The book...and a little extra.

  Soon after I got my sewing machine I went out and got a cheap starter kit with some thread, bobbins, and scissors. Saturday is my sleep in day and while I am snoozing my husband takes our little boy to the store and they buy me a good sewing kit with extra thread and a kit to make a book!  LOVE!  I love him, the fact that I was smart enough to marry him, that he lets me sleep in on the weekends, and that he is teaching our little boy to be so generous and thoughtful.
  I loved making the book.  It is so cute and the directions were easy to follow.  He got it at Walmart in the sewing section.  I notice that by the directions on the fabric there are extra prints of the animals.  These CANNOT be wasted I decide.  So here's what I did:

You might remember me bragging about my bag of felt for 5$ from the thrift store.  I am assuming this was a really good deal, but I have no idea what "new" felt costs so if it was not the deal of the century, Please Don't Tell Me..

I made the book from the directions and then cut out the little animals left over and also a piece of fleece and felt the same size (bigger than I would sew).  The fleece was also left over from the book kit.  I then stacked (from top to bottom) animal, fleece, and felt.  I picked felt colors to match ( I can do that cause I have so many colors of felt...hee hee) I sewed around the animals, leaving a hole, and then stuffed cotton balls right into the pocket between felt and fleece.  Yes, I said cotton balls.  I pulled them apart a little and they worked great!  Then I sewed them up and cut around the edges with pinking shears.

Then I cut strips of fabric from some bias tape I had and sewed one end to book "spine" and the other to the animal.

Here is the finished project.  My little one loves it and we are having fun matching the animals and letting them play on the pages.  There is also a zebra that I was still working on when I took the pictures. 

I hope this will inspire you to take a prepackaged project and add your own touch. 
Sew long for now!