The Finished Product

As many of you know I have been working on a quiet book for Ezra for a few months. I got it mostly done for his birthday, but did the finishing touches tonight. I want to give a special thanks to my Mom, Annie, and Bob for their help (and patience) and to the Bunker and Russ quiet books for some inspiration! I know my Mom especially wanted to see how it turned out, so here it is....

The Prophets have velcro so you can remove and try to replace.

The flowers are buttoned on and can be mixed and matched.

You weave Joseph's clothes and there are animals in the ark.

The apples are magnetic and can be moved around.

You can untie Ammon's bag to find the arms he has collected.

Obviously you can put the armor on the man.

You lace baby Moses into the basket and the basket moves up and down the river.

Jonah, a finger puppet, goes inside the whale and it's mouth zips shut.

You connect the string from the map to the person that matches with snaps.

Pioneer board game

You can pick various eyes, noses, and mouths to make faces.

If you pick the mustache nose, the frowny mouth, 

and the scary eyes it looks like Hitler.

Bob made me change it for the picture. 

You can also redo the hair. (It's pipe cleaners.)

The note page is fairly self explanatory!

Likes:

-I can take the rings apart and give a few pages to each kid. Hopefully this will lessen the fighting.

-I can add more pages down the road if I feel so inspired.

-That it should entertain kids of various ages.

-Bob REALLY likes the Ammon arm page. Thank you Sandy for the idea, and Tina for the arms!

-That it is done.

Dislikes:

-The world page was so awesome in my head, but it just didn't work like I wanted. Not to mention that I made the most stupid mistakes on that page. Oh well!

-How often I didn't pay attention to what was on the page before I ironed stuff on. Hopefully it's not too noticeable.