Flannel Friday: The Five Senses

I used this flannel activity during our summer reading program. This idea is from Miss Meg's Storytime. Rather than creating all new flannel pieces, I raided what I already had in my supply and pulled out things like a bird, flower, strawberry, rabbit, and ice cream cone. Then I printed out the senses words and flannel backed them. We looked at one item at a time and I went through the list - Can you see it? Can you hear it? Can you smell it? Can you touch it? Can you taste it? and put up the correct words next to the item.

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Flannel Friday: What Will It Rain?

In preparation for my Fall Storytime next week, I've seen some really cute flannels for the story What Will It Rain? by Jan Moncure at Miss Sarah's Storytime and Rain Makes Applesauce. Since I already had many of the animals (part of my ongoing add-every-animal-I-can-think-of collection), I only had to create a few plus the foods they dream about.

The tree and acorns I already had as well!

Sadly the book is out of print and my library does not have a copy, so I had it interloaned to take a peak at it and make sure I get the story right. I'm still not 100% sure whether I will read straight from the book or simply ad lib as I go with the flannel pieces.

I could feasibly have 8 kids each take a food, and when I tell about the animal that eats it they can bring it up to the board. So far I have only had 2-6 kids each week, so it should work out perfectly!


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Flannel Friday: Animals

It's my first Flannel Friday post! Yay! When I took this job, I inherited a filing drawer full of flannel things that I've been drawing from and adding to over the last year. Most All of the things I've cut and created myself have been copies of others' ideas, and so I haven't wanted to post them on FF because they weren't my idea...

There have been a handful of books, rhymes, and stories involving animals that I've wanted to do flannels with, but never have the pieces I need. Finally this summer I really wanted to sing Old MacDonald with the kids and use flannel pieces, came up empty, and didn't have time to make all of them (I can be a pretty bad procrastinator...). So I decided to make a couple of animals at a time over the last month (and will continue!), to build up a variety of animals I can draw from the next time the need arises.

I found clipart that I printed, taped onto the felt, and cut. So far I have a cow, horse, pig, sheep, snake/worm, mouse, cat, and dog.

 I used them already last week during my "red" storytime for the Five Little Apples rhyme.

What would be some other good animals to have? I'm thinking I'll go for jungle animals (monkey, lion, etc.) next.



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