These discussion ideas can help your young child appreciate how many important things people communicate just with what they wear on their heads.
- Begin by noticing – fire helmets, construction worker helmets. Why do you think they wear those kinds of hats? What if they wore scarves instead?
- Law enforcement – Why do you think it’s important for all members of the police force to wear the same kinds of hats. What information do you think it on those hats?
- Faith – can you find any examples of people who are expressing their faith with what they are wearing on their heads?
- Cowboy hats. Do you think they have a function other than making a statement about a way of life?
- Sports – each sport has its own kind of hats. No one would wear a swim cap to the golf course.
- Some people wear their baseball caps backwards. Why do you think they do that?
- Bunny ears and reindeer antlers? Wizard hat?