On Tuesday our Infant Storytime was all about hats!  We gave each child a silly animal hat (though some babies may not like hats and in that case their caregivers donned the hats instead).  We sang our opening song, then did Peekaboo and then read the book Whose Hat Is That? by Anita Bijsterbosch, translated from the Dutch.

We sang Oh My Hat Goes On My Head… and Let’s Go Riding in an Elevator.  I deliberately chose my themes to have some songs that would repeat for two weeks or so, because the repetition helps everybody learn the songs and the familiarity that comes from hearing the songs several times is good for the babies.

We did a flannel story about looking for a meerkat hiding behind one of several hats:

meerkat 1 meerkat 2

We read another book called I Love My Hat by Douglas Florian.  It’s really cute and has good repetition, but it was a bit long actually.  It might not have been my best choice ever because it required much abridging!  Ah well.

We sang Here is the Beehive and bounced to Ladies Ride.  We also did a colors song about hats which I learned from Miss Jennifer (I just used hats on my head instead of felt pieces).

We also did a song with those hats called Can You When You Grow Up? (to the tune of Do You Know the Muffin Man?)

Can you paint like an artist, like an artist, like an artist?

Can you paint like an artist when you grow up?

Can you cook like a chef…

Can you dance like a king…

Can you use a hose like a firefighter…

We also did a silly hat song using our animal hats, and it goes like this:

On my head, I wear a hat

It is such a silly hat

That my head will wiggle, waggle to and fro

Where else can my silly hat go?

On my knee…

On my foot…

On my hand…

On my elbow…

I hope you guys had a good time!   See you all next week, when I look forward to inviting a few new families from the waitlist.