Hats Storytime

Toddler Read Alouds
Baby Party by Rebecca O'Connell (2015)
Hat for Minerva Louise by Janet Stoeke
Hat Off, Baby! by Jan Ormerod
Little Cloud by Eric Carle
Silly Little Goose by Nancy Tafuri
Under My Hood I Have a Hat by Karla Kuskin
What’s On My Head? by Margaret Miller
Whose Hat? by Margaret Miller
Who’s Under that Hat? by Don Carter
Yellow Hat, Red Hat by Basia Bogdanowicz

Preschool Read Alouds
A Good Day for A Hat by T. Nat Fuller and Rob Hodgson (2017)
Grandma it’s for You by Harriet Ziefert
Hooray for Hat by Brian Won (2014)
I Love My Hat by Douglas Florian (2014)
Magic Hat by Mem Fox
Magic Rabbit by Richard Watson
Mouse, the Cat, and Grandmother’s Hat by Nancy Willard
Twelve Hats for Lena by Karen Katz
Where’s Mary’s Hat? by Stephane Barroux
Which Hat is That? by Anna Grossnickle Hines
Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? by Joan Nodset
Whose Hat Is That?  by Anita Bijsterbosch (2014)

School Age Read Alouds
Aunt Lucy Went to Buy a Hat by Alice Low
Boy and His Bunny by Sean Bryan
Coco the Carrot by Steven Salerno
Do You Have a Hat? by Eileen Spinelli
Ho for a Hat by William Smith
Milo’s Hat Trick by Jon Agee
My Lucky Hat by Kevin O'Malley
Virginnie’s Hat by Dori Chaconas

Flannels, Songs and Story Extensions

Books That Translate Well Into Flannel Stories
Juice the Pig by Martine Oborne
Martin’s Hats by Joan Blos
Whose Hat is That? by Ron Roy
Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? by Joan Nodset

Books That Translate Well Into Puppet Stories
A Good Day for A Hat by T. Nat Fuller and Rob Hodgson (2017)

Book That Works Well As a Prop Story
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

Five Summer Hats On a Shelf in A Store
Five summer hats
On a shelf in the store,
Bear bought the (fishing) one,
That leaves four more
(repeat until none are left)

Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are Under the Purple Hat?
Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat,
Are you under the (purple) hat?
(repeat until kitten is found)

Little Bat, Whose Hat Is That?
Little Bat,
Whose hat is that?
(repeat with various hats that exemplify different vocations)

On My Head I Wear A Hat
(Tune of “This Old Man”)
On my head I wear a hat
It is such a funny hat
That my hat will wiggle wiggle to and fro
Where else can my fun hat go?

On my foot I wear a hat
It is such a funny hat
That my foot wiggle wiggle to and fro
Where else can my fun hat go?

Repeat with different body parts...

One Little Cat On A Sunny Day

(puppet script for Toddlers)

One little cat on a sunny day,

Put on his hat and went out to play.

Spunky the Clown
(flannel script)
Spunky had a hat, and that hat was RED,
He wore that hat upon his head
Till one day, he looked in the mirror and said: "Boring!"
So he went to the circus to see what other colors there were…
"This Crocodile looks great in green! That's the best color I've ever seen!"

Spunky wore a green hat on his head,
Till one day, he looked in the mirror and said: "Boring!"
So he went to the circus to see what other colors there were…
"There's a Seal with a ball - PURPLE is the very best color of all!"

Spunky wore a purple hat on his head,
Till one day, he looked in the mirror and said: "Boring!"
So he went to the circus to see what other colors there were…
"This Kangaroo has a pocket of PINK! That's the color for me, I think!"

Spunky wore a pink hat on his head,
Till one day, he looked in the mirror and said: "Boring!"
So he went to the circus to see what other colors there were…
"That Elephant looks great in BLUE!
It looks good on him – it'll look good on me, too!"

Where Has My Hat Gone?
(Tune of “Where Has My Little Dog Gone?”)
Oh where, oh where has my red hat gone?
Oh where, oh where can it be?
I’ve looked up high and I’ve looked down low.
Did someone hide it from me?

Repeat with different colors...