Hey Diddle Diddle

 

I saw the cutest felt set of Hey Diddle Diddle on the blog, Flannel Board Fun! I adapted it a little and made me a set to use for storytime at the library.  Nursery rhymes are a fun way to introduce rhythm and vocabulary to preschoolers.  We're doing a moon theme soon and I really wanted a cow to jump over the moon!  Hey Diddle Diddle is always Fun with Friends at Storytime!

 

Baa Baa Black Sheep.

 

Here's a new nursery rhyme set for Baa Baa Black Sheep!  I made the bags of wool by using black acrylic paint on cotton balls. I added black fabric paint stitches to the sides of the bags.  I used my favorite sheep pattern for my sweet black sheep. This set would be great with a storytime theme of farm or sheep or yarn/wool!  I have a lot of these nursery rhyme sets  HERE.  We're having a lot of Fun with Friends at Storytime. 

Mary At the Cottage Door.

  Here's a new nursery rhyme set!  I deconstructed  a Google image to make my Mary but I just free hand cut the cottage door and plate and cherries. I did add a little sparkle to the door and cherries and plate with glitter glue. This is a fun counting rhyme!

1 2 3 4  Mary at the cottage door;  5 6 7 8  eating cherries from her plate!  

Yum! Nursery rhymes are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater!

Here's my latest in my Nursery Rhyme series of felt sets. I had to use several different Google images and tweak them a bit to get my patterns for my Peter and Mrs.Peter.  He looks happy with his sweet Mrs and cute pumpkin house! LOL!  Check out my other nursery rhyme sets HERE.   I figured this set could be used in the fall with a pumpkin theme, or in the spring with a garden/bunny theme.  I did think of an alternate line to the rhyme about Mrs. Peter. 
"He had a wife and wanted to please her. They moved into a pumpkin shell and there they lived very well!"   Anyway, bunnies and pumpkins are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!

A Tisket a Tasket; A Green and Yellow Basket

This nursery rhyme could be added to a Friend theme or Mail or even Valentine's day themes.  It's also fun to sing and skip around the room to!  I stacked 2 sheets of felt (green and yellow) and stapled them around the edge. I cut the basket shape out of both at the same time and then cut off the handle part and cut it apart. Then I stacked alternating color pieces to make the handle look like it's wrapped. I cut the bottom yellow piece into strips and wove them through slits in the top green piece.  The 'letter' is a long rectangle with a rounded edge folded and hot glued with a 'stamp' in the corner. I used fabric glue to write on the letter. The basket is made like a pocket so that the letter can go in it.  This could lend itself to games or activities using the basket. You could make a set of color letters that the kiddos bring up to the board as you say the color.

Nursery Rhymes are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!

1,2, Buckle My Shoe!

This is a favorite nursery rhyme for counting, rhythm and the funny fat hen at the end! 

I did use a real buckle for my shoe and stuffed my sticks made of felt with a pipe cleaner so that I could bend them into the shape I wanted.  I added velcro dots to the back of these pieces because they are large and heavy. Counting is lots of Fun with Friends at Storytime!   

                  

Cobbler, Cobbler, Fix My Shoe!

Everyone loves new shoes! If I see a book with shoes on the cover, I'll pick it up to investigate everytime! LOL!  I got my felt piece for Cobbler, Cobbler done to add to a shoe themed storytime. I refreshed my shoes from another post HERE. Here's the rhyme for those painted and embellished pellon shoes,  Busy Little Cobbler. I also have a cute rhyme that uses some laminated shoes that came from the teacher store. I found this adorable active chant at Read, Rhyme and Sing blogspot.  Don't forget Mr. Al's song about shoes , Show Me Your Shoes! Shoes are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!   

Hand Clapping Miss Mary Mack!

Handclapping chants and rhymes are a very fun and important part of Storytime. There's a lot of learning happening during the silliness.  A Google search for Hand clapping chants for literacy will pull up a wealth of encouragement to include these as a great component for Storytime.  We have been doing Nursery Rhymes at our Storytime. This quarantine has given me time to make several felt sets to use when we are able to have Storytime again.  Here's my newest, Miss Mary Mack! She's got silver glitter glue buttons down her back.  I tweaked a Google image to make my pattern.  I made her so she can be flipped from front to back.  Handclapping is so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!

Three Men in a Tub!!

Nursery Rhyme time! Here's 'Rub a Dub Dub'!  I think this is my favorite one yet. I used several Google images for ideas and then did my own tweak to make my 3 sailors.  This rhyme would go well with a boating theme or community helpers theme; or perhaps a bathtime or cooking/baking theme? Nursery Rhymes are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!

There was a Crooked Man Nursery Rhyme

Here's my set for the nursery rhyme There was a Crooked Man. This was a combination of several Google images and lots of simplifying and rearranging but I'm pleased with the results.  I bent a copper colored sequin for the sixpence. I used glitter glue on the windows and lantern of the crooked house and some fabric paint for faces and buttons.  This was tedious but rewarding as it came together! We will be doing a house and then mouse theme to go with this rhyme. I have other posts for those themes.  HOUSE and MOUSE.   Be sure to check out my other nursery rhyme posts too.  We are featuring a nursery rhyme for 2 weeks at our storytimes so that the children can enjoy these fun, silly rhymes! We are having so much Fun With Friends at Storytime!

Pat a Cake Baker Man!

We are doing a Nursery Rhyme series at storytime and wanted to do the wonderful and delicious, Pat-a-Cake rhyme!  I was inspired by Mr. Keith's version HERE!  I have a Sizzix diecut set of alphabet letters that I cut out to do our version of the Pat-a Cake tweak that Mr. Keith talks about in his blogpost.  Ya'll know I had to add some glitter!!  The cupcake is about 5in. and the letters are about 1&1/2 in.  We used the rhyme as a starting point for a Babies theme!  This set will lend itself to several themes! This is going to be a lot of Fun with Friends at Storytime!

Wee Willie Winkie

So here's my felt piece for the roaming insomniac, Wee Willie Winkie! LOL!  We used him to kick off 2 different storytime themes. Miss Melissa talked about Neighbors last week and this week she's talking about Clocks and Time.  We had a fun home extension for our clock theme too! The kiddos and even parents liked the home extension this week! It was easy prep. We cut paper towel rolls into 1 and 1/2 inch pieces and cut out watch faces printed on card stock. They loved it!

Miss Melissa talked about having a schedule for our day and a digital clock and an analog!   

Wow there was lot's of vocabulary and lots of Fun with Friends at Storytime!

Georgie Porgie!

Here's the next in our Nursery Rhyme series! That fresh little boy, Georgie!  I'm not sure why the girls cried when Georgie was handing out kisses but we talked about only kissing your family in Storytime!  LOL!  I used a Google image to start and simplified the pieces to make this set.  We used this set the week of Valentine's day so of course we had to talk about Kisses!  Here is an excellent article about the 10 Reasons that children need to hear Nursery Rhymes HERE.  We are having so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!

Jack Jump over the Candlestick!

We are doing a series of storytimes springboarding from Nursery Rhymes. One of the first is Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick.  My children's librarian chose to do a 'Jump' theme one week and a Birthday theme the next.  A big hit was an activity that involved jumping over a pretend candle. Here's the idea here.  I have several posts of birthday ideas that we used the week of our Birthday theme Here.   I deconstructed a Google image to make Jack and his candlestick. He ended up being about 6 inches tall.  We're having a lot of Fun with Friends at Storytime!

Bo Peep and her Sheep!

 Here's an oldie but goodie! Little Bo Peep and her silly sheep. I made this set a very long time ago. I used Pellon and crayons and added a bow and green felt bush for the sheep to hide behind. I start with Little Bo Peep and add the 'hiding' sheep and then take it off and add the other sheep at the end. I also made a basic pellon set to use with Baa Baa Black Sheep. I use these with either a farm theme or sheep theme (HERE) or a nursery rhyme theme. The craft I offered with this theme was easy! I had a cut out programmed sheep for each kiddo. The kiddos could color the face, ears and legs and tail. They rubbed a glue stick all over the fleece part and then patted it with a cotton ball that was real cotton. The kiddos then have a fluffy sheep to remember the fun Storytime about sheep.

Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep and can't tell where to find them...

Leave them alone and they'll come home wagging their tails behind them.

Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?

Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.

One for my master and one for my dame 

and one for the little boy that lives down the lane.

Home Extension

Sheep are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime! There are more great posts on the Flannel Friday Roundup.  Check out the wonderful resources on the Flannel Friday Pinterest Boards. If you want more info about Flannel Friday here's the link for the official Flannel Friday blog.

Hickory Dickory Dock!

Nursery rhymes are easy and fun. There are a lot of benefits for preschoolers in hearing and learning nursery rhymes. A wonderful online resource for nursery rhymes is dltk-teach.com.  I found this cute Hickory Dickory Dock that counts from 1-12 (noon). There are printable pieces from this site if you want to print and laminate them.   I made my set a long time ago. It is part Pellon and part felt diecuts and cutouts. I used my basic mouse pattern that I used for the Five Little Mice in this post HERE. I didn't worry that the bee and mouse are as big as the horse and cow! Thank goodness little kiddos don't call me on that! LOL!

Jean Warren has some excellent ideas for using nursery rhymes that I want to share with my prechooler's caregivers from her website, Preschool Express. Her site is a treasure trove of rhymes and activities that can be adapted for storytime! I also found this great song resource at Nancymusic.com. Here's a link for printable pictures to make books that go with the songs, including one for Hickory, Dickory Dock!. Nursery Rhymes are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime! There are more great posts on the Flannel Friday Roundup. Check out the wonderful resources on the Flannel Friday Pinterest Boards. If you want more info about Flannel Friday here's the link for the official Flannel Friday blog. 

Shoes!!

Every child loves new shoes. I love new shoes!! Everyone loves new shoes!  So, of course, I have shoe flannel sets.  There's the beloved nursery rhyme, The Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe. That set is made from pellon that I painted with acrylic paints and outlined with black Sharpie. I always love the ending where she 'kisses them sweetly and puts them to bed'. Every chance I get to blow kisses at my storytime kiddos makes me happy! 

I also have a cute little color/counting to 10 shoe rhyme.  I got the original rhyme from Nursery Rhyme Theme-a-Saurus by Jean Warren. I wanted to have 10 shoes so I added some more verses and colors. It's called 'Busy Little Cobbler'.

I used clip art from several sources including shoe ads for the patterns. I traced and outlined each shoe on pellon with a Sharpie. I painted them with acrylic and fabric paints. The purple and orange shoes are partially colored with color pencil. Then I embellished them with sequins, jewels, gold glitter glue and ribbons.  I had a lot of fun making these!

I like to use New Shoes, Red Shoes by Susan Rollings and Whose Shoes? by Anna Grossnickle Hines with this theme. I have used Red Dancing Shoes by Denise Lewis Patrick with older preschoolers. Another fun book is Shoe Baby by Joyce Dunbar. It goes without saying that Pete the Cat : I Love My White Shoes or Pete the Cat : Rocking In My School Shoes by Eric Litwin need to be included too!!

I found several posts on the Flannel Friday Pinterest boards too.  Try this one at Read it Again, or at Read Sarah Read,...one more at Ram Sam Storytime.
Shoes are a lot of Fun with Friends at Storytime!