The Great Toddler Busy Book

Grady's cover

Ruby's cover

for practising the bedtime routine--
the pillow has a music button that plays "You Are My Sunshine"
and the teddy can get out of the bed, as well.

for learning our address and practising our phone number

this is a beehive where 5 little bumblebees can come out and buzz to their velcro spots around the hive. also teaches about zippers

for learning shapes--each balloon velcroes to it's match

for playing eye spy--even has a magnifying glass

a chalkboard for writing our names--in Chinese as well!

different buckles to practise on

the barn doors open and 6 different farm animals come out to play

learning to tell time- the arms on the clock move

the old woman in the shoe--teaching shoe tying

piggybank with wallet full of play money and cards. you can actually drop coins in the bank and they come out the bottom

learning colors & numbers in English and Mandarin

all of these flowers button on and off for learning buttons

Peekaboo! and a mirror and comb to brush our hair

I have wanted to make a toddler book for awhile...I kept seeing some store bought ones but none of them had all of the elements I wanted plus I knew this could be something my "littles" could play with in church or on road trips or waiting in dr's offices and look back on when they were older. All the more special that I had made it...

SO I found a few different books I LOOSELY based my concept on and began. It took several weeks as I kept putting it aside for other more pressing projects but finally finished it yesterday. And Ruby loves it...and so do the "bigs"!