The main flan­nel­board at my library is red with a mag­netic back­ground. It’s on wheels with a mag­netic white­board and works really well, but the red is just not a good fit for some flan­nel sto­ries and games. With this year’s sum­mer read­ing theme of Dream Big Read, I decided a night­time back­drop that fits over the frame was in order.

The green is sewn on to the navy back­ground, but all of the other pieces are remov­able although I fig­ure I’ll keep the tree and at least a few stars most of the time. Notice the white moon in the pond. That’s so I can pull out my cat & house flan­nels if I want to enhance Kitten’s First Full Moon.

One of the rhymes it will work well with is Tsuki/The Moon from Japan­ese Nurs­ery Rhymes: Carp Stream­ers, Falling Rain and Other Tra­di­tional Favorites by Danielle Wright .

Look, look! The moon has risen
Round, round, so round
Just like a round plate
It has hid­den behind the clouds
Black, black, so black
Just like dark ink
Look! The moon has appeared again
Round, round, so round
Just like a round plate

Just a moon and a dark cloud work to bring the rhyme to life against this back­ground much more effec­tively than against bright red.

The book con­tains the Japan­ese text and the song in both Japan­ese and Eng­lish.  Another rhyme from this recently released book is The Lit­tle Red Bird which Anne at So Tomor­row made a flan­nel for  a cou­ple of weeks ago .

Other flan­nels I’ve cre­ated that will work well on this back­ground (and for Dream Big Read sto­ry­times) are: Noc­tur­nal Ani­mals and Space­ships Flan­nel.

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