The Scot­tish folk song Aiken Drum is a pop­u­lar song and flan­nel with many Flan­nel Fri­day par­tic­i­pants, includ­ing this week’s Scot­tish host. I par­tic­u­larly like Leah Salo­maa’s voice and ver­sion. In her ver­sion, he plays a ladle, has hair made of spaghetti, eyes of meat­balls, nose of cheese and mouth of pizza. My craters are not attached to my moon sur­face so they can be added and named in a par­tic­i­pa­tory manner.

Other Flan­nel Fri­day Aiken Drum versions:

Straight from Scot­land, Library Quine.

Miss Mary Liberry

A Span­ish ver­sion from Katie at ¡Es diver­tido hablar dos idiomas!

Find­ing Flan­nel Friday

This week’s Flan­nel Fri­day host is Loons and Quines @ Library­time. You can also find past and future roundups and lots more infor­ma­tion about Flan­nel Fri­day at the Flan­nel Fri­day web­site. For a visual round-up of all post­ings, check out Flan­nel Fri­day on Pin­ter­est.

Another week of fab­u­lous Flan­nel Fri­day con­tri­bu­tions! I never cease to be amazed with the cre­ativ­ity each week. Thanks so much to every­body who shared this week.

Books to Flannelboards

Linda of Notes from the Story Room con­tin­ues her inspir­ing series, “Telling a Story Five Ways,” using props to tell the story of The Fish­er­man and His Wife

With mul­ti­ple copies of each key, Lisa at Thrive After Three has made an inter­ac­tive Good­night Gorilla.

Mol­lie at What Hap­pened in Sto­ry­time has a bright, colour­ful ver­sion of Have You Seen My Blue Sock? by Eve Bunting

Sto­ry­time Katie brings us a beau­ti­ful ver­sion of the perfect-for-flannelboard Mouse Paint

Andrea at Librar­ian vs Sto­ry­time has Arnold Lobe’s Mouse Tales ready for her wind sto­ry­time next week

Piper Loves the Library tells Pete the Cat with the aid of story stones, a new-to-me, but fab­u­lous sto­ry­telling device! (More from Jane below too!)

Up in the Air

Kathryn of Fun with Friends at Sto­ry­time adapted Pretty Bal­loons for a hot air bal­loons sto­ry­time. Pretty sure the glit­ter bal­loon was a HUGE hit!

Miss Meg’s Sto­ry­time has a set of plan­ets for One Lit­tle, Two Lit­tle, Three Lit­tle Plan­ets to go with her space sto­ry­time plan. Her space­ship craft could also be flannelized.

Poetry

It’s fit­ting that there are some straight-up rhymes since it’s National Poetry Month.

I Planted a Whis­tle by Jack Pre­lut­sky at What Brid­get is Reading

Deli­cious Alli­ga­tor Pie is fea­tured by Anna at Future Librar­ian Superhero

Lisa at Library­land shares two Five Senses flan­nel rhymes from her Music and Move­ment sto­ry­time: “Two Lit­tle Eyes to Look Around” and “If a Bird You Want to Hear” which she turned into a game.

Ani­mals

Mrs. Andre’s Library must know I’ve got a hedge­hog obses­sion since she brought out Five Lit­tle Hedge­hogs.

For Arbor Day, Sandy from Sto­ry­time Sparks uses Beanie Babies for a fun game of Who is Hid­ing in the Tree?

Spread­ing the Flan­nel Love

Jane from Piper Loves the Library, Kari Ann and Heather are pre­sent­ing The Flan­nel Panel at the Con­necti­cut Library Asso­ci­a­tion Con­fer­ence. Jane’s pre­pared a great write-up of what they will present as well her gussied-up flan­nels, all ready for showtime.

And a third con­tri­bu­tion from Jane as she preps for the con­fer­ence (we’re almost as lucky as the atten­dees!), Pop­si­cle Kid (with spare tongues for the kiddos)!

Flan­nel Fri­day Hosts Needed

If you’re inter­ested in host­ing Flan­nel Fri­day, we’re cur­rently sched­ul­ing hosts for June and July. If you’ve never hosted before, or you haven’t hosted yet this year and would like to, email flan­nel­board­fri­day [at] gmail.com with some dates that would work for you. All the details about host­ing can be found at the Flan­nel Fri­day blog Get Involved page.

Remem­ber to check out the Flan­nel Fri­day Pin­ter­est Board later this weekend.

 

I real­ize this has not a thing to do with sum­mer read­ing theme, but I thought you would all appre­ci­ate the awe­somely huge embroi­dery hoop I scored for $1 at a local thrift shop. I included the top of the love seat for per­spec­tive. Huge, but since its oval still fits on my lap.

This week’s Flan­nel Fri­day host is Lisa at Library­land. You can also find past and future roundups and lots more infor­ma­tion about Flan­nel Fri­day at the Flan­nel Fri­day web­site. For a visual round-up of all post­ings, check out Flan­nel Fri­day on Pin­ter­est.