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To read more about my Olivia program, head over to the ALSC blog where I’m posting today!

Anyway, I did this Olivia program for my 3-8 year olds this past month and I found up making a flannelboard to do with the program!

I got the templates for this one from Nick Jr. here. I didn’t really have a script for the flannel, but I read on Wikipedia about a short clip that they did on the television shoe where Olivia’s baby brother won’t stop crying and everyone brings him toys to calm him down. Naturally, all that William wants is the family’s cat and Olivia brings it to him to save the day.

It’s a quick flannelboard in terms of story, and I made little baby toys to go with it but didn’t have them pictured. Oh well, I think I made a rattle, blanket, duck, teddy bear, bottle, and ball.

The hardest part with this one is painting all the pig mouths!

So, I did a felt version of Mel’s Clean and Dirty Pigs for this Flannel Friday! Her clip art file is here, and the blog post for “Messy and Clean” storytime is here. A big thanks to Mel for such adorable ideas to work with!

(Tune: “Five Green and Speckled Frogs)
Five pigs so squeaky clean
Cleanest you’ve ever seen
Wanted to go outside and play
Oink! Oink!
One jumped into the mud
Landed with a big THUD
Then there were four clean squeaky pigs.

The back of my pigs all have sweet adorable clean pigs, but the dirty pigs were my favorite part.

Awww, precious messy piggy!

This is a flannel all set to go for “Clothes” storytime towards the end of the month.

As with a ton of my flannels, I got this template from KizClub — Froggy template.

I love the way his jacket turned out even though I opted not to do the flannel striping. My co-worker really digs his socks. I am excited about using this one and I think the kids will really like Froggy. He’s just so cute!

Well, I did my best to find a flannelboard I’ve done that fits in with the theme “One World, Many Stories” as several other Flannel Friday participants are doing. And the only one I could think of was this adaptation of “The House That Jack Built” which is a British nursery rhyme with many possible origin stories, according to Wikipedia.

I used this in “Red” storytime almost a month ago now!

I just freehanded this one since it’s such familiar shapes. And here’s the text:

This is the crust that Sally made.
This is the sauce, so red and so sweet,
These are the olives, so black and salty,
These are the peppers, so green and crunchy,
This is the pineapple, fresh from Hawaii,
This is the salami, that makes it Italian,
This is the cheese, so gooey and chewy,

This is the tummy, so hungry and lively,
That devoured the pizza made with the cheese, so gooey and chewy,
That went on top of the salami, that makes it Italian,
That went with the pineapple, fresh from Hawaii,
That went with the peppers, so green and crunchy,
That went with the olives, so black and salty,
That went on the sauce, so spicy and sweet,
That went on the crust that Sally made.
And that was the pizza that Sally made!
Credit: SurLaLune Storytime

I do this as the original poem does, where you add one element and repeat all the previous ones, building until you get to the last verse. The kids really liked the repetition in this one and began chanting along with me.

This week I’m featuring the other flannelboard that I made on the plane ride to and from ALA’s Midwinter Conference this January: “Papa, Please Get the Moon For Me.”

Story Props Page on Kizclub // “Papa” Template (Color) // Book: Eric Carle

I didn’t do any of the painting on the plane, I promise!

My favorite part about this flannel is the glittery felt I found to do the moon. And the ladder (which is just pipe cleaners and a little dab of Tacky glue on each connecting part), which took me a few hours to suss out back at the library.

I haven’t had a chance to use this flannel yet with the kids; I made it for a “Starry Night Stories” program for families this winter, but we got snowed out and no one came. I rescheduled the program for this summer, so it will be used then!