Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas - Flannel - Extension Activities - Share and Sell

Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas
by Aaron Blabey

Another great book by Aaron Blabey!

If you are interested in purchasing this piranha flannel or any of the extension activities, please contact me!

tara@foxandbearelp.com
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This book is fantastically funny and fantastic for rhyming, spelling, and vocabulary extension activities.  I am lucky enough to currently instruct in a preschool classroom and work with smaller groups (17 children), but all these activities can be tweaked to work with any size group.

Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas- Amazon
Everyone knows that piranhas don't eat bananas -- except for Brian. This little fish loves to munch not only on bananas, but on fruit of all kinds! Brian's piranha friends think he's crazy. Piranhas don't eat bananas -- their sharp teeth are for eating meat! And there's a scrumptious pair of feet dangling in the water nearby...

I made Brian the Piranha with a pouch behind his mouth

to hold either index cards, flannel fruit, or fake fruit 

(the fake has to be hollow and light for the flannel to hold it up)

I played this game with my preschoolers two ways. 

1) I gave them all a fake fruit (I have a cornucopia) and they held on to them until I described the physical characteristics of the fruit and brought it up and put it in a bag.

2) I gave them all a fake fruit and then used my index cards to sound out the fruit name (the beginning letter and written word are on the other side), flipped it over to show the picture, put it in Brian's mouth, and then they brought up the fruit

If you don't  have play fruits, you can (or I can) make flannel fruits for this matching game

Since this is a rhyming book, this flannel also works as a rhyming game.  I held up one index card (ex. blocks) and the child with the matching word (socks) would bring up their card and we'd both put our index cards in Brian's mouth.

I played this game with my 3rd graders class too.  But we chanted:

Brian ate a fruit
It was a hoot!
Who can spell this fruit!?

Then I held up the fake fruit and a student had to name it and spell it and then put the corresponding index card in Brian's mouth.

BTW Brain likes plumbs, but the other piranhas like BUMS, so the silliness translates well to older kids too.

The Very Impatient Caterpillar (Flannel to Share / Sell)

The Very Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach

New book I found. It’s hilarious and covers great concepts like patience, metamorphosis, and migration. 

This was probably one of my favorite flannels to make and I really love how it turned out. I only made the one set, but I am happy to make more for sale. I’ll even throw in a copy of the book.  The flannels are much more vibrant than they appear on the screen.  Phone camera... you know!

Email me at tara@foxandbearelp.com if interested!  You can also comment here, but I check my business email more often.

*(It uses all correct terminology like chrysalis and migration.  I posted a video of myself using the word "cocoon").  

Amazon link

My son is kind of goofy in the video, but you can see that the CHRYSALISES have two pouches with a divider in the middle so that the butterflies go in the back and the caterpillars go in to the front and then the butterfly emerges.

Check out my business facebook page for the actual video that works and for other ideas.

Fox & Bear Early Literacy Programming Facebook

Love Monster and the Perfect Present (Valentine's Day)

Love Monster and the Perfect Present by Rachel Bright
(Valentine's Day)

I both want to share this flannel and offer additional sets for sale.  I'm a little late in the game making these sets, but they are perfect for valentine's Day and I can ship immediately.  Info below after blog post. 💓🎁💗


Summary:  (From B&N)  Everyone in Cutesville is excited for the most special day of the year: Present Day! Love Monster goes on a hunt for the perfect gift for his special someone, but as it turns out, finding the perfect gift is not easy. And the only thing worse than a not-perfect present is no present at all. But Love Monster soon comes up with the idea for the best gift ever―one that comes straight from his furry heart.

If you already have the red Love Monster I made last  year for Love Monster and the Last Chocolate and you only need the orange Love Monster and "perfect present", I can just send those.

Orange Love Monster is gifted the perfect present from Red Love Monster

Opening the present

The "wrapping paper" is velcroed on so you can "unwrap" the present

These Love Monsters were made with lots of love just in time for Valentine's Day... or a friendship theme...

For purchase:
Email: tara@foxandbearelp.com
Text: 480-516-3713
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Thank you for your support! 💝

(I don't have extra books to mail with the sets, but you can get it pretty quickly on Amazon or from the library or I could ship it to you with Amazon prime for $16.00)

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