A-B-CDE
The Gingerbread Man is running from me.
F-G-HIJ
The Gingerbread Man is running away.
K-L-MNO
I said stop. He said NO!
P-Q-RST
Across the river’s where he wants to be.
U-V-WXY
I can’t catch him even if I try
Z-Z-ZZZ
The Gingerbread Man is running from me.
One cookie, two cookies, three cookies,
four.
Five cookies, six cookies, seven cookies, more.
Gingerbread, gingerbread, turn around.
Gingerbread, gingerbread, touch the ground.
Gingerbread, gingerbread, climb the stairs.
Gingerbread, gingerbread, say your prayers.
Gingerbread, gingerbread, turn out the light.
Gingerbread, gingerbread, say goodnight.
Four Gingerbread Men
Four gingerbread men sat on a tray.
The first one said, “Let’s run away!”
The second one said, “Where will we run?”
The third one said, “We’ll have some fun!”
The fourth one said, “We’ll be eaten if we stay.”
So the gingerbread men all ran away!
“The Gingerbread Man: How to Make Sure He
Can Not Escape!”
Create a Gingerbread Man Book titled,
“The Gingerbread Man: How to Make Sure He Can Not Escape!” using the
ideas in Kim's kid-made books at this website:
In this book, the gingerbread man is not
able to escape because the children bite off arms, legs, and head
(actually tear off parts). You can use an Ellison gingerbread man,
purchase a tablet, or cut your own.
Booklet for
students:
“The Gingerbread Man Mystery” from I Can Make It! I Can Read It!
Winter, The Education Center TEC3513
Class book to
make:
Complete one page for each child by having them fill in their name
and illustrate the gingerbread man.
“Stop, stop!” said ______________________.
But the Gingerbread Man laughed and said,
“Run, run, as fast as you can!
Your can’t catch me,
I’m the Gingerbread Man.”
We read several different versions of the
book, The Gingerbread Man and compared the story characters in each.
Our favorite version was The Stinky Cheese Man.
Centers
Gingerbread Scented Playdough
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Gingerbread Playdough
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 cup water
1 tsp. vegetable oil
lots of cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nutmeg, whatever!
DIRECTIONS:
Mix the dry ingredients. Play with the spices till you get the
scent and color you want. Mix water and oil together first and THEN
add them to the dry ingredients and stir. In a pot, cook the mixture
for two to three minutes, stirring frequently. The dough will start
to pull away from the sides of the pan and clump together. Take the
dough out of the pan and knead the dough until it becomes soft and
smooth. Allow to cool and store in an air-tight container. Place
gingerbread playdough in the sensory table with
gingerbread cookie cutters of various sizes...don't forget the
cookie sheets and rolling pins!
Gingerbread Boy Stickers
These are stickers that can be used to
decorate the Gingerbread boy and girl.
Gingerbread Cottage Stickers
The stickers are used to create a
Gingerbread cottage. Both sets of gingerbread stickers are available
from Oriental Trading.
Gingerbread Cottage with Word Cards
The gingerbread cottage is two houses
glued together around all the edges except one section of the
roof--this makes a storage envelope. Vocabulary words were written
on gingerbread boys and girls. These words can be practiced and
stored in their own house.
Gingerbread Visual Discrimination Game
This is a visual discrimination game.
Gingerbread men in various positions are on placed on the gameboard
and on cards. The student draws a card and proceeds to the first
block with the matching gingerbread man. First one to get to the
gingerbread house at the end of the gameboard is the winner.
Math
Roll a Gingerbread Man Game
Students need a blank
sheet of paper (or use the dotted template below). They work in
small groups and take turns rolling a die to make a gingerbread man, including
his head, body, face 2 arms, 2 legs and at least 3 buttons. The first one to finish drawing
his gingerbread man is the winner!
Click here to
print a pre-drawn
dotted gingerbread man. This would be helpful for the students if they roll
a 3, 4, 5, or 6 before they've drawn the head or body. It gives them
a point of reference to draw their face, arms, legs and buttons.
Gingerbread Glyph
The children colored a gingerbread man
according to the directions given below:
Blue eyes: Girl
Green eyes: Boy
Red buttons: 5 years old
Orange buttons: 6 years old
Brown body: Likes cookies
Purple body: Does not like cookies
Then we drew conclusions and posted our
Gingerbread Glyph in the hall.
Measuring Perimeter
We used a variety of candies to measure
the perimeter of our gingerbread man. Next year I would use
smaller pictures so it's easier for the children to count and
record.
Measuring Gingerbread Area
First Bite Gingerbread Graph
Gingerbread Man Counting/Patterning
These stackable men were purchased
from Oriental Trading for counting activities.
Gingerbread Measurement (Non-standard
Units)
I
taped gingerbread cutouts together and the children found
something in the room that was the same length. This boy found that
the chart holder is 6 gingerbread men tall.
He discovered that the big book was 4 gingerbread men long.
She noticed that her nametag was two gingerbread men long.
Social
Studies
Gingerbread Family
The
children dipped various size cookie cutters into paint to make their
family members. When dry, they labeled them and wrote "I love my family"
under the gingerbread family.
Using a Classroom Map to Find the Gingerbread
Man
I
made a map of our classroom for each student, mainly using shapes of
objects in the room and a few places, such as desks, labeled.
Before the students came into the room, I hid foam gingerbread men
with each student's name written on it. As I hid each man, I put an
X on his/her map indicating the location of the gingerbread man with
his/her name on it. The students used their map to find their own
man. Most did this independently, but a few required some help. They
loved this activity.
We're searching for our Gingerbread Men.
Got him!
Making a School Map
After discussing the map of our
classroom, we talked about the features of our school--halls outside
the doors, classrooms and offices, steps at the end of the halls,
and the large spaces such as the gym and library.
We took paper, pencils and clipboards and
drew a map of each floor of our building.
This was one of the better ones. The hall
is in the center, the classrooms are numbered, and there are steps
at each end of the hall.
Next,
I made a map with arrows for the children to follow to find the
gingerbread man. I'd posted copies of the characters on the walls
and the students followed the map to locate these characters.
The Old Woman
The Fox
Finally, the Gingerbread man was found
outside this classroom.
Surprise! He left us a bag of gingerbread
cookies.
Science
In most of the books the gingerbread man
hops on to the fox's back to cross the river. When he gets his feet
wet, the gingerbread tells the fox that he's "melting". This student
put a gingerbread cookie into a cup of water to see if it would
really melt. The wet part of the cookie dissolved.
Art
Gingerbread Boy
Decorate a precut gingerbread boy.
Gingerbread Christmas Tree
Grocery bag gingerbread house:
Copycat Magazine, Nov/Dec 1995, pp. 4-9
The Gingerbread Man Book Study
This unit contains books, songs, poems, language/group activities,
math activities, learning centers, art activities, snacks, and
internet resources.
http://www.kinderhive.net/gingerbread.html
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