Flannel Board Stories & Instructions, Songs, and Rhymes for Children

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Flannel board stories are wonderful ways for children to learn words, songs, rhymes, and hear stories.
Have some fun with your children or students!

 Tips for Making Flannel Board Pieces and Flannel Boards
Books or Stories You Can Use
 Songs You Can Use
 Coloring Pages Using Rhymes
 My Ideas
Links
LDS Flannel Board Stories (scriptures)

Our Felt Products

My husband laser engraves these felts sets. Click here to see more products we make (Felt Sets, Math Products, eBooks).

Felt Uppercase Alphabet Set - #1100 The computer screen doesn't show the true colors of the felt. Product Description: This set includes 52 acrylic felt pieces that include 2 of each 2.5" tall capital letters.  The vowels are in red so the child can distinguish the vowels from the 21 consonants. This set is the perfect tool for teaching the alphabet and basic words. Felt pieces are large enough for playtime and using in the classroom.  It is also durable enough for one-on-one teaching. Read more Product Description: This set includes 78 acrylic felt pieces that include 3 of each letter (about 1 1/2" for the shorter letters and 2" for the taller letters).  The vowels are in red so the child can distinguish the vowels from the 21 consonants. This set is the perfect tool for teaching the alphabet and basic words. Felt pieces are large enough for playtime and using in the classroom.  It is also durable enough for one-on-one teaching. Read more

Felt Math Set - #1200 The computer screen doesn't show the true colors of the felt. Product Description: The Felt Math Set includes 46 acrylic felt pieces.  Each number is 2.5" tall. It is the perfect tool for teaching elementary math, with all of the numbers and symbols needed for learning addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and more.  This is even a great tool for children learning to count and it can be used any counting story or song. Read more

Double-sided Story Board Each sid of this double-sided board is 15H x 22L and covered with bright blue hook and loop-receptive material stitched onto a cheery yellow frame. Use both sides of the board for creative group activities or invite two children to work independently at the same time. The two sides form a freestanding easel that can be collapsed and carried by the sturdy handles.

Hook Fasteners - 168 Pieces 168 peel-and-stick hook fasteners 1/2Dia. each. Hook only; great for hook-receptive easels and story boards.

Links to Felt Stories / Flannel Board Stories on Our Site
ABC Theme
Animal Theme
Community Helpers Theme
Counting & Numbers Theme
Dinosaurs Theme
Dog Theme
Farm Theme
Fruit Theme
Insects & Bugs Theme
Nursery Rhymes Theme
Ocean Theme
Seasonal Trees Felt Set
Shape Theme
Vegetable Theme

Five Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Five Monkeys Sitting in the Tree
Goldilocks and The Three Bears Felt Story
Humpty Dumpty Felt Story
Little Red Hen Felt Story
Mary Had a Little Lamb Felt Story
The Gingerbread Boy Felt Story
The Ugly Duckling Story
Three Little Pigs Felt Story
Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gome? Felt Story

Felt Board and Flannel Board Stories Links
A Child's Place - Felt Board Activities
DLTK's Felt Board Templates
Preschool Education Felt Boards Ideas
Alphabet, Animals, Bugs, Circus, Farm, Flowers & Plants, Food, Holiday, Seasons, and Weather
Preschool Printables: Felt Board Story
3 Little Pigs, 5 Little Monkeys, I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly, and they might have more in the future.
Preschool Printable Flannel Stories (and file folders) @ Daycare Resource There are some free resources at this site.

Teacher Created Resources Puppet & Flannelboard Stories Books/eBooks

Puppet & Flannelboard Stories for Numbers, Shapes, and Colors Use finger plays, flannelboard stories, and puppets to hold young learners' attention while they learn basic concepts. Stories, directions, and patterns for the puppets and flannelboard pieces are provided along with many activities.	Puppet & Flannelboard Stories for Seasons and Holidays Use finger plays, flannelboard stories, and puppets to hold young learners' attention while they learn basic concepts. Stories, directions, and patterns for the puppets and flannelboard pieces are provided along with many activities.
Puppet & Flannelboard Stories for Reading Readiness Use finger plays, flannelboard stories, and puppets to hold young learners' attention while they learn basic concepts. Stories, directions, and patterns for the puppets and flannelboard pieces are provided along with many activities.

Interfacing Flannel Board Pieces
Use heavy duty non-fusible interfacing.  Place a picture from: coloring books, printed pictures from the internet, magazines, etc. under the interfacing. Trace it onto the interfacing.  Outline it with a sharpie pin.  Color the pictures with crayons, colored pencils, dimensional fabric paint, etc.  If you use crayons, place a brown paper bag on top of the flannel board pieces and iron.

Tips from Viewers

#1
"I outline my designs with dimensional fabric paint, usually black, it pops the colors.  I found that I was constantly having to replace the pieces I made using a permanent marker, it seems to bleed yellow over time.".  Color the pictures with colored pencils, crayons, dimensional fabric paint, etc.  If you use crayons, place a brown paper bag on top of the flannel board pieces and iron.  Use these to teach songs, rhymes, telling stories, or any other activity.

#2
"I just thought I would pass on a tip I use for my classroom flannel board pieces. You can make really great quality and fast pieces by printing the clip art ect on to t-shirt iron on transfer paper and the ironing it on to white felt and then cutting them out.  It makes wonderful pieces."

Donna in Minnesota

Flannel Board Instructions
Take some solid flannel or felt.  Wash and tumble dry it.  Place it on thick cardboard or masonite (1/4 inch thickness or less if you like).  (If you use masonite, you can find it in a home center like Home Depot (in the United States) or lumber yard.) You can also make it out of a cereal box, a box, or a pizza box (I haven't done these but you can store your pieces inside of them.)  Fold over the edges tightly and hot glue them onto the back of the cardboard (or box).  You might want to place another layer on the opposite side and glue it on if you are using cardboard.  If you are using masonite or any other type of wood, you can use small flat push pins or staple the flannel or felt on the back (folding the edges over tightly).  This will last forever and will not bend like cardboard does.

Month(s): August/September
Theme(s) and/or Holiday: Back to School, Apples, Fruit, Seeds, Numbers, Counting

Ten Little Apples
Trace around a small round object using a pencil (or use a circle pattern).  Cut out ten apples using red (or green or yellow) felt.  Make a tree trunk using brown felt and the a large green piece (for the leaves) using green felt.

Have the children place them on the flannel board as this song is sung. 

One little, two little, three little apples.
Four little, five little, six little apples.
Seven little, eight little, nine little apples.
Ten little apples on the tree.