Quiet book

We are up to our elbows in packing and what is the natural way to distressed after a busy day?

Sure, you attempt to make a Quiet book for you daughter to use during the long journey home.

If you are not on pinterest and have never searched for "How to keep your toddler quiet during church or busy during a long haul flight", chances are you don't know what a Quiet/Activity book is.

Well, look it up and then, by all means, DON'T compare it to what I produced last night. (actually, on a proud side note - Erlend helped me make it!)

book cover

 will maybe help with learning how to count?

 button flowers and sensory shapes with tulle on top

 pulling ribbons and zippers

 collecting strawberries in a 'basket'

We finished up the book today while Alia was taking her nap and when she woke up I was so excited to see how she would react to her new book after all the work we had put into it. 

She looked at it for about a minute and then lost interest. REALLY?!?!

But later, when we were packing and we needed her to not mess with the already packed stuff, she played a good 30 minutes with a little lump of sticky tack (or blue tack or sticky stuff that you can hang up pictures with) - oh well, never mind, lesson learned - we are definitely bringing sticky tack on the plane....