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At the beginning of the year I was asked to start a Family Home Evening Enrichment group at church. We met once a month and put together family home evening lessons. It was loads of fun but also loads of work.
One of the projects I tackled was coloring most of the flannel board stories that have been published in The Friend magazine over the years. I've decided to start sharing them online so whoever wants to use them can benefit from them as well. All of the stories both texts and pictures are property of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They are free online for use in your home or at church. They are however in only black and white drawings. So I used my paint program to color them on the computer. I will post three stories a week until they are all posted. Each one will be in a different post and will be linked here creating a master link list to all of them.
If you prefer to color your own I will also provide the link to the original flannel board story in each post. Or you can visit The Activity Closet for a master link list to all the original stories. Saves time trying to do a search on the church website.
Enjoy!
Old Testament Stories
Abraham Covenants With the Lord
The Creation
Daniel and King Nebuchadnezzar
Enoch Builds Zion
Esther Saves Her People
Isaiah Prophesies of the Savior
Jonah & the Whale
Joseph "Holds to the Iron Rod"
Josiah Believer in the Scriptures
Moses Teaches His People
New Testament Stories
Baptism of Jesus Christ
Calling of the Twelve Apostles
Christ's Life on Earth
The Good Samaritan
The Good Shepherd
Jesus Christ Heals a Blind Man
Jesus Christ Will Come Again
The Good ShepherdThe Last Supper
Our Savior and Redeemer
Saul's Conversion
Special Witnesses - The Apostles
The Wise Man & The Foolish Man
Book of Mormon Stories
Alma Teaches & Baptizes
Ammon's Example
Army of Helaman
The Brother of Jared Sees Jesus
Captain Moroni
Covenants at the Waters of Mormon
Enos and the Power of Prayer
Jacob and Sherem
Jesus Christ Comes to America
King Benjamin
Lehi Obeys God
Moroni Writes of God's Marvelous Works
Nephi Obtains the Plates
The Nephite Disciples Baptize
The Nephites Learn of the Sacrament
Samuel the Lamanite
Stripling Warriors
Church History and Other Topics
Baptism (Age of Accountability)
His Servants The Prophets
The Holy Ghost Will Help Me
Joseph Smith & the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith's First Vision
Plain Words About Baptism
Priesthood Blessings
The Resurrected Christ Teaches About Baptism
The Sacrament
since 10/5/07
54 cranially charged comments:
This is so great! Thanks for sharing, I look forward to increasing my flannel board library.
Thanks for doing all the work and putting them all in one place. I will check back often to see what new ones you have added.
Thanks!
These are great! Thanks!
umm so do I get these for Christmas? Hee. I ran out of ink on my printer printing all the file folders stuff you sent me. :-D Soo cool.
You are so talented! Many families will benefit from your hard work ... mine already does :) !!
We are interested in starting a similar enrichment group in our ward. These stories are GREAT! Any other quick ideas/tips for a monthly FHE group?
Cool! Thanks for sharing!
Oooh, thanks for the great links! I was involved in a FHE group about 8 years ago, and now my kids love going through the file drawer and choosing a topic/lesson for that week.
You are awesome!!! Thank you for doing this.
These are great, thanks SO much!!!
These are great. And you have saved me alot of searching and coloring. My lesson on Sunday wil be much easier to prepare. Thank you for sharing.
These are so awesome! I can't wait to make a flannel board! I also want to make a farm animal scene for the EI EI O song. Do you know where I can find animals?
I am so grateful for all your hard work in coloring the flannel board stories! I have been wanting to prepare more flannel stories but dreading coloring them all. I was thrilled to find your blog! Thanks so much!
Thanks so much for sharing the colored versions of these stories. I just posted a link to your blog on the ldsnursery yahoogroup. These stories are great for nursery as well as FHE.
Thanks again for sharing!
kayla
Thank you for doing all this work...my kids will love it, hopefully as much as I do :)
Thanks again!!!
Thanks for doing these. I can't wait to use them during family home evening & Sunbeams. Thanks! Katie
I was just doing a search on google to hopefully find some ideas for FHE tonight for our 3 yr old. This is so great! thanks for sharing all your work! I'll have to print lots off :)
I love this! I printed mine off on printable iron on transfer paper, and then ironed them right onto felt. Now I have fabulous looking felt figures for FHE. Thanks for all the work you put into this!
There is a really simple way to get around the file size limitation on Blogger. Google also has a free website program called Google Pages. You can set a page for free, post files of any size, and then make a link on your blogger site. Hope that helps.
Thank you I am a nursery leader and I looked for hours for the wise man and the foolish man for song props.
Kelli
Cocoa, these are wonderful. I love that you've also given the link to the originals. I'm trading piano lessons for finished flannel board pieces right now, and I would really struggle with where to get the blank pictures from without your hard work. The young man who's taking the lessons loves it, and it's just working so beautifully!
We don't know each other but I wanted to thank you for posting these. I will be back periodically to print them off. You're a saint!
Hi you wonderful person! I found your blog while googling flannelboard stories and cannot tell you how fun this was to find! One of your other comments mentioned Christmas presents, and now I have the perfect idea to give my grandkids. Thanks so much for sharing this!!!!! Oh and by the way, my sister describes herself as 'an unrepentant chocoholic.' haha... I guess great minds think alike :-)
What program do you use to do your coloring? I have been searching for one for quite a while. Thanks for your help!!
Karla.
I use Photoshop Elements to do all the coloring. My sister-in-law just uses the basic paint program that comes with all computers to do coloring for her file folder games.
I've been linked to your site for a long time. Imagine my surprise, when I searched for free FHE resourcs to download for my grandchildren, and up pops my favorite chocolate friend. thank you for doing this amazing thing for our community.
I was searching for flannel board figures via google and HOPING that I could find some Church-related material, but not have to color it. What a treasure trove this is! Thanks!
Wow, I've been looking for something like this for a while. Thanks so much!
Story Time Felts has all kinds of pre-made flannel board stories (Book of Mormon as well as just play time or educational felts) at http://www.funfelt.com in case people want to just get some ready to go! They also come with lessons and activity ideas!
This is so cool. That is a lot of work and you did a fanatastic job. Thanks for sharing with us.
Thank you, thank you! I spent forever coloring in the story of Daniel last Saturday for sharing time on Sunday...it looked terrible. You should never watch Jack Black in School of Rock and color scripture flannel board stories at the same time. Now I've gotcha bookmarked!
I just came across your blog on accident and boy I am so glad I did. WOW! You really have put a lot of hard work into your blog. Thank you for sharing it and for all of your hard work! I just love everything you have on here and have taken full advantage of it! THANK YOU!
I love your site! I especially love the flannel board stories that you have colored! They are wonderful! I am struggling trying to print off the creation story in color. It cuts off part of the earth image and it also cuts off the legs of adam and eve. I've adjusted the margins and it hasn't helped. I've had great success printing out all of the other stories. Any suggestions on how to get them printed out fully? Thanks.
Sergio,
I'm glad the flannel board stories are of use to you! As for the Creation figures Adam and Eve's feet are not all there in the Friend Magazine either. They are cut off about half way. The earth also has a bit cut off in the image I got from the Friend Magazine. The only solution I can think of is to draw in what's cut off before laminating them. Sorry, that's not much help!
Just found out about your blog and LOVE this- I got the materials for a flannel board today and can't wait to start it! I appreciate your hard work!
I want to shed tears I am so grateful! I have 5 kids, ages 9, 7, 6 & 15 mo. old twins & I am desperate for quick FHE ideas that my kids will enjoy & I know these will be easy & enjoyable for us. Thank you for being so generous with your time & your resources!
Oh my goodness!! I don't know you, but a friend's blog shared a link to yours. Thank you so much for sharing your hard work!!!
These are amazing. I never thought I could ind all these in one place. Thanks so much for helping me start a flannel board library! I dont have kids yet, but I thought I'd get these started while I have time to do it. :)
Wow you are amazing. I can't remember how I found your site but I'm so glad I did! I can't wait to start teaching my kids the scripture stories with these lessons! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
I have a question for you about printing these pictures out. I am unable to click on each individual picture; I can only click on the whole sheet of pictures, and then when I try to print out that sheet it is slightly fuzzy. Any ideas for troubleshooting?
By the way, these are absolutely amazing and I plan on printing out ALL of them once I figure out how! :-)
The pictures don't print individually - just on the whole sheet as that's how they were in The Friend. The fuzziness is a result of the darn internet and my not knowing exactly the best way to upload them without losing quality.
If you'd like I can send you 2 CD's that will have all of the flannel board stories on them. They will print off better than off the internet. The CD's are free. ☺ E-mail me your address at chocolateonmycranium [at] live [dot] com and put flannel board stories in the subject so I know it's not spam.
Can't even tell you how amazing this is! We are wanting to do flannel boards for the Primary and this is PERFECT! thank you so much for ALL that work!
I just wanted to thank you so much for posting these. I have been trying to do family home evening stories for my kids and it has taken me a year to color by hand and I am not even close to getting done. Your work has saved me a ton of time. Thank you so much you are awesome!!!
This is great! I'm working on getting my Young Womanhood Award as an adult and wanted to do the flannel board stories as a project. I'm so glad I found your site! It's made it a lot easier than I thought it would be. Thanks a ton!!
Thank you! If sharing this with us doesn't secure you a place in heaven I don't know what will. :-)
I know you've heard this a thousand times, but you are amazing and thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Thank you so much for sharing!! Such a great resource that I am able to use in my Primary calling and with my grandchildren! Your generosity is blessing many lives! :)
We finally got into a routine of doing fhe every week but needed help with the lessons. These are great! Thanks! I've already told other friends about your site and they love it too!
Just one question. Once you laminate them what do you put on the back to make them stick to the flannel board? I have some other flannel board pictures I printed out and I put felt on the back, but it doesn't stay very well, what do you use?
Sheena,
I use the sticky back velcro (the hook part). They stick much better. I have heard, but haven't tried it, that one can print them out on some thinner pellon (a type of crafting interfacing) and they'll stick right to a flannel board.
This is great! Thanks for doing all this work. I'm posting a link to this on my "Projects I want to do" link on my blog...www.helpinglittlehands.blogspot.com. - Polly :)
you are amazing! thank you so much for posting these. After October's conference, I'm all energized and I want to start FHE with my two small boys. These will be such a huge help.
This is fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks so much for sharing! This is fantastic!
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