Advantages of Using Felt Visual Aids
Provides hands-on experience
Encourages creativity
Develops alphabet and number skills
Enhances verbal skills as the child listens to, retells, and creates stories
Provides a great support to your existing curriculum and activities
Involves math manipulatives
Builds self-esteem in the child
Reaches the kinesthetic learner
Can be used to set up learning centers
Teaches sequencing
When I hear, I listen
When I see, I remember
When I do, I LEARN!
"When you touch the heart and mind of a child you can change the future!"
See, touch, listen & learn with felt!
Independent Story Time Felts Consultant
Tammy Lessick
(910)489-7284
tammy@learningfelt.com http://www.learningfelt.com
Demonstrations • Business Opportunity • Direct Sales
Fantastic
Fun
FELT!
by
Tammy Lessick
Independent Story Tiem Felts Consultant
Skills Children Learn from Using Felts:
Visual: sight, spatial perception, color recognition
Tactile: touching, softness
Fine Motor: hand-eye coordination, manipulation of materials
Auditory: listening, hearing
Language: speaking, listening
Intellectual: cause and effect, problem solving, patterning, sequencing, memorization, cooperation
Social-Emotional: self-esteem, exploring relationships, recitation and performance, cultural diversity
Creativity: imagination, make-believe, music, drama
Life Skills: health and hygiene, manners, safety, relationships, dressing appropriately
Color: vividness attracts attention
Tips for Successfully Using Felt Boards:
Arrange the pieces in advance, face up, and in the correct order for the story.
Decide in advance where and when to place each figure. Your story and the placing of the figures will flow more naturally if you practice ahead of time at least briefly.
Sit or stand to one side of the board, with the figures on your lap.
Once the figures are placed, move them as little as possible. Spend most of your time telling the story and occasionally add,move, remove, or point to a figure. Pause briefly in the story when you move figures. The felt is an illustration of the story, it is not meant to act the story out.
Have the children use the figures to tell stories on their own, or bring the pieces to you at appropriate times while you tell the story yourself. Children also love to make up their own versions of stories using the pieces.
Create a friendly atmosphere by having children sit up close to you.
Look into the faces of the children to make the pieces "come to life."
Relax and enjoy telling the stories. Use smiles and show genuine pleasure to convey a positive message to the children.
Return to our Main page.