Thursday, September 8, 2011

Dry Erase Quiet Book

This project was first done by Autie from icandy homemade while guest posting here and then Cheri, from I am Momma Hear Me Roar, did one herself that you can find here. The second I saw it on IAMHMR, it went into my 'DO THIS ASAP' file in my head (this was back before the convenience of pinterest-seriously if you are not pinning yet you NEED to be...let me know I'll hook ya up!)

So seeing as I needed some cute scrapbooky looking design for the front of my book, (I mean could I possibly take a plain quiet book to church?! I know right?) I called up my momma, aka the scrapbooking EXPERT, and asked if she wouldn't mind stopping everything she was doing and make me some adorable scrapbook pages for my kids new dry-erase quiet books. She didn't disappoint:


Seriously this woman kills me with the amount of talent that comes out of her teeny-tiny body. I LOVED them and my kids pretty much think they're the bees knees at church as they carry around their very personalized "shhh books"-as my kylee calls hers.


I picked up the binders from Walmart and I chose these ones that had this plastic pocket on the front inside cover. They work PERFECTLY to hold their dry erase crayons (about $4), erasing mitt (that comes with the box of crayons), and snacks, stickers, etc. We're trying to cut down on the amount of snacks we're taking to church since the kids are getting older and don't need food to keep them quiet anymore :), so they know they've got 1 pack of fruit snacks each and that's it. Surprisingly they haven't complained once...too many other fun things here to keep them occupied!


The front of the book has several pages of Christ, scripture stories, pictures from The Friend, etc just slipped into sheet protectors, (set of 25 for $3-4) that they look at during the sacrament portion of our church meetings.




Kylee's favorite primary song is Popcorn Popping so I had to add this picture in her book!


The dry erase crayons work awesome on the sheet protectors and wipe off in a snap so they can re-color every page as much, and as different, as they like!


They LOVED seeing color pages of themselves in their books too!


These were just pictures uploaded to picnik and edited using the pencil sketch tool.




After all the coloring pages are some different magnet activities they can do (for some reason my kids are really into these types of things right now). I found these on THIS website and there are SO many great ideas for boys and girls.


I used a magnet tape roll and just cut the magnet to the size I needed and used less than a roll for both these books. The magnet is stuck directly onto the paper which is then slipped inside the sheet protector, and the magnet on the back of the individual cut up pictures sticks firmly to the magnet on the paper through the sheet protector. Does that make sense? I guess I'm just trying to say that you still get a good magnetic pull through the protector even though one magnet is underneath it.


This way you can change around the pictures and magnet activities in your sheet protectors without having to worry about wasting magnets or ruining sheet protectors that you can use again for a different picture.


For each magnet activity I placed all the loose magnet pieces that go with that particular page in a ziploc bag punched into the top 2 rings of the binder so that pieces don't get lost or mixed up-so far it's worked out great to do it this way!


I also went ahead and threw in a notebook into the back of each of their binders for more drawing and whatnot but neither of them have touched them yet.


I like that the binders also have a short pocket on the back cover to slip any papers they may have got from primary/nursery so we don't have to worry about leaving them under benches, using them to make paper airplanes (that would be the daddy :) ), etc. since we have sacrament meeting last.


It's SO nice to only have to bring 2 simple binders to church with us instead of an overflowing bag of over-used toys, messy snacks, broken crayons, loose papers, and forgotten Kleenex's.


I also really love the versatility that this allows. We've used these for 4 sundays now and they have not climbed down off the bench one time. This book easily occupies them for the hour long meeting and they're usually still begging to use them once we get home (which is a NO!). Buuuttt if they do start to get bored of certain pictures or coloring pages or out-grow the activities, I can easily print new ones off and slip them in and Wam-Bam we've got a whole new quiet book.

Thanks for popping in today, have a sweetly lovely day wherever YOU are!

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23 comments:

Megan King said...

I love this! I can't wait to have the time to make it! Hopefully, Nolan loves it as much as your kids seem to.

Anonymous said...

what an awesome idea...i'm so pinning this!!

Just Jaime said...

Love how they turned out! We had that bear in our book like that.

LivingSoAbundantly said...

That is awesome! :)

Cox Family said...

I love this I am trying to make it and was wondering where you got the papers for the magnet activities? If you wouldn't mind sharing thanks :)

Jaimee @ Havenwood House of Boys said...

Oh I SO hear you on being over the bag full of messy stuff to keep little ones occupied at church!! I think our family has finally past those days for the most part. I was taking art wallets and felt marble mazes last year. I love, love, LOVE your dry erase and magnetic pages binder!! Good work Momma : )
Jaimee @ craft-interrupted.blogspot.com

Handy Man, Crafty Woman said...

I love that you can erase the pages over and over, yet switch them out pretty easily if they get bored with the pages :D Thanks for linking to Wicked Awesome Wednesday!

Rachel said...

I need to do this. I love the magnet ideas. Thanks for sharing

Jacque said...

This is such a cute idea! I love it!

I would love it if you would stop by and link up at my "Sundae Shake Up" party on Sunday. I'm sure the ladies over there would love to see it too!

Jacque @ Jacque's Soda Parlor
thesodaparlor.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

Fun idea! I bet these work great at churhc! I love the covers too! I have a party going on over at my blog if you want to join! I'd love to have you! Check it out under the "Stache Party" page on my blog: mylilpumpkinpatch.blogspot.com

Brit said...

Wow, they are perfect in every single way! Great job :) I think my kids are needing one too ;) Can I have your moms number for the front page cover. ;) Thanks for sharing with us at our party!! You are awesome.
Britney
www.jandmseyecandy.blogspot.com

Kasia said...

Really great idea! Thank u for sharing

Sweet Peas and Bumblebees said...

Such a GREAT idea! We are featuring you tomorrow at the start of a new What I Made Wednesday Linky Party @ Sweet Peas and Bumblebees! Come and grab a button and join in on the fun!

Alisa

AmyH said...

Genius! I'm featuring you tomorrow at the Friday Favs Party (naptimecrafters.blogspot.com). Thanks for linking up!

Jordan McCollum said...

My mom made one of these for my kids this spring. They loved it . . . and then they asked, "Nana, did you make me anything special?"

I guess I loved it, then: http://www.waywardgirlscrafts.com/2011/04/nana-but-did-you-make-me-anything.html

Sara said...

Amazing. What a creative idea. Thank you so much for sharing this.

Unknown said...

Brilliant!
Thank you for sharing this at Beneath the Rowan Tree~ I am featuring it at this week's Playdate link party, so come and snag a 'featured button' and play some more!

Cheers,
Lori
http://beneaththerowantree.com

Jennifer said...

Fabulous!!

ab!sh said...

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw your pic. Through different pinterest links and what not I ended up on your blog and I.love.it. I am your newest follower :-) and I agree pinterest is awesome!!!

Kristy said...

Thanks for this great idea! I put together a little quiet book for my little guy last week and it was a hit at church!

Katie said...

Oh wow aren't these the cutest quiet books ever. Thanks for all the fun ideas for what to put inside too! I just pinned this!

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Unknown said...

What kind of magnet did you use? I'm having trouble getting my magnet to stick to itself.

Thanks