Matching Mittens Felt Activity

It's getting colder outside...this is a great felt activity to bring to group circle time or small group activities with young children: 

Matching Mittens

Matching activities are a great tool for teaching color, size, shape and design to young children. In addition, matching experiences allow children to participate themselves by bringing a felt piece to the felt board at a circle time or by matching the mittens themselves at a classroom station. With felt, the children can feel the softness of the material, and the fabric is very durable for those little hands. Try making two sizes of mittens with the same colors. This activity can be made to equal the amount of children in a group setting, so that everyone can have one mitten in their hands to bring to a flannel board. It is also helpful to use as a circle time transition .

Songs to sing with this activity: 

Song #1

Thumb in the thumb place

Fingers all together

This is the song we sing

In Mitten weather 

Song #2 (sung to the tune of Row Row Row Your Boat) 

Warm, warm, warm and dry

Mittens feel so nice

So grab a pair in chilly air

Or in the snow and ice. 

Space Preschool Felt Story: Five Little Astronauts

At the Preschool I currently work at, we  just recently finished a three week Space Interest! For some reason, I did not have any space felt themed stories which gave me an opportunity to start making some new felts. The following is my favourite: Five Little Astronauts

Five Little Astronauts

Five little Astronauts sitting on the stars

The first one said, let’s go to Mars

The second one said, there are rockets in the air

The third one said, but where oh where

The fourth one said, let’s fly up in the sky

The fifth one said, oh yes! Let’s fly!

Then whoosh went the rocket ship into the night

And the five little astronauts zoomed out of sight!