Free printable super simple felt patterns and sew alongs. Perfect for beginners and kids as young as 6 (with adult supervision and support) and a great introduction to hand sewing, knots, and basic stitches.
Make a splash at your next party with these budget-friendly and super cute mermaid party tails! Dive into DIY fun and create your own magical mermaid tails that little ones will love. Perfect for birthdays or just adding some enchantment to playtime!
Cardboard Crafts and Upcycle Ideas
Have a bunch of cardboard laying around and wondering if there is something else you can do with it before recycling? Then check out some of these great cardboard crafts.
Fabric for all of the Busy/Quiet Books can be purchased through Spoonflower in my Cut and Sew section complete kits with all the necessary pieces are available through my Etsy Shop Busy Button Designs.
My Life Skills Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book) Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a clock page with movable snappable pieces, a page with buttons, a shoe tying page, a sweater buttoning page, and zipper page, and a coin bank page. Fantastic for developing fine motor skills.
My Princess Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet book) Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a dress lacing page, a velcro “build a castle” page, and hair style page, and dress up yourself page, and a paper doll dress up page.
My Car Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book) Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a monster truck page with button on wheels, a stop light with snap on lights, a velcro car puzzle, velcro street signs, and drivable mini cars on a play road.
My First Old Testament Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book) Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a page to learn the days of creation with snap on pictures, styling Queen Esther’s hair, Zipper whale for Jonah, finger puppets and Arc pocket for Noah, Hook and Eyelet matching for Ruth’s wheat gathering, and weaving for Joseph’s coat.
My Farm Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book) Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a tractor page with a button and snap on wheel, planting and harvesting crops, finger puppet animals, main braiding, and apple gathering with hook and eyelets.
My Bug Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book) Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a velcro bee puzzle, a button on ant page, a peek a boo caterpillar page, a design the wings butterfly page, a snap on spots lady bug page, and a weave the spider’s web page. Fantastic for developing fine motor skills.
My First Weather Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book)Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a tactile rain cloud page, a magnetic hide the sun page, peek a boo leaf page, pull up flower page, elastic lightening page, and turnable snowflake page.
