Teach students about life in the city using a flannel board. Cut out a cityscape with buildings, cars, trucks, buses, roadways and sidewalks. Create felt people and let your students add their faces and clothing using fabric markers. Let students move the cars and other vehicles on the roadway or move the people on the sidewalk. Explore other places with felt pieces for a farm scene, the post office, hospital or school.
Use a flannel board to recreate the story of the Three Little Pigs. Create three pig cut-outs and a wolf. In addition, make a brick house, a straw house and a house made of twigs. Move the felt pieces as you tell the story, or invite students to come up to the front and tell the story using the felt pieces. As an extension activity, create bricks, twigs and straws and invite students to create their own houses.
Use a flannel board to teach your preschool students letters and numbers. Cut out letters A through Z and numbers one through 10. Hand out the letters and numbers to students. Call out a letter or number and ask the students who are holding the items to come up to the front and place their item on the board. Once students recognize letters and numbers, use the letters to spell out simple words, or use the numbers for addition and subtraction.
Use a flannel board to teach students about the seasons. Cut a simple tree shape with branches but no leaves from brown felt. Cut leaves in red, green, yellow and orange. In addition, use white felt to create a snowy landscape. Begin with the tree with no branches covered in snow for winter, then progress through the seasons. Show students how the leaves change color and then fall to the ground during the fall.