What is the Gingerbread Man Sightings Project?
This Gingerbread Man Sightings Project, is a fun parent and family engagement activity!
This project is sure to bring excitement to your program each year that you facilitate it!
It's fun for educators, their students, and their families to participate in!
While engaging in this project there are plenty of opportunities for learning, including social studies, science, literacy, team building, math and much more!
This project is intended to last for a week, but it can be longer if you choose).
Find some additional information about the materials you'll need, and details to set up this project below!
This project is sure to bring excitement to your program each year that you facilitate it!
It's fun for educators, their students, and their families to participate in!
While engaging in this project there are plenty of opportunities for learning, including social studies, science, literacy, team building, math and much more!
This project is intended to last for a week, but it can be longer if you choose).
Find some additional information about the materials you'll need, and details to set up this project below!
Project Scope & Suggested Pacing
An important component of any Early Childhood Education Program is Parent Engagement. There are many ways you can creative engage parents in your program. One way you can do this is with a Parent/Family involvement Activity like this letter exchange!
Below you can find additional details about this project, as well as our suggested pacing!
Below you can find additional details about this project, as well as our suggested pacing!
Day 1: After reading your own beloved version of this classic story, your class/student will make their own gingerbread cookies! They can create real, or pretend cookies.
After the cookies have been lovingly placed in the oven,
they "run away" - while they are in the baking process!
Days: 2&3: The cookies go on adventures all around your city/state- sometimes they even travel to other states. and countries. When, there is a "Sighting" of your Gingerbread Men by friends and family, they send a letter, postcard, video, or email letting you know "Where" they have been seen and "What" they were doing!
Each time you receive a letter, your student/class can track it on a map!
While they are waiting for their cookies to return, your students can participate in a variety of Gingerbread Themed learning activities and fun!
Day 4: Don't worry, the cookies will return with our last special step of this project! After reading The Gingerbread Baby, *Spoiler* In this story the young baker decides to build a gingerbread house to lure his cookie home,
your group will be doing the same!
Day 5: Your cookies return to their new Gingerbread homes overnight and you close out your unit!
After the cookies have been lovingly placed in the oven,
they "run away" - while they are in the baking process!
Days: 2&3: The cookies go on adventures all around your city/state- sometimes they even travel to other states. and countries. When, there is a "Sighting" of your Gingerbread Men by friends and family, they send a letter, postcard, video, or email letting you know "Where" they have been seen and "What" they were doing!
Each time you receive a letter, your student/class can track it on a map!
While they are waiting for their cookies to return, your students can participate in a variety of Gingerbread Themed learning activities and fun!
Day 4: Don't worry, the cookies will return with our last special step of this project! After reading The Gingerbread Baby, *Spoiler* In this story the young baker decides to build a gingerbread house to lure his cookie home,
your group will be doing the same!
Day 5: Your cookies return to their new Gingerbread homes overnight and you close out your unit!
I facilitated this project for many years in my own childcare program, and have coordinated a special events for Pre-K Printables Club Members in years past, and it's always been a blast!
Please be sure to check out the rest of this page for tips and details about each step. You can see samples of other fun learning invitations our members have set up during past projects, and download a free copy of our Gingerbread Man Sightings Engagement Pack. Sheena Pre-K Printable Fun Site Manager |