Dry Erase Quiet Book
for my kids to use in church.
{This is the project I chose to make my kids for Easter this year!}
Have you seen these crayons? I got these at Wal-mart. They are amazing! We've gotten a few packs for friends for birthday presents, coupled with a mini white board, and I've heard that they've been a big hit!
Here's the stash you'll need to make you're own church-y dry erase quiet books (but you for sure could print out some letter tracing, coloring pages, etc from workbooks, or their favorite coloring books!
-Skinny 3-ring binder
-Package of clear sheet protectors (make sure they are the really clear ones!)
-A few back issues of the friend (an LDS magazine) OR activities or workbook pages of your choice
-Box of Dry Erase Crayons
I started off by making a cute cover for my quiet book...(mostly just to please me) I took some old paper and coordinating embellishments and stickers, and with the help of my Cricut to cut out their names, went from this:
to this:
After I finished the covers, I went to work skimming through my older copies of the Friend Magazine to find all the mazes, coloring pages, connect the dots and hidden picture pages. I wasn't able to tear out a ton from our magazines because they have been WELL-loved, but I was able to find and just print the pages I wanted from this website, which actually was better because the computer paper is more solid than a magazine thickness of paper, and it fit exactly in the page protectors, (rather than having a torn-out page which could shift a little.)
I also google-image-searched for things like CTR, Missionary, Temple, Thomas S. Monson Coloring Page, etc. There are so many fun things you could put in these books! Once you've gathered a nice stash of church-friendly activities, stuff them in the sheet protectors!
For the torn-out pages, I found that gluing them onto a solid piece of cardstock, and then putting it in the sheet protector works better. Who wants a picture that shifts around when you're coloring it?!
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