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My kids LOVE felt board stories.  Even my 11 year old will usually drop what he is doing and come participate when I pull out the felt.  We have a lot of felt stories, all of which I have made.  Many years ago my husband cut me a piece of plywood just the right size to fit into a king size pillow case.  I covered it with grey felt on one side and on the other side I used green and sky blue to make a landscape scene. 



As far as the felt board stories I have gotten ideas from all over and have made them in a variety of ways.  If they are simple enough I just cut the pieces out of felt.  More detailed pieces I will look for graphics online and the print them on card stock and put felt on the back of the card stock.  I also have some where I took heavy weight interfacing (not the iron on kind) and traced the graphics on to them and then colored them with color pencils.

This one is 5 Little Monkeys and I got it from the website Preschool Printables


This one is It Looked Like Spilt Milk I made it from white felt and I let the kids put up the pieces as I read from the book.


This one is the song Hush Little Baby I made it from interfacing


To store my felts and make them easily accessable I have 3 BIG binders with clear page protectors inside.  I keep the pieces for each story as well as a copy of the story to read from in the protectors.

These are my felt story binders.


Here is what it looks like inside.


Websites Where I have Gotten Felt Stories

dtlk -teach  Felt board stories to print, excellent!

Preschool Printables   Felt Board Stories to print

Enchanted Learning  Felt board ideas.

Draw & Tell  Learn to become a Story Teller.  Lots of great ideas you can incorporate into felt stories..

Here is an amazing site with links to hundreds of free printables!

Ebay   is great place to purchase inexpensive pre-made felt stories. (or get ideas!)


Here is a list of all the stories I have made through the years:

Polar Bear, Polar Bear
Build A Snow Man
Snow Flakes One By One
5 Little Monkeys
Ice Cream Colors
Johnny -Cakes
The House In The Woods
10 Little Mittens
Jack & Jill
Soup From A Nail
The Ugly Duckling
5 Big Valentines
Volcanos
The Wide Mouth Frog
How Is The Weather
Little White Duck
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
C is for Cookie
The Gingerbread Man
5 Little Chickens
Under The Big Top
B-I-N-G-O
Three Little Kittens
The Tortoise & The Hare
Hickory Dickory Dock
Old MacDonald
I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
Hush, Little Baby
The Lunch Sack
5 Red Apples
Luck Ladybugs
Chicka, Chicka ABC
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
5 Yellow Ducks
Nine Little Zebras
100 Animals In The Zoo

Biblical Felt Stories

Ressurection Eggs
10 Commandments
The Story of St. Patrick
God Made The World
Daniel In The Lions Den
Moses In The Bulrushes


Felt is very inexpensive and the only limit to what you can come up with is your imagination!  This is also a great space saver since you can keep so many stories in a few binders. 

Enjoy!