Scope creep
Having remembered that it's happening in a month and a bit, I thought I should have a think about something I could make for Baby Next Door for his second birthday.
I'm generally a fan of Educational Toys, so I thought maybe I could make something that he could do a bit of basic learning from. Couldn't find any suitable-looking soft toys (although I was very amused by the fish that turns into a sushi roll), but I was quite intrigued by a couple of things that called themselves books but were actually just a single double-page spread with, eg, a counting or pattern matching game inside them. Maybe if I combined two or three of those into a book...?
Oh, vague memory of a technique for turning a single sheet of paper into a little booklet.... Oh yes, there it is! Now, if I did that then I could put something else on the other side, hmmm.... Some nice pictures online of play mats with roads on them, and little fabric 'garages' for the toy cars to be parked inside.... So if I did the cover and three pages of 'book' (say: a pair matching game; a flower with different colour petals that can be taken off and velcroed back on over the word for the colour; and a page with one pig, two cows, three sheep, four dogs, five cats... all jumbled up on it) on one side of the fabric, and then a car-driving play mat with little garages on the other, then that would be really cool!
And take about ten times longer to do than I'd been planing to spend on the project. Sigh. Back to the drawing board.
Any ideas?
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I'm generally a fan of Educational Toys, so I thought maybe I could make something that he could do a bit of basic learning from. Couldn't find any suitable-looking soft toys (although I was very amused by the fish that turns into a sushi roll), but I was quite intrigued by a couple of things that called themselves books but were actually just a single double-page spread with, eg, a counting or pattern matching game inside them. Maybe if I combined two or three of those into a book...?
Oh, vague memory of a technique for turning a single sheet of paper into a little booklet.... Oh yes, there it is! Now, if I did that then I could put something else on the other side, hmmm.... Some nice pictures online of play mats with roads on them, and little fabric 'garages' for the toy cars to be parked inside.... So if I did the cover and three pages of 'book' (say: a pair matching game; a flower with different colour petals that can be taken off and velcroed back on over the word for the colour; and a page with one pig, two cows, three sheep, four dogs, five cats... all jumbled up on it) on one side of the fabric, and then a car-driving play mat with little garages on the other, then that would be really cool!
And take about ten times longer to do than I'd been planing to spend on the project. Sigh. Back to the drawing board.
Any ideas?
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