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How to Make Super Stretchy Gingerbread Butter Slime with Model Magic

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Make scented 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

Filed Under: Sensory Tagged With: Gingerbread Man, slime, Slime Recipe

Gingerbread Ten Frames Free Printable

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Gingerbread Man Printable Ten Frames for Preschool

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

Filed Under: Early Learning, Math Tagged With: Christmas, Free Printable, Gingerbread Man, Mini Erasers, Numbers

How to Make a Super Easy Life Size Gingerbread House

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How to make an easy life size gingerbread house for preschool dramatic play

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

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Dramatic Play, Gingerbread Man, Pretend Play

A Different Kind of Gingerbread House Small World Play

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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

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Dramatic Play Gingerbread Man Activity for Preschool

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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

Filed Under: Literacy Tagged With: Gingerbread Man, Pretend Play

Gingerbread Activities that Will Wow the Preschoolers

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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

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Christmas, Gingerbread Man

Book Making With Kids – The Gingerbread Man

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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! Making books with young childrenKeep Reading

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Gingerbread Man Theme for Preschool

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I love incorporating a gingerbread man theme into my winter planning for preschool. I start off reading many different versions of the story to the kiddos.  This gives them an introduction to the story, and it allows us to compare the different versions. The students have fun listening to the different stories, and they reallyKeep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Christmas, Gingerbread Man

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