Flannel Friday: Foamie Me!

Have you met Foamie Me?  Last fall I did a story time all about flies and used a cute little poem that I found at fellow Flannel Friday-er Miss Mary Liberry's blog.  The poem is actually called 'There's a bug on the teacher' and was written by Kalli Dakos, but I changed it to be specifically a fly.

I made me out of foam!  The scale is probably a bit off, I think foamie me seems taller than life-size me, but I can dream a little.  I used a clip art shape that I found and then fit my own clothes and hair to the shape.   We have a little magnet board that I sometimes use for story time, so I added a magnet to the back.  The fly is a round magnet to which I added some silver paper wings, a puffy paint smile, and googly eyes.

The poem goes:

There’s a Bug on the Teacher

by Kalli Dakos

There’s a bug on the teacher,

and it’s crawling on her shoe.

What will she do?

It’s crawling on her shoe!

There’s a bug on the teacher,

And it’s crawling on her pants.

Has us in a trance,

That bug on her pants.

There’s a bug on the teacher,

And it’s crawling on her shirt,

I hope it doesn’t hurt,

That bug on her shirt.

There’s a bug on the teacher,

And it’s crawling on her neck,

Everyone check,

It’s crawling on her neck!

There’s a bug on the teacher,

And it’s crawling on her nose,

Why do you suppose

It’s crawling on her nose?

Oh no! It's on her nose!

AhhhhhCHOOOOOO!!

There’s a bug on the floor,

And it’s crawling out the door!

I had the kids use their fingers as a bug and move it along with me as we did the rhyme.  This was quite a bit of fun.  Who knew flies could be so entertaining?

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