I made some gingerbread play dough today, which smelt delicious. The children were keen to make gingerbread men, rolling out the dough and cutting out the shapes. They used pencils to make faces and added buttons.
This is an ‘elephant that has eaten a gingerbread man’ I love this! Such brilliant imagination.
We ended up with a little production line, with many gingerbread men being made.
We added a cash register, money and purses. The used their fine motor skills to undo the fastenings on the different purses – zips, clasps, poppers and took it in turns to buy and sell their gingerbread men. We counted buttons, talked about money and placed orders. ‘Can I have a gingerbread mummy with 2 buttons please?’
After snack, we read the story of the ‘Gingerbread Man.’
We then baked real gingerbread men that could be taken home to eat.
mud & sprinkles 