Gingerbread Week in Kindergarten - Activities & Ideas

Hi Everyone! This time of year is so much fun ~ also very busy!Here are some ideas we have done in our kindergarten class and some freebies too! Hopefully we can make this hectic month a little easier for you and engaging for your students.

I know we all love reading the gingerbread books! The kinders enjoy listening to all the different versions of the stories ~ every year there seems to be a new one to add to the list.

Here are some of the books we read...

 

We added a gingerbread house (thanks to my husband for building this) boys and girls take turns reading inside. It took my husband and I about 2 hours to put this together but it was so worth it! The students behavior was so improved in hopes to get a chance to read inside - only about 2-3 students could fit in it at a time but they all got a chance.

Special Guests: We invite our school librarian every year to come in and read one of the Gingerbread books. We found a gingerbread outfit on Oriental Trading and would take it out every December. She loved coming in and the students loved having our someone new to read to them. Even if you do not have a costume, it's always fun to have a special guest come in and read!

Our class loves rebus stories and one of their favorite is "My Gingerbread Friends" ! You can find these here.

Their absolute favorite game we play at small group time is 

"I Have, Who Has"

The Gingerbread game I Have, Who Has Is a freebie you can get here.

It's always fun to have a pocket chart up, to get your students up and moving.

The students absolutely loved this STEM activity. We put together containers of supplies (popsicle sticks, cubes, legos, cards, planks, anything they can build with) for about 3 students to work together. We cut green and blue construction paper for the land and water. (I happened to find little gingerbread dolls at Target.  They made bridges so the gingerbread man can cross the river so he won't get eaten up by the fox. The assignment was to see how many different bridges they could make and we graphed the results.

If you have followed 2 Scoops of Kindergarten you know we love to integrate technology along with hands-on activities. Here are some Gingerbread tech - math and literacy! We have Google Slides, Seesaw, PowerPoint™ and Boom™ cards for you! Click on the picture to go directly to the resource.

Google or Boom

We have put together Gingerbread Math coloring, math worksheets and a digital resource for you! You will receive this packet along with many more that I share with our newsletter community!

Hopefully we gave you some new ideas or activities to make life easier in this very busy month! Take care and come back and visit us at

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