Gingerbread Man Maps Writing Center, gingerbread man writing paper.

• Blank paper
• Writing supplies (crayons, markers, colored pencils)
• Gingerbread Man (made from paper)
• Brown construction paper
• glue sticks
• shape templates
• chart paper
• books about maps (An atlas and Me On The Map, by Joan Sweeney, are two good choices.)

This gingerbread-themed writing center helps young students learn and grow through making maps.

Inspired by the main character in the familiar story, The Gingerbread Man, students will create a map to help the Gingerbread Man find his way to a destination.

Gather the children and orally retell the story of the The Gingerbread Man. Invite the children to make a map to help the Gingerbread Man get somewhere. Show them a few different ways they could draw a map on chart paper.

Writing Center Skills

These are the supplies you will need for the map writing center.

After center time, invite the children to share their maps with the class.

You may also want to show the kids an atlas or the book Me On The Map by Joan Sweeney.

We did not think it was fair that the fox was the only character from the story who got to eat a gingerbread man. We made a name label for all of the others, so that they could eat a gingerbread man too!

1. You will need: A table to record the results like the one in the photo above.
2. Record everyone in your household’s results.
3. Ask your family – we asked grandparents and aunts and uncles and record their results.
4. Count up the ticks and discuss which was the most popular body part and which was the least popular.

All of the characters have eaten their gingerbread man and they have used adjectives (describing words) to explain how tasty it was.

One you have read or watched the story it’s time to act it out, concentrating on the language patterns of the story.

Writing: Character Labels

This science experiment involves using observational skills, problem solving and predicting what they think might happen.

To help the gingerbread man cross the river, you can build a bridge for him so that he doesn’t have to use the fox.

1. You will need: Something to represent the river and a fox.
2. Place the river and fox on the ground.
3. Your child can use their jumping superpower and jump from one side of the river to the other!

1. You will need: Materials to build a bridge. We used: card, tape, lollipop sticks and Duplo.
2. To start off with, we used the card and lollipop sticks and made a bridge which fell down because the lollipop sticks were too heavy. We discussed that the card wasn’t strong enough and thought that Duplo would be stronger.
3. Make a new bridge using the Duplo and test to see if it will hold the gingerbread man.
4. We also made so steps so that the gingerbread man could get to the bridge.

Here’s an activity that you can try called, Gingerbread Man Gross Motor Activity. It combines the simple idea of gross motor skills and literacy skills.

Need a low prep Gingerbread Man Cutting activity to work on bilateral hand skills and eye hand coordination along with scissor grasp? Try this fun idea! Maybe cardboard is too difficult for your kiddos to cut, so simply change to paper or even sandpaper for a fun approach.

Try Gingerbread Passing to work on core strength, coordination, motor planning, and social skills. It’s a great team work activity or it can be simplified to have one child work on passing a gingerbread man from one place to another.

Crafts can work on scissor cutting, drawing, coloring, tool grasp, glue management, direction following, and sequencing. Now, let’s craft some gingerbread goodies.

Gingerbread Man Gross Motor

Provide a fun gingerbread man lacing craft that automatically incorporates fine motor precision, pincer grasp, motor planning, eye-hand coordination and bilateral hand use.

Do you have a child working on spoon use? Try this fun Feed the Gingerbread Man printable to set up a low prep scoop and pour activity or use tongs to feed the gingerbread man.

Maybe using scissors is not the skill level of your child so try a Gingerbread Pom-Pom Match activity and use tongs as a pre-scissor skill.

This post started with a list and now it’s ending with a list! There are always children who need the sensory input or need to work on sensory tolerance provided by multiple sensory-related activities. Take a look at the list below and click on each item to read the details of how to create these varied sensory goodies all within the gingerbread theme!

One you have read or watched the story it’s time to act it out, concentrating on the language patterns of the story.

This week we have been reading The Gingerbread Man. It has repetitive language which your child will be able to join in with. Below you will find some sensory, science, writing, maths, gross motor skills and science, engineering and maths activities. We have a lot of fun with these activities and we hope you do too!

We did not think it was fair that the fox was the only character from the story who got to eat a gingerbread man. We made a name label for all of the others, so that they could eat a gingerbread man too!

To help the gingerbread man cross the river, you can build a bridge for him so that he doesn’t have to use the fox.

Reading: The Gingerbread Man

1. You will need: 2 trays, oven, leaves or grass the characters in the story – the man, woman, boy, cow, horse, gingerbread man and fox. Make a path for them to walk along – we used brown sugar, cornflakes and stones. You could use mud or paper. For the river we used blue card and tore up some foil.
2. Together recite the story using the characters.
3. Encourage your child to join in with the “Run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!”

1. You will need: Materials to build a bridge. We used: card, tape, lollipop sticks and Duplo.
2. To start off with, we used the card and lollipop sticks and made a bridge which fell down because the lollipop sticks were too heavy. We discussed that the card wasn’t strong enough and thought that Duplo would be stronger.
3. Make a new bridge using the Duplo and test to see if it will hold the gingerbread man.
4. We also made so steps so that the gingerbread man could get to the bridge.

1. You will need: The book characters, pieces of paper and a gingerbread man.
2. The old man said that the gingerbread man tasted ‘tasty’. Ask your child to bite their gingerbread man. What does it taste like?
3. Your child might come up with yummy or delicious and might need help with the other words.
4. Write the words on the pieces of paper and read them with your child.

It is fun to make the gingerbread houses stand up while using the activity. In my supply closet, I found some paper towel rolls, and it turns out that they worked perfectly. After cutting the rolls into small segments, I taped the gingerbread houses to the roll segments.

Kids can try to guess where the item is hiding by naming the letter on the front of the house. To make the activity a little bit more challenging, you can also ask them to make the sound that is associated with that letter.

Want to get a copy of the activity for your kids? All you have to do is stop by my store by clicking the link below to download the free activity.

To help kids work on letter identification, I like to set up 3-5 houses at a time and hide something behind one of the houses when they aren’t looking. I used a small little gift ornament, but you can really use any small item (a gumdrop, peppermint, little candy cane, eraser, etc.)

Where is the Gift? – Gingerbread Man Letter Identification Activity

This activity is a perfect addition to your Christmas or gingerbread theme preschool or pre-k. After printing the activity, I like to laminate the cards for durability. The set includes uppercase and lowercase gingerbread boys and girls. You can match uppercase to uppercase or you can match uppercase letters to lowercase letters.

Want more of a challenge? You can also ask kids to tell you a word that begins with that letter. If you hide a little gift like me, you can pretend that something that starts with the featured letter is inside the package. For example, when I hid the gift behind the letter D house, we decided that a dinosaur was inside the package.

Another fun way to play with the gingerbread alphabet activity is to pretend that the little gingerbread people are lost and have to walk around searching for their homes. I pretend that the little gingerbread girl knocks on the door and the only way that the door will open is if she says the correct sound for that letter. She then goes inside the house to go to sleep.

It is fun to make the gingerbread houses stand up while using the activity. In my supply closet, I found some paper towel rolls, and it turns out that they worked perfectly. After cutting the rolls into small segments, I taped the gingerbread houses to the roll segments.

Kids can try to guess where the item is hiding by naming the letter on the front of the house. To make the activity a little bit more challenging, you can also ask them to make the sound that is associated with that letter.

Want to get a copy of the activity for your kids? All you have to do is stop by my store by clicking the link below to download the free activity.

To help kids work on letter identification, I like to set up 3-5 houses at a time and hide something behind one of the houses when they aren’t looking. I used a small little gift ornament, but you can really use any small item (a gumdrop, peppermint, little candy cane, eraser, etc.)

Where is the Gift? – Gingerbread Man Letter Identification Activity

This activity is a perfect addition to your Christmas or gingerbread theme preschool or pre-k. After printing the activity, I like to laminate the cards for durability. The set includes uppercase and lowercase gingerbread boys and girls. You can match uppercase to uppercase or you can match uppercase letters to lowercase letters.

Want more of a challenge? You can also ask kids to tell you a word that begins with that letter. If you hide a little gift like me, you can pretend that something that starts with the featured letter is inside the package. For example, when I hid the gift behind the letter D house, we decided that a dinosaur was inside the package.

Another fun way to play with the gingerbread alphabet activity is to pretend that the little gingerbread people are lost and have to walk around searching for their homes. I pretend that the little gingerbread girl knocks on the door and the only way that the door will open is if she says the correct sound for that letter. She then goes inside the house to go to sleep.