I mentioned a while ago that I would share the patterns of the busy book / quiet book pages I made for our toddler son and actually had a minute today to do so! This taggie page was the first busy book page I’ve ever made and I wanted to incorporate little tags since Leo loves loves loves tags. There are also a sun and a rain cloud so we can talk about weather when we grab the book. In theory he can also trace his name with his fingers but who am I kidding :D.
If you’d like to make this page for your quiet book, download the free pattern here and gather your supplies. I wrote a list of busy book supplies in this blog post.
How to Sew A Busy Book Page
First, print the pattern pdf page. The square should be 8x8in if that’s the size felt you’re working with.
Cut out the shapes.
Pin the shapes to felt with needles. I used yellow, gray, and green felt.
If you want to embroider the sun and cloud with some kawaii faces, do that now! I used a sewing pen to draw eyes and mouths on the shapes. Then you use back stitch to sew over those outlines. The markings magically disappear after a few hours so if you mess up – no worries!
Grab sun and rain colored ribbon and cut 3in long pieces. Pin the top of the sun and cloud to the felt page. Now you can see where the ribbons would line up. Fold them in half and pin them to the page where you want them to be. Finally, you can easily fix them to the page with a back stitch. Just make sure to sew under the sun and cloud so you won’t see the stitches.
I like using felt glue in addition to sewing felt together just to give it a bit more resilience to toddler hands. Make sure you use felt glue sparingly and where you won’t sew. It’s a b**ch to force a needle through dried felt glue! So here I applied glue in the center of the cloud, sun, and grass.
Once the glue has dried, sew around the shapes to hold them in place.
Finally, I added self-sticking felt letters to the page instead of grass tags like I had initially planned. I just thought a littler personalization would be special for the cover of Leo’s busy book. And that my friends is how I made the first quiet book page: a personalized weather front page. Hope you’ll enjoy sewing this pattern! I’d love to see what you made!