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Gingerbread Preschool Lesson Plans

By Jennifer Connett

This preschool gingerbread unit will give preschoolers a fun and engaging way to learn with gingerbread. These gingerbread preschool lesson plans contain a variety of activities that cover the alphabet, beginning sounds, preschool math skills, art, and so much more!

What is Included:

  • There is a lesson overview that lists the activities with the subject or skill area the activity falls in.
  • Art and Crafts Activities: There are instructions for creating a gingerbread house out of a paper bag, a decorating a gingerbread craft, as well as a dot painting activity.
  • Math Activities: Students will practice counting to 10, ordering by size, and identifying shapes.
  • Language Activities: The activities in this section include sorting capital and lowercase letters, a gingerbread journal page, and a beginning sounds activity. There is also a set of story sequency cards to be used with a gingerbread man story.
  • Handwriting Activities: There are tracing lines activities as well as worksheets for practicing the correct letter formation of both the capital and lowercase letters.
  • Fine Motor Activities: The activities in this section include playdough mats for decorating a gingerbread man. There are also activities for building gingerbread themed items with counting cubes.
  • Games and Indoor Recess Ideas: There are two gingerbread game ideas for students to play indoors. Students are also able to play a pocket chart game that practices letter recognition.
  • Snacks and Cooking Ideas: This section includes two gingerbread snack ideas.
  • Sensory Bin Activities: This section a sensory bin idea for students to decorate a gingerbread man.
  • Science Activities: Students will be able to label a gingerbread man, as well as complete a sequencing activity on how to make gingerbread cookies.
  • Social Emotional Activities: Students will have access to gingerbread emotion cards and a blank gingerbread template to use playdough to create a feelings face on the gingerbread man to match their card.
  • Dramatic Play: This section includes ideas on how to set up your dramatic play area with a gingerbread house as well as some art templates for students to create the candy decorations for the gingerbread house.
  • Circle Time Posters: This section includes posters to use during circle time that focus on the letter counting, relevant colors, and shapes.
  • The final page includes suggestions for more activities if you need more on a particular skill or subject.

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This gingerbread themed preschool unit is designed to be used during a Christmas or winter themed week. This packet serves as a review packet for previously learned letters and sounds, as well as colors, shapes and numbers to 10.

There is a mixture of no prep and low prep activities on a variety of skills and subjects. This allows teachers to be flexible and use only the activities that the teacher desires to complete. The activities in this packet can be completed in any order.

Phonics
Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa
Numbers
$10.00