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Portable Flannel Board

Materials

  • Shoe box
  • Felt
  • Flannel scraps
  • Scissors

Directions

  1. Cover the top of a shoe box with felt to make a small flannel board.
  2. Cut colored flannel scraps into various sizes and shapes, such as animals, cars, people, circles, squares, or triangles, or try letters and numbers if you feel ambitious.
  3. Store the pieces in the box and take it along on your next car trip.
  4. Your child can form designs or words on the top of the shoe box using the cut-out pieces.

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Copyright © 1998 by Patricia Kuffner. Excerpted from The Preschooler's Busy Book with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press.

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