MITTEN WEEK 2019
Thumbs in the thumb place… We haven’t had a lot of time to wear our mittens this year but we can still sing about mittens. We will be working on colors with a mitten story this week. The children will be talking about textures in the art room, there will be an assortment of warm clothing in the dramatics area and we will have books about weather in the library. We will be dressing Bear – mostly in a raincoat but we do have mittens for Bear. This will be a good week to add to your child’s vocabulary: words that describe the weather, colors, temperature and textures. Our children have lots of words for wet and rain but not as many about cold weather – if you have a chance try to get up to the mountains to play in the snow and use those mittens!
Mittens on My Hands
(Sung To: ‘Wheels on the Bus’)
The mittens on my hands
Keep me warm
Keep me warm
Keep me warm
The mittens on my hands
Keep me warm
All Winter long!
The socks I wear will…
The boots on my feet…
The hat on my head…
The scarf around my neck…
The coat I wear will…
Mitten Song
Thumb in the thumb place (Give Thumbs up with both hands)
Fingers all together (hold fingers together like in mittens with thumbs out).
These are the things we wear in mitten weather (move mittens back and forth).
When it’s cold, it doesn’t matter whether, (shrug shoulders)
Mittens are wool or made of finest leather. (rub hands like of
Thumb in the thumb place, fingers all together
Mittens for Snow Time
Mittens for the snow time, when the world is white.
Mittens for my two hands, (hold up hands)
Mittens left and right (show left & right)
Mittens with a thumb place (show thumb)
Mittens warm and snug
Mittens make me feel like giving a hug (hug self)
Mitten Story
My poor little kitten lost her mitten and started to cry, “boohoo”,
So I helped my kitten to look for her mitten, her beautiful mitten of blue.
I found a mitten just right for a kitten, under my mother’s bed.
But alas the mitten was not the right mitten, for it was colored red.
I found a mitten just right for a kitten
…under my father’s pillow … yellow.
…on the hand of my brother’s clown … brown.
…under the laundry so clean … green.
…inside a grocery sack .. black.
…under the kitchen sink … pink.
I found a mitten just right for a kitten inside my favorite shoe,
And this time the mitten WAS the right mitten, for it was colored blue!