I love hedge­hogs so knew I wanted to copy Sto­ry­tim­ing Cate’s adap­ta­tion of Ouch! by Ragn­hild Scamell as soon as I saw it.

The story begins as our hero is get­ting ready for winter.

Try­ing to nest for the win­ter, the hedge­hog gets an apple stuck in his quills. Poor hedge­hog can’t fit inside her nest anymore!

Things just go from bad to worse. Next acorns land on his spines…

fol­lowed by a piece of paper

grapes

a fish

and a flower. Each time, Hedge­hog tries to get things out of her spines. Squir­rel and other friends try to help. She rolls around.

Noth­ing works until…

Goat comes along and hap­pily munches every­thing up.

So Hedge­hog climbs into her nest and snores the win­ter away.

 

The pieces also work with the adorable Folk­ma­nis hedge­hog pup­pet. Okay, not really. I’d need a dif­fer­ent nest & the pieces don’t stick very well. Mostly I just wanted to show off the puppet :)

The goat tem­plate came from Fun Pages for Kids.The hedge­hog tem­plate comes from this neat craft project. The leaves would have made this story too clut­tered and dif­fi­cult to see the objects stuck in poor Hedge­hog, but if I ever want to use the hedge­hog in another story, its spines will come from felt leaves rather than the spine ridge.

If, like me, you didn’t real­ize hedge­hogs hiber­nate before read­ing this story, you may find  the  hedge­hog hiber­na­tion infor­ma­tion sheet from Tig­gy­win­kles Wildlife Hos­pi­tal Trust helpful.

Today’s Flan­nel Fri­day host is Liz at Putting on Smiles. You can also find past and future roundups, at So Tomor­row. For a visual round-up of all post­ings, check out Flan­nel Fri­day on Pin­ter­est.