Flannel Friday: Five Shiny Stars

Our volunteer made this board book by Little Scholastic into a flannel board story for me.


Five Shiny Stars illustrated by Gabrielle Buckingham

Five shiny stars were twinkling at the cat,

Looking very pretty in the sky like that.

One of the stars found the perfect place to hide…

Leaving four shiny stars and a cloud outside.

Four shiny stars were twinkling at the cat,

Looking very pretty in the sky like that.

One of the stars found the perfect place to hide…

Leaving three shiny stars and some clouds outside.

Three shiny stars were twinkling at the cat,

Looking very pretty in the sky like that.

One of the stars found the perfect place to hide…

Leaving two shiny stars and some clouds outside.

Two shiny stars were twinkling at the cat,

Looking very pretty in the sky like that.

One of the stars found the perfect place to hide…

Leaving one shiny star and some clouds outside.

One shiny star was twinkling at the cat,

Feeling very lonely in the sky like that.

All the other stars came out to shine so bright…

So there were five shiny stars to wish the cat good night!

The book suggests you sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star at the end of the book.

Flannel Friday: Little Boy Blue

I made this flannel board for parents to use with their kids at the Early Literacy Fair we will be having at our library in July. I couldn't find the flannel board we had bought of Little Boy Blue, so I decided to use clipart to make my own. I found all these images on clipart.com and in Microsoft clipart. I like using real images when I can because some kids may not realize what a corn field or what hay actually looks like. I grew up on a farm, so all these things were normal for me, but not always the case for kids in suburbia. I will probably use this in one of my storytimes this year. Here is the pdf.

Flannel Friday: Lunch by Denise Fleming

We have an amazing volunteer who is making some wonderful flannel boards for us right now. She just finished Lunch by Denise Fleming. I can't wait for my storytime to start again in the fall so I can use it. Here is the pdf she used as a template. As you can tell, she added her own artistic flare.