Flannel Friday Round-Up

Welcome to this week's Flannel Friday Round-Up!  We have some great submissions for you this week.

Wendy from Flannel Board Fun is showing off her 5 Chubby Snowmen.  These are perfect for winter!

Jessica from Storytime in the Stacks has brought us her Shape Monster.  I can see lots of other possibilities for this puppet/flannelboard combo, from colors to cookies!

Based on the book Walter's Wonderful Web, Jessica has shared a 2nd flannelboard this week.  The different web shapes really bring this story alive.

Jen from Adventures in Storytime was home with the flu this week and has brought us the seasonally appropriate Wash Those Germs Away.  I feel like we all will need this one!

That's a wrap for this week!  If you want to know more about Flannel Friday:

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Flannel Friday Round-Up

Welcome to this week's Flannel Friday Round-Up!  We have some great submissions for you.

Wendy at Flannel Board Fun shows off Pete the Cat's shoes.  These would be a great addition to any colorful story time!

Just in time for Talk Like a Pirate Day this past week, Heather at Lady Librarian's Literacy, Lifestyle, and Lookbook Log brings us some pirates and pirate rhymes.  Ahoy matey!

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Flannel Friday-Five Elephants

You know when you see a really cute flannelboard and add it to your TBD pile?  Mine never seemed to go down until we got a new assistant named Laura.  I gave her my Pinterest board, a pile of felt, and she went to town.  This is the first of my "inspired by" posts with creations by Laura.

Our original inspiration came from Five Elephants Went Out to Play by Flannel Board Fun. This is what Laura came up with.

This week's round-up is hosted by Laura at One for the Books.

Flannel Friday Round-Up

Welcome to this week's Flannel Friday round-up!

I don't know about you, but I use animal stories all the time.  Check out Wendy's Old MacDonald flannelboard set, which would work great for a story time about animals, songs, or just plain fun!

Just in time for summer, Kate shares her Five Scoops of Ice Cream.  She even added sprinkles! 

Shawn will be hosting next week's round-up at Read, Rhyme and Sing. 

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Flannel Friday-Do You Want to Build a Snowman?

This week's flannelboard is one that I created for our flannelboard that is always out in our Activity Room.  You may have seen a version of it before on my blog.  We try to come up with different ideas so kids can free play with it, but still tie it into early literacy.

For this one, I cut out a bunch of shapes that could be found on a snowman.  Every snowman that the kids create is different.  Just for fun, I added a couple of die cut snowflakes and snowmen.
 

We always include a sign that gives the parents some talking points.  It also gives the "why" as to why we are doing this.

 This week's Flannel Friday round-up is hosted by Anne at So Tomorrow.

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Flannel Friday-The Nuts: Sing and Dance in Your Polka-Dot Pants

One of the big events that we do at least 1 time each summer is a story time in the park.  When we do these events, it is not uncommon to have 150 people at our story time.  When we choose books, props, and flannelboards, we look for ones that we can make bigger so everyone can see them.  This summer, we did a movement story time that included The Nuts: Sing and Dance in Your Polka-Dot Pants by Eric Litwin.  Not only is it a great story, but the figures are pretty easy to make larger.  We used fun foam and puffy paint to create our figures.  As one person read the story, another danced with their nut to go along with the words.

 Hazel Nut and her dad

 Mama and Wally Nut

Grandma Nut

 

This week's Flannel Friday Round-Up is hosted by Mollie at What Happens in Storytime.

 

Flannel Friday Round-Up

It's Flannel Friday Round-Up time!  

Lisa at Thrive After Three has two great apple posts this week.  She shows off her Ten Red Apples prop, along with her individual lapboards in her first post.  In her second post, she shows off her fancy 10 Apples Up on Top hat.

Kathryn at Fun with Friends at Storytime shows off her Five Friends Play Dress Up.  She has an astronaut, a pirate, a cowboy, a ninja, and Frankenstein.

Wendy at Flannel Board Fun has created Flip, Flap, Fly! so she can show off a larger version for her groups. 

One Elephant Went Out to Play at Felt-tastic Flannelboard Funtime with Keith. 

Kate has Five Little Speckled Frogs at Felt Board Magic.   

Kate will be hosting next week's Flannel Friday Round-Up at Felt Board Magic.

See the Olympians makes an appearance by Jessica at Storytime in the Stacks. 

Jane at Piper Loves the Library shows off her dots for International Dot Day.  It's pretty cool to see all that you can make out of dots!

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Flannel Friday Round-Up-Summer Reading

This turned out to be more of a regular Flannel Friday round-up than dedicated to Summer Reading.  Oh well, the posts are all still great!

Check out Jessica's Five Green and Speckled Frogs that are a part of her Get Up N' Groove story time.  This whole story time would be a great one to pull out this summer.

Leslie is new to us and has brought a companion to Muncha Muncha Muncha.  The kiddos get to sort their seeds into color rows, just like planting a garden.

Katie shows off The Great Hot Air Balloon Race, which is a game that you can play in story time with a color dice.   A template is included.

In a variation of Little Mouse, Kate brings us Little Fox.  We all could use more variations of Little Mouse!

Kathryn was inspired by a previous post and brings us her version of The Green Grass Grew All Around.  The final product is spectacular!

Kate will be hosting next week's round-up at Felt Board Magic. 

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Baa Baa Black Sheep

I love bringing nursery rhymes into story time and one of my favorite is Baa Baa Black Sheep.  There is so much you can do with it, from rhyming to talking about colors.  This morning for story time, I made envelope puppets out of different colored sheep.  If you have never made an envelope puppet before, seal the envelope and cut off the end 3 inches or so.  You can make two puppets out of each envelope.  For these, I used different colored die cut sheep and used double-sided tape to stick them to the envelope.  While I could collect them back and reuse them, I like to send them home with the kids to retell the rhymes.  They are cheap and easy to make so I don't mind losing them.

After I pass out the sheep, we say the rhyme using the different colors.  For example:

Baa Baa Black Sheep, have you any wool?

Baa Baa Blue Sheep, have you any wool?

Baa Baa Red Sheep, have you any wool?

In this case, the kids who had each color held up their puppets as we told their verse.

 

Flannel Friday Round-Up

It's a wrap!  Check out the great ideas from the week below.

Kate from Felt Board Magic (and one of our Southern Hemisphere participants!) shows off Apple Colour Sorting.  While it would be a great addition to a fall story time, I am totally stealing this one for our felt board that we have out all the time.

Kate also shows off Five Grey Elephants Balancing Step By Step on a Piece of String.  I had never heard this song before, but it is big in Australian play schools.

I show off my easy envelope puppets here at Libraryland and how I use them in story time.  This week's version was Baa Baa Black Sheep.

Jane at Piper Loves the Library gets into the holiday spirit with her post about the Nutcracker program that they held with the Connecticut Concert Ballet.  It is precious and looks like a lot of fun! 

Jen at Adventures in Storytime shares her snowflakes and the songs/rhymes that she uses them with.  Since winter starts in a week, this is a great one to add to your lineup! 

Amy at One Little Librarian shares her Do You Want to Feed the Reindeer? prop.  Not only is she injecting some play into her program, but the food items have letters and numbers on them.

Shawn at Read, Rhyme and Sing has a Christmas version of Little Mouse using jingle bells and sleighs.

Wendy at Flannel Board Fun shares a bunch of variations of Little Mouse using various rhyming words. My wheels are already spinning on this one!

Mary will be hosting next week's round-up at Miss Mary Liberry. 

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Hickory Dickory Dock Guest Post

This is a guest post version of Hickory Dickory Dock for Nancy.  She shared some pictures with me of something fun that she created in her children's department.  Presenting...Hickory Dickory Dock!

This week's Flannel Friday round-up is hosted by Melissa at Mel's Desk.

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Flannel Friday Round-Up

 

Welcome to the Halloween edition of Flannel Friday!  We have some great Halloween/fall posts and some great general posts for your story time pleasure!

Halloween/Fall
Kathryn at Fun with Friends at Storytime is using her Crown for a Day rhyme at her Halloween program.  She shares both a flannel version and a file folder version of the rhyme!

I am always amazed at people who can play instruments in story time.  Check out Storytime Ukulele's post of Halloween songs.

Jess at From the Liberry of has created a neat version of This is NOT a Pumpkin by Bob Staake.  It has already gone on my TBM (to be made) pile and I am sure that you will feel the same!

Storytime Whoopdeedo shares their version of Fall is Not Easy by Marty Kelley.  If you haven't read this book before, definitely check it out for your fall story times.  The flannelboard version makes it even more awesome!

Lauren at The Dilley Dally shows off a great flannelboard that kids can play with.  Check out her mix and match monster station!

Other Great Stuff!
Meg at Miss Meg's Storytime shares a flannel/prop version of her vegetable rhyme.  What's really neat about it (other than the faces on the vegetables) is that there is a vegetable for every child in attendance.  It is a great way to encourage participation!

Amy at one little librarian shares her version of 5 Little Rocking Horses.  This is a great addition to a horse, nursery rhyme, or toy story time.

Melissa at Mel's Desk builds on her last post and adds Meow's friends.

That's a wrap for the week!  Melissa at Mel's Desk is hosting next week.  It is a great flannelboard, especially if you work with the toddler age group.

Are you working with colors?  Check out Storytime Katie's inspired version of paintbrushes.

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Flannel Friday Round-Up

It's Flannel Friday time!  There are some great additions this week, so without further ado... 

Liz from Storytime Whoopdeedo shows off her version of Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss.  This story is always a hit in story time!

Who doesn't love garbage trucks?!?  Check out Kathryn's three garbage truck flannelboards at Fun with Friends at Storytime.   

Danielle at Storytime with Library Danielle shows off her version of Five Strawberries.  I love how she added in animals eating the berries.  While not flannel, check out her scarf rhyme and early literacy messages here.  

Mel has been hard at work on an outer space set over at Mel's Desk.  She shows off many different ways to use it with multiple age groups.  Plus, it is a great addition if you are adding STEAM to your story time lineup.

Jaime at Ms. Jaime's Library Journeys shows off her version of Lynn Reiser's Hardworking Puppies.  I love all of the career felt pieces that she created to go with the puppies.   

Kathryn at Fun with Friends at Storytime is hosting next week's Flannel Friday round-up.

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Flannel Friday-Pete's Back

We have a great relationship going this summer with our local Parks & Rec department (yay Julie for organizing!) and are doing a lot of neat outreach events out in the community this summer.  Next week we will be doing story time in the park.  There is a good possibility of there being 150+ people there, which means that we began to rethink how we will be sharing picture books with a large crowd.  We are pulling out puppets, props, and our newly painted Pete the Cat prop boards.

This is Pete the Cat painted on a large foam board with acrylic paints.  The buttons all have velcro so we can tell the story of Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin and have the buttons pop off.  Of course,  you need a way to see his belly button so we made a 2nd board.

While we will still be using the book to tell the story, these boards will help illustrate the actions to the crowd.

Kelly at Ms. Kelly at the Library is hosting this week's Flannel Friday round-up.

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Flannel Friday-We're Going on a Bear Hunt

This week's submission is We're Going on a Bear Hunt, which I needed for one of our Play to Learn programs.  To make it really easily, there is a pattern at Making Learning Fun.

This week's round-up is hosted by Kim at Literary Commentary.  

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Flannel Friday-Lunch

This is an "inspired by" post as I have always loved Storytime Katie's version of Lunch by Denise Fleming.  When I needed to make a version for our early literacy kits, this is the one that I chose.

Since this flannelboard would circulate and get a lot of handling, I didn't glue as many small pieces as Katie did.  Instead, I used puffy paint for the details on the grapes and the watermelon.

This week's round-up is hosted by Kathryn at Fun with Friends at Storytime.  

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