Gingerbread Man Storytime

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Craft:

Paper Gingerbread Man:

Cut a gingerbread man out of brown construction paper. Decorate with cotton balls, buttons, woogly eyes

or, decorate your own "Gingerbread Baby" - see Jan Brett's web page.

Idea found here:

String of Paper Gingerbread Men and Women

Template for gingerbread girl

Coloring pages and Gingerbread recipe can be found at: www.janbrett.com

Books:

The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett (1999)

The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth (1998)

The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone

Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett

The Gingerbread Man by Eric Kimmel 

Fingerplays and Rhymes:

Five little gingerbread boys/girls all in a row,

Each with frosting and a big red bow.

You can't catch me! one did say

And that little gingerbread boy/girl ran away!

Four little....

Three little....

Two little....

One little gingerbread boy/girl ready to go says:

Run, run as fast as you can!

You can't catch me! I'm the gingerbread man!

Bye, bye!

(Idea: choose five children to act out this rhyme as you say it. Repeat until all the children have had a chance.)

Gingerbread

Stir a bowl of gingerbread (make stirring motion)

Smooth and spicy brown.

Roll it with a rolling pin

Up and up and down.

With a cookie cutter

Make some little men,

Put them in the oven

Until half past ten.