Going For A Ride In My Train

I found this flannel board on The Storytime Lady’s post on her train storytime. I loved that I could easily make trains in various colors that would appeal to babies. The melody is simple enough that parents quickly join in singing along. The trains came from clip art that I found and rendered in felt.

Tune: Ten Little Indians

Going for a ride in my little _____ train
Going for a ride in my little _____ train
Going for a ride in my little _____ train
Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga
Choo, choo!

Insert color of train

Going For A Ride In My Train PDF

Flowers Make A Rainbow

This flannel board was really easy to construct. I used an Ellison Die cut to cut all the flowers in two shades of each color and found some flower buttons at Joann Fabrics to stitch in the middle. The last time I checked the die cut wasn’t in the current Ellison catalog but they can make dies on special request for about the same amount as current dies. The die cut is a layered flower 25657-LG.

Flowers in a garden
What colors can they be?
Let’s look at all our flowers
What colors do we see?

Here is *one little flower
What color can it be?
A color in the rainbow
Red is the color we see.

*2 Orange
*3 Yellow
*4 Green
*5 Blue
*6 Purple

Flowers make a rainbow
Of colors that we know.
Colors bright and pretty,
That’s why we love them so!

Flowers Make A Rainbow PDF

Down in the Garden

“Down in the Garden” is a rhyme that Heather at Lady Librarian’s Literacy created. This rhyme works great if you have a bunny puppet. I use my bunny puppet to take each pea pod off of the flannel board. I lucked out when making these pea pods since I had four shades of green and a shade of gold that matched the colors of peas. I love the effect when all of the colors are layered. For older children you can have a side little math tie in since there are 5 pea pods and 3 peas in each.

Use with bunny puppet.

Down around the corner in my garden so fine,
There are five little pea pods all on a vine.
Along comes a rabbit who wants something to munch.
He takes one pea pod and eats it for lunch!

4…
3…
2…
1…

Down in the Garden PDF