Thinking Cap activity with your littles
- Tosha Phillips
- Jan 25
- 3 min read
I didn't want to end January without sharing this fun opportunity to encourage a vision board of sorts for the little ones in your life. A friend of mine who works for the Skagit Valley CoOp shared this book with me, she is a buyer for them and picked it thinking of my daughter, Sarabella as it's not a common name. After reading this book I thought oh my, this is exactly my daughter, I love it! A couple of years ago I contacted the author and asked her if I could buy a bulk order to host a workshop for children, that I loved the book and it described my daughter to a t! She was thrilled and agreed to sell me some direct. So I held the workshop and it was so fun, it would be a great project to do with others so I wanted to share.
Collect the following supplies (I have provided my amazon commission link for anything you might not already have at home)
paper grocery sacks
tip-even if your local stores charge for them like ours do, it's still cheaper paying 8 cents a bag at your local grocery than to order a massive amount online that will take forever for you to use, I mean if you will use 100+ paper grocery sacks go for it.
magazines (recycling center, libraries, doctors offices', grandmas house)
glue
scrap colored paper or doilies or recycled cards
crayons, markers, paint, glitter (if you have kids around likely you have this stuff, but just in case I included a few links of some fun alternatives to the typical stuff most people have):
aprons or old shirts (if you don't want clothes ruined)
stapler or packing tape to fit caps if needed
Sarabella's Thinking Cap book
Link to buy from my site: https://www.nourishinglegacies-spillthetea.com/product-page/sarabella-thinking-cap
Link to buy from Amazon (I get it the shipping is free): https://amzn.to/4haEDaB
If you are on a budget, ask your local library if they have a copy to check out
Cover the floor or tables with big sheets of paper or disposable table cloths (I used the old leftover newsprint rolls that you can get cheap from a local paper)
We made a cozy reading corner with a tent and tons of pillows and read the story to the kids so they could better understand what we were doing
Go to town on your art!
Some kids may need more prompting then others, but it will come to them. Ask them questions about what they daydream about or what they imagine in their heads sometimes or what they wish for, maybe who they admire or what they want to be when they grow up, or what makes them laugh or feel happy; help them get their creative juices flowing!
When they are all done they can each share their thinking caps with each other and tell about them.
Have some snacks and free play ready for after allowing a little time for their caps to dry
I loved this activity in thinking of my own daughter when she was younger and all the things should would like to pretend, and she would talk about all her little ideas and thoughts for hours; I am not even kidding. I love to hear about it, but at the same time when it's a never ending story.....lord help me. One time when we were on vacation, a road trip, she talked non stop for 4 hours straight, I'm not even joking. I laughed so I wouldn't cry and just zoned out to my music after the first 2 hours. After a couple days of that, we got to a camping site for a teepee stay and I was like, cool there is another family at the pool she can tell them, go talk to some strangers honey! It was an amazing and memorable road trip though, all jokes aside, and still makes me laugh thinking about it.
I feel like this is a great way to get it out, their version of a vision board! I just love this author too, Judy Schachner, she was so responsive to my email and receptive to my idea of the workshop. She also wrote other popular books like the Skippy Jon Jones books, check out her site if you are interested is seeing more of her work, I love her!
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