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Type: Reading
Skills: Language & Literacy,
Play & Creativity
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A felt board story can help make a story come to life. As an alternative to traditional storybooks, felt board stories can make a book interactive and allow children to become part of the story.
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What We Learn |
Story structure or how a story comes together
Pre-literacy skills and new vocabulary
Hand-eye coordination
Color recognition |
Supply List |
Felt board
Sheets of felt
Scissors
Classic storybook |
How-To |
First, select a classic book such as “The Three Little Pigs” or a storybook, which your children might already be familiar with. Some of our favorites are: “It Looked Like Spilt Milk,” “Brown Bear, Brown Bear,” “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,” and “5 Little Monkeys.”
Next, take your pieces of felt and cut them to resemble the figures or characters featured in the story. You can trace the shapes from the book or do them free-hand. Older kids can help the young ones as they cut their shapes.
Then memorize the story and read it aloud to the children so they become familiar with its elements.
Give each child a piece of felt from the story, and begin the story again. This time, as you say the shape or character from the book, have the child holding that piece of felt place it onto the board.
You can easily create a felt board by simply gluing a large piece of felt to a rectangular piece of cardboard.
Encourage the child to tell their part of the story by representing the piece of felt which he or she places on the felt board. Eventually, the children will get to the point where they want to do the story on their own without the help from a child care provider. |
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