I am thinking of the beach today, yes I am. And flashing back to a flannelboard I used in Dirt, Sand, & Mud storytime.
I used a clip-art image (available here) as a pattern to make my sandcastles. The flags are held up with a flat craft stick, in a removable felt pouch just in case I wanted to use this flannelboard with younger kids.
The rhyme and inspiration came from Katie of Storytime Secrets:
Five pretty sandcastles standing on the shore,
The tide came in (whoosh!) and then there were four.
Four pretty sandcastles standing by the sea,
The tide came in (whoosh!) and then there were three.
Three pretty sandcastles standing by the ocean blue,
The tide came in (whoosh!) and then there were two.
Two pretty sandcastles standing in the sun,
The tide came in (whoosh!) and then there was one.
One pretty sandcastle just out of reach,
The tide came in (whoosh!) but it stayed on the beach!
The kids really enjoyed when we whooshed and waved our arms at the flannel. I’m pretty sneaky and managed to snatch the sandcastles away quickly enough that I had one small person tell that the whoosh was magic.
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[…] Five pretty sandcastles standing on the shore, The tide came in (whoosh!) and then there were four. Four pretty sandcastles standing by the sea, The tide came in (whoosh!) and then there were three. Three pretty sandcastles standing by the ocean blue, The tide came in (whoosh!) and then there were two. Two pretty sandcastles standing in the sun The tide came in (whoosh!) and then there was one. One pretty sandcastle just out of reach, The tide came in (whoosh!) but it stayed on the beach! Credit: https://storytimekatie.com/2015/03/27/flannel-friday-five-pretty-sandcastles/ […]
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