

Then, I cut out his flipper, and taped that to a felt scrap to make a felt flipper. So, for the seal, I just cut out the main piece first. Tape the detail templates to the felt and cut. Cut out the details from the template largest to smallest!ĥ.

I’ll try to break down each group and my thoughts as I go.įor me, the easiest way to make a flannelboard character is to literally copy the template. And for the top group (tiger, girl, boy), there will again be a lot of layering/detailing, but a different kind. For the right group (bunny, sheep, skunk), there will be a lot of layering/detailing. For the left group (snake, monkey, seal, and goose), I have a base layer and maybe one or two details. What I did here was separate the characters into different levels of details. (The pattern said to extend the middle of the bus 18″, but that was much too large for my flannelboard, so I only extended the bus 8″.) In the picture you can still see that the bus template is taped onto the yellow felt, which is how I know where to cut without marking the felt. I made two wheels, six windows, and cut a large piece of felt for the bus. The “Seals” template had great instructions for the bus template, so I seriously just followed their directions. Obviously, an image intense entry, sorry slow browsers! So, I made the “Seals on the Bus” flannelboard from Making Learning Fun and tried to photo-document my process so that I could theoretically teach others how to make the same flannelboard.
