Fun Friday: Felt

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Felt boards are a valuable teaching tool.

~They provide visual cues and language support for early learners.

~They can make an abstract concept concrete.

~A child can see, touch, and move the pieces

~Felt boards are commonly used to help students learn words, songs, and rhymes.

~They assist in focusing on a story being told.

~They help in retelling stories for better comprehension.

~Simple songs and stories are often illustrated on felt boards.

~The concept of "how many" is often shown through backward counting songs and felt pieces.

Felt boards are useful teaching tools across the curriculum.

To get started, read the posts at Katie's Nesting Spot on how to make a simple felt board & a travel felt board. She is currently using them to teach her daughter about shapes, colors, and sorting by one or more attribute.

Family Fun Magazine has a felt board alternative. They include directions for making a felt board inside of a shoebox, which doubles as storage for your pieces.

Muffins and More shares felt board people and snowman. She has even made complete outfits for her daughter to put on the felt people. This cute heart puzzle is also Miss Muffin's handiwork. Melanie shares a felt board activity for the classic finger play song Five Little Ducks. Use this activity to engage your child in rhyme and repetition, backwards counting, and

independent storytelling.

Sara also shares her version of this classic song and provides a link to where she got her template.

Missy shares this "Who Ate the Food" felt board kit. It accompanies the classic children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Childcare Land share some felt board story ideas, complete with finished examples, directions on how to make and use her examples, free downloads, and resources for purchase. If you are new to felt board activities, the free examples provided will give you a start.

Most recently Thrifty Craft Mama shared a geometric shape pattern for a pick up truck. Follow her links to also build a castle and a train.

The Artful Parent shares an autumn scene and provides links within her post to a storyboard for Chicken Little. She also uses felt board for "build your own" flowers pots & an underwater scene that covers an entire wall! Imagine the hours of imaginative play and story-telling this provides!

Linda demonstrates the use of felt boards for older students: story scenes, counting with a 100 board, Roman numerals, place value, carrying, regrouping, and multiplication.

Today's Giveaway:

Today is our two week anniversary & the last of our daily giveaways. We hope you've enjoyed the ideas you've seen so far and continue to come back for more. Please continue to share the activities you are doing with your own children so we can all benefit from each other's ideas. Submit your ideas by emailing: abc123learning@gmail.com

Today's giveaway is a travel felt board set handmade by Katie from Katie's Nesting Spot.

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