needle and thread.

Cut out rectangles from fabric of different colors, sew them along the edges, leaving a small end free. Insert filler through it, then sew. On the reverse side, sew Velcro to the resulting sausage, attach their paired parts to the book. Let the child assemble the pyramid, first with the help of their parents, then on their own.

He will surely like to put the bear to sleep, 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 figure of the month on the next page. When the baby wakes up, he will look with pleasure at the sun, which will smile benevolently at him.

Do-it-yourself educational book for baby boys

Young gentlemen like cars since childhood, so use them to create a soft educational toy.

Take:

• colored fabric;
• buttons;
• small household sponges;
• markers.

Use scissors to cut out cars from sponges, glue large button wheels to them, paint cars. From fabric and sheet filler, make pages for a book. For the child to study the numbers, sew them one by one on each page in the form of a pedestrian crossing.

We sew only on the right pages, the left ones will become a garage. Attach Velcro here, as well as on the back of the cars, so that the child can park his vehicle at night.

If the children are small, it is better not to attach buttons to the sponges, but to draw wheels. Or you need to tirelessly monitor the children during such a game so that they do not harm themselves with torn off small objects.

For another baby boy book, use fabric bright colors. The child will love to play the fireman that you will create from fabric.

Let there be a rising boom on his car, this can be done if you fasten two elements with two buttons. Make a Velcro gate so that, if necessary, the child can open it and enter the building on fire. The braid will turn into a brace, the boy will like to play with such objects, to feel like a fireman.

Soft books on the theme of home farm and garden

On this topic, you can also make soft books. This is a great experience for kids, they will learn the name of the animals, they will know how to care for them. You will tell what vegetables can be grown, how to collect and stack them.

Let's start with the home farm.

The chicken and the duck are cut out of felt, the other items in the book are also made of the same material. Let the door in the house open, for this, sew a button on it, and next to it a loop of elastic. There will also be a swinging window, fix it with two ribbons.

A fence is made from rectangular strips of fabric, turn the green fabric into grass and into a tree crown. Line the pages with tucked 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, fill them with filler through the upper hole, sew green fleece tops here. Here is the finished carrot. To “plant” it in the garden, position the braid horizontally, sew it so that root crops fit between the seams. Attach a large pocket nearby, where 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 and collect nectar.

The butterfly flutters over the flowers, so it will also be very appropriate here. You can sew a zipper between its back wings, when you fasten it, it will turn into a semicircular bug. By unzipping the zipper, you will transform it into a butterfly again.

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 the ribbon between the wings, thereby turning the caterpillar into a butterfly.

The bee is made of yellow fleece, black stripes of braid are sewn across the body, you need to attach a ribbon to it.

The child will learn about the garden, domestic animals, if the next book is made of fabric.

Sew characters from felt, attach Velcro to them on the back. Then your favorite child will arrange them in the right order, gradually learning this. At the same time, he will get acquainted with the fairy tale Turnip.

Make hidden corners in the book so that the baby gradually finds them. Let the hedgehog live in a mushroom house, only by opening the door you can find this animal, to the great joy of the child.

Children learn that chickens are children of hens by opening the wing of the mother hen.

Tell the children how apples grow in the country. Make such a fabric applique in the book, place fruits here with Velcro. Let the baby rip them off, put them on the hedgehog's needles, and fasten them in the same way.

Apples on a tree can be arranged in a different way by sewing buttons on it, and loops on them. The fruits themselves are made of red or yellow felt or other similar material.

Educational toy for girls

It is performed in the same way, but here a little different. The baby will surely enjoy dressing the doll, as mentioned above. She will also be interested in hanging clothes on a rope, taking them off.

To make this 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. Glue to the first 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 laundry to hang it on a rope. As it, use a thin elastic band.

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:

• textile;
• 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 interlining inside. Attach a cat application to the cover, tie a bow, embroider the name of the child.

Inside, you can sew a ladybug, making a slot in the center, insect babies will penetrate here. In order for the girl to learn to weave a braid, on the next page there will be an application of a young lady with long hair from yarn.

For a girl to learn neatness from infancy, attach an organizer for pencils and a handkerchief on the next spread. Velcro flowers next to the vase to hint to her that they need to be placed in this container. The linen closet stores things for dolls that the child will be happy to put on them. But you read about it earlier, such entertainment will also appeal to the young hostess.

Perhaps she would like to become a doctor if she turns to the next page of the soft book. In the pockets there are various animals made of felt, on the other spread there is a cabinet, opening which the child will find objects the simplest help learn to render it.

Learning to count from a soft developing book

So, in passing, the child will remember how the initial numbers are written, if you do not forget to number the pages. To make him learn to count, make the following soft educational book. To create it you will need:

• base fabric;
• laces;
• large beads;
• marker.

You will make pages from dense fabric. By making holes with an awl or other similar object, you will fasten several laces horizontally, after stringing beads of a certain color on each.

As you promote them, count with your child. In order for the kid to learn to draw numbers, make appliqués from fabric. Sew on a pocket where the chalk will be stored. Then the child will be able to get it and circle the numbers, thereby learning how to draw them.

In the same way, you can introduce children to some letters, then form syllables and short words from them.

This is how, in a relaxed atmosphere, while 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 one.

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 the typewriter.