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GINGERBREAD MAN
Submitted by Marilyn
I have been having fun with my 3's class with a gingerbread theme. I have repeatedly read the story of the gingerbread boy by Karen Schmidt. I precut out 6" gingerbread boys (from brown construction paper) and put them on craft sticks. I handed one out to each child at circle time. Then when I was reading the story, they could participate by pretending that their moving their gingerbread boy stick puppets to "run, run as fast as you can". They enjoyed using a prop with the story. We had gingerbread cookies for snack. The next time I did the story using pictures from the story. I xeroxed key photos and put them on crafts sticks. Then I told the story orally (using just the stick pictures) and the children loved that too. We baked gingerbread that day and enjoyed it for snack. Tomorrow, I will have the children tell the story to me using the stick puppets. I have purchased large gingerbread cookies and the children will decorate them with pink icing and m&ms, sprinkles, gumdrops. This will be a hit, I am sure!
For art, we decorated large, brown construction paper gingerbread boys. Another day, we used gingerbread boy cookie cutters dipped in white or pink paint and printed onto brown paper. It came out so cute. At the easel, I precut large gingerbread easel paper shapes and they used different types of brushes with brown, white and pink paint.
Flannel board
5 small brown gingerbread boys cut from felt
5 little gingerbreads sitting on a tray,
one jumped up and ran away,
"Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can"
"You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man"
(continue with 4, 3, 2, 1 gingerbread men)
Every time you say "little old lady", the children say "Oh, Dear" (in a very soft high voice) and when you say "little old man", they say (in a very DEEP loud voice) "I'm hungry". Every time you say "ran" or "run", the children hit their hands on the top of their legs. After each animal that is met along the way, they make the appropriate sound. When you say "fox", they can say "swish, swish" for the sound its tail would make.
Five Little Gingerbread Men
Five little gingerbread men in a row (Hold up five fingers, waving back & forth)
Not gonna' eat one no, no, no. (shake finger and head side to side)
But they look so sweet from head to toe (hand binoculars at eyes touch head then toes)
Crunch, munch...uh oh! (slap thighs on crunch, clap hands on munch, then put hands over mouth on uh oh)
Continue until...
No little gingerbread men in a row
Wasn't gonna' eat one, no, no, no
But they looked so sweet that it's sad to tell (binoculars on sweet, then index fingers run down cheeks to represent tears on sad)
Crunch..munch... oh well! (slap thighs once, clap once, then throw hands up and shrug shoulders)
Home project for The Gingerbread Man
Draw a gingerbread man or woman on a piece of large cardboard - one for each student. Send the cardboard gingerbread person home with the children, along with the following note written on a smaller gingerbread paper explaining the project. When the gingerbread creations come back to school, take pictures of each one individually. Put the pictures on pieces or oak-tag to form a booklet. Give each child a chance to talk about his/her creation. Write what the child says-exactly as the child says it- on both the booklet and the large gingerbread person. Send any duplicate pictures and the original creation back home.
Dear Parents,
I am sending home a gingerbread boy/girl shape for the entire family to decorate. Use your imaginations and anything else that you have sitting around the house.
Please return your creation by_________________.
Thank you, _________
Take Care
(Name of teacher)
We made Gingerbread Houses that turned out real cute.
Take graham crackers. You need seven.One for the base, for for the walls and two for the roof.
I used Royal icing and they stuck really good.
Royal Icing
4 cups icing sugar
3 egg whites
1/2 tsp. cream of tarter
Beat about 7 minutes.
I made the house and the children decorated them with candy canes, fruit loops, coconut (for snow) and gum drops.
They turned out adorable.
We also made a giant gingerbread man. We let the children roller paint him and added facial features and buttons.
We also made gingerbread cookies from the Jan Brett website - from the book Gingerbread Baby and they turned out good.THE GINGERBREAD BABY by Jan Brett
We made and decorated a gingerbread cookie. All the children went with me to put it in the oven. When it was time to take him out, he was gone. The looks of their faces was of such surprise. We looked all over the school and
then we made a trap for the gingerbread baby and waited. Before long we caught him and ate him at snack. The imagination of a child is priceless.
We also decorated a sandpaper gingerbread baby. I used sandpaper because the first thing they did was rub cinnamon all over the baby so it would smell like a real cookie and then they used buttons, ribbons and whatever else I
have in the classroom. From the Jan Brett home page I got these Cookie Award Certificates that I also sent home. It was really a fun day
Read 'The Gingerbread Baby' by Jan Brett
Make gingerbread baby head bands. Staple brown strips of construction paper in circle to fit each childs head have them decorate their paper gingerbread baby cut-out. Decorate with glitter paint, rick rack or
other collage materials attach by tape or staples to head band
Cookie Game
Have children sit in a circle. Choose one child to wear their gingerbread paper head band. He will be the ginderbread child. He walks around the outside of the circle and taps each child on the head. When he comes to the one he wants to chase him, he says "Catch me if you can." as he taps that child. The chase begins. As they chase each other around the outside of the circle the others chant
"Run run as fast as you can."
"You'll never catch him,"
"He's the gingerbread man." |
