Gingerbread
Village
Make a book
about your village. Here are some page ideas:
Write about how you made your gingerbread house.
Draw a map of the village, as a class name the streets.
Measure with unifix cubes how far it is from each other's houses.
Use gum drops and candy canes to make lamp post, then graph the
color of the gum drops.
Graph how many of each candy is on the house.
Gingerbread Man
Buttons
Cut
out 10 large gingerbread men from brown construction paper and laminate
them for durability.
Each man is numbered 1-10. Children put the correct number of buttons on
each man.
Cookie Counting
Game
Trace
around a gingerbread kid cookie cutter on brown paper and cut out 15
shapes.
Number five paper plates from 1 to 5. To play, invite your children to
place a matching number of gingerbread kid "cookies" on each plate.
Favorite
Character Graph
Graph the
children's favorite character from the story.
Gingerbread
Counting
Beforehand, purchase a supply of candy shaped or gingerbread boy shaped
erasers.
Then make ten gingerbread house cutouts. Program each house with a
different number from
1 to 10. For younger children, also add a corresponding number of
dots to each house.
Place the houses and erasers at your math center, then invite each
child to place the correct number of erasers on each house.
Gingerbread
Shapes
Cut
out a supply of gingerbread man shapes and use the shapes as manipulatives
for counting.
