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Friday, February 17, 2012

Flannel Friday:The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse

Welcome to my first ever Flannel Friday post.  One of my favorite books from Fall 2011 was The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle.  It is one that is easily adaptable to a color or an animal story time and it works great with two-year olds, which is my specialty.  By making the animals different colors than they normally are, it makes the book "silly" and gives you a forum to discuss the animals.
To make a set of your own, you will need a blue horse, a red crocodile, a yellow cow, a pink rabbit, a green lion, an orange elephant, a purple fox, a black bear, and a polka-dotted donkey.  I have access to an AccuCut machine and animal dies so I was able to run the felt through it and decorate the pieces with googly eyes and polka dots (permanent markers on the donkey).

4 comments:

  1. First, let me say WELCOME! to the Flannel Friday group. It is an awesome group to be a part of!

    Second, you did a beautiful job on your flannel set. How fun for a color storytime!

    I do something very similiar with Dr Seuss' My Many Colored Days which will be in my upcoming Dr Seuss post. It might be fun to share The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse in the same storytime as My Many Colored Days...

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  2. Hi Lisa, welcome to Flannel Friday! I think silly is what story time is about!

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  3. Welcome to Flannel Friday, Lisa! You did a bang up job on your first flannel - well done and thanks for sharing!

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  4. Wonderful job!! I think this book may be the only Eric Carle book we don't have in our collection. I think that may need to be corrected. :)

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