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 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.

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--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.

Innovative Outreach Ideas

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Ok everybody, we just experienced a Twitterstorm of ideas!

Katie, our friend over at Secrets & Sharing Soda AND Storytime Secrets tweeted about her need for two great innovative outreach ideas that she can implement before September. Now, concerns about the feasibility of this expectation aside, plenty of tweeps jumped in with great ideas and Mel--ever thinking Mel--noted that someone should grab these ideas from the ether and jot them down for everyone's benefit.

So here we are with round one. Keep an eye on Katie's blog for more ideas and some follow-up on what she ends up doing!

Mary, of Miss Mary Liberry fame (who happens to BE an outreach librarian) suggested:
--Teen outreach at a comic book store--maybe during Free Comic Book Day (May 5th 2012), Teen Read Week (Oct. 14-20, 2012) or Graphic Novel Week (Not sure when/what this one is).
--Outreach to senior citizens: Senior St., where librarian reads to seniors at nursing home
--Afterschool programs outreach: Boys and Girls club, etc. where librarian provides activities, crafts etc.
--Outreach to children in trailer parks, homeless shelters, community centers

Seth (Voices Inside my Headphones) suggests some online outreach--maybe a bookclub or something along those lines.

Laura (Bib-Laura-Graphy) suggests looking into local shelters for family/domestic violence, or a local Children's Hospital (or even children's department of general hospital).

Mel (Mel's Desk) had the idea to look at the library's goals and try to develop a 'sister program' with something adult services is doing. She also suggested looking into churches that offer temporary housing,
and WIC offices as possible outreach locations.

Lisa (Library Lady) suggests in-home daycare providers and public parks as possible outreach destinations.

And finally, a few ideas from yours truly:
--First Job Program (aimed at highschoolers) on getting (and keeping!) a very first job (to make this outreach instead of in-house, you could partner with local tech school or Optimists club or maybe even Chamber of Commerce for your community!
--Farmer's Market booth to promote library services/educate people about fresh/local food
--Hospital's birth education classes/groups or MOPS--targeting parent education rather than kids.
--Coordinate some kind of program for senior citizens/nursing home residents. "Ray of Sunshine" visits from families with young children to elderly folks, or kids reading to seniors.

So many great ideas! 

Flannel Friday Roundup 10/7

Welcome to Flannel Friday!

Everybody's welcome to join in!  Have one to add? I will, of course, edit you in if you leave me a comment.

Edited to add: At this point, if you still have an entry, you'd do better to save it for this coming Friday so more people to see it--Andrea will be hosting. Thanks everyone!

Kendra has a Special Needs friendly version of the book Deep Blue Sea

Mollie gives us a cute little rhyme great for night/sleep/space storytimes, Four Little Stars

Nicole anticipates colder weather (not yet, noooooo!) with Five Little Snowmen

Tracey contributes a totally cute animal clipart version of The Great Big Enormous Turnip

Mel is waaaaay too hard on herself for not coming up with something new, and shares her version of the book Fall is Not Easy

Katie shares cute little pumpkins and a couple of different ways to use them--Five Little Pumpkins

Mary brings us not one but TWO boards this week, an adorable clip art version of the book Mortimer and  flannel props for the song Mary Wore Her Red Dress (argh, Twitter's hashtags not searching correctly, Mortimer was from a few weeks ago. It's still super cute though).

Anne tries out a new material for flannelboards and shares several stories made with--Milk filters!

Sarah shares a super fun activity--Making Cookies

Alison brings us an idea for the every popular dinosaur theme--Paleontologist Paleontologist What Do You See?

Andrea shares some cute little penguins (bonus template link!) for the story Pippa's Penguins

Library Quine adds her take on the book, Go Away Big Green Monster--a book I'm looking forward to using again this Halloween as it's a favorite of mine.

Our second Emberley book of the day comes from Recipes for Reading, another title I love Bye Bye Big Bad Bullybug

Cate has created some adorable yeti's for a Halloween version of an old standby, Five Creepy Monsters (Jumping on the Bed)

With another cute little rhyme perfect for Halloween, Linda shares her One Little Ghost flannel

One more entry--perfect for fall--from Sarah I Like Apples

I thought I was going to sit this week out and only host, but found one in my files I hadn't shared yet, Five Little Astronauts

Bonus video(!) entry from the Library Lady showing us her version of The Green Grass Grows All Around

Katie doesn't have a flannel to contribute this week, but she gives us a sneak peek at how she stays organized and the supplies she uses to make her flannel boards

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Enjoy!

Flannel Friday Round Up

Hello duckies! I'm excited to host all of this week's lovely storytime creations. This is later than I planned, but I spent the afternoon with my favorite six year old (who was so excited to see me that she cried), so I'm sure you understand.

If by some chance you're reading this and don't know what Flannel Friday is, Anne has a full explanation/summary of what it is and a list of all the past round-ups on her blog, So Tomorrow.

I'm extra excited about the newest facet of Flannel Friday--Pinterest! Pinterest is a visual social bookmarking site--think bulletin boards where you 'pin' pictures that inspire you from the web.  With Pinterest, you can browse past Flannel Friday creations without sorting through a bunch of links.  Check it out here.

And, without further ado, may I present this week's contributions.

Edited to Add: Looks like we missed Sarah at Read Rabbit Read twice in a row! Here's her adorable Make a Snowman 1, 2, 3 and last week's Five Shiny Stars. 

Anne of So Tomorrow starts us off with a clever way to tell an old story, Round and Round with the Three Little Pigs My mind is already racing to come up with more ways to use this idea!

Next Mollie Kay of What Happens in Storytime shares Five Little Doggies. Cute little clip-art pups with a song she made up herself. Yay! You can only sing so many versions of Frere Jacques, right?

The ever-inspiring Melissa at Mel's Desk expanded on a previous post about color and counting sets with a set of Color and Counting Fish. AND she included the file so all you have to do is print and cut.

Nicole at Narrating Tales of Preschool Storytime shared her version of one of my favorite stories--with a twist--The Pancake Man. I love that sassy pastry.

Katie at Storytime Secrets shares the song and files she used for We're Going to the Beach, a great rhythmic song that builds vocab and is endlessly adaptable.

Sharon at Rain Makes Applesauce made some awfully cute penguins to go with an online story she found, Pippa's Penguins.  I'm going to have to poke around that story site some more when I have time.

Mary at Miss Mary Liberry has a slew of boards that she's made inspired by past Flannel Friday posts--makes me feel like a bit of a slacker seeing how many she's done!

Over at 1234 More Storytimes Tracey has a delightfully silly matching activity involving Animal Noses.

And finally, I have my first 'Inspired by Flannel Friday' post, Make a Pig.

Did I miss anyone? Any latecomers?  I'll be happy to continue adding to this post--just comment below and tell me where to find your post.  

Thanks for looking, it's such a pleasure to be part of Flannel Friday.