16+ Gingerbread Activities

Time is flying, and the holiday season is already here! These Gingerbread Activities are perfect for Gingerbread Theme Day and as a holiday treat! Every year, my kids look forward to Gingerbread Week—a week in December filled with the sweetest gingerbread activities that bring in the festive spirit.

These gingerbread activities are jam-packed with tons of engaging and hands-on activities that your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten kids will LOVE!

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Gingerbread Theme for Kids

Gingerbread is a beloved holiday treat. The kids are always up for a gingerbread-themed activity! We read a few Gingerbread books, used these Gingerbread House Coloring Pages during calm down time and these Gingerbread Clip Cards as a fun indoor activity to practice math skills. The kids’ favorite activity was decorating gingerbread cookies. Here are Easy Gingerbread Decorating Party Tips to Save Your Sanity – trust me, you’ll need them!

Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, National Gingerbread Day, or just looking for ways to get kids learning and engaged during the holiday season, here are fun gingerbread printables that are an amazing resource for a gingerbread-themed unit. You’ll use them every year at home or in the classroom.

There are math activities with equations, name crafts, tracing pages, alphabet hunts, gingerbread investigations, games and more.

Each activity targets specific learning centers like math, literacy or fine motor, but they’re also so much fun.

There are also adorable cookie tray shape-matching activities, counting mats and pattern cards.

We know every child is unique, and just like there are different moulds or cookie cutters, there should be different ways of learning!

Let’s take a look at all the activities!

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GET THE GINGERBREAD ACTIVITIES PACK

This Gingerbread Activities Pack focuses on a variety of important foundational skills including matching uppercase and lowercase letters, building CVC words, sequencing steps in a procedure, reading numbers and counting to ten, and much more. Color and black and white formats are included, where possible, to suit your individual printing needs.

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Gingerbread Activities and Centers

You’ll find tons of gingerbread man activities in this pack for a fun gingerbread unit. Don’t worry, we also included a cute gingerbread woman/girl too, not just a gingerbread man! There really is a gingerbread treat for everyone.

Gingerbread Literacy Activities

1. Alphabet Hunt– Trace the letter, then find the upper case and lowercase letters hidden in the gumdrops. Tracing has many benefits and is an easy way to foster pre-writing and improve dexterity.

3. Alphabet Puzzles– Match the gingerbread house picture to the matching letter. Encourage sensory play by hiding one set in a sensory bin.

5. CVC Word Cards– Solve the CVC word by adding the missing first letter to the word. You can also ask kids to identify the picture first.

2. Alphabet Matching Houses– Match the uppercase letter to the lowercase letter to build the house. Matching games are a fun way to improve memory and enhance cognitive development. This is a good brain booster!

4. Sight Word Winter– Find the sight words, then match the snowflake sight words to the page.

6. Gingerbread in Disguise Who Am I?– Read the clues to solve who the gingerbread is dressed up as. This activity helps develop problem-solving skills.

Gingerbread Math Activities

7. Addition Clip Cards– Identify the gingerbread number at the top of the card. Then clip the equations that match the number. Keep it simple and use a clothespin.

11. Color Matching– Match pom poms or colored candy to the correct color card. This is an easy way to help the kids learn their colors.

8. Counting Mats– Identify the gingerbread number at the top. Then, find the number and add the same number of candy pieces to the house. Candy can also be swapped out for any manipulatives.

10. Cookie Baking Tray Shapes– Place the cookies onto the correct shape on the cookie tray. If you’re feeling creative, make the shapes out of play dough and place them on an actual tray.

Gingerbread Crafts, Patterns, and Sequencing

12. House Name Craft– Write your name ,then build it with the colored paper gum drops. Laminate and display the craft in class or send it home as a keepsake.

14. How to Make a Gingerbread– Learn how to make a gingerbread man, then complete the sequencing worksheet. You can also make gingerbread cookies using this gingerbread cookie recipe. Have the kids follow along or use it to decorate an work on those fine motor skills too!

13. Patterns Cards– Use pom poms or gumdrop candy to create the patterns according to the colors on the cards. Improve visual discrimination skills.

Gingerbread Science and Fine Motor Activities

15. Gingerbread Run Tracing Pages– Trace on the dashed line to help the gingerbread run to his home.

16. Gingerbread Investigation Sheets– Investigate a gingerbread cookie and follow the prompts on the sheet. Kids can also color in the images.

Gingerbread Worksheets

There are also convenient worksheets that target many skills like tracing, name spelling, colors, labeling, CVC words, number ordering, fine motor, and beginning sounds. I like to use them to review essential skills or on busy days when I need a low-prep activity for the kids.