21 Gingerbread Man center activities to practice math and literacy skills in kindergarten and first grade. Easily differentiate your student centers with these fun activities.
Center activities for the traditional tale The Gingerbread Man are here! Students will have fun practicing various math and literacy skills during your center or station time with these fun, thematic centers!
Gingerbread Man activities are, of course, great for the holidays. However, you could even use these Gingerbread Man centers throughout the year, too! Side Note: There are fun Gingerbread Man books that are not Christmas-themed! I’ll link some ideas at the end of this post… Okay, back to centers! I am so excited about these activities!
Beginning sounds, rhyming, sentence practice, vowel teams, and more. Your kindergarten or first-grade friends will love them!
Differentiate as needed within your class. There are a variety of activities to meet a range of needs.
These kinder friends really enjoyed this sentence center! They get to build sentences using the characters from the traditional tale. Then, they write their sentence and draw a picture to match.
Here are a few ideas for medial sounds in CVC words.
These students are working on beginning sounds.
The Gingerbread Man math centers cover measurement, counting on, graphing, ten frame practice, and addition.
Check out the differentiation!
All of the Gingerbread Man center activities for both kindergarten and first grade are bundled together here:
Check out this HUGE bundle of literacy and math centers for other traditional tales! Over 240 centers!! Yep, you could use these for the entire year!
I mentioned earlier in the post about other Gingerbread Man ideas that were not specific to Christmas. Check out these great stories and activities:
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