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| Felt ducks Five Little Ducks went out one day... |
I have always loved literacy and storytelling
with young children. I think that books
are windows into a big beautiful world of imagination inside us all. Stories can make us laugh, cry, reflect,
connect with another’s experience and many other feelings.
As a teacher I was really interested in learning
how to make a felt board story. It’s
more storytelling than reading a book, you can take a book and make the
characters out of felt. Kinda like
making them come alive.
That is the creative part that I absolutely love.
And found very hard. Not hard, but like my art, I have a certain style and
wanted the pieces to be the way I envisioned them.
Children enjoy the visual added component to a
story. I have seen them connect and love
the characters as if they were old friends or new friends.
Turning a book into a felt story was fun. It is a bit of sewing and cutting and using
felt. Another creative material, with
many possibilities, I loved cutting the felt pieces and trying to figure out
how to make the most from them.
The children love them. And that gives me great joy. To see them interacting with and giving their
own interpretation to a story.
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