DLTK's Nursery Rhymes
Five Little Ducks Felt Board Printables

You can use the felt board or puppet Templates in accompaniment with the five little ducks rhyme. 

 
Use the sheets as... COLORING PAGES

• simply print the black and white version of each page and allow the children to color them.
• There is more than one template piece per page (typically there are two pieces) with a dotted line oval around the piece. 
  • Cut around the dotted line before handing out the coloring pages 
  • either the children or an adult can do the cutting.
  • It is up to you whether you want to cut the animals out in detail or just leave the white paper oval background.  (I like to leave the background for coloring pages or puppets and I like to cut the animals out in detail and then laminate them for felt board pieces).
• Color recognition:  Focusing on color recognition and following directions while coloring the ducks.  Give them a variety of crayons and instruct them to color:
  • the mother duck green,
  • duckling 1 yellow,
  • duckling 2 orange,
  • duckling 3 blue,
  • duckling 4 red,
  • duckling 5 brown,
  • Don't be shy about making a few unusual colored ducklings to round out your color recognition project.

Use the sheets as...  PUPPETS

• Either complete the black and white sheets as coloring pages (see above) 
  OR
• print the color pages
• There is more than one template piece per page (typically there are two pieces) with a dotted line oval around the piece. 
  • Cut around the dotted line before handing out the coloring pages 
  • either the children or an adult can do the cutting.
  • It is up to you whether you want to cut the animals out in detail or just leave the white paper oval background.  (I like to leave the background for coloring pages or puppets and I like to cut the animals out in detail and then laminate them for felt board pieces).
• Tape each template piece to a popsicle stick, drinking straw or an unsharpened pencil.
• If working with a group of children, each one can be a certain animal. 
  • When their part of the story comes up, they can wiggle around the puppet and make the animal sound.
  • You can have a duckling parade...  Line the children up in the order they are mentioned in the story and let them march around the room, waving their puppets.

Use the sheets as...  FELT BOARD CHARACTERS

• Either complete the black and white sheets as coloring pages (see above) 
  OR
• print the color pages
• There is more than one template piece per page (typically there are two pieces) with a dotted line oval around the piece. 
  • Cut around the dotted line before handing out the coloring pages 
  • either the children or an adult can do the cutting.
  • It is up to you whether you want to cut the animals out in detail or just leave the white paper oval background.  (I like to leave the background for coloring pages or puppets and I like to cut the animals out in detail and then laminate them for felt board pieces).
• You can cover with clear contact paper or laminate if you want them to last longer.
• Cut out each page.
• Cut out a small piece of coarse sandpaper and tape or glue it on the back of each animal (if you laminated, it will need to be a larger piece of sandpaper).  The sandpaper will allow the characters to stick on your felt board.
• If working with a group, give each child an animal.  As you read the story, have the children bring up the appropriate animals and put them on the board.
     

the templates:

• close template window when done printing to return to this screen.
• change your page margins to zero (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).  See print help for more info.

Mother Duck and Duckling 1   color   or   B&W

Ducklings 2, 3, 4 and 5   color   or   B&W