These gingerbread messy play ideas are fun ways to extend a well-loved story with your students. Be sure to check out our epic list of messy play ideas once you’re done here! Below, you’ll find messy sensory, art, and science activities that will fit perfectly in your next gingerbread man theme. Your students can explore,Keep Reading
Gingerbread Man Shape Mats Free Printable
I couldn’t resist adding gingerbread man shape mats to my collection of shape mats. Gingerbread men are so much fun to decorate and kids can get in there and create fun facial expressions while practicing their shapes. Related: Gingerbread Man Theme For Preschool I have a feeling this will be one of those activities thatKeep Reading
Gingerbread Man Printable Book for Preschoolers
Our gingerbread man printable book is the perfect literacy component for a preschool gingerbread man theme. Print a copy for each student in the class, put the books together, and then read, read, read! Run, run, as fast as you can! . . . Straight to the bottom of this post for a printable fileKeep Reading
How to Make Super Stretchy Gingerbread Butter Slime with Model Magic
This gingerbread slime is perfect for gingerbread man theme, or just for something fun to do around Christmas. Take your slime making to a new level by making butter slime with Model Magic. Check out my Slimes and Ooblecks and Goops, Oh My! Pinterest board Related: Candy Cane Shaving Cream Slime This is another slime recipeKeep Reading
Gingerbread Ten Frames Free Printable
Use these gingerbread ten frames to teach a variety of early math concepts in preschool and kindergarten. Just what you need as part of your math activities for preschoolers. Related: Life-Size Gingerbread House Teaching a gingerbread man theme during the winter is always a blast in preschool. Sometimes the children have already heard the story,Keep Reading
How to Make a Super Easy Life Size Gingerbread House
Here’s how to make a life size gingerbread house for the kids . . . the easy way! Have you seen those awesome cardboard gingerbread houses? The ones that the kids can play inside and act out the story of The Gingerbread Man? I absolutely love those big gingerbread houses! But they’re not always feasibleKeep Reading
A Different Kind of Gingerbread House Small World Play
Do you decorate gingerbread houses with the family around Christmas? We do on occasion, but it’s not a set tradition for us. I’ve noticed that our gingerbread house decorating tends to take an unconventional turn. Here’s a favorite story about how our decorating turned into a mystery-solving gingerbread small world play. It’s something we stillKeep Reading
Dramatic Play Gingerbread Man Activity for Preschool
Children can explore this Gingerbread Man activity after reading the classic tale of the cookie that came alive. Are you following my Pretend Play & Dress Up Pinterest board? So many preschool kids love the dramatic play center. It’s a place they can pretend to be almost anything they want to be. Moms, dads, kids,Keep Reading
Gingerbread Activities that Will Wow the Preschoolers
15 gingerbread activities perfect for a preschool gingerbread theme. Run, run, as fast as you can . . . Be honest, you finished the rest of that in your head, didn’t you? “You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man!” One of my favorite winter themes for preschool centers around the gingerbread man! There areKeep Reading
Book Making With Kids – The Gingerbread Man
This post is a little late . . . mostly due to me forgetting to take pictures as the kiddos made the book! As I previously mentioned, Mary Poppins and I had fun with a Gingerbread Man mini theme a couple of weeks ago. OK, on to the book-making! Learning While Making Books with KidsKeep Reading