Set your flannel board up in front of the class and add five flannel baby ducks and one mama duck to your flannel board. Add a wavy piece of brown or green felt to represent the hills. As you read the story, remove a baby duck at each verse and hand it to one of your preschoolers. At the final verse, have the preschoolers run forward to add their baby duck back to the board.
Print out or trace each animal and person in the book, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" authored by Bill Martin, Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle, onto stiff paper and laminate if desired. Glue a piece of coarse sandpaper to the back of the characters and set up your flannel board in front of the class. Hand preschoolers one character each and tell them to pay attention as the story unfolds. As you read this favorite story, have students come forward to put the appropriate animal or person and color up onto the board until the story is complete. You can ask them to make the correct animal sound as they run forward to add extra fun to the project.
Review the alphabet and practice listening and working as a group with a classroom flannel board activity centered on the story, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom," by Bill Martin Jr.. Place flannel trunk, leaves, and coconut pieces on the flannel board and give each child a flannel letter to add to the board as you read the story. You can cut the pieces directly out of flannel or add flannel or sandpaper backing to laminated paper pieces.
Make "stone soup" together as a class on your flannel board either by following the book of the same name or letting preschoolers create their own ingredients out of colored, laminated paper shapes or by cutting shapes out of flannel to put up on the board. Let each student introduce their ingredient and lament that there is only enough for one. Then, tell students the flannel board is the soup pot and invite them to add their ingredients until they have made a delicious creation. Add your own stone to complete the dish, then talk to students about how working together made something out of nothing.