The very own cloth book(week 27 & 28)

Our inspiration to Montessori was a Parenting workshop organized by a Montessori School (see my post on it here). One thing which was stressed on by the speaker was that we must start reading books to children once they turn six month old. It was surprising for us. When we questioned him as to what books he said any homemade book would do. Now that was tricky. There are many books available for very young children. The market is floated with all kinds of cardboard books. But the very first book has to be very special - that is what we had in mind. Although we have been reading Quran and other books to her, she dint have her own book. Finally, the idea of her first book was decided after enough browsing had been done on the subject. The idea was to make a cloth book that shows pictures of Allah's signs. Kind of like a nature's book. To make this book more of sensorial stimulation various beads and different textured cloth were used. Alas! the book was made referring to this tutorial. Its an amazing, easy to follow tutorial. Below are the pictures of the pages of the book and their descriptions:
The front cover of the book has written on it - Signs of Allah in Urdu (Fatima's mother tongue).
Allah speaks of all these in Quran.

Front cover of the book

Page1 (Day) has a yellow pompom that represents sun and blue ribbons that represents birds. 

Page2 (night) has a moon made out of silk cloth and few star shaped buttons,

Allah speaks of day and night as his signs in Quran. 

Day and night (Page 1 & 2)

Page3 has clouds made out of towel cloth and few beads as rain.
Page4 has a tree made out of green color cloth ball and brown ribbons.

Rain and tree (Page 3& 4)

Page5 shows water(blue wrinkled cloth), pearls and ship (felt cloth).
Page6 shows mountains

Ship and mountains(Page 5 & 6)

 Page7 Fruits(old dinning table cloth made out of rexine)
Page8 small book with few pages(buckram cloth) and cloth feather pen(this tutorial)

Fruits, book and feathered pen (Page 7 & 8)

Page9 flowers and leaves (velvet cloth)
Page10 camel

Flower, leaves and camel (Page 9 & 10)

 Back cover of the book

Back cover

All of these were made out of the scrap cloths available at home.

Her response to book, when introduced:
Excited to hold it
She liked the sun most.
Was busy with it for more than half hour