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Flannel Friday: Aiken Drum

by rovingfiddlehead on May 3, 2013

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 […]

Flannel Friday Roundup April 26

by rovingfiddlehead on April 25, 2013

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 […]

Flannel Friday: Embroidery Hoop Flannel Board

by rovingfiddlehead on March 1, 2013

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: Firetruck Template

by rovingfiddlehead on February 1, 2013

A firetruck is always a good addi­tion to any set of flan­nels (or house with preschool­ers). This firetruck and its part­ner pieces will work with many rhymes and flan­nel games, I made mak­ing sure I had all the com­po­nents for “Hurry Hurry.” The lad­der is not glued down so that I can raise it when […]

Flannel Friday: Picture Frame Flannelboard

by rovingfiddlehead on December 14, 2012

By far, my most repinned entry to the Pin­ter­est canon is the pic­ture frame flan­nel­board from This Mama Loves Her Bar­gains so I thought I’d share it here as well. I’m sure a large part of its appeal is that it is so easy to make!  Really all you have to do is take out […]

Flannel Friday: Art Vocabulary Cards

by rovingfiddlehead on November 9, 2012

I have a sim­ple offer­ing today that speaks to the many types of lit­er­acy that ben­e­fit chil­dren. I’m sure we’ve all used cal­en­dar art for children’s crafts at one time or another. I received a cal­en­dar a few years ago with a dif­fer­ent piece of art for each day. I real­ized that a lot of […]

Flannel Friday: Thanksgiving Bracelet Story

by rovingfiddlehead on November 2, 2012

This sto­ry­time and craft idea come from Ram­blings of a Crazy Woman. With a large group, the story flows bet­ter if you tell the story while mak­ing a bracelet your­self and then let the chil­dren make their own bracelets afterwards. Each bead rep­re­sents a part of this story of the Pil­grims’ arrival. As you slide each […]

Flannel Friday: Haunted House

by rovingfiddlehead on October 5, 2012

More flaps this week. This time a haunted house with win­dows and a door that opens with each verse.   The Haunted House Sung to: “The Wheels On The Bus“ The ghost in the house goes “Boo! Boo! Boo!“ “Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo!“ The ghost in the house goes “Boo! Boo! Boo!“ On Halloween. […]