Flannelgraph

The flannel board is usually painted to depict a background scene appropriate to the story being told.

[1] Plain, undecorated flannel boards can also be used as a visual aid during presentations, allowing the speaker to display and remove charts and graphs as needed.

[1] In the United States, flannelgraph has been (and continues to be) a popular medium for telling Bible stories to young Sunday School students in Christian (and particularly Evangelical) churches.

[2] Indeed, in the United States it is used as a storytelling method almost exclusively in elementary-level Christian education.

[3] This may be attributed, in part, to the fact that flannelgraph is relatively inexpensive, yet provides a more vivid alternative to storytelling without visual illustration.