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Flannel Friday Inspiration Post: Magical Rainbow Stew

by rovingfiddlehead on March 9, 2012

Love this fun flan­nel from Storty­ime ABC’s. When I saw it, I knew it was a per­fect activ­ity to give my Lunch pieces extra mileage. And, like almost every library, we’ve got some of those caul­drons from var­i­ous Hal­loween and Harry Pot­ter pro­grams. So all I needed was the rain­bow pieces and, voilà!, the story of the Mag­i­cal Rain­bow Stew.

Take an apple
Put it in the pot
Stir it, stir it, stir it a lot.
Take it out. What will it be?
The pret­ti­est red you ever did see.

Apple turning to red rainbow strip

Repeat with orange, yel­low, green, blue and vio­let fruits or veg­eta­bles and rain­bow pieces. As you can see I went for ignored indigo and my stew prob­a­bly would taste pretty hor­ri­ble (unless you are the mouse in Lunch) if it wasn’t trans­formed into a mag­i­cal rain­bow. Here are all the ingre­di­ents and the final result:

Ingredients and the final result

Today’s Flan­nel Fri­day host is Linda at Notes from the Story Room. 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.

8 thoughts on “Flannel Friday Inspiration Post: Magical Rainbow Stew

  1. jane says:

    This is wonderful…and you are right…I already have many of the pieces.…and oh, how the kids love rain­bows! thanks for post­ing this!

  2. Maureen says:

    What a fun and inter­ac­tive story.
    Thanks for shar­ing.
    I’m going to use it this week.

  3. Thank you for the men­tion! This activ­ity is always very pop­u­lar ~ with all age ~ includ­ing the par­ents! LOL!

    I love the idea that you repur­posed your flan­nel pieces from Lunch. I will be doing the same the next time I share that book at a sto­ry­time. :-) Switch­ing the types of food to fit the ones in the story will be a new twist. A Rain­bow Stew with fruits and veg­eta­bles ~ hmmmm… Won­der how it would taste. :-/

  4. Maureen says:

    Thanks again for this poem.
    If you want you can see my ver­sion here
    http://strongstart.blogspot.ca/2012/03/story-rainbow-stew.html

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  7. Very cute idea! I have a new book com­ing out in April that you might want to add to your pro­gram: “Rain­bow Stew” from Lee & Low Books.

    Happy Read­ing,
    Cathryn Falwell

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