If you are frugal or crafty, you can use instructions in links below to create your own inexpensive boards and figures using such materials as discarded wallpaper sample books, sturdy cardboard, foam board, poster frames, and old flannel shirts or purchased flannel or felt.
If you need a home-based business you can sell felt boards, figures, and related items through The Storyteller.
Why the felt board as a learning tool? First of all, it’s visual and colorful. When a young child moves the pieces around a board he uses large muscle groups, thereby increasing the learning benefits and the child’s confidence level. A child can explore his own creativity and use his imagination by telling and re-telling stories while manipulating felt figures.
Felt is extremely versatile. Felt boards can be made small enough for a toddler to carry on outings or large enough visualize stories told to larger groups of children. With the links in this article you will find ideas to teach basic math, reading readiness, tell stories, enhance favorite songs, play games, teach time, the calendar, and much more.
Another advantage is that anyone can create a felt or flannel board using common household items. Look at Cathy Ivins instructions in Flannelboard Basics for detailed instructions to make your own inexpensive flannelboard and flannelboard figures. Or check out Rosepetal’s creative idea to make felt boards out of discarded wallpaper sample books in the Stuff To Do With Kids Who Are Two department of her website.
Do a search on the words "felt" or "flannel" at Family.com's craft finder and you'll find more ideas. My favorite one, though, was a room decorating trick. Adhesive-backed felt mounted on a child’s room wall can be part of a fantasticly fun interactive design incorporating a whole wall or walls. See Wall-to-Wall Fun to learn how to create an art gallery, house and street, space age message center and information about the materials needed for these creative and low stress decorating ideas.
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