My sister Abby the children’s librarian has been doing some amazing things with felt boards. She has put two posts on her blog about using felt board with Eric Hill’s fabulous picture book Where’s Spot? The first post has photos of some of the felt board creations which she has made — the second post includes a narrative account of how she used actually the felt board in a children’s story hour at her library.
Abby is really good at making and using felt board props. I have to admit that I’m still scared of using felt boards myself, but Abby has got me convinced that a felt board well-used can really add to the story.
I had the good fortune of being taught felt board in grad school. Creative Uses of Children’s Literature. Unfortunately, I don’t have the craft skills to make really good props.
James @ 2 — Wow, you learned felt board in grad school? Man, I went to the wrong kind of grad school.
My students used to always tease me because I had a BA degree in Writing and a MSEd in Reading. It was my only class taught by someone without a PhD because they were both librarians and the MLS is the terminal degree in library science. It was one of my best classes in grad school. Sadly it looks like they don’t offer it anymore.
Thanks, Dan! I appreciate the kind words!
– yer sis