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And my last — I hope — flannel from the archives, my very first flannelboard ever: The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

I’ve used this one in countless amounts of programs — Eric Carle storytime, a Very Hungry Caterpillar party, Letter C storytime, and countless others.

The templates were from DLTK, though I did not use their butterfly. I actually wound up free-handing that based on the book. The butterfly is, of course, my favorite piece.

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And yet again, another flannelboard from the Storytime Katie archives. I made this flannel version of “Mouse Paint” and posted about it in my Colors storytime, but I wanted to pull it out and highlight it for Flannel Friday.

In the original post, I wrote this “brief” note for anyone who wanted to make their own versions:

(As a brief note — I did not make the spiraled paint splots and I did not make the dancing mice. Instead, I asked the kids to dance for the mice and we twirled our fingers in the air and I just overlapped the new color over the old. And, I did not make the paintbrushes and instead just used a real paintbrush before putting the color splots on the white piece of felt. I am all for creative flannel pieces, but I am also a big believer in the less pieces you have and the less you move the pieces around — the better the flannelboard works.)

The template for these pieces came from Kizclub.

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Another flannelboard from the Storytime Katie archives. This was the second or third flannelboard that I ever made, way back in 2010! I made a farm pack that I could use pieces for Old MacDonald, Farmer in the Dell, and BINGO. I store all of these pieces together.

The template for these pieces came from DLTK, except for the cat — which I used a cat piece we already had in the library and made a second one for this set since I didn’t like the DLTK cat. If I were making it now, I might make a mini Pete the Cat!!

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This is an old flannelboard, but one of my favorites! It’s always one that I get a lot of email questions about.

Presenting…a Maisy-based take on the “Little Mouse, Little Mouse, what house are you in?” flannelboard game.

I originally got the template for this in CSLP’s “Make a Splash” Summer Reading Programming binder. There was a template for the house and Maisy in black and white. My library’s copy of the programming binder was lost in a basement flood, so I do not have the original, nor is it available online.

But there are tons of clip art houses for you to substitute. A great place to look is here where there are houses of all different kinds — you could even do different houses if you want to!

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This delightful Flannel Friday comes from Melissa at Mel’s Desk!

Melissa uses these with the Elizabeth Mitchell song “Little Bird, Little Bird.” I did purchase the song and have added it to my storytime playlist, but I still have to learn it for myself!

I don’t have these scheduled for a storytime yet, but these birds were so sweet, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make them!

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For this week, I have adorable sheep that Mary from Miss Mary Liberry was kind enough to share and give a pattern for!

Unlike Mary, I am not a puffy paint expert, and therefore, I only had black on hand to write out the numbers.

I will be using this in my Number Ten storytime, which is coming up in a few short weeks! Like Mary, I will probably do a lot of discussion and game playing with this set, and I do plan on reading “Counting Ovejas” since I am also a huge bilingual area.

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I’m back! After a ridiculously long Flannel Friday (and blog) holiday, I’ve finally dusted off the flannel kit and made some new materials!

But I think the most important question here is how have I not already flannelized Pete the Cat??

I was inspired by Lisa at Libraryland to make my Pete standing up so that I could do all the Pete stories. Right now, I only made enough pieces for “I Love My White Shoes.”

Already, I’ve used this in an outreach visit and also during “Socks and Shoes” storytime — it was a big hit!

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Welcome to the holiday edition of Flannel Friday! This Flannel Friday is brought to you by one very generous Library Quine, who provided the pattern.

We generally do not do a holiday themed storytime at the library (I’ve done one, specially billed as a Christmas storytime), but this Rudolph flannel was too cute not to make! I really hope that a daycare or outreach opportunity comes up when I can use it in the library!

The rhyme came from Crafty Chic Mommy‘s blog.

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Today’s Flannel Friday is about a month too late! I made these pumpkins back in August actually, and completely forgot where I put them. I found them when I cleaned off my desk this month and thus am posting them for inspiration for next year’s flannels.

I freehanded a simple pumpkin shape and made the pumpkins. Afterwards, I made some face pieces for the kids to help me build pumpkins. Since the face pieces aren’t attached with glue, I can also use these pumpkins in “Five Little Pumpkins” as well.

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