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The
Gingerbread Man
Run, run, as
fast as you can.
You can't
catch me,
I'm the
Gingerbread Man!
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Take-Home Project:
Send a gingerbread man shape home copied onto brown construction
paper or cardstock. Encourage the students and their families
to creatively decorate and return their gingerbread men.
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Paperbag Gingerbread Man:
Trace large cutout of gingerbread man on unopened brown paper
bag. Cut through both thicknesses. Staple around
outside, leaving one side of leg open. Hole punch around the
outside for students to lace with yarn. Decorate.
Stuff bag slightly with tissue paper and close opening.
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Decorate a Gingerbread Man:
This is a good activity for a Center. Give each student a
large gingerbread man that's been copied onto brown construction
paper. Have them cut it out and decorate it. Provide
wiggly eyes, buttons, beads, rick rack, ribbon, etc. I'd try
to stay away from food items unless it's dry cereal because if it
contains oil, it will soak into the paper. :(~ I always
provide a model for my students to look at if they choose.
Most of my kids have visual perception difficulties and it helps
them to see "the whole picture" before they begin because they have
problems planning inside their head what the finished product should
look like. Of course, some students want theirs to look like
mine while others will create theirs with a totally different look.
Depends on the personality of the child.
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Decorate A Gingerbread Man
Cookie: Because I'm not such a hot cookie maker (the
cut-out cookies can either look good or taste good, but rarely both)
I let my students decorate Little Debbie's gingerbread men cookies.
The cookies are yummy and come individually wrapped. We just
remove them from the package and use icing and candies to decorate
them. Then the best part is getting to eat them! Mmmmm....!!!!!
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Life Size Gingerbread Men:
Have each student lay on a sheet of brown bulletin board paper.
Trace around the student's body rounding off the arms and legs to
resemble a gingerbread man shape. Have students cut out and
decorate their gingerbread man. If you're very
industrious, you can cut out two gingerbread men shape patterns for
each student. Have them decorate one as the front and one as the
back of the gingerbread man. Then staple or glue around the
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Ornaments: I've seen
different variations of this idea in craft magazines. I even
added my own spin to it as well. We started by tracing lids
from Pringles cans onto brown construction paper. Then we cut
it out. It wasn't easy making the tiny rick-rack go into a
circle, so we had to help the children get this glued on.
Afterwards I decided it would be a lot easier for them to use a
white paint pen to make the "rickrack effect". Then the
children glued on the eyes, a button nose of their choice, and black
yarn for a mouth. When it was all dry, I went back and added
the highlight to the nose with a white paint pen and hotglued the
bow in the appropriate place; boy's on the bottom, girl's on the
top. When that was dry, I added a loop of ribbon to the boy's
ornaments, and a loop of plastic red cording to the girl's ornaments
to use for hanging.
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Another Ornament: You
might not be able to tell from the picture, but this ornament was
made from some copper type material that we ran across. I
believe it's really supposed to be used in construction of
buildings. It's very soft, so we cut it using the Ellison
machine, then decorated it with beads and colored glue. (This
one has lost a couple of it's beads over the years)
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Gingerbread Man Ornament:
This ornament we created the last time we did our Gingerbread Unit.
The cookies are gingersnaps, the eyes are raisins, and the nose and
buttons are red hots. We painted posterboard brown, then used
homemade red construction paper rickrack to decorate it. (I'd
probably forgotten to get the rickrack!:) )
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Gingerbread Man Ornament:
This is a very cute Gingerbread Man ornament that my favorite Media
Center Specialist found at a craft sale. However, it could
easily be adapted to be used with construction paper and/or
wallpaper samples, as well as felt and fabric as you see here.
It wouldn't necessarily have to be sewn together, but could be glued
together just as well. His eyes are made from sequins.
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11.13.03
last updated
11.29.08
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