Templates for flannelboards are super nice, but it’s not hard to pull together some clip-art to make your own flannels without templates. I’m planning both a sheep storytime, and a Nursery Rhymes special program for this spring — so I tried to kill two birds with one stone by doing “Mary Had a Little Lamb” as a flannelboard.
I started off with the Mary Had a Little Lamb Magnet Pages from Making Learning Fun. This has both the sheep and schoolhouse that I used, but I wanted a more contemporary looking Mary.
But I still needed the teacher, and the kids laughing and playing. So I turned to Google.
Keyword search: “teacher.” Found on second page of a Google search, limited by clip art.
Keyword search: “children laughing and playing.” Found it on the fourth page of a Google search, limited by clip art.
I did have to freehand the teacher’s legs and shoes. And I used the middle child as Mary, freehanding her clothes.
All my clipart files, sized and everything, available here.
And the final product:
And a close-up of the kids because they are my favorite flannel piece right now:
storytime katie 
s0 cute!
I make cute things. 😀
Seriously, I have felt envy of everything you post on here. 🙂
We made a “Baa Baa Black Sheep” felt and we sing it multiple times with different colored sheep (so “Baa Baa Red Sheep” “Baa Baa Green Sheep”, etc.). Just a suggestion for your sheep storytime!
Don’t have envy! You can totally do it.
That is adorable. I’m going to have to steal that!
You can find lots of great clip art, traditional, contemporary, cartoon, graphic and more at http://www.artclip.biz I’ve been helping make clip art since the 80’s. We have created a lot. Hope you find it helpful.