Here are a few more pages from the magnetic quiet book.
Admittedly, I haven’t finished the pioneer page…I still need to make game pieces. But you get the idea from the picture. The child rolls the dice and moves their piece along the game board, following the directions printed on each square. The winner is the first to make it to the homestead at the end.
On the second page, the child sorts through a stack of foods to decide which ones are good for the body and which are bad. Good foods get put on the dinner plate, and bad foods go in the garbage can. I used actual photographs for the foods, so they’re realistic looking. The left side of the page shows how I keep track of all the little pieces.
Throughout the book, I have pocket pages like the one in the photo above. To make them, I glued a regular envelope onto the cardstock and laminated them with the flap closed. Then I traced around the envelope flap with an Exacto knife to make them open up. Easy trick I learned from school teachers. If I were to do it again, I would reinforce the envelope with cardstock to make it sturdier…some of the envelope flaps have started ripping.
Info on magnetic paint here.
Comments & Reviews
Brandi says
I love these ideas! What exactly is magnetic paint and where do you get it? I live in the middle of nowhere land, where we have a walmart and that's about it…
Thanks! You can email me at
branmaxson at yahoo if you want or go to my blog…
Bonnie says
I love the magnetic book:) you are so smart. Where do you go to get them laminated or do you have your own machine? If you have your own which one do you have?
Becky says
So cute! Where do you get the magnetic paint? What form does it come in?
Unknown says
Hello. Love your collection of ideas. Are these available as a download please? Looked but cant find anything.
jennifer@thecraftpatchblog.com says
Unfortunately I made these 9 years ago and the files didn't survive our computer transfer a few years back. You'll just have to use them as inspiration. Sorry about that!