Welcome to South Haven Press! My name is Sherine Boville, and I started this micro home business in 2018. I enjoy teaching children in creative ways and wanted to share some of the creative educational products that I had developed during 19 years of homeschooling my children. My first product was Clothespin People craft kits for making dolls out of old-fashioned clothespins. I had sets for teaching Bible stories, studying world history, and decorating for Christmas. My second product was In Print: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing and Publishing Short Stories at Home. My current product is called Felt & Flannel. It is a combination of a flannelgraph, felt story board and paper dolls.
Felt & Flannel is a unique combination of a felt story board and paper dolls. They are very versatile tools that can be used to teach a group of children or for quiet, independent play. My primary goal in designing this product was to provide a simple product that could be used to teach Bible stories. I have tried to make this a toy to play with as well as a story-telling tool. My goal is to give as much play value as possible and to design versatile pieces that can be used for multiple stories. Clothes are not attached, and the people all face forwards in the same pose. The people have hair on the back of their heads and can therefore be made to face away from the viewer. The clothes are interchangeable and people can “hold” items. Special pieces open in some way, giving extra play value. For example, the animals all go inside Noah’s ark, and the baskets can hold different items such as apples, hay, and vegetables. Felt & Flannel is self-contained. The double-sided (blue/black) The flannel board fits inside the zippered storage bag along with all the other pieces. Each additional storyboard play-set comes in its own mesh pouch which also fits inside the larger storage bag.