THE HAIRY HEAD SALON
ISU CHILD CARE CENTER
FEBRUARY - MAY 1999
The Hairy Head Project
Phase One:
One morning in February, a number of children came in with new haircuts. This prompted a very involved discussion about hair, hair cutting and hair salons. Thus, a project was born. During Phase One, we had a number of interesting discussions about hair cutting and hair salons. The children conducted a hair color survey, drew faces and hair on a bulletin board display and graphed the number of hair salons we found listed in the yellow pages.
Chris, one of our teacher's aides, arranged to have his mother come to the center to cut his hair. Tina, a hair stylist by trade, let each of the children help use the clippers on Chris' hair. She brought along a number of hair styling items to talk about. She also brought along two antique curling irons and an antique hair clipper.
The children changed the dramatic play area into a hair salon. They used their prior knowledge of hair salons to guide their design and room arrangement.
Phase Two:
The teachers arranged visits to Fox and Hounds Hair Studio and Creative Cuts hair salon. The children divided into the following investigation groups: Bathroom group, Scissors group, Cost group, and the Mirror group. One group of children decided to investigate Old Tools. We set up a visit to Henry Wellington's restaurant to see an old barber chair and an old permanent wave machine.
After our fieldwork, each group represented the information they learned. The Bathroom group built a bathroom in our child care hair salon. The Mirror group made a poster. The Scissors group wrote a book about scissors. The Cost group made signs showing prices from both hair salons we visited. We used these signs as guides to create a price chart for our dramatic play hair salon. The Old Tools group built a replica permanent wave machine.
Phase Three:
The children chose a name for our hair salon: The Hairy Head. They decided to have a grand opening to culminate our project and share all our work with family and friends. We foamed committees for decorations, door prizes, refreshments, and invitations. The Grand Opening for the Hairy Head was held on Thursday, April 29, 1999.
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Sketch of permanent wave machine at Henry Wellington's Restaurant done by Kathy (4.10 yr.) |
A special thank you to the following
businesses for donating door prizes.
AB Hatchery
Creative Cuts
Earthkeepers
First Edition Hair Salon
Fox and Hounds Hair Studio
Garlic Press
Holiday Inn in Normal
Nestle
Radisson Hotel in Bloomington
Solid Gold Jewelers
Toys R Us
YMCA
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