Flannel Friday! Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons
It’s no secret that I LUUURRRRVVEEEE Pete the Cat by Eric Litwin and illustrated by James Dean. I loved the first book, liked the second book, and now am in love again with Pete’s latest adventure. And...
View ArticleFlannel Friday! Conejito by Margaret Read MacDonald
Conejito, retold by Margaret Read MacDonald, is based on a folktale from Panama. It’s a fun story with lots of repetition and, of course, a happy ending. I have been sharing this story with the...
View ArticleFlannel Friday: Penguins and Polar Bears
We have some CRAZY heat happening here in Colorado. One of the downsides, besides just being miserable, is that our state is tinder-box dry and as you know we’ve had some terrible wildfires that have...
View ArticleFlannel Friday: A Blanket for the Princess
Today’s flannelboard comes from the wonderful book Storytime Magic – a great resource for any storytime provider. Here are the basics of the story (I have modified it a bit to include the colors I...
View ArticleFlannel Friday: What Will Fat Cat Sit On? by Jan Thomas
I think many of us in library-storytimeland LOVE Jan Thomas’s books. They’re so simple, yet HILARIOUS. Who decides to write a book about dust bunnies who rhyme? Jan Thomas. Who decides to write about a...
View ArticleFlannel Friday: D-U-S-T-Y (the horse)
Holy schnikies, people! It’s been far too long since I blogged. I apologize for my absence. Here, in penance, I offer you a super-easy flannelboard: I made this one several years ago when, on short...
View ArticleFlannel Friday: Make a Robot!
Here’s a flannel idea that includes vocabulary learning (shapes, sizes), print awareness (shape names) and a whole lotta fun! We’re gonna build a robot! I cut a bunch of different-sized shapes out of...
View ArticleFlannel Friday: 5 Little Cookies
A quick-and-easy flannel Friday for y’all today, because that’s all I had time for. I made cookies for this same rhyme a while ago, but decided I don’t like them anymore. These took me about 15 minutes...
View ArticleFlannel Friday: Sorting Socks Game
I have to start with a shout-out to my friend Becky who runs Denver Craft Ninjas (and who has just started an awesome new crafting party business, Kunoichi Craft Events): after several felt-related...
View ArticleFlannel Friday: 5 Little Snowmen
Long time no post, y’all! Sorry for that. I hope to be fully back WITH A VENGEANCE soon. Okay, maybe not with a or any vengeance. I didn’t have time to make these pieces out of felt, so I made them in...
View ArticleHats and Hair Storytime
I mentioned in my last Flannel Friday post (over a month ago…eeek!) that I was creating this storytime after reading Super Hair-o and the Barber of Doom. It went over pretty well with the preschoolers,...
View ArticleFlannel(ish) Friday: Alpha-gator
So there I was, casually perusing the Flannel Friday pinterest board on “animals” looking for some new ideas, and I came across this post by Miss Tara. I was immediately inspired to make my own...
View ArticleFlannel Friday: Monsters the Easy-Peasy Mac-N-Cheesy Way
Several years (years? YEARS.) ago I posted about a 10 little monsters game we do in storytime. Each monster is a different color and after we’ve counted them and identified their colors, I turn the...
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