National Simultaneous Storytime 2007
Ideas for inspiration
The Magic Hat
Text: Mem Fox
Illustrations: Tricia Tusa
Scholastic Press, 2003.
ISBN: 9781865044637
Display ideas:
Make a 'hat day' display of lots of different types of hats
Story time ideas:
Prepare a brightly coloured beanie/hat with small plastic animal figures inside.
Pass the hat through the group and ask each child to pull out the right figure as the characters change into animals. [alternatively have pipecleaner people figures and pull one out each time a person changes into an animal]
"Paper tales: cutting and folding stories" by Ruth and Brett Atkinson. ISBN: 1862512434 has a great folding story where a child starts with one hat, changes their mind and hat another couple of times and ends up with a life jacket.
Tell draw & tell story, "Magic Rabbit":
The magician has an empty hat.
Turned upside down, with a brim like that. (draw an upside down magic hat)
Then suddenly a head appears. (draw round circle)
With two bright eyes (draw eyes in circle)
And two long ears (draw rabbit ears)
And a small round nose. (draw nose)
And whiskers too, (draw whiskers)
And magic stories just for you. (put the word, 'magic" in the hat)
Try a few basic magic tricks and read other books on magic too.
Talk about what animal they would chose to be if the hat landed on their head.
Include some of Mem Fox's other stories.
Make a bean bag toss game with hats. Lay several large hats upside-down on the floor. Let the children try to throw bean bags into the hats from whatever distance they are comfortable. Source http://www.jocolibrary.org/Files/Books2Grow/Hats.pdf
Have a mad hatter's tea party.
Invite everyone to come to storytime wearing their own hats and have a hat parade.
Rhymes:
My Hat (make triangle with thumb and index fingers)
My hat it has three corners (put triangle on head every time you say "hat")
Three corners has my hat (place triangle on head again)
If it did not have three corners (shake head "no")
It would not be my hat (place triangle on head again)
Abracadabra
Abracadabra (Wave hands over an invisible crystal ball)
Abracazoom (Keep waving your hands)
Storytime magic
Come into this room! (Raise your hands high and swoop them down on the word room)
Songs:
"Put your magic hat in" (sung to the tune of: "Hokey Pokey")
NB: you could hand out glittery hats or coloured plastic bowls to act this out
You put your magic hat in,
You put your magic hat out,
You put your magic hat in,
And you shake it all about,
You do the hokey pokey,
And you turn around,
That's what it's all about!
I'm a Little Cowboy (To the Tune of: "I'm a Little Teapot")
I'm a little cowboy. (point to self)
Here is my hat (point to hat)
Here are my spurs (point to your heels)
And here are my chaps (pat legs)
As soon as I get up, (stretch, pretend to wake up)
I work all day (pretend to lasso a cow)
I get on my horse (pretend to get on a horse)
And ride away. (Pretend to gallop on a horse)
Activity ideas:
Make a Wizard's Pointed Hat out of cardboard [see this example http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/printcraft.cfm?CraftID=737 ]
Make a magic wand out of a chopstick and tissue streamers
Teach everyone a simple magic trick
Make a wizard puppet [instructions http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/printcraft.cfm?CraftID=889 ]
Give out magical glittery playdough in snaplock bags [Here is a recipe http://parenting.ivillage.com/tp/tpactivities/0,,41x2,00.html]
Make hat bookmarks [instructions http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/printcraft.cfm?CraftID=870 ]
Make stencil hat shapes out of cardboard for the children to trace and decorate their own hat pictures [eg. top hat, wizards hat, the magic hat, a crown]
Make paper plate hats. Let children decorate paper plates with many different kinds of scraps, glitter, construction paper and crepe paper. With a hole punch, make a hole on each side of the hat. Attach strings so that the hat can be tied on and fastened under the chin. Source: http://www.jocolibrary.org/Files/Books2Grow/Hats.pdf
Make newspaper sailors hats and decorate with feathers and stuff to look wildly magical. [instructions http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/columbus/newspaper_sailors_hats.htm ]
Decorate your own magic hat and play the guessing game http://www.thelittlebigbookclub.com.au/sitefiles/File/activities/July%202007/SA_decorate%20a%20hat.pdf
Make animal masks http://www.thelittlebigbookclub.com.au/sitefiles/File/activities/July%202007/SA_animal%20masks.pdf
Other 'hat stories'
Whose Hat? by Margaret Miller
What's On My Head? by Margaret Miller
A Hat for Minerva Louise by Janet Stoeke
Who took the farmer's hat? by Joan Nodeset
Zoe's Hats by Sharon Lane Holm
Milo's Hat Trick by Jon Agee
Other 'magic stories'
Strega Nona's Magic Lessons by Tomie DePaola.
Olive and the Magic Hat by Eileen Christelow.
All the magic in the world by Wendy Hartmann ; pictures by Niki Daly.
Anno's magic seeds by Mitsumasa Anno
Grandad's magic by Bob Graham
Magic Beach by Alson Lester
The magic bed by John Burningham
Weblinks:
Mem Fox
Scholastic Australia
Little Big Book Club The Magic Hat ideas
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