Flannel Friday: Jamberry

We used this flannel song in our Bears and Berries storytime. This storytime activity uses repetition, number sequencing, and would work well in a storytime on summer, food, or berries. It is based on the book Jamberry by Bruce Degen.

These flannel pieces were easy to make.  All we did was draft a canoe shape and five different coloured berries.  Feel free to use berries from other flannel stories you have laying around. It was quite nice to have the berries as a visual cue on the flannel board that we could refer to throughout the storytime.

Here’s a video showing how we used the felt pieces as a flannel song.

Here’s how we sang it:

Under the bridge and over the dam, looking for berries, berries for jam.
1 berry, 2 berries, pick me a strawberry
Under the bridge and over the dam, looking for berries, berries for jam.
3 berries, 4 berries, pick me a blueberry
Under the bridge and over the dam, looking for berries, berries for jam.
5 berries, 6 berries, pick me a red cherry
Under the bridge and over the dam, looking for berries, berries for jam.
7 berries, 8 berries, pick me a blackberry
Under the bridge and over the dam, looking for berries, berries for jam.
9, berries, 10 berries, pick me a raspberry.
Under the bridge and over the dam, looking for berries, berries for jam.

For the full Flannel Friday round up this week, check out Kathryn’s blog Fun With Friends at Storytime. For more Flannel Friday ideas, click on the Flannel Button in our sidebar.