What is a felt board activity?
David Osborn
Updated on May 31, 2026
You can easily make a felt board for use at home or in the classroom. The felt board can be used to promote shapes, colors and early literacy. Your felt board can be used to tell stories, explore colors and shapes, and generally extend or complement other hands-on learning in the home or classroom.
What will stick to a felt board?
You can glue pellon, felt, velcro, or sand paper to paper pictures and they will stick to your board.
What early literacy skills does a felt board develop?
They are speaking, listening, developing their vocaulary, and calling upon reading skills that we have been learning in class. If they are retelling a familiar story, they are using their listening and memorization skills.
What age is a felt board for?
Recommend for kids Age 3 and Up.
How do teachers use flannel boards?
Here are five different ways to incorporate a flannel board into your own story times.
- Provide visuals for songs and rhymes. Most of the time, I tend to use the flannel board as a visual enhancement for simple songs and rhymes.
- Tell stories.
- Retell stories.
- Play literacy games.
- Generate discussions.
Why is felt good for children?
Playing with felt encourages many great learning experiences: Great for the imagination, make believe and role playing. Hands on learning. Fine motor development and hand – eye coordination.
How to teach children with felt board stories?
Felt board stories also known as flannel board stories are one of the best ways to teach children. And on top of that, children love them and will actually sit for group time or circle time! When we use a prop while teaching children, it is called interactive learning.
How do you make a felt board with contact paper?
To make a paper sheet into a felt board character, cut out a small piece of felt or coarse sandpaper and tape or glue it on the back of each character. The sandpaper or felt will allow the characters to stick on your felt board. You can also laminate or cover with clear contact paper to make it longer lasting.
What to use instead of sandpaper for felt board stories?
A suggestion from a viewer: “Instead of putting sandpaper on the back of templates for felt board stories we have found that milk filters are perfect in making your flannels. You can find them and your local fleet farm/farm and fleet stores in the farm isle this works great youcan see right through it and it sticks great to a piece of felt.”
How do you tell a story on a flannel board?
Telling stories on a flannel board takes some practice. I am definitely speaking from experience here because it doesn’t always feel natural to tell an engaging story on a felt board. Using different voices or singing songs is an amazing tool though and will invite the children to listen as well as help them remember what they are learning.
