North Mankato Taylor Library Storytime
There’s a Hat On My Head!
Books We Shared:
Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? By Joan Nodset
A Hat For Minerva Louise by Janet Stoeke
The Hat by Jan Brett
Under My Hood I Have a Hat by Karla
Kuskin
Other Books You Might Enjoy Sharing:
Bridget’s Beret by Tom Lichtenheld
Don’t Touch My Hat by James Rumford
Do You Have a Hat? by Eileen Spinelli
Peedie by Olivier Dunrea
Ella the Elegant Elephant by Carmelo D’Amico
Zara’s Hats by Paul Meisel
Sherman Crunchley by Laura Numeroff
What a Hat! by Holly Keller
Rembrandt’s Hat by Susan Blackaby
Red Hat, Green Hat by Louise Gikow
Miss Fannie’s Hat by Jan Karon
Mister Momboo’s Hat by Ralph Leemis
Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Casey’s New Hat by Tricia Gardella
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss A Man and His Hat by Letitia Parr
Imogene’s Antlers by David Small
Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton
What’s On My Head? By Margaret Miller
The Hat That Wore Clara B. by Melanie
Turner-Denstaedt
Early Literacy Activities:
Help your child think of words that rhyme with “hat”. Use words like mat, cat, sat, rat,
flat, and bat. Try making up silly rhymes using all of the words.
· Find things around the house that begin with the letter h.
· Gather all of your family’s hats. Help your child sort them by color, shape, size, and use.
Spell out the differences with your child. This can help in learning the differences in letters.
· When you read together, let your child hold the book and turn the pages. This is a great
time for a winter snuggle with your child!
·
Fingerplays and Songs That You Might Like to Share:
My Hat
My hat (make triangle with thumb and index fingers)
It has three corners (put triangle on head)
Three corners has my hat (raise three fingers)
If it did not have three corners (shake head no)
It would not be my hat (place triangle on head again)
Hats (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 children supply reasons for wearing hats and add verses about the
reasons.
On My Head I Wear A Hat (Tune of “This Old Man”)
On my head I wear a hat
It is such a funny hat
That my hat will wiggle wiggle to and fro
Where else can my fun hat go?
On my foot I wear a hat
It is such a funny hat
That my foot wiggle wiggle to and fro
Where else can my fun hat go?
Repeat with different body parts…
Where Has My Hat Gone? (Tune of “Where Has My Little Dog Gone?”)
Oh where, oh where has my red hat gone?
Oh where, oh where can it be?
I’ve looked up high and I’ve looked down low.
Did someone hide it from me?
Repeat with different colors...
Hats for Animals
Five funny winter hats,
A red one to adore,
A monkey came and bought it –
And now, there are four
Four funny winter hats
The yellow one should please
A kangaroo just bought it –
And now, there are three
Three funny winter hats
One is big and blue
An elephant just bought it
And now, there are two
Two funny winter hats
The green one's good for sun
A giraffe came and bought it
And now there's only one.
One funny winter hat
It's very, very small
A mouse came and bought it
The last one of all
**Most ideas in this handout were borrowed from The
Perry Public Library website:
http://www.perrypubliclibrary.org/Kids/Programs/
storytime_themes.htm
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Match the hat to its owner.