black curly shoelaces - I bought this (not an affiliate link)
wadding
one large decorative button for the dial centre
14 smaller decorative buttons for the dial numbers
10cm of buttonhole elastic
2 small buttons to fit the elastic
kam snap and tool and piercing rod (or darning needle etc)
hot glue and glue gun
scissors!
Firstly, cut out the pattern pieces. Cut out the back of the cradle (the larger cradle piece) from black hard felt and sew it onto your page (use the full phone pattern piece to position it where required).
Cut out two handset pieces and two layers of the slightly smaller wadding. Lay the wadding in between the two handset pieces and sew them together tucking in one end of a curly shoelace at the top left corner of the handset as you go.
Sew the smaller cradle piece to the top of your full phone piece leaving the bottom edge unsewn. Then sew the full phone piece onto your page along the top edge between the two pointy cradle pieces. Leave the two pointy cradle pieces as flaps to be used to house the handset. Sew from the bottom outside edge of one flap to around to the bottom outside edge of the other flap, tucking in the other end of your curly shoelace at the bottom right corner of your phone.
Use the full phone pattern piece to line up where to insert the piercing rod. Use the piercing rod to prepare a hole for your kam snap. Insert one half (male or female) of your kam snap.
Cut out one side of your dial from the white hard felt and sew your large decorative button to the middle. Use the piercing rod to prepare a hole for your kam snap in the middle of a piece of white hard felt which is slightly larger than the dial. Insert the opposite half (male or female) of your kam snap. Add a little hot glue to the smooth back of the kam snap and glue it to the center of the white felt at the back of the button. Sew down the dial and trim off the excess. Sew down your smaller decorative buttons around the edge of the dial as buttons. I followed a North, South, East, West, etc pattern to try to keep the spacing even.
Lastly, sew a small button to the phone base behind the dial south-east of the kam snap, and another to the back of the dial north east of the kam snap. Button each end of the buttonhole elastic to opposite buttons and you are finished! The dial should spring back when you turn and release the dial.
Tahlia says Romans 10:13 and explains how to play with the retro phone quiet book page - call on the name of the LORD and be saved!
Difficulty Level = Easy
The most difficult part is lining the large button up on the dial with the kam snap underneath.
Tahlia shows off the retro phone quiet book page
Key Learning Areas and Skills
Romans 10 - we can call on God anytime through prayer
Imaginative play - making pretend phone calls is always a fun thing to do for a child
Fine Motor Skills - all quiet books encourage fine motor skill development
Hand-eye Co-ordination - all quiet books encourage hand-eye co-ordination
The retro phone dial returns to the start like a real retro phone!
God doesn't have favourites, and He will save those who call on Him.
Paul asks a series of questions: How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?
We have been given the privilege of telling people the Good News. If people understand the Good News, they will have faith to call on the name of the LORD.
I spied this book from a few pews back in a little church I visited while on holidays a couple of years ago. After the service finished I went and spoke to the lady who owned it, who graciously allowed me to photograph it to share with you all. As you can see, I took the photos right there on the pew.
I was informed that this busy book was around 30 years old. I find it fascinating how quiet books have developed through time, and love to see the classic pages show up so often in the past, and then see the myriad of pages around today.
The page for number 1 is a bird in a birdhouse which is attached to a string to stop it from being lost.
I took a close-up of the inside cover. It looks like the book may have been made from a kit of some kind, titled "Counting Book" by WV Designs. I looked them up but didn't find anything relevant. If know any information, please let me know if the comments.
Page 2 is a clown face with what I think is two ears to button on, as well as a bell and ribbon to tie.
Page 3 is ice-cream scoops, although one has been lost over the years.
Page 4 is a turtle with a zipper back for baby turtles to be stored. It looks like a few of them are missing too.
Page 5 is an elephant holding five balloons.
Page 6 has six button-up flowers.
Page 7 is a Noah's ark with seven animals inside.
Page 8 is a fishing net with eight fish inside.
Page 9 has nine shapes to match.
I imagine Page 10 originally had ten kids praying. I have been wondering what the heck the other page was, but I actually think I worked it out...
I think it is a bed and a mat that the kids can kneel on so they can say their prayers before bed.
Finally, I thought I would show you how the book has been bound. It has a strip of ribbon sewn down the spine with gaps to allow split rings to rest in place to house the back-to-back sewn pages with inserted grommets.