Preschool Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Theme Activities

Below you can find a ton of fun and engaging Preschool gingerbread and sweet treat activities!
Use the ideas on this page to plan your 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.

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.

Naomi G of Play Matters Preschool set out this invitation to decorate a Gingerbread Man using all kinds of fun Holiday baubles.

Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning Center created an invitation to decorate gingerbread men from a foam sticker ornament set.

Inspire the senses! For an added treat consider this peppermint play dough recipe and invitation from Funtastic Fun and Learning.

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.

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

More Arts & Crafts Ideas

Scented Marble Candy Cane Craft from Simple Fun for Kids
Gingerbread Puffy Paint recipe from Growing a Jeweled Rose

Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Dramatic Play Ideas

Bakery

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.

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.

Gingerbread House

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.

Our friend Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning center made this Gingerbread playhouse complete with Frosting (spray foam).

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".

Warm up with this Hot Chocolate Stand from Pre-K Printable fun.
Take a closer look inside this Dramatic play pack here.

Children will love re-telling and acting out "The Gingerbread Man" story with this Gingerbread Man Storybook Theater Set from Pre-K Printable Fun.

Community 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.

Practice Matching Uppercase and Lowercase Letters with this Literacy Activity found inside the PKPF Sweet Treats Activity Pack

More Language & Literacy Activities

Combine your favorite gingerbread man book with this Gingerbread Puppet Set.

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

View our Gingerbread and Sweet Treats Books

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!

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

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.

More Math Activities

This is a fun way to include Math in your Theme week. Check out this Candy Cane Stripe Counting activity from Preschool Inspirations.

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.