My First Flip-Flap Book of Fruit by Robert Salanitro

A few weeks ago I was invited to a Literacy Night at our local Early Head Start. Each month they feature a book and do several activities centered around the book. March's book was My First Flip-Flap Book of Fruit by Robert Salanitro. It really isn't a super great story time book since it is a rather small board book, but the story is cute and it has related activities for educational growth on each page (for example on the apple page it shows a person reaching high to pick an apple and asks children to show how they would reach up to pick an apple). Some are activities and some are open ended questions or questions about the book. I thought it was a really cute idea, and would love to see it in a regular sized book.

I wanted to do more than just read the book so I created a flannelboard (after asking and finding out no one had made one I could 'borrow') based on the different fruits. I made two pieces for each type of fruit- one of the outside and one of the inside. As I read the story I placed the doubled up pieces on the board and the kids "peeled" the fruits showing what they looked like inside. A couple of pieces had three layers- like the pineapple so I could show a segment and then the wedges that kids are more familiar with. I think it came out pretty cute and the kids had a lot of fun playing with it.