Flannelboard: Yetis

If I come up with more rhymes and songs to go with this set, the post will be updated to reflect that. If you have ideas for other ways to use the set, please share!

Flannelboard

These cute yetis aren't based on anything in particular, just a design I drew up on my own. The blue one was the first one I made. It seems the most yeti-like to me because of the color scheme, but I didn't want all the yetis to be identical. Cool colors and neutral colors say "yeti" to me more than bright colors or warm colors. Perhaps I should have made a grey faced yeti instead of a pink one! Maybe in the future I'll either replace the pink one with another color or just make a full set of 10 and include a grey one in that. I used this for my yeti storytime. It could also work well for a general monster themed storytime, though I'd probably want to do monsters in multiple different colors for that!

Storytime: Yetis

Books

Dear Yeti by James Kwan

*The Thing About Yetis by Vin Vogel

Are We There Yeti by Ashlyn Anstee

Yeti and the Bird by Nadia Shireen

Yeti, Turn Out the Light by Greg Long

*No Yeti Yet by Mary Ann Fraser

Books marked with a * are the ones I used for this storytime. All these titles are super fun and it was very hard to choose which ones to read! Vin Vogel also has a book called Bedtime for Yeti, which could be another great option. There are so many yeti themed picture books available right now, which makes for a lot of potential options to tailor your selection to your specific group. Unfortunately, none of these titles really feature diverse characters. There are some diverse children in the background of The Thing About Yetis, but obviously the yetis are the focus of the story. No Yeti Yet features two androgynous white children. One of the characters in Dear Yeti is slightly darker skinned, but that's about as far as it goes for diverse books with these titles.

We didn't read Are We There Yeti because I wasn't able to get a copy in before the storytime. All the copies in my library system are currently checked out! If you do read Are We There Yeti, I would highly recommend listening to or watching a video of Emily Arrow's Are We There Yeti song if you have the time for it in your program!

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