Not a Flannel Friday: She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain

Again this week I don’t have an actual flannel. I was planning a Horses & Cows storytime for during the Stock Show in January, and found this in my files! Completely forgot about it!

I made it to have something to hold while I sang a few verses of “She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain” with the babies in storytime. I sing the first verse with the prop folded up in my lap. Then I sing, “She’ll be drivin’ six white horses,” and unfold the prop so that the horses are showing. Then I fold it up, turn it around, and open it up again to the other side, and sing, “We’ll all go out to meet her when she comes.” That’s it! Something a little different for the babies to look at while we sing.

The prop is six inches high and 36 inches wide, which makes each panel about 6×6″. It’s made up out of 2 6×18″ panels held together with a 6×12″ panel in the middle. Here’s a sketch looking from the top down:

The images are all clip art from Microsoft Word.

I’m thinking this might be fun to try for some of those cumulative songs, like “I Know An Old Lady” or “Fiddle-I-Fee.” You could unfold them panel by panel as you sang each verse, and everyone would have the pictures to help remember the order of the song!

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