Friday, June 7, 2013

The Ants Go Marching on Flannel Friday!

Marching One by One
Hurrah!  Hurrah!




Dig into Reading!  Grab yourself a book and ...MARCH... right into "the ground to get out of the rain... Boom Boom Boom"  Oh, and please take some ants with you.  I am pushing the flannel envelope people!  Just want you to know that.  I do not like ants.  Irrational fear of ants over here - been this way since adulthood.  And now, I'm making flannel ants.  Last week I came face to face with my fear of sharks when I flannelized that bad boy and this week... creepy crawly ant parts.  And this is my choice!  What the heck am I doing to myself?  Could this possibly become: Flannel-what-you-fear-Friday?

Click here for an adorable version of the song.  I wrote that sentence to be nice, to try a positive spin - but truly...there is no such thing as an adorable ant.  The song is catchy - I agree.  Kids like it, yep!  Kids like ants - what can I say?  I used to like them too, when I was a kid!

I sketched the pattern and started taping and cutting this afternoon.  I have more ants to make...but here's a few to get us going.  Oh...ants, fun!


Marching one by one


There's never just one ant...



I think they look sort of goofy.  Alien ants?  Anyway - these are my ants!  It's pouring buckets here in Connecticut - so all of our ants are marching into the ground for a night of reading.  How perfect!! 

P.S. (Piper Script): I love digging for ants.  Oh, and we found a really cool science experiment for ants. Check out this National Geographic site!


6 comments:

  1. I love your ants Jane (just put an ILL on the book too)!

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  2. Your ants are adorable! I've got to get my hands on that book! Thanks for the cute post this week!

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  3. I'd like to know what you did for the littlest one who "stopped to suck his thumb"? I had been thinking of "flannelizing" this song, but that has me stumped!

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  4. Well, Amy...my little one "stops to play a drum"! So, I made a drum! I am shameless with "tweaking" things to work for me and I highly advise that. Hope this helps :) ~ jane

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