Flannel Friday-- A Good Day For a Hat

I don't make many flannels these days, but when I saw "A Good Day for a Hat" by T. Nat Fuller, illustrated by Rob Hodgson I knew it would be a perfect choice to extend with flannel. I don't have a template to share this time--I just cut everything freehand!

First off, who doesn't love a good hat storytime? So fun. (Head over to EverydayDiversity.com to find some inclusive books to add to your theme!)

For this one, I read the book and did the flannel at the same time. The book follows a simple pattern--Mr. Brown goes outside, but the hat he's wearing isn't right for the occasion.

"I have just the hat for that" Mr. Brown said.

But when he stepped outside...

...it was raining!

And the page turn reveals the next dilemma. So I have everyone chorus, "I have just the hat for that" while putting their finger up like they have an idea. Then I lower the book and put on the new hat. This allowed a natural place to add discussion. I would say things like, "And he put on a yellow rain hat! What else do you wear in the rain?"

 I didn't ask extra questions on every spread, but it still encouraged dialogic reading as kids saw the additional elements in the pictures and pointed them out, "He needs a trumpet!" called out one little storytimer when we got to the marching band spread.

At the end, everyone loved it when he wore all the hats at once. After Mr. Brown is surprised, I tumbled all the hats to the floor--always a crowd pleaser. I love this flannel!

Flannel Friday is hosted this week by Jessica of Storytime in the Stacks. You can find out more about Flannel Friday, including archives, Pinterest boards, and a Facebook group over at the Flannel Friday website.

Flannel Friday--Waiting by Henkes

As soon as I read "Waiting" by Henkes I started thinking about those adorable nested kitties. I knew there had to be a way to do that with flannel! I knew it would be tricky, because it would be creating something that was nine layers of flannel deep, but after some tinkering I came up with a design that worked.

Once, there was a cat with patches.

What was the kitty in the story waiting for?

POP! Out came another spotted cat!

The whole family

Here they all are, with some perspective on size.

The teeniest kitty revealed--Just one spot!

I used this in my weather storytime recently when I read Waiting by Kevin Henkes. There were lots of delighted oohs and ahhs when I pulled out this flannel.

"Look! It’s a cat with patches. In the story she was waiting for something, do you remember what it was?

POP! Out came a kitty with green spots! Is she waiting for something? 

 

POP! etc."

We talked about the colors of each cat, and I used different vocabulary words like spots, patches, circles, and dots. After all were revealed, I took them down and put up two at a time so we could talk about size. "Which one is bigger? Yes, the one with purple spots!" or "Is the cat with green spots bigger or smaller than the cat with pink spots?"

I will use this one with our without reading Waiting, and it's a good fit for storytimes about size, families, colors, cats, or weather, so I will have a lot of chances to use it. 

You can see it in action here: https://vine.co/v/iQxgLLbMxDT

And, finally (best of all), I have a template to share in case you'd like to make your own. I'd love to see your version if you make one!

Flannel Friday is hosted this week at Adventures in Storytime. Make sure to check out the other awesome flannels this week! To participate in upcoming roundups, or just find out what's what, check out the Flannel Friday Blog. 

Flannel Friday April 11th 2014

I am delighted to once again be hosting all of the delightful ideas, tips, and tricks for this week's Flannel Friday. There's some great stuff this week (as usual!). Clip-art, flannel--the materials don't matter so much as how you use it!  And here we go:

Think Spring! Photo Credit: 'Ajnagraphy' via Compfight cc

Props, Games, and Other

Linda from Notes from the Story Room presents something new and exciting--an original "Origami and Tell" story, Sally Square that combines shapes, storytelling, and origami!

Over at Itsybitsymom, Anne shares a very simply stoplight prop and a fun Stoplight Song game that will work perfectly with those itsy bitsy storytimers.

Flannelboard Stories, Rhymes, and Songs

Ms. Kelly at the Library shares her lovely summer (think green!) butterflies for Five Little Butterflies 

Get out your glitter glue and fancy felt, Kathryn's update to her story, A Gift for Mommy will satisfy all your glittery needs.

It's always nice to see Melissa, the brains behind Flannel Friday, return to us! This week, she shares some cutie cute (and quick!) Rainbow Ducklings

Jenna from Stories with Ms. Jenna demonstrates the valuable technique of reusing flannel pieces you've already made to tell new stories in her version of The Old Woman and Her Pig

Book Adaptations

Miss Tara takes on a project I've always wanted to do, but have been too daunted to take on! She does a simply gorgeous job adapting Caps For Sale to felt!

Miss Kristen from Library Village does a lovely job using clip art to adapt a too-small-for storytime book, Owen's Marshmallow Chick.

Another adaptation of a too-small-for-storytime book, this time a board book, comes from Lisa at Libraryland: Orange Triangle Fox--a great choice for a shape or color storytime.

Lisa at Thrive Over Three demonstrates how out-of-print books can have new life through flannel board adaptations in her reworking of the superhero(!) story, Captain Pajamas

Inspired by Flannel Friday

Let's all fall down the "inspired by Flannel Friday" rabbit-hole with Katie at Storytime Katie, with her happy, sunny (SUN!) Five Little Starfish

Another delightful version of the classic, "Monkey Face." This time from Kathryn at Fun with Friends at Storytime shares her sassy version.

Check out our Pinterest boards for hundreds of other ideas!

Flannel Friday--Naptime Chickens

I am SO excited to share this one. Last fall I asked my colleague Tami to share some of her flannels for a presentation I was working on, and she shared her Naptime Chicken with me. IT'S SOOOO CUTE. I finally made my own version, and here it is:

It's a full hand puppet, with a set of finger puppets that attach with velcro. Tami found the pattern online a few years ago, and saved the image, but no amount of Googling or reverse image searching led us to the original source. I'm afraid the blog she found it on was taken down. We searched diligently for the original source, but this is too cute not to share!

“Come little chickens,” calls Mother Hen (beckoning motion)

“It’s time to take your nap again.”

And under her feathers the small chicks creep. (velcro chick onto palm part of hen puppet)

And she clucks a song til they fall asleep (fold fingers to cover chicks, and make rocking motion while clucking a lullaby).

My favorite part about this is clucking the lullaby at the end. I made a Vine to give you the idea, but since there's sound I will link to it instead of embedding it. Check it out here. I love songs and rhymes like this that give us a good opportunity to be silly. I like clucking, "Rock a Bye Baby" or "Brahms Lullaby" for maximum silliness. For some reason, this is one that parents really get into too--score!

Themes: Farm, sleep/night, dinosaurs (closest living relative!), birds, singing. 

I took the liberty of creating a template for this flannel set. If you'd like it, please email me and I will send you a PDF.  My gmail address is opinionsbyanna.

And finally, if you know where this came from originally, please let me know!

This week's Flannel Friday Roundup is hosted by Katie at Storytime Secrets. To participate in upcoming roundups, or just find out what's what, check out the Flannel Friday Blog. 

Flannel Friday Roundup January 10, 2014

Welcome to Flannel Friday! Flannel Friday is a place where we show off our mad creative skills to create flannels and other props to make storytime awesome. You can fine out more here.

Every Friday we have a round up to see what everyone made. So without further ado, here's the roundup. 

Lisa at Thrive After Three combines two super popular themes with Truck Duck

My long-lost brother from the Internet, Seth, shares Five Little Clouds

Anne from Itsy Bitsy Blog made a super fun game, "What's in the Box," for her storytime crowd.

We can never get enough penguins, so it's a good thing we have Kathryn's Six Penguins this week.

Miss Tara uses felt in a BIG way to make a flannel activity to go with "A Pizza the Size of the Sun."

With the kind of ingenuity we love to see at Flannel Friday, Miss Kristen combines old and new to make a Mama and Baby Matching game.

With the weather we're having lately, there are a lot of ways to use Bridget's Five Little Snowballs!

Katie takes time from her new baby (awwww) to share her idea for the poem, "It Fell in the City."

K Leigh brings snow fun to her warm-weather library friends with a (nearly) life-size Snowman Flannel

And last but not least, Lisa brings us even more snowy fun with her Snowball Pom Poms. 

So many awesome creations!

And while I don't have a flannel or prop to contribute this week, I DO want to share a recommendation for a portable flannelboard that I found.

To find next week's round up, or the archives of past roundups, check here.

Portable Flannelboard Recommendation

I want to share a recommendation for this portable flannel board that I just purchased for my library, made by Educational Insights. It's lightweight and awesome! It's a flannel board, magnet board, and whiteboard all in one, and can stand on it's own or be held in the lap. It's going to be awesome when my library is closed this summer and I'm doing storytime on the go. I bought it through Amazon

Apple BINGO--Inspired by Flannel Friday

I was inspired by posts I saw both at Falling Flannelboards (she includes PDF's, which I didn't notice until now, doh) and Roving Fiddlehead Kidlit to create my own version of Apple BINGO. I made mine with paper, and constructed it to work like a lift the flap book on the magnet side of my easel. It worked great!


This word says, 'apple.' A-P-P-L-E, apple. How many letters are in this word? Let's count them, 1-2-3-4-5. Five letters work together to make one word, 'apple.'  Let's sing a song about apples.

I know a fruit that's good to eat
And apple is its name-o
A-P-P-L-E
A-P-P-L-E
A-P-P-L-E and apple is its name-o

Uh oh, I'm hungry! Gobble gobble munch (open up the first flap to show the bitten apple instead of the letter).

I know a fruit that's good to eat
And apple is its name-o
*crunch*-P-P-L-E
*crunch*-P-P-L-E
*crunch*-P-P-L-E and apple is its name-o

And so on!

Inspired by Flannel Friday--Five Green and Speckled Frogs

I have been wanting to make this storytime prop for YEARS--ever since I first saw it on Mel's Desk in April 2011 (Holy moly time flies!).

I loved Mel's adorable frogs and their little log, but first I had to learn how to sing the song (that explains why it took so long).

Also, I knew that in order to use it in my family storytimes, I would have to make it bigger! Enter the mailing tube! Each frog photo is four inches wide, and it's shown sitting on the top shelf of a book cart, to give you an idea of the scale.

I added numbers for a little extra literacy punch. And yes, the waves do line up, because I'm fancy like that.

Next, I plan to steal another one of Mel's ideas, and hand out pipe-cleaner flies for the kids to wave around while we sing.

Flannel Friday Round Up 7/26/13

It's a blustery October-like day here in Minnesota, (despite being July 26th!) so it's a perfect day to cozy up and enjoy some fantastic ideas from colleagues.

First up we have Mrs. S at Thrive after Three showcasing her *amazing* system for organizing all her flannels, puppets, and props.

From "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" to a variety of stylin' kicks, Kathryn at Fun with Friends at Storytime shares lots of inspiration for a shoe-themed storytime.

Jane at Piper Loves the Library celebrates Shark Week with a fierce shark flannel, and also inspires with the clever idea to give kids a color photocopy of the flannel pieces. Kids can take the sheet home, cut out the pieces, and play storytime at home!

What is Bridget Reading? Lunch! by Denise Fleming. An excellent example of making the most out of those gorgeous flannel pieces we work so hard on--re purposing for multiple stories!

Jane (and Piper!) just couldn't stay away from Flannel Friday, and came back with another post. This time showcasing some older pieces and sharing a technique to make flannel board time interactive in a whole new way.

Brooke at Reading with Red shares a sweet way to introduce a theme into baby storytime, and backs it with with her early literacy mojo.

Lisa in Libraryland (I just love saying that) has some adorable (sturdy) foam sheep, and has really done her research to find dynamic ways to share the familiar tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"

Over at Artistic Literacy, Amber inspires us with some awesome flowers that have multiple uses, from counting, to color identification, to matching and patterning. Awesome!

Andrea at Librarian vs. Storytime has a flannelization of the new-to-me book "I Heard a Little Baa." Andrea wins the, "Most likely to make Anna run out and copy her" award this week! How have I missed this perfect little storytime rhyme?!

This week, I shared a technique for doing a 'letter of the day' in storytime without using puppets. For some reason lots of the people who do a regular "Letter of the day" use puppets (including me). But if you want to read my ideas for a puppet-free letter of the day, check it out here.

Thanks for reading and contributing, you are what makes Flannel Friday wonderful! To learn more about Flannel Friday, check out the Flannel Friday Blog.

Flannel Friday--10 Little Babies

One little, two little, three little babies...

Four little, five little, six little babies...

Seven little, eight little, nine little babies...

Ten little darling babies! *kisses*

The babies are quite large; each face is four inches round. I used them in baby storytime this week, and all the babies (and adults) LOVED them. We sang the song three times, and the first time I put the babies up on the board as we sang, and then pointed to each face on the repeats.

These are HEAVILY influenced by the artwork of Karen Katz, so all credit for their adorableness goes to her!

Hi, Pizza Man

This book is out of print, and I don't actually even know it (!!! Bad librarian!). But I know it's a favorite of several people in the FF universe, so when I discovered this flannel in my storage cabinet I knew I had to share it. I don't know who created it, but the pieces are GOR-GE-OUS. I'm guessing it's the same coworker who made the Chinese Dragons, but I'm not sure yet.

Look at that eager young deliver man!

This groovy duo cracks me up--look at those socks!

The crocodile (alligator?) alone is a work of art--so intricate.

The round up is hosted today at Mel's Desk and you can have all your Flannel Friday dreams come true (or questions answered, or archives accessed) by visiting the Flannel Friday Blog.

 

The dog is my favorite of all, I think

What Flannel Friday Means to Me

For the two year anniversary of Flannel Friday, Sharon at Rain Makes Applesauce is doing a special roundup of posts where community members reflect on how FF has impacted them.

Adorable graphic Sharon designed

For me, Flannel Friday was the beginning of creating a personal learning network (PLN) that has dramatically changed my career for the better. When FF started I was alone at a rural library with a too-big job and no network whatsoever. It was sad. And lonely.  Through Flannel Friday I got onto Twitter--FF gave me an entry point, people to follow, and reason to be on Twitter. Now I have a worldwide network of amazing librarian colleagues, many of whom have become real life friends, and that has led me into participating in librarianship on a wider scale by giving me the resources, awareness, and connections needed to get involved with presenting and committee work.

I love the idea sharing that takes place on FF. My first post included no flannel; it was a prop story. I continue to advocate for FF as a community for idea sharing rather than one specific format. It's so much more than just flannel board stories!

To me, Flannel Friday means community.

Flannel Friday: Chinese Dragon Edition

Five Red Dragons

Just in time for Chinese New Year, I have an amazing set of flannels to share with you. One of my new coworkers (who doesn't even work in the children's department!) creates the most A-MAZE-ING flannels for the library system. I feel soooo lucky to have someone on staff who has the time and talent to create pretty much whatever we ask her to make! I've seen her work before, but these dragons just blow me away.


She does such a great job of layering the felt pieces to create a 3D look, and these are large pieces--bigger than my hand. Last year Mollie posted her cute dragons and the rhyme she used them with, make sure to check it out here. 

Those teeth!

Anne is hosting this week's Flannel Friday round-up. To learn more about Flannel Friday or how to participate, check out the Flannel Friday Blog.

The shiny glitter talons!!!

Flannel Friday--Anna's Coworker Edition

Welcome to Flannel Friday! I'm delighted to be hosting again it has been a while. If you're not sure what Flannel Friday is, check out the blog to find out how to get involved!

Since I'm calling it "Anna's Coworker Edition" for a reason, we'll start off with this darling song for the flannel board created by my crazy-talented co-worker Monica over at Ram Sam Storytime--she even includes a bonus video of her performing the song!

Next up is Tami, one of my library school bff's/now coworker with her darling story, The Hair-Raising Adventures of Shanice Suzanne (hosted by me since Tami doesn't blog).

Anne at So Tomorrow continues to inspire us with her fun draw-and-tell stories. Bookmark this one since it's perfect for those spring storytimes--Jane's Garden

Lisa at Libraryland presents a great way to highlight the names of storytime kids while letting them get hands-on with the flannel board. T-Shirt Song

Miss Mary Liberry inspires me to re-do MY careworn flannel song Five in a Bed with her utterly charming Five Bears in the Bed

Trails and Tales shares a whole bunch of activities related to woodpeckers and bird beaks

The Library Lady shares a simple Turkey Hat Craft with great visuals that illustrate the importance of individuality and creativity

Storytime Katie spreads the love by sharing two ideas inspired by others, both of which deal with a favorite theme among young patrons--Horses!

Ooh, here's a super fun creation from Linda at Notes from the Story Room--Whose Tail? Guessing Game
(apologies to Linda for the typo I fixed--totally my error!)

A fantastic and original idea from Andrea at Roving Fiddlehead Kidlit Art Vocabulary Cards. I love how this reuses something that would otherwise be tossed or recycled, familiarizes kids with famous works of art, and has many uses.

The Hair-Raising Adventure of Shanice Suzanne

Today I’m lucky enough to share my blog space with a coworker who doesn’t blog. I thought this story was too cute not to share!

Look at that adorable face!

The story is adapted from a story on page 181 of the book Glad Rags: Stories and Activities Featuring Clothes for Children by Jan Irving and Robin Currie, and it's about a girl who simply won't take care of her hair--until animals start living in it!  

This version is made using clip art, laminated pieces, and magnets, and yarn. 

I had a copy of that book at my old library and have a long list of ideas to create from it—it’s definitely a book worth getting your hands on (even if some of the stories DO need adapting for cultural awareness).

 

Flannel Friday Song Cards-La Granja

Today I'm posting a Flannel Friday in the spirit with which Flannel Friday was originally conceived--As a way to keep new content on my blog when I don't have time to write any.

I made these song cards to help introduce a new song to my storytime repertoire, "La Granja." As you can see, the song is in Spanish (Thank you Captain Obvious).





Vengan a Ver mi Granja =  Come and See my Farm, and I should warn you, this song is a major earworm. BUT it's also delightful and worth learning. I generally do not use recorded music in storytime, but if you'd like to learn the song, I highly recommend José-Luis Orozco's version on De Colores

You have to do rooster; in Spanish roosters say "kikirikí"

Many kids, even in my homogeneous community, know the basic names of some animals in Spanish. However, this song relies on the diminutive ito/ita endings. For those of you who don't speak Spanish, adding ito/ita to a word basically means you're describing it as cute, little, or dear.



I wanted to make sure that kids and parents didn't get confused--if they knew that duck was "pato"  then why were we singing "patito?" I used clipart from with Microsoft Word to find the animals, and I tried to use animals that were all the same style of illustration so they would look like they went together. I had a hard time finding a font that used the correct type of lowercase 'a' but I really like this one. Unfortunately I can't remember what it is and on my Mac at home--I'll update later.



With these song cards, we identify the animals in both English and Spanish, then talk about the ito/ita endings.  We practice the words before starting the song (hello print awareness) and everyone is much more engaged than they would be if we just started singing. Once this song is familiar enough to my audience, I will probably start doing it with puppets, most likely using my barn prop.



Here is a great resource for translations of what sounds animals make in Spanish--which is a really fun discussion to have during storytime!



This song translates pretty well to English too, so if you'd like to learn the song both in English and Spanish I'd be happy to share my translation.  Enjoy!

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Exciting news for Flannel Friday!

Introducing the Flannel Friday website!

It's awesome. Seriously, go look--I'll wait.

Background

 (this post has been written by Melissa of Mel's Desk, our fabulous Flannel Friday originator, and everyone who has ever hosted FF has been invited to share it)

As you know, Anne at So Tomorrow has been an amazing manager and archiver of Flannel Friday information for the past year. Anne and her husband are expecting their first baby in June (congratulations Anne!) so we wanted to give her a break from Flannel Friday during her maternity leave. So this spring, Anne and Mel from Mel's Desk and a small group of old and new Flannel Friday-ers worked to create a new web home for Flannel Friday.

Here's the link!

The new site will be the home of the Round Up Schedule, the archives, FAQs about Flannel Friday, information about how to get involved with Flannel Friday, and links to help new members get started with social networking and blogging. There will also be a link to the week's Round Up, but the Round Up will continue to be hosted on individual blogs. We'll just point to each Round Up from the site.

Refining the Round Up Procedure

The Flannel Friday community has grown continuously over the year, with new bloggers, new Round Up Hosts, and new members every week on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. We are building an amazing community and are grateful to each and every one of you for your participation and enthusiasm. As the group has grown, you've probably noticed that so have the Round Ups! We've seen an inevitable increase in missed links and general confusion as the Round Ups are compiled. We thought that the launch of the new site was a great opportunity to take a page from other round ups in the blogosphere and establish one single method for building the Round Up each week.
This information will be in the FAQs on the new site, but here's our new strategy in a nutshell:

• Every week the Round Up Host will publish a "placeholder" post for the Round Up on the host blog at 10pm EST on Thursday.
• Each blogger who wants to participate in the Round Up will make a comment to the Round Up post with the link back to their Flannel Friday post by 10pm EST on Friday.
• This will be the only place to post links for the Round Up! This way the Host won't have to worry about checking Facebook or Twitter as well.
• If a blogger can't make the 10pm EST deadline on Friday, we'll ask that the post be held for the next week's Round Up.
• The Round Up Host will gather links from the Round Up post comments throughout the day, and publish the Round Up at the end of the day.

We hope this will make the Round Ups easier to create and easier to contribute to! We'll look forward to your feedback over the next few weeks. Sharon /@ReadingChick at Rain Makes Applesauce has the Round Up this week, 5/11, so she's going to try out the new procedure with us and see how it goes!
If you have questions or comments, don't hesitate to share them via the new Flannel Friday email: flannelboardfriday [at] gmail.com.

Thanks for all you do to to make Flannel Friday more than a blog event--but a great community too. Here's to the next great year of Flannel Friday!

Flannel Friday--CollageTechnique

Just a quick Flannel Friday entry.
Other people have shared lots of snowman flannels and rhymes in the past, and there are various ways to use these little guys, so I won't go into that. I wanted to share this because of the technique I use: Collage.

These are clip art snowmen, and were black and white--completely identical with no way to customize them before printing. After printing them the size I wanted, I used colored paper cutouts to add scarves, hatbands, and carrot noses. A little gluestick action and viola! Just print an extra and use that for a template if you're not comfortable doing it freehand like I do.

They were then laminated. This technique is quick, easy, doesn't require special materials (like felt and extra sharp scissors) and works equally well for felt and magnet boards. I often use laminated pieces with masking tape attached to the back instead of velcro dots. It's removable and I think it works better than dots.

This technique is a good option for those of us who don't have a lot of time!

Flannel Friday is hosted by Angela this week, and look for it on Cate's blog next week.

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Flannel Friday-Cupcake: a Journey to Special by Charise Harper

This book is so funny to me. I love Harper's wonky drawings and bright colors. I always love the sense of humor she uses in her books, but sometimes they are best for one-on-one reading rather than storytime. I mean, we've all been there, reading the book with the punchline ending and getting a reaction of deafening silence as you chuckle awkwardly and try to transition onwards while the kids look at you like this 0_o

ANYway.

Love this book.

The first half reads quite well, with a pretty linear text about a plain vanilla cupcake who wants to be special like his (his!) family. He meets a candle who relates to his feelings, and decides to help. At this point the book kind of loses its large-group oomph. It becomes very dialogue heavy with lots of little asides and small pictures. I knew that reading it to the group would make it lose the impact of the humor. So I turned to flannel as a way to expand the story. Basically the candle suggests a whole bunch of gross/inappropriate toppings for the cupcake, which are summarily rejected.

How 'bout pickes? Or spaghetti?

Pancakes, egg, peas (which the kids think are sprinkles at first), and STINKY CHEESE

Yes, that's a squirrel

Funniest option, per the 50 or so kids who've seen it

Finally, the squirrel is rejected as too furry, and both candle and cupcake are discouraged. Then the candle sees a nut left behind on the cupcake's head, and climbs up to remove it. Obviously everyone is predicting the candle/cupcake partnership ending at this point. And sure enough, ssuddenly candle has an AMAZING idea!... turn the page... "Tomorrow, let's try a potato." The End. 

The flannel pieces helped kids engage with the humor of the story and added anticipation which made them pay attention more. They loved it!

I read the first half of the story from the book, and told the second half using flannel. I think it worked really well, and turned a book that would have been a storytime flop (for me) into a hilarious success.

This week's Flannel Friday round up is hosted by Libray Quine!

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Flannel Friday Valentine (and related!) Extravaganza

Welcome FF'ers! I don't have anything to share myself today, but I'm happy to host. The number of half-finished posts in my drafts file is very frustrating, but other things have had to take priority. I'm restarting programming next week, and between training my new library clerk and planning a staff in-service to start the process of creating customer service standards for the library I haven't had time for much else. The in-service was today, and it went really well! We'll see if things start evening out for me soon.

So without further ado may I present
Flannel Friday for Friday the Thirteenth of January

Alison with Jan Brett's "The Hat"
Anne with "The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings" (I grew up with this old version of the book and I LOVED it even though the part where his Mummy doesn't know him broke.my.heart. every time)
Kari presents a set of matching valentines with multiple uses
K joins us with a magnetic version of "My Heart is like a Zoo"
Meghan's Valentine post isn't quiiiite ready, so here are some winter theme options with snowmen
Cate is submits My Froggy Valentine
Andrea mushy-gushies up a familiar verse with "Two Little Lovebirds" 
Katie presents "H-E-A-R-T" to the tune of BINGO
Tracey shares a whole bunch of great on-theme ideas on her blog 
Sarah with some versatile shoes (and everybody's favorite, Pete the Cat!)
Linda shares a cut and tell version of "Squirrel Gives Her Heart" with suggestions for flannelizing
And Katie presents the sweet family themed poem "Five Little Kisses"
Don't forget to check out Erin's sweet little Candy Hearts rhyme

And finally, Melissa gives us a bunch of simple, easy to adapt ways to use Five Hearts. Melissa is also next week's roundup hostess and her blog is where you can get a Flannel Friday button.

The archived/upcoming hosts are on Anne's blog, here.
For us visual learners, browse all the past Flannel Friday contributions via Pinterest (602 members and counting!)
Join the discussions over at the FF Facebook page. And finally, follow FF on Twitter by searching #flannelfriday (whether or not you have a Twitter account).

See you next week.

Cheers!