Advent Christmas book #5

Our next book was: The hat by Jan Brett.

Synopsis: 

When Lisa's woolen stocking flies off the clothesline, Hedgie finds it and pokes his nose in. He tries to pull it out, but the stocking gets stuck on his prickles -- and the fun begins. A mother hen comes by, then a noisy goose, a talkative barn cat, a playful farm dog, a mama pig and her piglets, and a pony. They all laugh at Hedgie, especially when he pretends he's wearing a new hat. But in the end, it is clever Hedgie who has the last laugh. And where is Lisa when all of this is going on? She's in the borders, getting ready for winter, until she realizes her stocking is missing and she enters the story to look for it.

Pinky, as usual, loved the story because there’s a funny twist: ANIMALS DON'T WEAR CLOTHES…….DO THEY? Also, because the disappearing clothes form the clothesline picture above each page.

About mommy point of view, I am IN LOVE with the illustrations. Those are such beautiful pictures. 

Our activity for this cute book was:

• Making our own winter hat of Rudolph! This idea I got it from here.

Reading the story! Every animal with their “hats”.

Pinky making her Rudolph hat.

I let her fill the gloves with cotton and glue the eyes, nose (red pom-pom), and felted ears. After that, mommy had to use her not-good sewing abilities to sew everything together because as I know you know, the glue was not strong enough for my princess high activity level. The only bad thing is that the antlers don’t stay up, maybe using kids gloves (which I couldn’t find at the moment) and less cotton would make it better….

So, here’s our version of THE HAT:

Isn’t she cute??????

• Additional activities:
• In addition here’s an activity if you want to add a school kind of learning: Graph the animals from The Hat depending on the number of feet, if it walks or flies, if it has a beak or mouth and if it’s a bird or mammal.
• Story animals sequencing here.
• Set up a play here.

Bonus: here we are having fun with our new hat!

Happy holidays!!!