Flannel Board Fun: Books

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Ducks, ducks, ducks!

In my experience, preschool kids dig ducks. And anytime a preschooler likes something, they’re bound to learn a lot as they play with that thing. So let’s give them lots of duck stuff to do! Preschool duck activities galore, right here for your viewing pleasure…

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Dinosaur Activities for Preschoolers

Come visit me over at my FlannelBoardFun.com blog for a quick and easy post about all my favorite dinosaur-related preschool stuff! Click the dinosaurs below to head right over ;)

The Wind Blew

Pat Hutchins is one of my favorite children's book authors, so I loved making this set to go with her book The Wind Blew. As with all story sets, if you know the book well enough you could use the set without the book at all. Or, as you read the book you can add the pieces to your board.

I would also put the pieces out for the children to use independently. It's so cool to watch and listen to children re-tell stories. Sometimes they remember it in a completely different way than I'd predict...so interesting to see how they understand and interpret the world!

I personally didn't use themes for my classroom or my story times, but I know that some people love to! Whether you're using a theme or just throwing ideas into the mix when the mood inspires you, here are some weather related ideas for you:

Books: If you're looking for other weather related books for preschoolers, Here's my Pinterest board on that subject!

Make Rain: Fill a clear cup about halfway with water, top with shaving cream, and let the children use eye droppers to drop liquid water color on top of the shaving cream. Once that "cloud" gets too full, it will start to rain!

Stormy paintings: Provide shades of gray, white and blue paint along with black, white, blue or gray construction paper. Add foam paint or shaving cream to the paints to inspire a cloud-like effect!

Storm Dancing: Pass our scarves and play Vivaldi's Storm!

Shadow drawing: Take the kids outside on a sunny day and trace their shadows with sidewalk chalk. Go out again later, have them stand at the base of the drawings, and notice how their shadows have changed position!

Sun Art: On a sunny and not too windy day, take construction paper and a basket of small toys outside. Spread the sheets of paper on the ground in a sunny spot, and ask the children to decorate the papers with the toys. Leave them outside for an hour or more. Have the children remove the toys, and see what amazing artwork the sun has made!

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Transportation Set

Thanks to custom requests, I am able to keep up with my best laid plans of frequent Flannel Friday posts! Well, actually my plans were for every Friday, but I am now just going to have to admit that that isn't going to happen. But better sometimes than never...

This set is intended to go along with a Barefoot Book called We All Go Traveling By, but it can be used in lots of ways.

Conversation starters, for instance: "I have something hiding in this box that has LOTS of wheels, and can carry lots of people, or freight... Does anyone have an idea of what it could be?" "Ok, the next thing in my box has NO wheels, but it can still carry people from place to place...What could it be?"

Do you have other ideas of how to use this set? Leave them in the comments below!

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Flip Flap Fly

I love this little book. But it's little. I haven't even checked to see if I can get a bigger version to use with larger groups--I just went for it and made a felt set to go along with the poem instead. I love the illustrations, I love the poem, the vocabulary, the rhymes... I hope my kids love seeing it on the flannel board! (And it goes well to a jazzy little version of the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star tune, too!)