DIY Feltboard

Here is a felt board I made for the classroom awhile back and now use it with my son. It is just a piece of cardboard with black felt glued on and then a cardboard border with colored masking tape to decorate it. Very simple. I also made another one which I can't find now, but it was thicker. I used 2 empty fabric bolts from the store and taped them together. It takes a lot of tape, but was quite sturdy actually.

 Remember, you don't have to use felt to make pieces for your felt board. Laminated pictures with velcro on the back works as well. I made 4 sets of some different things that L is familiar with. The first is food as shown above.

Farm Animals

 Vehicles

Toys

To make these, I photocopied the images from a book I got at the library, colored them with crayons and then laminated and added the velcro.
I think this way is easier than cutting out felt, although I have made some of those as well. I like the idea I saw at library storytime for making felt pieces, using fabric paint for the details.

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Farm Sensory Bin With Spanish Moss

Here is our most recent sensory bin. It includes a pack of farm animals from Walmart that also came with the fences and trees, a Little People tractor, and the filler is spanish moss from Dollar Tree.

My little man loved the tractor the best. He is a huge fan of cars and anything with wheels.

 He also liked pulling apart the pieces of spanish moss.

I liked the spanish moss as a base for this sensory bin because it resembles hay, but I can also see using it for lots of different kinds of sensory bins.

If you would like some more resources on this topic, see past posts on farm activities, farm books, and more farm books. Here are some books to go along with farm animals:

What kind of sensory bins/tables have you been making?

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Storytime Sunday: Farm Animals

Hello all! Ok, you caught me, I didn't actually have anything to post about for Storytime Sunday this week because we are about to wrap up our study and go to spring break (yay!).  So... I decided to see if there were any Amazon Widgets I haven't tried yet. And lo and behold, here is what I came up with. 

DEALS!  I don't know about you, but I love me some good deals. I just chose a random category of children's books, Farm Animals. 

Enjoy! I hope you find a great deal you can't resist. I think I will be using this Widget quite a bit more in the future.

Happy Reading!

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Storytime Sunday: Farm Animals

Here are some of the wonderful farm books we checked out from the library this week. There are, of course many, many, MANY more great books about farms and farm animals, so please leave a comment with some of your favorites! To see some of the activities we did this week involving farm animals, click here.

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Thinky Linky Thursday: On the Farm

This week, we are studying farm animals. Here are some of the activities we've been doing.

Beans in sensory table with farm animals and props.

Farm animal craft stick puppets. We colored, cut and glued them and then used them to sing Old MacDonald and do some dramatic play. 

Then the kids decided they wanted to have a puppet show and did this on their own. Mostly they were just making noises and not really having the puppets talk, but it was still cute and they were getting the idea of how a puppet show works. Maybe we will extend this interest in the coming weeks.

Then we sorted farm animals by which ones have fur, which have feathers and which have scales. There were, of course, no animals with scales, but I liked the idea of adding that as a choice to allow children to realize that sometimes there are categories that none of the items fit into.

Here is our farm felt board story. You can print these for free at Wondertime. They also come with little paper stands so you can use them as story props or game pieces.

And lastly, we played farm bingo. You can print these at Busy Bee Kid's Printables.

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