{"id":6293,"date":"2018-02-23T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2018-02-23T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T04:00:17","slug":"flannel-friday-big-ol-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/flannel-friday-big-ol-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Flannel Friday: Big Ol Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently the amazing Amy at Catch the Possibilities<\/a> posted a pic of her Valentine Tree (you can see versions on the Flannel Friday Pinterest here<\/a> and here<\/a>) and I just fell in love with the shape of her tree and branches, and immediately started thinking (during a two-hour meeting, natch) of different versions that would be fun to make. <\/p>\n

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Amy kindly sent a photo of her tree and I made a pattern copying hers as closely as possible. I had found packages of 1-yard lengths of felt at Michael’s and bought them for another project, but I cut off an 18″ x 18″ section of the brown felt and made my tree from that. <\/p>\n

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Then for my first round I just made simple leaf shapes in the different colors of green I had on hand. Our largest storytime is capped at 25 kids, and sometimes big siblings are along for the ride, so I made 8 of each color (except that second-lightest green, I only had one scrap of that! I’ll go buy another sheet and add more) so I would have 32 leaves in all, plenty for everyone to have one plus a few special guests to have one, too. <\/p>\n

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I won’t necessarily use this with a rhyme, but will probably put up the tree shape, talk about some vocabulary (trunk, branch, limb, twig, roots), and hand out a leaf to each child. Sometimes when I do things like this I call the kids to the board in groups (all the red pieces, or all the stars) but I think for a lot of kids it would be tricky to ask them to distinguish between these shades of green in the same shape, so instead I will probably just have them bring them to the board as I hand them out. (“Here’s your leaf, go put it on the tree!”) <\/p>\n

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BUT this is just a starter pack! Obviously I need to do hearts for a Valentine Tree, and Amy suggested a Jellybean Tree would be a fabulous way to use up our felt scrap piles! I also want to make a set of leaves for fall: more yellows, some tans, browns, and reds. We’ll see what else I decide to add! <\/p>\n

Here’s a sneak peak for springtime: <\/p>\n

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Don’t forget you can add your Flannel Friday post to the new Tumblr submissions page<\/a>, and you can see all the most current posts on the This Week in Flannel Friday Pinterest board<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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