Fun Gingerbread Man Activities for Kindergarten

 It’s barely December, but I was just so darn excited about my gingerbread activities that I couldn’t wait any longer to teach it!!

We started our instruction by reading the story The Gingerbread Family {aaaand it’s scratch and sniff!}

Then I projected a gingerbread man onto the screen and we discussed what a gingerbread man was made out of.

We talked about how a gingerbread man is the same and different from a
real person and I totally wished I had a venn diagram to fill out!! I
made one as soon as school was over! Looks like we’ll be doing that
tomorrow!

Then each kid got a chance to label and color their own gingerbread man.

I thought it would be fun for them to practice labeling the parts of a gingerbread man so I made another copy of the gingerbread man, with a word bank, and laminated it so my kiddos can write on it during independent centers. I also made several copies of different gingerbread men for my students to practice drawing in the art center. I can’t wait to see how cute they all turn out!

Then, during math, we created our gingerbread families! My students were pros at this since we did our turkey family already 😉 Again, we drew the same number of gingerbread people as people in our family. We used the labeling page as a guide to help us draw each gingerbread person. Then we used our counting skills to fill in the blanks at the bottom.

I’m thinking I will mount the labeled gingerbread man and the gingerbread family back to back and hang them in our classroom.

You can grab a copy of the gingerbread activities for FREE in my TpT store. It includes a:

• Labeled gingerbread man in color and black and white
• Gingerbread man drawing page
• Gingerbread man family
• Comparing a gingerbread man and a kid