Preschool Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Theme Activities
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Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Theme Map
Do you need helping planning your Gingerbread & Sweet Treats theme? Use the suggested learning objectives and vocabulary ideas found on our Theme Map to help you plan your own Gingerbread Lessons.
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Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Arts & Crafts Ideas
You can add all kinds of Scents to your Dough and paint for some added festive fun. Try peppermint, Gingerbread Seasonings, and Cocoa Powder. Demonstrate how to make "Dough Candy Canes" by rolling coils out of Red and White Peppermint dough.
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Kathy M. of Just like Home Childcare & Playschool Inc. created this adorable build a Gingerbread man invitation using paper gingerbread men and an assortment of decorating items.
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Naomi G of Play Matters Preschool set out this invitation to decorate a Gingerbread Man using all kinds of fun Holiday baubles.
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Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning Center created an invitation to decorate gingerbread men from a foam sticker ornament set.
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Gingerbread scented puffy paint is a treat for the senses and fun to use!
Mix up your own with 1 cup of white glue, 1-2 cups shaving cream, brown coloring, and 1sp each ginger, cinnamon, & nutmeg. Be sure to paint on heavy paper like cardstock. |
Photo Credit: Building Blocks Family Child Care
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Candy Cane Marble Painting
Cut a candy cane shape from red construction paper then invite children to marble paint using white paint.
More Gingerbread & Sweet Treats Arts & Craft Ideas
Scented Marble Candy Cane Craft from Simple Fun for Kids
Gingerbread Puffy Paint recipe from Growing a Jeweled Rose
Peppermint play dough recipe and invitation from Funtastic Fun and Learning.
Gingerbread Puffy Paint recipe from Growing a Jeweled Rose
Peppermint play dough recipe and invitation from Funtastic Fun and Learning.
Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Dramatic Play Ideas
Bakery
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Encourage your kids to bake this week. Add cookie sheets, Mixing Bowls, Plastic Cookie Cutters, Aprons, Oven Mitts, and Seasonal Cook Books to your dramatic play space. You can cut out fun felt cookies, Laminate Paper Cookies, or encourage the kids to create their own baking creations.
Add fun signs for your little bakery from my Bakery Dramatic Play pack or my Santa's Workshop Dramatic Play pack. |
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Hot Chocolate Stand
Don't forget the Hot Chocolate! Add Plastic Mugs, and empty Hot Cocoa tins to your space this week (Don't forget to send a shout out to your clients to save them for your space), Cotton Balls make fun pretend "Marshmallows".
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The clever dramatic play space is belongs to community member Amy McMonagle with BuggaBee & Me Day Care and Preschool. Amy has it all ready for the Holiday Season.
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Gingerbread House
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If you are up for a DIY project, consider building a Gingerbread house for your dramatic play space This adorable one above was created by community member, Kristin M. of Apron Strings Daycare.
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Our friend Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning center made this Gingerbread playhouse complete with Frosting (spray foam).
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Encourage the kids to build their own Gingerbread Houses from blocks.
Add White Felt snow, Large Pom Poms and Gingerbread People
(Laminate Paper One's, or Purchase Plastic ones for the space) to the space.
Add White Felt snow, Large Pom Poms and Gingerbread People
(Laminate Paper One's, or Purchase Plastic ones for the space) to the space.
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Kathy M. scored this fabulous Gingerbread House at her local Goodwill!
What a fun find for the kiddos at Just Like Home Childcare and Playschool. |
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This Candy Construction Set from Learning Resources is one of my favorite building sets for Sweet Treats Week.
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Combine engineering skill development with cooking by constructing a gingerbread house with your preschoolers.
Subscriber Jesse F shared this photo of the gingerbread houses her group built. |
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Sweet Treat ENgineering
Challenge children to create the strongest structure made from sweet treats. Set up an open invitation with sweet treats of your choice. Encourage children to plan their creation before they start building.
Gingerbread & Sweet Treats Themed Language & Literacy Activity and Center Ideas along with book suggestions and read aloud activities
Sweet Treats Word Wall CardsAdd these word wall cards to your literacy center for writing inspiration or use in your gross motor activities from the Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Preschool Activity Pack.
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Children will love re-telling and acting out "The Gingerbread Man" story with this Gingerbread Man Storybook Theater Set from Pre-K Printable Fun.
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Gingerbread Man Story BasketCommunity Member Cassandra created this beautiful story re-telling basket. She combined the characters and scene making materials and placed it near a copy of the Gingerbread Man.
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Uppercase-Lowercase Letter MatchingPractice Matching Uppercase and Lowercase Letters with this Literacy Activity found inside the PKPF Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Preschool Activity Pack
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Santa's Cookies Sight WordsTry adding some play dough and letter stamps to this Santa's Cookies Sight Words set for added engagement.
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More Gingerbread & Sweet Treats Language & Literacy Activities
A fun peppermint sensory writing tray from Parenting Chaos
Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett
The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett and Jan Brett
If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond
Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes by James and Kimberly Dean
The Sweet Smell of Christmas by Patricia Scarry
The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett and Jan Brett
If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond
Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes by James and Kimberly Dean
The Sweet Smell of Christmas by Patricia Scarry
You can incorporate sweet treats in a variety of Educational math games this week.
Use Sweets to count or build patterns with. Gum Drops make a fun "Color Matching" activity.
Use Sweets to count or build patterns with. Gum Drops make a fun "Color Matching" activity.
Gingerbread Cookie Shape MatchingPractice shape discrimination skills with this fun gingerbread cookies and mat set from the Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Preschool Activity Pack
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Peppermint Candy Tic Tac Toe
Create a fun invitation to play tic tac toe using circle peppermint candies and candy canes for the playing pieces.
Sweet Treats PatterningInvite your preschooler to practice patterning skills with this patterning set from the Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Preschool Activity Pack
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Candy Cane Patterning
Combine fine motor, hand-eye coordination and patterning in this sweet activity.
Provide plain white chenille stems (or pipe cleaners), bend the top to resemble a candy cane.
Add red and white pony beads and invite children to create a pattern. For children that have mastered AB patterning encourage them to try ABB patterning or add in a new color for ABC patterning.
Provide plain white chenille stems (or pipe cleaners), bend the top to resemble a candy cane.
Add red and white pony beads and invite children to create a pattern. For children that have mastered AB patterning encourage them to try ABB patterning or add in a new color for ABC patterning.
Hot Chocolate & Candy Cane Color MatchingHere's a tasty twist on color matching, match up the candy canes to the same colored cup of hot chocolate included in the Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Preschool Activity Pack
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More Gingerbread & Sweet Treats Math Ideas:
This is a fun way to include Math in your Theme week. Check out this Candy Cane Stripe Counting activity from Preschool Inspirations.
Sweet Christmas Smells
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This Hot Chocolate Sensory Bin was created by community member Cheryl V. of Cherie's Learning Tree and is sure to provide a lot of fun on a Winters Day. Cheryl used the Chocolate Play Dough Recipe from Nurture Store!
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Explore sense of smell with some smelling jars. Try using spices such as cinnamon & ginger as well as other scents like orangs and peppermints. Challenge children to match up pictures of the sweet treats to the jars.
Bake some Sweet TreatsMix up some gingerbread cookie dough and bake some gingerbread cookies! Baking is a wonderful adventure for the senses and a fun math activity to boot!
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Gingerbread Sink or Float
Sweet Smell Potpourri
Set up a station with a variety of sweet and complimentary scented items such as cinnamon sticks, nutmeg, pine needles, and orange peels. Give each children a ziplock bag to fill with items of their choosing. Then help them poke holes in the bag.
More Gingerbread & Sweet Treats Themed Science & Discovery Ideas:
It's a great time to bake and decorate cookies with the kids!
Peppermint Water Science Activity from Little Bins for Little Hands
Hot Chocolate Goop from Raising Little Superheroes
Baking is Science! Bake and decorate cookies with the kids!
Check out this fabulous Gingerbread Cookie recipe and tips for decorating
them with kids from Playground Parkbench
Peppermint Water Science Activity from Little Bins for Little Hands
Hot Chocolate Goop from Raising Little Superheroes
Baking is Science! Bake and decorate cookies with the kids!
Check out this fabulous Gingerbread Cookie recipe and tips for decorating
them with kids from Playground Parkbench
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Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning Center created this fabulous play dough Gingerbread man invitation using cookie cutters, rolling pins, Cranberries, Ric Rac, Cinnamon Sticks, and Fresh Pine. You can find a great recipe for Gingerbread Play Dough from Housing a Forest.
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Shape Clip Cardshelp preschoolers strengthen little hands and work on hand-eye coordination with these peppermint shape clip cards.
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This Hot Chocolate Dough Invitation was created by Erica P of Erica's Educare Learning Center. You can find a great recipe for Chocolate Play Dough From Fireflies and Mudpies
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Pre-Writing and Cutting PracticeEnhance fine motor skills by practicing following lines from left to right with this page from the Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Preschool Activity Pack
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Play Dough Cookies
Add some scented play dough, rolling pins, and a variety of holiday cookie cutters to your play dough center for your preschoolers to make cookies and other sweet treats.
Burlap Sewing TreeSimple sewing skills are fantastic for fine motor development and are great for children to learn.
Check out this Burlap Sewing Tree, a fun addition to this theme. |
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More Gingerbread & Sweet Treats Themed Physical Development & Health Ideas
This adorable Gingerbread Men Number Hop Printable Activity was created by Toddler Approved
Gingerbread & Sweet Treats Themed History, Geography, Social-Emotional, and Cultural Ideas
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Engage in a fun Gingerbread Man tracking event like the one hosted by Pre-K Printable Fun. Subscribe to our newsletter to hear about the project launch each year.
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Cookie Taste Test
Host a taste test of cookies from other cultures!
Here is a list of the best tasting cookies from around the world for some inspiration.
Here is a list of the best tasting cookies from around the world for some inspiration.
Group PlayPractice turn taking skills by setting up this roll and build gingerbread house activity for your preschoolers, from the Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Preschool Activity Pack
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Sweet Circle Time RhymeBring this little circle time rhyme to your group time!
Included in the Winter Circle Time Rhymes pack. |
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Sweet Treats Calendar ThemeAdd some sweetness to your calendar activities with themed calendar numbers.
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