Preschool Storytime:
*I have to say, this is my first time doing a hat storytime, and it was so much fun! Everything went really good, and the preschoolers seemed to have a great time. This is a theme I definitely plan on revisiting again. My wonderful volunteer (my mom) made me a beautiful crown to wear for storytime!
Opening: Big Books
Book: Whose Hat is This?
*This is a great guessing book to use for storytime. The preschoolers really enjoyed guessing who wore each hat!
Little cat, little cat, are you under the {red} hat?
Credit: Miss Mary Liberry
Action: Halloween Action Cards
Book/Flannel: Hooray for Hat!
*If you've never used this book before, I highly recommend it! One of the best parts is the repetition of the line "Hooray for Hat!" It's a great way to get the preschoolers involved in the reading of the book with you. This is a great way to teach your preschooler how to spell h-a-t! I made a flannelboard to go along with the book, and all my animals had a grumpy face and a happy face. I also made little hats to put on each animal. The best part of this book was when a little girl looked at me and said "Boy, you sure are grumpy!" I just had to stop and laugh! This let me know that at least I was portraying the grumpiness!
Fingerplay/Flannel: Cat in the Hat
*For this wonderful idea, I put up Cat in the Hat, but without his hat. Then I asked the preschoolers to help me find his hat! Of course, I put up many things that aren't correct, until I find the one that fits just right! I couldn't link the website, because it isn't secure, but I'm sure you can find it!
Credit: Storytime Thoughts
Book: A Good Day for Hat
*This has quickly become one of my new favorite books, because it can be used for so many themes. Bears, hats or birthday! If you know me and my storytime, one of my favorite things to do is cut up small pieces of things from construction paper and have these items "rain" down onto my preschoolers. Well, in this book bear keeps changing his hat! When the story starts, he goes outside and it's raining! So, I have paper raindrops to "rain" down on the preschoolers. Later on, rabbits are hopping around outside, so I have paper rabbits to "rain" down on the preschoolers. I do this all throughout the book. But I wanted to also show the hats off to the kids, so I made a big bear and taped him to a box, and had each hat made. Then my hats would tape to a box that could be changed out as the story went along. I have a picture below so that this makes more sense. At the end of the story all the hats come tumbling down from the bears head, so I had two boxes stacked up and they all came tumbling down! Even the adults laughed loudly at that! I love thinking outside the box (I couldn't resist!) and bringing the story to life for kids.
Our craft today was a zebra hat! I've never done a hat before with the preschoolers, so I wasn't sure how they would do, but they loved it! All of them wore their hat downstairs after storytime! I will definitely look for another hat craft. I'm wearing the zebra hat, so I hope that you can see what it looks like.
Credit: TeacherspayTeachers
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