Crafts from a not-so-crafty Mom: December 2015

Koala loves her Hello Kitty dress up page so much that I wanted to make her another page that was similar.

Since it was cold and Koala loves snowmen, I looked up some snowman quiet book pages. There were a couple pages I modeled this 'build a snowman' page from but this was the only link that still worked.

I wanted to add Olaf from Frozen to the page so it could be a 'Do you wanna build a snowman?' page.

I found a picture of Olaf to trace and made this felt version that I sewed down. I put a little stuffing in between the background and Olaf's belly to make him look a little plump.

I originally thought of making the pieces for Olaf for Koala to build but decided against that since it wouldn't give much of a variety.

Instead, I put Olaf on the left side of the page and left space to build the snowman.

For the background, I used blue stuff felt that I had bought and white regular felt for the back hill.

I made the front hill into pockets to hold the snowman pieces and put pellon to reinforce the white felt so that it would be sturdier. I sewed it to the page leaving the top open and putting two vertical lines to create 3 pockets. Then I started stitching the words on the hill. In retrospect, I should have sewn the words on the front pocket BEFORE sewing it to the page lol! And I probably should have used a template or written it on first. It came out kinda crooked.

I added three snaps for the snowman. This time I opted to use snaps instead of Velcro because it looked nicer and also because I've seen how Velcro can wear out the background felt. The snaps are still hard for Koala to put on by herself but it works.

I contemplated making different noses, eyes etc for the face but decided against it because the pieces would be too small. Instead, I glued two googly eyes, made a carrot nose from felt and stitched a smile onto a small circle