Put On Your Hat (Wednesday)

Theme Notes Series 276: Put On Your Hat (Wednesday) 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. PRESENTERS Jay Laga’aia – Justine Clarke PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY Little Dog Author: Katrina Germein Illustrator: Tamsin Ainslie Publisher: Scholastic Australia FILM Little Nippers (Play School, ABC) ANIMATION My Dog Bill (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER - Set up a shop that sells sports hats. Your shop could include a cricket hat, a motor cycle helmet and a life savers cap. Have fun selling your hats to customers. They may come into the shop and say, “I need a hat to wear while I’m playing the cricket. What will be the best hat?” - Build some sandcastles in a sandpit or at the beach. Decorate them with leaves and pebbles from the garden. Put a flag on the top. - Take a ride on a pretend motorbike with an ice cream helmet. - Find pictures of people wearing different hats in old magazines and make a collage. SONGS Motor Bike Song Composer: John Waters Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Put on Your Hat Composer: Colin Buchanan Publisher: Rondor I Like Dogs Composer: John William Fox Publisher: ABC Music Publishing My Dog Scrap (My Dog Bill) Composers: Henrietta Clark & Warren Carr Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Making a Hat Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage Publisher: Origin/Control Watermelon Composers: Peter Dasent & Arthur Baysting Publisher: Origin/Control MAKE AND DO Make Sun Hats for Your Toys You will need: - Small recycled boxes and takeaway containers - Scraps of material - Scrunchies - Things to decorate your hats with, such as ribbons, crayons, stickers and tinsel - Yellow material or towels - Blue material or towels - Plastic buckets, spades and a beach ball - Pink kitchen sponges - Black marker Collect small recycled boxes, takeaway containers and scraps of material to make your hats with. Fit the boxes and takeaway containers onto your toy’s heads. You can turn a scrap of material into a hat by securing it on a toy’s head with a scrunchie. Decorate the hats with ribbons, crayons, stickers and tinsel. Set up a beach scene for your toys. Yellow material or towels can be the sand. Blue material or towels can be the sparkling water. Find some plastic buckets, spades and a beach ball to play with. Make some pretend watermelon for your toys to eat on the beach by cutting pink sponges into triangles and drawing on seeds with a black marker.