HATS …. They’re Transforming!

Did you ever notice how you put on a hat and immediately you’re transformed? Okay, maybe not your everyday hat — like a baseball cap or a rain hat, but how about a Top Hat?? How about a pixie-style hat like Peter Pan … or a cowboy hat? Imagine the fun for young children!

An easy way (and inexpensive) to collect hats is to buy them at the party store. They usually have a costume section with a large array of colorful hats. Surprise your child with one of these hats every now and then and watch what happens! Watch the transformation. Videotape it, too! Plus, buy other hats — randomly whenever you see them. Perhaps, you can keep a Hat Box (no, not a pretty round one, it’s much too small) but a carton for this grand collection! Stock up at after-Halloween sales to use them all year.

And, here’s an example of how a hat can be transforming! Yesterday at Sesame Place, I met Veronica Robles, a delightful woman, full of life, who is host of Orale TV! on Telemundo and elsewhere. She is also a performer, a teaching artist conveying messages about Latin American cultural. Veronica has a hat story, too. She sings and dances and keeps her audiences alive with excitement and, by the end of the show, she’s wiped out from all this physical work UNTIL she puts on her hat! Her gorgeous, large sombrero. She tells her audience, to paraphrase, “Watch what happens when I put on my hat! I’m energized!” And, she wraps up her show on a high note … all, um, because of her HAT!