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Gingerbread Activity and Craft Perfect for Classroom Holiday Parties

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Inside: Use this fun and free glyph gingerbread activity to have fun during December or at holiday winter parties.


I did it. I said yes to organizing and hosting my daughter’s elementary school’s winter parties again. At her school, every class gets the same party for grades K-2 and for 3-5. 

And because our public school has a very diverse student population (yay!), we are extra careful to host Winter Holiday Parties, not Christmas Parties. 

So if you’re in the same boat as me, you’re looking for fun winter activities that are perfect for classroom parties that have nothing to do with religion or any one specific holiday. 

The last time I did this, we focused on snowmen and used this Snowman Glyph Activity and fun snowmen games like these 16 of the Best Winter Holiday Party Activities. 

This year, we’re making the parties a little more delicious and bringing in some gingerbread cookies! 

Whether you’re hosting a scout party or a classroom party or just want to do this for your students or your kids, you will love this new gingerbread activity. 

It’s not quite as good as eating gingerbread cookies, but it’s close! 

Use this fun and free glyph gingerbread activity to have fun during December or at holiday winter parties

Fun and Kind Winter Activities Perfect for Classrooms

Countdown to Winter Break and spread kindness simultaneously with this Countdown to Winter Break Paper Chain. Each day you’ll rip off an activity and do that act of kindness. And you’ll be one day closer to break! 

Use this countdown paper chain in December as a kindness winter break countdown

We challenge kids to be kind all winter long with this Winter Kindness Challenge and we use these Snow Kind Note Cards.

This winter kind kids challenge will help kids be kinder to those around them. This is perfect for December kindness activities for kids. #kindnessactivities #kindnessactivitiesforkids #kindkids #kindnessmatters #kindnesschallenge #kindnesschallengeforkids #winteractivitiesforkids

And we love these Kind or Unkind Winter Sorts that are perfect as games or as centers: 

Hot Cocoa Kind or Unkind Sort

Use this kindness hot cocoa activity to help teach sel curriculum and character education....they're perfect for a winter themed center activity.

Snowman Kind or Unkind Sort

Use this kindness snowmen activity to teach sel curriculum and character education as a fun winter-themed center.

Mittens Kind or Unkind Sort 

This kindness mittens activity helps kids sort kind and unkind behavior as a character education winter themed centers activity.

Gingerbread Kind or Unkind Sort

Use this gingerbread man kind or unkind sort game to help determine what is kindness and what isn't.

We also love this Snowman Activity and Glyph chart!

Related: 16 of the BEST Gingerbread Printables and Activities

And we use this Gingerbread Glyph which is perfect for winter parties. 

How to Use this Glyph Gingerbread Activity:

1. Download and print each child a copy of the white gingerbread template print on paper or cardstock. (Download it below)

Use this fun and free glyph gingerbread activity to have fun during December or at holiday winter parties

2. Tell the kids a glyph chart is a follow directions and listening activity so they will decorate their gingerbread with a set of “rules” that answer questions about them.

Use this fun and free glyph gingerbread activity to have fun during December or at holiday winter parties

3. Read off the first glyph, and ask students how many siblings they have.

If they have 0, they will draw two green eyes on their gingerbread cookie.

If they have 1 sibling, they will draw two brown eyes and if they have 2 or more siblings, they’ll draw blue eyes.

Use this fun and free glyph gingerbread activity to have fun during December or at holiday winter parties

4. Wait until everyone has eyes on their cookie and move on to the next glyph “rule” until you go through them all.

5. Point out that each of the gingerbread cookies is decorated differently than the others because they are different than the other kids. 

Use this fun and free glyph gingerbread activity to have fun during December or at holiday winter parties

6. Have students write their names on the back and/or name their gingerbread cookie. They can use the Gingerbread Name Sheet or make up their own name. 

Use this fun and free glyph gingerbread activity to have fun during December or at holiday winter parties

7. Hang the gingerbread cookies up next to the “rules” and let parents/other kids guess whose cookie is whose based on the glyph “rules.”

Want more Gingerbread Activity Extension Ideas:

Use this Gingerbread Craft and Write to tie in Social Emotional Learning and focus on kindness during winter. 

Gingerbread craft and write social emotional learning activity perfect for winter sel.

Read about Gingerbread Cookie Kindness with this Emergent Reader Set that focuses on beginning language and ways to show kindness. 

You can also: 

  • Write a story about your gingerbread cookie (What would happen if he/she came alive at school?)
  • Tell a story about your gingerbread cookie
  • Make gingerbread cookies
  • Bring in raw ginger so they can smell, touch or even taste it.
  • Eat store-bought gingerbread cookies
  • Take one bite and graph which body part kids ate off first
  • Write a ‘recipe’ for a gingerbread cookie after tasting it.
  • Act out the story of the Gingerbread Man
  • Read different versions of The Gingerbread Man

The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School 

The Gingerbread Pirates

The Gingerbread Man

The Gingerbread Girl

The Gingerbread Man

How to Catch a Gingerbread Man

The Three Little Superpigs and the Gingerbread Man

The Ninjabread Man

 

Use this fun and free glyph gingerbread activity to have fun during December or at holiday winter parties


No two glyph snowman projects will ever be the same and they're perfect for winter holiday parties and large group activities #snowmanproject #winterholidayparty #coffeeandcarpool

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