Flannel Friday Round-Up, 7/1

Here, finally, is this week's Flannel Friday round-up. So much great stuff this week - don't miss a single link!


Moxie at Story Times with Moxie (@moxie_librarian)
Five little owls!

Adrienne at What Adrienne Thinks About That

Where's Spot?

Tracy at 1234 More Storytimes (@tcy28)
Animals on the Bus

Nicole at Narrating Tales of Preschool Storytime (@nikarella)
*with help from Seth at The Voices Inside My Headphones (@Sethers)  
Mouse Paint

Mollie at Story Time with Miss Mollie (@molliekay)
Fruits and Vegetables 

Katie at Story Time Katie (@katietweetsya)

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus 

Mary at Miss Mary Liberry (@daisycakes)

Bark, George

Cate at Storytiming (@storytimingcate)
Fall is Not Easy

Anne at So Tomorrow (@sotomorrow)
Am I Ready to Go?

Mel at Mel's Desk (@MelissaZD)
Five Little Cookies

Andrea at Rovingfiddlehead (@aflemming)
Five Little Chickadees 

Katie (Me!) here at Story Time Secrets (@sharingsoda)
Five Pretty Sandcastles

Flannel Friday: Five Pretty Sandcastles

I am your host for this week's Flannel Friday! The round-up will go up sometime later today -but in the meantime, here is my contribution, Five Pretty Sandcastles. I wrote this rhyme myself, but I suspect there are similar ones out there on Google.

Five pretty sandcastles standing on the shore.

The tide came in (whoosh!)

And then there were four.

Four pretty sandcastles standing by the sea.


The tide came in (whoosh!)

And then there were three.

Three pretty sandcastles standing by the ocean blue

The tide came in (whoosh!)

And then there were two.

Two pretty sandcastles standing in the sun

The tide came in (whoosh!)

And then there was one.

 

One pretty sandcastle just out of reach

The  tide came in (whoosh!)

but it stayed there on the beach!

The twist at the end is the key to success with this one. No one expects it, and I usually get a lot of applause afterwards. I used this one earlier this week at Baby/Toddler Story Time.

The PDF file containing full sized versions of the sandcastles is here, and the image I used for my tide is here. I forgot to take a picture of my "tide on a stick" and I'm not at work today, but here's what the sandcastles look like on my flannel board.