To cre­ate a flan­nel­board with the One World Many Sto­ries Sum­mer Read­ing Pro­gram theme, I dug into Chi­nese and Eng­lish Nurs­ery Rhymes by Faye-Lynn Wu. It’s a bilin­gual book of rhymes includ­ing a com­pact disc with the songs in their orig­i­nal lan­guage (Chi­nese or English).

Many of the rhymes show the uni­ver­sal­ity of child­hood and fea­ture ani­mals, friend­ship, stars, trains and the like. I chose to make a flan­nel­board of Lit­tle Mouse because the lamp makes it iden­ti­fi­ably Chi­nese. Plus say­ing “ji-li-gu-lu” with the kids will be really fun.

The lit­tle mouse climbed up the lamp
To find some oil to nib­ble
Can’t get down
Meow, meow, meow
Here came the cat
Ji-li-gu-lu down fell the mouse.

 

I surfed the web for clip art tem­plates. I picked up the cat tem­plate at the Texas State Library site.

The mouse tem­plate is from the Aus­tralian 0 to 5 site. I’m pleased with the whiskers.

The Chi­nese lantern shape is based on a col­or­ing page at abcteach. Because my favourite flannel/magnetboard at my library is red, I choose to make the lantern pri­mar­ily gold. I picked up this sheet of fancy paper at Hobby Lobby. I was hop­ing to find some­thing with drag­ons on it, but no luck!

For more Flan­nel Fri­day ideas, search #flan­nel­fri­day on Twit­ter. This week’s round up is hosted by @ReadingChick. Links to all past Flan­nel Fri­day posts can be found at So Tomor­row.