Sorry, asked this question under another post but I need an answer by tomorrow.
For a 2 1/2 year old girl, you would get a toque that ties under the chin right?
For a 5 1/2 year old boy, wouldn't a toque with the chin ties be considered too babyish or is this appropriate. I have to purchase toques and mitts and scarves for these children. Is a scarf now considered dangerous for 2 1/2 year olds?
Hugs Squirrelly
Thanks Lisa, would a toque with some form of fastener under the chin be considered too young for a boy of that age? I only had two girls so I am lost on this one.
Hugs Squirrelly
Unless the kid hates to wear hats, I don't think a chin tie or strap is necessary, even for the 2 1/2 year old. This is the 2nd winter my 2 1/2 year old daughter has gone strapless. Of course, up there in your frigid climes she nearly froze her little cheeks off last winter and would have benefitted greatly from some little ear flaps that overlapped her cheeks a bit. It was bitterly cold in Niagara in February.
As for scarves, I prefer the neck gaiters that are usually fleece, kind of like a hat without a top, that you pull over your head.
Around here...5 is still young enough. For a boy, I'd try to get one without a little ball on top. My 4yo old wears a cute quilted nylon black one that comes over his ears and velcros under his chin. He looks so cute and he likes it. I think it's only a problem for those in the "I'm cool" stage of life like my 13yo lol
Thanks, I just didn't want to get anything that the children wouldn't wear. I had no idea what those neck things were called, so thanks. We lived in the far north for many years and it was pretty common for the children to have the toques with the ear flaps, hoods over those or balaclavas and still they wore scarves. Mind you at -40, it isn't difficult to convince children to wear snowsuits either. Used to buy them snowsuits and boots guaranteed to -50.
Here in Ottawa, it isn't as cold but very damp so you really feel it. A lot of the toques for the younger children were a very lightweight knit as were the mitts. I didn't think these would be near warm enough.
Hugs Squirrelly
Around here...5 is still young enough. For a boy, I'd try to get one without a little ball on top. My 4yo old wears a cute quilted nylon black one that comes over his ears and velcros under his chin. He looks so cute and he likes it. I think it's only a problem for those in the "I'm cool" stage of life like my 13yo lol
My husband is long past the "I'm cool" stage of life". He used to wear a knitted toque which embarassed the heck out of my daughters. So a couple of years ago, my youngest bought him a fleece hat with a fake fur trim that has the flaps that can also be tied around the top of the head. I think she bought it as a joke, but he wears it, sometimes with the flaps down. They are even more embarassed now.
I don't like pompons but I will wear a knitted or crocheted toque or a fake fur hat and I will wear a hood because I am long past wanting to look cool and being cold.
I did see some of those hats you are talking about with Batman on them, which was what I was thinking about getting for the boy. That or an Ottawa Senators Hockey Team hat.
Thanks,
Hugs Squirrelly
OK...goofy question...what is a toque?
The only toque i know of is worn by chefs!
Not goofy at all. It is also the French word for cap, , sport hat, can be jockey hat etc. But in Canada it is a common word for a knitted winter hat, usually used to refer to the hats with pompoms on top. Basically, winter hat.
Sorry, I know there are a number of Canucks on the site, some from my province. I figured I would get a response from folks that have the same access to the same stores that I do.
Hugs Squirrelly
Sqiurrelly I did post in the other thread...maybe it didn't work. i am finding teachers here don't want to be tying things for the kids. however, my 5 year old had a big head and if doesn't get secured somehow it always slips off...she loves those goofy looking "jester" fleece hats...my son is ten and he likes them too!!
Well, my daughter wears a scarf, and she's 2 1/2.I knitted it for her last Christmas (yes 20 year olds knit too LOL) and I've never had any problems with her wearing it. I don't normally take her to the park to go down slides in frigid weather anyway, so it's just house to car, car to store, store to car, car to house..lol. I think scarves are a wonderful idea for children just going out, and I've made my 10 month old one this year.
Thanks everyone! I like scarves because children with asthma, need to breathe warmed air, so this was an issue for some of my family members. I just was afraid to buy scarves because there have been a few reports of them getting caught in school bus doors and such. And yes, I found some toques don't stay on certain children's heads without the ties.
Hugs Squirrelly
Squirrelly,
I don't know if this helps. As you were writing I was picking up my 5 yr old from kindergarten.. she got a note home saying scarfs were not permitted only the pull over type....my mom always called them"dickies" LOL but I think that may be the kooky dutch coming out of her...
Heehee, well that is what we called them too. Basically they gave the appearance of wearing a turtleneck sweater underneath your coat, but dickies it was. Heehee, maybe that just shows our age?
Hugs Squirrelly
LOL, my mom used to knit them for us....in the ugliest let over wool she could find...I am suprised I don't have brain damage (arguably) from all the times I got beat up from the mean kids teasing me about it!!! LOL
Your mother was trying to insure that nobody else would like your scarves well enough to steal them, haha!
Funny you should mention kids reactions, one of the reasons I asked about the ties on toques was because I well remember bullies pulling our untied toques off our heads and running off with them, or burying them in snowbanks. That is actually one of the reasons I bought the girls ones that tied on.
Hugs Squirrelly
OK...goofy question...what is a toque?
The only toque i know of is worn by chefs!
Not goofy at all. It is also the French word for cap, , sport hat, can be jockey hat etc. But in Canada it is a common word for a knitted winter hat, usually used to refer to the hats with pompoms on top. Basically, winter hat.
Sorry, I know there are a number of Canucks on the site, some from my province. I figured I would get a response from folks that have the same access to the same stores that I do.
Hugs Squirrelly
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Don't you call them toques in your neck of the woods? Or is only in the areas with larger French populations kiddo? Heehee, I forget you are in the more English part of the province.
Hugs Squirrelly
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Don't you call them toques in your neck of the woods? Or is only in the areas with larger French populations kiddo? Heehee, I forget you are in the more English part of the province.
Hugs Squirrelly
LOL @ the english part Of The province.... LOL.. Ontario is an english province unless we pretend not to be LOL.... *ducking*
Btw, I Was at the grocery store and a little kid walked by me wearing a black toque (not the knit one). I had to do a double take on to make sure I saw what I thought I saw.
Da Grinch Princess
Haha, ok areas with less than 5% French speaking population that are not officially designated for bilingual services, is that better, haha! Can you tell what hubby did for the province and now does for the municipalities? I guess we spent a lot of time in areas where the split was almost 40-50 percent either way.
Hhmn, that is unusual!
Speaking of toques, my hubby worked at Queens Park, so he would park at Scarborough and take the train to downtown Toronto and walk a few blocks. He wore a toque in the winter time until he got harassed several days in a row. It was sort of sad, but there was a mentally ill street person that didn't like his toque. And whenever my hubby would walk across this one corner he had to cross to get to work, this man would harass him about the toque and threaten to beat him up for looking like a geek. So hubby had to ditch the toque. I got him a fur hat and when he wore it, this same man yelled at him that he still looked like a geek but he preferred the hat. So the girls started calling their Dad a geek.
Hugs Squirrelly
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