Wednesday, July 9, 2008

No Sew Quiet Books

This book has gotten us through a lot of Church Meetings with our three kids. It was easy to make, and my kids love it. It also makes great gifts for Christmas and birthdays.






Basically I just used some file folder games. I didn't want to mess with bringing a bunch of folders to church, so I just cut some file folders in half and cut them down a little so they would fit in a 3 ring binder.




I could have just used cardstock, but I liked how the file folders had the little tab at the top. The other great thing about cutting them down for the binder is that they are small enough to fit in your normal laminating machine like you can buy at Walmart. It's way cheaper to buy your own laminator and laminating sheets at Walmart then to pay to have it laminated.






On the first one I used adhesive Velcro, but that was a little noisey sometimes. So depending on the noise level at your Church you could also use magnetic tape.



I keep all the pieces in a little Ziploc bag and then I just stapled a piece of cardstock cut in half and laminated to the front of the file folder to make a pocket to keep the bag in.




I have to be honest it is a lot of cutting and coloring, but I would ten times rather do that then sew little pieces together. It really has held up well, we've been using this one for about 3 years.



It doesn't have to be churchy. There are some great FREE file folder games here at Preschool Printables. These are great because you can print them out in color if you really don't want to take the time to color them. This site has both religious and non religious file folder games. I got all of mine out of this book.....



I know is says Latter Day Saint File Folder Fun, but it also has some Bible ones, like Joseph's coat, and Noah's ark. Anyhow, it your want you can check it our more
here.
So there you have it, my NO SEW quite book, I promise it works, Usually!

22 comments:

Heather said...

This is SUCH a great idea!!

Gettysburg Homestead said...

What a great idea... my kids use to get search a words and dot to dot games. They are too old for them now, but these would have been great.

Mary

Mrs. Trixi said...

I dont have little ones anymore but these are sooo cute.

Christine said...

OMG, I really need one of these. Now I just have to find the time to make it!

Pink Dreaming said...

thanks for coming to search for me...I have had a crazy, but great month. For some reason I am beginning to think blogging is not a summer thing for me. I feel like we are always on the go. I will try to do better.

I loved you little book. I might need to make one for when darlin' is a bit older. Thanks for sharing such a great idea!

Rue said...

Hi Nicole :)

Those would be great for road trips too! I wish I had them when my kids were young :)

rue

julie said...

That is the neatest thing! Thank you so much for showing this! I have never seen one before. I will definatly be making one for each of my kids and one for my nephew! Julie

Nicol said...

What a great idea! Thanks for sharing. I have seen the regular quiet books and the file folder games. I like it even better in a binder! I will have to check out that book next time I am at deseret book. Livy is still a little young for them, but soon she will be able to enjoy them.

Stephanie said...

what a great idea

aimee said...

That is just cute as can be!!! Great idea!

Mrs. S said...

Holy moly, this is so cute! Can't wait til Moose is old enough to use one!

Jamie said...

This is a really cute idea. I am going to have to try it. Thanks so much for sharing.

Erika said...

Thanks! i've been wanting to get Kayleigh something like that. I'll have to look at your links.

Marie said...

What a great idea to put them in a binder. I have a bunch of these already put together, but the binder would really simplify carting them around. And I need to switch the velcro to magnetic tape, even in our VERY noisy ward the velcro is too loud. Hope you have fun on your vacation!

Kristin said...

Wow! I am definitely doing this; what a great idea! My kids would be entertained the whole time!

p.s. I bought my paper for my pineapples, and my covered notebooks at a local scrapbooking shop. It is a Heather Bailey design; otherwise check out this site

http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/shop/list/?f=qa&qa=heather+bailey&pg=1&pp=200

mmj100179 said...

What a neat idea!!

bbray said...

Wonderful idea! I put mine together with a binder comb (have my own binder machine and laminator), but the book really keeps them together. And I loved the magnet idea! I have little ones who come sit with me in sacrament meeting (the highlight of my Sunday!), so I take file folder games for them to play with.

They TOOK ME out of NURSERY, but they can't take the NURSERY out of ME!

eRiCa said...

found you through a blog of a blog LOL...anyway, how did you put all of them into a binder? I have that book and have started mine but a binder is brilliant...where did you put the pieces for each game? If you could let me know by responding on my blog or emailing me I would LOVE IT!!

Thanks,!

eRiCa said...

nevermind...i'm a nerd and got excited and didn't read through all your directions...THANKS!

cute blog by the way...

Holly said...

Hi I found your blog through google. I am totally going to make these "no sew quiet books" for my kids. I have a laminator, but I've found that sticky back velcro or magnets don't stick. What kind of lamination do you buy? You can email me at hollywallybolly@yahoo.com THANKS!

Jen Gillespie said...

I am getting ready to make these, but saw Holly's comment about the sticky back magnets don't stick. Have you had this problem? What works best for you?

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