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A Ramadan Felt Board Pattern!

Ramadan is here!

A year or two ago I had the pleasure of learning all about Ramadan, and I created a felt board set for story time and for independent play. I wrote about it here. Click there for my thoughts, feelings, and some of the lyrics :)

And after having a ton of people ask me if I could pretty please make a pattern for them...

I finally did!

I'm so pleased that the pattern will make the Ramadan set more accessible to more people. I know as a teacher our classroom was sorely lacking in materials that represented children of color and a variety of holidays and cultures. I hope this pattern fills that hole a bit if you're experiencing the same thing!

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Down in the Farmyard: A Circle Time Farm Song

Calling all farm enthusiasts and little animal lovers ;) In case you can't make the trip to a real farm, I think you'll love this wee little farmyard experience on the felt board!

In this video, I sing one of my favorites--"Down by the Station"--with a farm twist.

I love this one because the kids really love to join in, which increases their farm and animal knowledge and vocabulary. Along with all the other early learning skills like counting and color naming, of course. And most importantly, they have fun and want to come back for more :)

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Five Little Friends Went Out Today

Five little friends went out today...out on the playground where they like to play!

Why is it still so hard to find classroom materials that are representative of various cultures, skin tones and abilities? I'm doing my part to take care of that problem! And now my All Together friends are going out to play on the playground together :)

It's to hard to learn all the tunes, so I like to re-use familiar tunes and rhymes as much as possible. Kids and educators benefit from this--we can all join in more easily :)

Here's the video of Five Little Friends Went Out Today--enjoy!

Hey Diddle Diddle Felt Board Set: Brown Bear Version

If you're like me, you like simple things.

Simple songs.

Simple rhymes.

Frequent repetition so things are...simpler!

And if you're like me, you're also very familiar with the following three things:

1. Hey Diddle Diddle the Cat & the Fiddle

2. Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See

3. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

And if you're like me in one last way, you like to mix things up.

If you fit the bill, you're going to love this one. I've combined all three of those fabulous simple things into one fabulous simple felt board activity.

Let's keep this simple--here's the video :) Enjoy!

Apple Tree Felt Board: Farmer Brown's Apples!

I never get tired of apples, and I never get tired of apple felt boards! And I never get tired of making up (or piggy backing) apple songs and rhymes to use at circle time...

You can see past apple felt board fun right here.

But onward we must go! Or backwards, in this case--to a song from way back in my early days of teaching.

Now there are LOTS of ways to mix this song up.

🍏I've done it by inviting children up to pick an apple of the tree and pretend to eat it.

🍎I've been the farmer and eaten all the apples myself!

🍏I've had a puppet eat the apples, too.

🍎And in this version, I use felt characters from my dragon, elephant, Over in the Meadow, unicorn, and Kwanzaa sets to munch up those sweet, crispy apples!

I kind of love this song, and I hope you will, too! Let's sing!

Apple Tree Felt Board: Apple Count Up!

It's been a long time, but I've written about this apple felt board set once before, right here. And in that post, I did include these lyrics, but it's not till now that I've finally got a video for you!

This apple circle time counting song is a great way to get the kids counting UP from 1-5. It’s all done in a playful way, so kids don’t even know they’re doing math 😊 Plus, there’s a little science thrown in, and color recognition to boot… Hello, apple circle time fun!

Here are the lyrics again:

Apple Count Up © Wendy Gerbi

No apples on this tree, growing for you and me,

No sweet fruit for us to bite and crunch...

One flower starts to bloom,

An apple will be here soon…

Now there is one sweet juicy fruit—yum, yum!

And here, without further ado, is the video:

Two Little Animals: A Rhyming Song!

Once again, I'm figuring out ways to use existing felt board sets in new, engaging, fun ways. Multi-use felt board sets for the big win, right?!

This time, I'm using my Over in the Meadow animal felt board set. I've written about these cuties here, and now I have another new video for you!

This is a song I've used a million times with kids during circle time. You can use your fingers to be the animals. You can use big puppets. Or finger puppets. And hey, if you've got this felt board set, you can use the same adorable critters I use in the video!

This song is wonderful for rhyming, naming and demonstrating opposites, using position words, etc. etc. It's just full of early literacy benefits. And a tiny bit of math, even. Oh--and it's cute. And fun. I love it. Let's sing!

And look, now you can get the pattern for these cuties, too!

Down at The Bus Stop (video!)

Need a fun song using animals and a bus? Well, here you go! (I used my Hickory Dickory Dock set for this one. You can see my other post about it right here.)

This bus and animal version of Down by the Station is counting and animal vocabulary fun. Plus there's naming of movements and speeds and other fun early math and literacy stuff tucked in there--your toddler and preschool kids will love this one.

And you could of course invite them to perform the movements of the animals with their hands or with their whole bodies...

Click the picture below to watch the video :)

Want some books to go along with this song? How about some of these...

The Bus for Us by Suzanne Bloom

Down by the Station by Will Hillenbrand

School Bus by Donald Crews

Toot Toot Beep Beep by Emma Garcia

Hey Diddle Diddle Remix--Video!

You may have read about my Hey Diddle Diddle set before--I wrote about it here. But I didn't have a video using the set until right this very minute :) So...here it is! Classic Nursery Rhyme fun--but with a twist!

Let's get all mixed up (click the picture to watch the video!)

Fruit Song for Kids: Fruit Salad Ballad!

I can't have a felt board set that can only be used one way, now can I?? No, I can't!

My Rainbow Stew set is definitely a favorite with kids and educators. It's magical, for sure. I've got a video of that fun song right here.

But of course I needed to write another song for it. A fruity song. A song that includes colors and rhyming and pretending...

So I did. And I called it Fruit Salad Ballad. Because I think that's so darn cute.

Here's the video--I hope you love it and use it with your kids as soon as possible :) There will be picking, and plucking, and chopping and tossing and eating! Get ready for fruity fun!

Oh! And now you can also get a pattern and make your own set! Click below :)

Hickory Dickory Dock--Ocean Style!

Hickory Dickory Dock, the fish swam up the clock! Here's a fun way to combine an old classic nursery rhyme with ocean critters.

You can see my Hickory Dickory post here, set for sale here, and original video here. My Ocean Set post is here, the felt set for sale is here, and there are a bunch of Ocean videos here.

The Wheels on the Bus--Ocean Style!

Are you a tiny bit tired of the Wheels on the Bus? But the kids looovee it? And do you have an ocean felt board set that you need to put to good use?!

I've got you covered :) This one is simple to learn and the kids will love it--and they'll be able to join in because they already know the tune!

Stay seated and get those little finger muscles stronger if you do this as a finger play. Or stand up and swim around to build balance and large muscle strength. Either way, vocabulary and creative skills are off the charts :)

Here you go--enjoy:

Somebody's Moving in the Sea (an Ocean Song for Kids)!

When I was teaching preschool, we used to use this tune to welcome the kids to circle time. "Somebody's knocking at my door--oh, Suzie, I hear you knocking..." It's actually an old hymn, but we went a little lighter with it ;)

I thought this tune would work perfectly with my ocean set. I think I was right :) I certainly had fun making this video and performing all the movements.

It would absolutely be super fun to make this a standing up movement activity! Do it!!

Did You Ever See a Lassie (Ocean Version!)

Whether you're prepping for your Ocean's of Possibilities Summer Reading Program, or you just like oceans critters as much as I do, or you like singing songs about ocean animals with small children--or any combination of the above... This one's for you :)

As always, I'm on a mission to come up with as many way as possible to use each felt set in my collection. My ocean set already has a bunch of songs to use with it (here's a whole playlist!), but I wanted more!

Enter Did You Ever See a Lassie, Ocean Version. I love this one because you can do it sitting down as a finger play, or you can get up and move! It teaches ocean vocabulary--and you can totally switch it up and let the kids come up with the movement words, too. Plus, you most likely already know the tune, so it's suuuper easy to learn this one.

Anyway, enough talk! Here's the video--enjoy :)

If you like singing and rhyming and generally having fun with kids,

I think you'll love these songs strips:

Ramadan Storytime Set

Next month is Ramadan, and I don't have a Ramadan set! Strike that--I DIDN'T have a Ramadan set. But now I do :)

Like my Kwanzaa and Diwali sets, I had to do quite a bit of research for this set--because I don't personally celebrate Ramadan. Here's what I wrote about those holidays, and it applies here, too:

I thought it would be fun to create some holiday sets for holidays that I don't personally celebrate. (I was right--it WAS fun, and wow, I learned a lot while doing research for these sets.) I'm so happy to be able to share these, as I think it's so important to expose kids to various cultures, and to share in celebrations with the kids who DO celebrate holidays outside of my own experience :)

I focus holiday sets on the parts of holidays that kids understand, so the concepts are about simple traditions vs. religious themes.

I also want them to be usable both as storytime sets-- where the adult is using the set pieces as props to support a rhyme, song or story--and as play sets for the kids--where the kids are re-enacting traditions, songs, and stories that they've learned about.

Here's one of the rhymes I've written to go along with this set:

Ramadan is Here ©Wendy Gerbi

Place your felt pieces on the board s you sing about them and use the pieces to act out the words as you sing them.