The Gingerbread Man I like to start the month of December with a unit on the story of the gingerbread man

The Gingerbread Man

I like to start the month of December with a unit on the story of the gingerbread man. It is a good non-holiday story that blends easily into Christmas festivities. Every year I seem to have a student who requests that we sing the song about "gingerman", so I have come to think of this fondly as the gingerman unit.

We use interactive writing to write letters to the gingerbread man and the fox.

I made bingo boards for the numbers 1 - 20. We use gingerbread man erasers to cover the spaces.

We read different versions of the story and graph the favorite by putting dots on the doors and windows of a big gingerbread house.


I read the book called The Gingerbread Christmas and we watch the video. These dolls go with the story.


These corkboard houses are decorated with puffy paint, sequins, a picture in the window, and a gingerbread man eraser in the door. A magnet goes on the back.

At the end of the unit I bake giant gingerbread cookies and little ones for each child. When it is time to eat them they have run away ( with a little help from another adult.) We chase them around the school and when we return there is a treat waiting for us. Each child gets a small bag decorated with gingerbread men with cookies and candy kisses in it. I was lucky enough to find darling placemats and I have laminated them so they will last me until retirement!

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