Thinking Cap

This month in honor of Mother’s Day, and in honor of my mother, I’m sharing one of the first children’s songs I wrote nearly thirty years ago. When I was little, and couldn’t figure something out, my mother told me to put on my thinking cap! Of course now I know, she was building my “self-esteem!” But I prefer to imagine those wonderful hats she helped me to create! Use this song to open a discussion with the youngest children about thinking caps. Have the children draw them, and ask them about how we might all put on our thinking caps to solve problems! My daughter drew this picture when she was about eight years old, while listening to this song.


Thinking Cap

Whenever I have a problem,
And I don’t know what to do
My mother says, “Just use your head,
And the answer will come to you”

Chorus:
Just put on your thinking cap and you’ll find
The answer is there inside your mind
With your thinking cap it’s true
There isn’t anything you can’t do

Well you won’t find your thinking cap in a closet
It’s not sitting on a shelf
All you have to do is close your eyes
It comes from inside yourself (chorus)

Bridge:
Well the best part about a thinking cap
Is it can look any way that you choose
It can be pink and purple or yellow and blue
It can even match your shoes, your shoes

So whenever we have a problem, and we don’t know what to do
Let’s all get together under one big cap
I’ll leave the color up to you! (chorus)