I do a lot of storytimes outside of the building because I visit preschools all the time. I was trying to come up with a way to do flannel stories in these programs without having to haul a giant flannel board or depend on the school having a flannel board easily accessible for me to use. I was digging through all of our storytime material at my library and found this little baby travel board (it's about the size of an 8.5x11 piece of paper).
I decided to make a flannel story that would fit on this board, so I made Fall is Not Easy by Marty Kelley. Those of you familiar with the book will see that I didn't include all the different colors of the leaves. Instead I just made a few that the children would like and find funny.
This went over wonderfully! The children were delighted and loved the silliness of the story. And I think they really enjoyed the satisfaction of having the tree finally get its colors right in the end.
