Once everything is sewed down, you will pair up your rectangles in two groups of two. Sew each set together, with right-sides together, all the way around except for about a 2" opening somewhere along one of the side seams in order to turn it out. Once it is turned out you can top stitch around the edges, closing the opening you left in the side, and leaving you with two very clean and finished rectangles. At this point you just lay one down on top of the other, being careful to line them up nicely, and sew them together with a seam down the middle.
I really like my snake (I used faux snake-skin fabric for it!) and green velvet grass. I also used some shiny gold for the moon behind the rocket ship. On the left you can see that I made a basketball by top-stitching on an orange circle., and you can also see that I put one of the dog pieces too close to the edge...remember your seam allowances! Oh well! Handmade is handmade right?
This car is made out of four pieces. The wheels are made out of black and white polka-dotted fabric so I didn't have to cut out the white circles, and the window is one piece of blue that I split in half with top-stitching. The beach ball is made of a red and yellow half circle with a blue eye-shaped piece of fabric on top (I found this much easier than trying to cut out the actual shapes! The ant was made by cutting out a body shape and then just top-stitching some legs. I completely eye-balled this, so yes, they aren't exactly even! I also added little eyes to the ant and snake with some green thread.
And here is my adorable nephew on his first birthday looking at the book that Aunt Bethany made him! His Papa (my dad) is having a great time looking at it with him.