When I first entered the mom group, I often heard my mothers mention quiet books, and I had never touched them at the time, and the first reaction in my head was: Is it a book that becomes quiet after playing?
In the spirit of studiousness, I went to Baidu for a while, and the overall meaning was similar to my bold idea.
Quiet Book is a literal translation of "Quiet Book", which is also called "Busy Book". "Let the baby play quietly on their own, and parents can also take the opportunity to catch their breath."
Of course, fun can make the child quiet. Therefore, these books usually have the characteristics of high appearance, strong game interactivity, and easy to attract children's attention.
The action of tearing, pulling and pasting also exercises the baby's hand strength and fine movements. At the same time, the Velcro is torn with the sound of "pulling", which will also arouse the curiosity of small month-old babies and always want to try repeatedly.
On the other hand, in addition to the attribute of "fun", quiet books often involve the basic cognitive learning of children, especially now that network resources are very rich, all kinds of quiet book resources include all aspects, basically can fully meet the needs of enlightenment.
What I have done alone includes: color shape cognition, classification, pairing, logical thinking, maze line walking, basic common sense cognition of life, classic picture book expansion and so on.
Because of its strong playability, the baby also likes it and can play repeatedly, so replacing some of the same function toys is equivalent to saving a sum of money.
Speaking of which, perhaps mothers are interested in the production of quiet books. Let's take a look at what tools are needed to make a quiet book!
1. Plastic sealing machine
The cost-effectiveness of household use can generally be done for dozens of dollars, and can also be used to plasticize photos or make homemade bookmarks in the future.
2. Plastic sealing film
There are different thicknesses to choose from, the larger the value, the thicker the thickness, generally choose 7 wires or 8 wires. The brand's plastic sealing film 8 wire plastic seal out is very textured, very stiff.
3. Hole punch
Available in single-hole and porous sizes. If you make a smaller size of the flash card with a single hole is enough. I do more quiet books of A4 and B5 sizes, so I chose the 6-well one. Not only is it convenient to punch holes, but it is also easy to turn pages.
4. Binder
There are steel rings and plastic rings to choose from, the cost of steel rings is high and mostly single, plastic rings are highly malleable, and the appropriate number can be selected according to the number of punches. Generally a whole plastic binder can wear 30 holes, if combined with a 6-hole punch, a binder can be cut into 5 segments, bound 5 quiet books, very cost-effective.
5. Fillet
This seemingly inconspicuous little thing is an important role. After the plastic sealing film is cut by plastic sealing, the right angle will become sharp and sharp, and it is easy to poke the baby's delicate skin. Using a fillet to trim right angles into rounded corners eliminates this safety hazard.
6. Velcro
Also called the mother-daughter sticker, the thorny side as far as possible to choose transparent, because that side is to be pasted on the quiet book display page, transparent will not affect the picture.
7. Paper cutter
Can be two-way cutting, cut A4 size size is very convenient, just a little on the line, than scissors cut too neatly, but also more efficient.
8. Scissors
The paper cutter is suitable for large size rough cuts, and the scissors are suitable for small size finishing. The answers to quiet books are relatively small, and they need to be carefully trimmed with scissors.
9. Quiet book material
This is the indispensable soul of the quiet book, you can go to search for free material sharing websites, you can directly download or print. There are also many mother and baby bloggers who are also happy to share resources with fans, and most of my resources are obtained in this way.
Quiet books are good, but they are not easy for novices to do, especially the part of cutting the answers, which is particularly cumbersome and requires a lot of patience.
A mother who has time to be interested can try it, and the sense of accomplishment is indescribable when you give the finished product to your child and she happens to like it.
Hitomi is now two and a half years old and often goes to turn over the quiet books that have been played and played, and read: The books that my mother made for me.
Moms who don't have time can also choose the finished quiet book, and can also choose other toys with similar functions.
After all, there is more to a mother's love than just one form.