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Gingerbread Pals
This 48 page lesson is a great companion for the classic story The Gingerbread Man. It is filled with ideas that are sure to spark the interest of all children in your classroom. This lesson covers all learning domains for preschool children. Including: Story Extension, Math Games, Science Activities, Creative Art Project, Language and Literacy Activities and Movement Ideas.  *Read the book Gingerbread Boy. Have some puppets (cow, horse, fox, boy and girl) ready
and act out the story as you read. Visuals help to bring the story alive for the children.
*Have the children retell the story with a pocket chart. Have
the charters separate from the sentence strips so the children are able to move the text around and retell it again.
This will help to develop oral language and conversation skills. “I’ve
run away from the ________. “You can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread
Man.”
This lesson comes with a 10 page early reader. You can make it into a big book for shared reading at group time. Enlarge pages to 150% on a copy machine and copy onto large white construction paper. Water color or color with markers, laminate and bind into a big book. Watch the children in your class retell the holiday version of the Gingerbread Man who ran past Santa and all his helpers.
*Have a cookie tasting. Have different kinds of cookies to taste but
make sure that you include Ginger Snaps or some other kind of gingerbread cookie. Graph your results. *Do the rhyme, Who took the Gingerbread Man from the Pan?
Who took the Gingerbread Man from the Pan? Who
Me? Couldn’t be
Then who took the Gingerbread Man from the Pan? (Let
child pick another child in the group, giving the name.)
*Shopping SoundsWrite the letter Cc and Gg on the out side of a large paper grocery bag. Place different empty clean food items that start with the letter G and C into the shopping bag. As you pull out the item have the children identify the product. *Do
the nursery rhyme Bakers Man. Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can Roll it and pat it and mark it with B
And put it in the oven for Baby and me. *Make
Gingerbread Cookies; let the children help with adding the ingredients and mixing. Then let them roll
out their own dough and cut. Bake. *Cookie
Sheet Sorting, get metal cookie sheets and different shapes of cookie cutters. Cut out of paper the
cookie cuter shapes and tape to the cookie sheets. Place the cookie cutters in a basket and let the children
match the cookie cutter to the cut out on the cookie sheet.  *Gingerbread people craft; get out different colors of brown paper, yarn, lace scraps, buttons,
glitter, felt scraps, fabric scraps, markers, glue, and scissors. Let the children create their own gingerbread
person. Remember do not pre-cute or pre-draw on the brown paper let them do it themselves so that it is
their project and not the teacher’s project. *Washing
Kitchen Tools Get out dish pans and place different measuring tools in the pans with soapy water. Let
the children experiment with measuring.
*Tub
of Fun, get dish pans and put oat meal, flour and cinnamon in them. Add sifters, measuring
cups, measuring spoons, bowls and wooden spoons. The children will see how the flour will go through the
sifter but the oat meal will not. Dictate what the children are saying about their experience.
When activity is over add to your sand and water table for the children to use during free choice time.
*Sound
Mats Children sort objects by sound onto letter mats. Child picks up an object from the object
tray and identifies the object and the beginning sound. Child then places that object onto the right letter mat.
For this letter sound mat activity use the picture cards from the back of the lesson.
*Counting on Cookies Reinforce one-to-one correspondence skills. Get a supply of small metal cookie sheet and use masking tape to divide cookie sheet into six sections. Set out a supply of plastic cookies and have children place one cookie per section. Once they have filled the tray have the children count the cookies. You could also use brown play dough.
Movement, Games and Activities: Gingerbread boy/girl Tag Name of child, _________, _________
Name of child Run, Run, Run as fast as you can You
can’t catch me Because I’m the _________ boy/girl.
Name of child Sand
and Water Table: Add flour, cinnamon, wooden spoons,
bowls, measuring cups, measuring spoons and cookie cutters.
Gingerbread Pal
A theme lesson plan from Kids World Exploration
48 page lesson plan for $5.75
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