HATS, POCKETS, & SHOES
Book List
A Pocket for Corduroy - Don Freeman
Caps For Sale - Esphyr Slobodkina
Caps, Hats, Socks, and Mittens - Louise Borden
Fish in his Pocket - Denys Cazet
Hats Hats Hats - Ann Morris
Katy No Pocket - Emmy Payne
Shoes Shoes Shoes - Ann Morris
Shoes From Grandpa - Mem Fox
The Hat - Jan Brett
Whose Hat? - Margaret Miller
Whose Hat Is That? - Ron Roy
Wocket in My Pocket - Dr. Seuss
Blue Hat, Green Hat - Sandra Boynton
My Shirt is White - Dick Bruna
Songs & Fingerplays
Hats Song - sung to "Are You Sleeping?"
H-A-T-S
H-A-T-S
That spells hats
That spells hats
Everybody wears them
Everybody wears them
Have the children supply other reasons to wear hats and add verses about them:
to protect their head
to shade their eyes
to keep warm
when they dress up
Have real hats available to match to the verses you sing about.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
Arts & Crafts
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Sun Visors
Give each child a visor shape from oaktag (manila tag) to decorate with crayons, sequins, lace, fabric patches, etc. Tacky glue or Elmer's glue work best for attaching the decorations. After decorating, punch a hole on either side at the "back" of the visor. Poke a thick rubber band through the holes and tie a knot at each end to hold the visor onto the child's head. The visor shape is very simple. Make a "half-oval" shape, almost as large as a 9"x12" piece of tagboard. Then cut a slight curve downward on the flat side of the "half oval", from one side to the other. This gives you the visor shape. This basic shape can be modified in size to fit the age group you are teaching.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
Paper Plate Hat
Make a cute hat from a paper plate. It kind of forms to the head & works
great. It's super easy: Have the kids color or paint the plates first. Take a
paper plate, using your scissors cut a small hole in the center. Just eyeball
it. Now starting in the center make some cuts to the rim.You are only cutting
to the rim.The cuts will radiate out like the lines on a pizza. Cut about
eight evenly spaced cuts. Now fold these triangles so that they stick up. It
now will look like a crown. Have the kids glue on silkflowers or any other
kind of decorations you'd like to use. Punch some holes in the back & add
some ribbon or yarn, if desired. The kids love these & can be very ceative!
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
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Hat Picture Books
Find pictures of people wearing different types of hats, and work with the children pasting them into pages in looseleaf binders. Take a child's dictation about what the person who is wearing the hat is doing. These could be left out for kids to look through. Older infants through 2's would probably enjoy looking through these homemade books, as would many preschoolers.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
Theme Ideas
Balancing Caps
Read the book "Caps for Sale" (Beforehand, cut out many 8" - 9" circles of
felt in many colors)
When reading the story, use "hats" that have been cut into circles from a
variety of colors of felt. They pile up and stick together nicely while
balanced on the peddlers head. He/she can easily "walk through town
shouting, "Caps! Caps for sale. Fifty cents a cap!" (Plus, hats made this
way are easy to make and store.)
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
Guess The Person
Play guess the person. Show various hats (pictures or actual hats) and have
the children tell who wears it...baker hat, police officer hat, firefighter
hat, baseball cap, construction hat, Easter bonnet, wedding veil, top hat,
motor cycle helmet, and so on... After the initial responses, take time to
say "Any other ideas?" Keep those tots thinking!
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
Hat Sorting
Collect a variety of hats. The children can arrange them from smallest to
largest and largest to smallest. Also they can classify the hats by colors
and uses.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
Sound Walk
Take a long strip of contact paper. Tape it to the floor, sticky side up. Let the children take off their shoes and socks and walk on it. It feel funny and makes neat noise!
A variation: Make a sound sidewalk - Use different material that will make sound, and/or feel "funny" when children walk on it and tape down 5-6 squares in a sidewalk pattern. Some ideas for materials are. contact paper, bubble wrap, foil, sandpaper, plastic grocery bags, and cellaphane.
~Submitted by David
Hats on a Fence - game
Materials: Some old hats, 3 or more beanbags, Board (2x4 about 5' long)
Place the board between two tables or chairs. Place the hats along the board.
Mark a line on the floor for the children to stand on while trying to knock
off the hats with the beanbags.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
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Circle Time Activity
Have the children in a circle. One child has a hat on their head.
Chant:
(_________'S) wearing a hat.
What do you think of that?
Take it off, and pass it to (_________).
This encourages sharing, taking turns and cooperation.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
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Hat Bean Bag Toss
Lay several large hats on the floor. Encourage the children to stand about
two feet from the hats and try to throw the beanbags into the hats. You can
makeup contests or add more rules, change the distance from the hats
according to the children's abilities.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
Links!
Hats Theme Unit - edHelper.com
Preschool Hats Theme - Everything Preschool
Hats - Preschool Education
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