Posted: Monday, June 2, 2008, 9:27 am (Length: 3 min, 9 sec)
Watch a librarian bring this traditional song to life by
combining two things children love: playing with flannel boards
and making animal noises! Children love to play with flannel
boards both with adults and by themselves. Using a flannel board
with your child is a wonderful way to help him or her learn, and
allowing a child to play by him or herself with a board and a
variety of felt pieces encourages inventive story play. And it
helps develop early literacy skills! Kids love this traditional
song (sung in this video by librarian Kelsey Coulter) because
they can make the sounds for a variety of farm animals. If you
create your own flannel board, you can start with Old MacDonald
Had a Farm and then introduce more animals by changing it to Old
MacDonald Had a Zoo. If you would like to learn how to make a
flannel board for your child to use, check out the books listed
above. Periodically, the library has flannel-making workshops
for parents and care