Gingerbread Centers for Kindergarten (Free File!)
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Are you looking for some fun gingerbread activities to use in your classroom this December? You’ll love these gingerbread centers for kindergarten! These engaging math and literacy activities will help your students review important skills before winter break.
Gingerbread Centers for Kindergarten
Gingerbread Man activities are, of course, great for the month of December and the Christmas season. (But there are fun Gingerbread Man books and activities that aren’t holiday themed. I’ll link some ideas at the end of this blog post.)
Okay, back to centers! I am so excited about these gingerbread unit activities!
Your little learners will have so much fun while practicing important grade-level skills.
1. Gingerbread Man Beginning Sounds Center
This cute gingerbread center actually has three different sets of cards. So you can have multiple students work on them at different stations or have this center last for three weeks by introducing one set of cards per week.
The response page for this center is a great exit ticket. Students will match the beginning sound gingy friend card to the picture card. Then they will write the complete word on the response page.
We added the mid-line to this response page as a great way to focus on handwriting. This is one of the fine motor skills that we really work on in the primary grades.
2. Gingerbread Vowel Center
If your classroom is anything like the ones I work in, you have students with a wide range of needs. Some students may be working with beginning sounds and some may be ready to work with CVC words.
We need different ways to practice word work in a fun way. These little gingerbread cookies are perfect for your centers! Students will match each gingerbread man to the correct gingerbread house based on the vowel sound. These little gingerbread cookies are perfect for your centers! Students will match each gingerbread man to the correct gingerbread house based on the vowel sound.
3. Gingerbread Long Vowel Sorts
Sorting activities can also help your students practice long vowels in an engaging way. Students will sort gingerbread man cookie sheet cards under the correct oven label.
4. Gingerbread Sentence Centers
Sentence practice is another important addition to your literacy centers!
Students can use word cards in a pocket chart to build sentences that contain the common characters from the Gingerbread Man story. Differentiate as needed within your class. There are a variety of activities to meet a range of needs.
These kinder friends had a ton of fun at this sentence center! After they wrote the sentence from the traditional tale, they drew a picture to match.
5. Label the Gingerbread Man Characters
The word cards that are used for the sentence pocket chart activity I just mentioned can also be used for this labeling activity! DOUBLE DUTY WIN!
6. Gingerbread Grammar Center
You can also incorporate gingerbread fun into your grammar centers.
Students can read the various gingerbread man words and then determine if the word is a noun or verb. They can color “noun” or “verb” on the response sheet and then write the word.
Each activity also comes with an answer key so students can check their own work and increase independence during centers time.
7. Cookies in the Oven Center
Your gingerbread centers can also help students practice their math skills!
This set of adorable gingerbread man activities has two options.
Option 1: Students can count all of the cookies on each task card and write the number on their response sheet.
Option 2: Since the cookies are shown on two pans, students can create an addition sentence to model the total number of cookies.
8. Gingerbread Man Measurement Center
This measurement center is filled with the different characters and moments found in typical gingerbread man stories. My favorite thing is that this center includes different options.
Option 1: Students will simply measure the gingerbread man story images using a strip of gumdrops.
Option 2: Students will use the measurements to create number problems and solve them.
9. Gingerbread Man Measurement Center
This fun center asks students to spin the spinner and collect data. The spinner includes familiar faces from the traditional gingerbread man story. Then they will use that data to graph their findings! This is one of my favorite ways to practice data collection because it’s so engaging for students to use the spinner!
There are two differentiated response pages for this activity so you can meet the needs of your individual students.
Printable Gingerbread Centers and More
I hope this post has given you some gingerbread center ideas for your next kindergarten gingerbread week! This is one of my favorite themes for the month of December because it’s a great way to incorporate some seasonal fun without focusing on a specific holiday.
All of the gingerbread center ideas that I shared in this post can work well for kindergarten and first grade students. You can find these activities in this gingerbread bundle:
If you love to use themed centers in your classroom, you’ll love this set of traditional tales centers! These literacy and math activities are centered on popular traditional tales that are so fun to include in the kindergarten classroom. This bundle includes over 240 centers! That will last you all year long!
Other Gingerbread Man Ideas and Blog Posts
I mentioned earlier in this blog post that I have other Gingerbread Man ideas that are not specific to Christmas. Check out this blog post for book ideas and corresponding activities:
Gingerbread Man Free Printable File
If you’d like another fun gingerbread activity to use in your classroom, here is a printable emergent reader that I think your students will love. Just add your email to the box below and it will be sent to your inbox!
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Deedee Wills
My teaching career allowed me to experience teaching in different classroom environments and grades. My heart belongs to early childhood education. My job is to make teaching FUN, ENGAGING, and EASIER. Welcome!
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I entered my email to get the Free Gingerbread Man centers but I received Snowman Patterns instead. Would you please email me the Free Gingerbread Man centers as described. Thanks!!!
Hi Dee,
I just sent you an email. So sorry for the mix up.
Hi Deedee-
I am trying to get the gingerbread centers. Each time I click on something it takes me to your TPT page. It’s fine if I have to pay for them but if I can get the activities for free that would be wonderful. I did fill out to get the emergent reader because I thought that is what I might need to do but I got the emergent reader. Please just let me know if I have to pay for the activities. We are starting our gingerbread unit tomorrow and would use some of the activities as soon as tomorrow. Thank you, Dawn
Hi Dawn!
The Gingerbread centers are linked in the beginning and at the end of the blog post. It is linked to where you can purchase them on TPT. The gingerbread emergent reader is free at the bottom of the post, which sounds like you already were able to download. In case you are needing the link for the centers, here it is for you: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Gingerbread-Man-Literacy-Centers-and-Math-Centers-5070691
hi, where do you click for the free gingerbread file?
Hi Karen! You will find the free gingerbread emergent reader at the very end of the blog post. In the final box, you’ll see a place to put your email information in. It looks like you are using a school email, perhaps? If so, your school firewall may block you from seeing the box or prohibit the file from being sent your way. If you have a different email you could use, that may do the trick.
Let me know if you get stuck!
Deedee