{"id":5994,"date":"2015-07-31T06:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2015-07-30T23:47:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T05:47:17","slug":"flannel-friday-5-aliens-andor-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/flannel-friday-5-aliens-andor-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Flannel Friday: 5 Aliens and\/or Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am continuing my Outer<\/a> Space<\/a> theme<\/a> with this alien set! <\/p>\n

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My green alien came from Library Quine’s 5 Little Men in a Flying Saucer<\/a>, unfortunately she says her pattern source is no longer available. I was able to recreate the shape from her pictures though! <\/p>\n

My inspiration for the other aliens came from Miss Mary Liberry’s easy-peasy monster tutorial<\/a>. Each of my aliens, like her monsters, have a different body shape, different appendages and antennae, and googly eyes. Except I didn’t have the right size googly eyes at home so I spent some quality time cutting very tiny circles out of white felt and dotting on Sharpie pupils. And then lay down for awhile with a cool cloth on my forehead because seriously. <\/p>\n

I wanted each monster to have its own color, shape, and number of eyes, so we would have plenty to talk about! In fact I am daydreaming about making a large set of these creatures, where the triangle-shaped one would come in all the other colors, not just red, and the square one would come in all the other colors besides yellow, and so forth. Then I could hand them out and put a spaceship or planet shape on the board, and have all the red aliens come home, or all the rectangle aliens, or all the ones with 4 eyes. <\/p>\n

What I *did* do with these five is sing “One Alien Went Out to Play,” which is an adaptation of “One Elephant Went Out to Play,” which I sing to “Five Little Ducks Went Out to Play.” <\/p>\n

\nOne alien went out to play
\nIn the Milky Way one day
\nShe had such enormous fun
\nThat she called for another alien to come.<\/p>\n

Oh, AAAAAAALLLLIEENNNNN!<\/p>\n

Two aliens went out to play…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s another version<\/a> at Jen in the Library’s Outer Space Storytime post, and a few more 5 Aliens rhymes<\/a> at the Sturgis Kids wiki, plus a different one from Vivian at As I See It<\/a>. <\/p>\n

There’s also fun stuff at the Flannel Friday Pinterest Outer Space board<\/a> and some monsters-who-could-double-as-aliens on the Halloween board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kathryn has the round up at Fun with Friends at Storytime <\/a>today! Check it out for more great ideas for storytime. Investigate the Flannel Friday Pinterest<\/a> for hundreds of flannelboards, songs, games, and rhymes arranged by theme. Ask questions and brainstorm ideas in our Facebook group<\/a>. Learn more about Flannel Friday and upcoming hosts at our website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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