I’m pretty sure most of us know and have shared Jan Brett’s wonderful book The Mitten with our storytime kids. It really is a delightful winter tale, with opportunities for prediction and detailed illustrations. It is the details in the illustrations that may make it difficult to share this Ukranian folktale with a large group (they won’t be able to see the details well or focus on the important stuff), so why not turn the story into a flannelboard? Jan Brett herself makes this easy as she provides pdf drawings of both a large mitten and the animals in the story, so that kids can help you fill the mitten. Here’s mine:
Mitten! 2 layers of sparkly, snow-white felt.
Animals!
And finally, the mitten, brimming with animals (okay, not really. You could make multiples of the animals for a larger group and they would fit. It’s a BIG mitten! 
This would also make a great take-home craft after sharing the book in storytime; kids could re-tell the story from memory, which is a great early literacy booster!
Other versions of The Mitten folktale: by Jim Aylesworth (illustrated by Barbara McClintock) and by Alvin Tresselt.
Please visit Mrs. D. at Putting Smiles on Faces for the full Flannel Friday Roundup! And click the icon to the right to visit our Pinterest boards and see all the flannels in one fell swoop!
I like the phrase “one fell swoop.” It’s fun to say. Why don’t I say it more often?
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How do you get your characters on the white felt to color them?
Thanks!