How to make a flannelograph with your own hands?

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Do-it-yourself flannelgraph for kindergarten has been made by almost all educators since the days of the Soviet Union. This is a flat large screen to which you can attach any picture with a simple tap. In the past, flannelgraphs were mainly made from baby-colored flannel diapers, stretched over a wooden or plywood frame. The pictures were drawn separately, pasted on cardboard and small pieces of velvet paper were attached to the back. If the picture was large, then several pieces of such rough paper were glued in different places, otherwise the picture fell to the floor.

Nowadays flannelograph can be purchased at the store, but it is expensive and consists of only one didactic game. It quickly becomes boring for children, the guys solve the educational problem no longer thinking, but automatically. Educators still have to make a flannelograph with their own hands. Now everything is much simpler than in the old days, as a wonderful material - felt - has appeared on sale. For the screen itself, you can purchase one solid colora piece of fabric, and cut figures and pictures from sheets of felt of different colors, which can be purchased in a large assortment at any sewing accessories store.

In the article, we will consider how to make a do-it-yourself flannelograph in the form of a screen and in the form of an educational soft book. Let's consider examples of solving didactic problems with the help of such an easy-to-use material, we will introduce parents and teachers of preschool institutions with the areas of application of the flannelograph in different classes for the mental development of babies.

Large screen on stand

It is very easy to make a flannelograph with your own hands on the basis of an old board. In any kindergarten group there is a wooden board, like a school board, only small in size with legs. It can be rearranged from place to place and rotated by the back. Leave the front side intact, as it is actively used by the teacher to work with chalk, and the teacher puts pictures on it for classes. But on the back side you can easily place a felt screen.

What makes felt convenient for work is that it is perfectly sewn and glued. It is desirable that the back side of the board be painted, then the PVA glue will lie well on its surface. With a brush, glue is carefully applied to the entire board and a piece of plain felt is applied. It is advisable to do this procedure at night, laying the board on the floor lying down. Stacks of magazines or books can be placed on top. By morning, the hand-made flannelograph is completely ready for use, it will be enough to cut out details from felt sheetsgames. In the photo above, children are playing the didactic game "Transport". The educational task is to place the vehicles opposite the place of their movement. The child must explain his choice in words.

Collect the egg game

Diy flannelgraph games for kindergarten can help parents make. If among them there is a seamstress or a needlewoman, then she will cope with such an easy task quite well. From sheets of felt of different colors, eggs are cut out according to a pattern of the same size. Then, randomly, they are cut into two parts.

The purpose of the didactic game is the development of sensory and logical thinking of the child. He must not only find a soul mate in the box by color, but also correctly attach it to the first part.

Felt desktop flannelgraph

With your own hands you can make a wonderful game that teaches the rules of the road. A background is cut out of a black sheet, a road with intersections and small yellow stripes for marking are made from blue felt.

The details of the game are sewn separately - these are multi-storey buildings, different cars, trees, pedestrians. You can cut road signs and traffic lights. Both flannelgraph and do-it-yourself templates are easy to do. Any experienced teacher will do. The main goal of this game is to teach children the rules of behavior on the road, the ability to cross the street in the right place and know the main road signs.

DidacticMatch the Picture game

If a teacher or parents made a flannelograph with their own hands for a kindergarten, then games can be invented on its basis in a variety of ways. The game "Collect a picture" is popular among children. Applications make different pictures. It can be an animal, a fairy tale character or a cartoon character. All small details are sewn to the background felt with threads or simply glued with PVA glue.

The finished picture is cut with scissors into several parts. You can divide it into equal squares or complicate the task for older preschoolers by cutting the whole into many arbitrary parts. What is convenient about a do-it-yourself flannelgraph is that you can constantly replenish the selection of pictures. To store them, they pick up a small box or arrange the game in plastic folders.

Flannelgraph book for home use

Now soft books made of fabric are popular. They perform different learning tasks, each of which is located on a separate page. So, in the photo below, the page is sewn from cotton fabric, and Velcro is attached to it. The details of the pyramid are sewn from felt. The child assembles it himself, picking up parts as the size decreases.

Each page is sewn separately, and then combined into one book by sewing on the cover and edging. You can lay a thin layer of synthetic winterizer between the layers of fabric.

Pick colors

One ofpages of a homemade flannelograph in the form of a book, you can make a game to identify colors. Multi-colored objects are sewn to the main background. In our sample, these are cups, but you can cut them according to any pattern.

Circles are cut out from sheets of felt of the same colors, which the child must put on the correct object during the game, and at the same time name the color or its shade. This is a great sensory education game for a child.

Game "Human Emotions"

This game can be made for both home flannelgraph and kindergarten students. The main picture is an image of a human head. The mouth, eyes and eyebrows are located separately, and in several versions. Each emotion corresponds to a certain facial expression of a person. If the character frowns, then the eyebrows shift and tilt down, the eyes narrow, and the mouth shrinks.

When you smile, your face changes differently. The lips are stretched, the teeth look out a little, the eyebrows are in their usual place, and the eyes are fully opened. So you can convey fear and bewilderment, sadness and joy. You can play police with older children, make an identikit of a criminal.

Application for flannelgraph can be found in theatrical activities and construction, in classes to familiarize yourself with nature and the surrounding reality, speech development and during individual work. This is a convenient device for both the educational process and the game.activities.