I’ve been a little preoccupied with building up my library of felt pieces for storytime.  The three most recent highlights are:  felt pieces for Eric Hill’s Where’s Spot, which proved to be quite a challenge, but turned out very well; pieces for Robert Kalan’s Moving Day, which were a hit; and pieces for Margaret Wise Brown’s Big Red Barn, which took a looooong time to make.   All those farm animals!!!

The deeper I get into creating flannelboard stories, the more complex my creations become, and the more time I spend each weekend making them.  It’s a vicious, though rewarding, cycle, and a cycle which has taken away from my blog writing time over the past several weeks.  On the bright side, though, there are only three more storytimes left in this school year, and then my library will be complete except for a tweaking here and there.  (Though I suspect my tweakings will be time-consuming, too, since my standards are a lot higher now than they were in September when I began this project.  Sigh.)