Gingerbread Activities For Preschool to Make Learning Fun
Are you looking for fun activities for the holiday season? These hands-on gingerbread activities for preschool are perfect for fine motor, literacy, and math, and circle time learning for the month of December.
Gingerbread is a great preschool theme to use during the Christmas season. It has a Christmas feel without being overtly about Christmas. Personally, I love gingerbread cookies and think they should be celebrated all year.
Do you agree?
Let’s take a look at my favorite gingerbread activities for preschool kids….perfect for your gingerbread unit and lesson plans.
Gingerbread Math Activities
Are you looking for a fun way to add a seasonal twist to your match center during gingerbread week? Try out these cute activities.
Gingerbread Number Mats
You can use these gingerbread number mats with your little learners in so many ways.
- Kids can make balls of playdough to place on the gingerbread man’s buttons and on the ten frame.
- They can use a roll of playdough to form the numeral, or they can use their fingers or a dry erase marker to trace it.
- If you don’t want to use playdough you can also use pom-poms, mini-erasers, buttons, pieces of candy, etc.
Gingerbread Ten Frame Activities
Ten- frames can be used in so many fun ways for independent learning and small group activities. My favorite way to use them is by playing a fill-the-frame counting and number game.
Two players take turns using the spinner and race to see who can fill all the little gingerbread houses with gingerbread men. I love a good race! If you have some gingerbread mini erasers, you can certainly swap them out for the printable counters.
Use the small number cards with a gingerbread playdough tray or you can create a matching activity. Kids can match the number card to a ten-frame card. Then, they can make the number on a large ten-frame.
Color and Size Sorting
My favorite activity in the gingerbread activity bundle is the gingerbread color and size sorting set. Kids enjoy sorting the little gingerbread people by color. There are gingerbread moms, dads, boys, and girls in three different sizes and ten different colors.
It’s so much fun to help the little ginger families find their correct home.
The set also includes small, medium, and large sorting mats so that your kids can sort them by size. It’s like a gingerbread party!
Gingerbread Playdough Activities
Gingerbread Man Invitation To Play
Mix up a batch of gingerbread play dough and assemble a gingerbread playdough tray with candy canes, pom poms, a rolling pin, and cookie cutters for open-ended sensory play.
Gingerbread Playdough Mats
Like all of the activities in the bundle, the gingerbread playdough mats can be used in many different ways.
Combine them with number cards and buttons or playdough so that kids can practice counting. Place in the bottom of a salt tray to practice writing letters on the gingerbread man’s belly.
How would you use them?
Gingerbread Books
There are many wonderful gingerbread books to use during your circle time. It’s fun to compare and contrast the classic story of the gingerbread man to many fun and different versions of the gingerbread man story. Check out this blog post about the best gingerbread books for preschool post to find some great book suggestions.
What’s your favorite gingerbread book? Did I include it in the list?
Gingerbread Craft Activities
These printable fine motor crafts provide a motivating way to help kids practice cutting, using a hole punch, and tracing lines.
Gingerbread Fine Motor Activities
Looking for ways to boost fine motor skills? Here are some fun activities for your kids.
Gingerbread Hole Punch Task Cards
These little task cards are a great way to give those little hands a workout. The border of each card has circles that kids can punch out with a hole puncher. They also help kids develop pencil grip as they trace the dotted lines. Finally, each gingerbread task card is a mini coloring page.
Gingerbread Puzzles
These cutting & pasting puzzles provide a great way for kids to practice cutting on lines. If your kids aren’t quite ready for cutting yet, you can print and cut out the puzzles and use them like traditional puzzles.
Gingerbread Literacy Activities
Here are some gingerbread man activities you can use in your literacy centers.
Gingerbread Name Activities
This adorable gingerbread man coloring page can be easily customized with your kids’ names. In addition to learning to recognize the letters in their names, your kids can color the page and get some hole punching practice.
You can customize the coloring pages with sight words or seasonal words like Merry Bright, Joy, etc.
Gingerbread Letter and Beginning Sound Activities
I showed you many ways to use the gingerbread alphabet cards in a previous post. For an added challenge, kids can use the beginning sound cards that are included in the bundle.
- Kids can look for the beginning letter of each word on the cards.
- They can listen to the sound as they say the word.
- Then they can help the little gingerbread boy or girl find the correct letter house.
For kids who are ready for more of a challenge, use the beginning sound cards without the words. They will have to identify the sound and letter by listening as they say each word.
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