Put On Your Hat (Monday)

Theme Notes Series 276: Put On Your Hat (Monday) This week in Play School we explore the theme of “Put on Your Hat” through music, stories, craft and play. Every day this week, we visit the Play School hat shop where a hat for every occasion can be found. On Wednesday, we take a special ride with Justine as she puts on a helmet and travels to Play School on a motorbike. Hats can also be used in dress-up and role play for young children to explore different occupations and cultural differences. The role of hats in sun protection and warmth is also featured. PRESENTERS Alex Papps – Abi Tucker PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY Hairy Maclary’s Hat Tricks © Lynley Dodd, 2008. Permission for the use of Hairy Maclary’s Hat Tricks granted courtesy of Penguin Group, New Zealand and Lynley Dodd. FILM Gardening Together (Play School, ABC) ANIMATION Hat (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER - Use some fruit and vegetables to make prints on paper or material placemats for your table. - Make a crepe paper garden in a cardboard box. Use brown crepe paper for soil, then twist and scrunch different coloured crepe paper to make fruit and vegetables. What fruit and vegetables will you make? - Make some party hats for your next birthday. - Make some silly hats for your toys. SONGS Making a Hat Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage Publisher: Origin/Control My Hat it Has Three Corners Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Do You Put Your Hat On Composer: Val Donlon & Claire Henderson Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Rain Composer: Jay Laga’aia Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Composers: Ray Gilbert & Allie Rubel Publisher: J Albert & Sons Bend with the Wind Composers: Roberta McLaughlin & Lucille Wood Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Like a Leaf or Feather Composer: Mary Champion DeCrespingny Publisher: EMI I Can Run as Fast as You Composer: Peter Combe Publisher: Control Round and Round Composer: Colin Buchanan Publisher: Rondor Friends All Together (Friends, Friends, Friends) Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage Publisher: Origin/Control MAKE AND DO How to Make Salad Spinner Flowers You will need: - White paper - Scissors - Salad spinner - Water paint or food colouring Cut out some flower shapes from white paper. Each flower should fit comfortably in the base of your salad spinner. Place a flower in the salad spinner. Put a couple of drops of water paint or food colouring onto the paper. Add a couple of drops of a few different colours. Now spin the salad spinner! The coloured paint will mix together and form a colourful spinning pattern! Make flowers using different colour combinations. MAKE AND DO Open a Hat Shop Open your own hat shop that sells hats for all sorts of occasions! Collect as many different hats as you can from around your home, such as shower caps, sun hats and beanies, and make some of your own hats to sell as well. Some ideas are below: A Three Cornered Captain’s Hat You will need: - Coloured cardboard - Scissors - Stapler - Things to decorate your hat with, such as coloured pencils or textas, glitter, dot stickers and other craft materials. Cut three identical strips of coloured cardboard. Staple each corner together to make a hat with three corners. Decorate your hat with coloured pencils, textas and craft materials. A Garden Hat You will need: - A straw hat - Scissors - Coloured cardboard Crepe paper - Patty pans - Glue Cut a cardboard strip that fits around the width of your straw hat. Staple it together and fit it around the hat. Create flowers from patty pans and glue on to the cardboard strip. Use crepe paper to make bugs and leaves and glue them on as well. A Party Hat You will need: - A cardboard cone - Things to decorate your hat with, such as coloured pencils or textas, paint, glitter, feathers and tinsel You can make a cardboard cone by cutting a large circle from a piece of cardboard, drawing a dot in the centre of the circle and making a straight line cut from the edge of the circle to the dot in the middle. Twist the two straight edges around to make a cone shape and tape to secure. Decorate your hat with coloured pencils, textas and paint. Glue on glitter, tinsel and feathers.