It’s no secret that I LUUURRRRVVEEEE Pete the Cat by Eric Litwin and illustrated by James Dean. I loved the first book, liked the second book, and now am in love again with Pete’s latest adventure. And I was inspired to make a flannel out of it.
Here’s Pete wearing his favorite shirt with its 4 groovy buttons. I photocopied a page from the book to use as my template:
One by one, each of the buttons pops off and rolls away. Does Pete cry? “Goodness no! Buttons come, and buttons go.” When all of the buttons are gone, Pete discovers he still has 1 button left: his belly button!
Here he’s showing it off, along with the 4 buttons. Each button is 2 layers of felt with a tiny bit of velcro attached to the back to keep it on the shirt (but not pull on the felt too much). The shirt is glued down only on the outside edges, so it can be pulled open to reveal his belly button.:
Finally, I also made a set of numbers so that we can count down how many buttons he has left, and as a visual clue for when we sing: “My buttons, my buttons, my 4 groovy buttons!”
Go Pete!
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Happy flanneling! It’s all good!
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Thank you for sharing! This is so adorable. Definetly have to make this for my class.
Perfect flannel. I read this two times last night to my son. I was thinking what a great flannel story it would make. I think I saw your post for a Pete book in the past, which led me to take it home. Thank you so much! Bobo and I are in love.
This is my new favorite picture book. It makes me smile!
LOL! I LUUURRRRVVEEEE Pete the Cat, too! I am considering the idea of using him and another popular book character in all my weekly storytimes in June. Just need to figure it all out ~ and make sure I have enough material to make it last the whole month. This flannel will definitely be on my To Share list!
Thanks for the ideas. I especially like that you included the numbers. I do a lot with counting in my programs so my storytime families will love this!
Hope you are having a relaxing weekend!
K
From a fellow Pete-lover – this is genius! Thanks for sharing!!
Love it! I’m going to make this when I get back from leave.