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All you need to do is print the page and start writing! Either use it as cute writing paper or follow the writing prompts and write a story about the gingerbread kids having fun in the snow!
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The free file below is a one-page printable no prep writing prompt writing paper with a gingerbread theme.
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Christmas printables are just the best! I have so many different ones to choose from, both for literacy and math learning objectives, but the other day, I noticed I didn’t have any printable writing paper. I just had to fix that oversight and voila: Gingerbread Winter Fun Writing Prompt Writing Paper!
There’s a colorful gingerbread boy skier, gingerbread girl ice skater, gingerbread boy building a snowman, and a gingerbread girl holding a snowman.
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Prompts: Give your students some exciting ideas for a story.
- Santa was getting ready for Christmas eve when ________________________
- Then, Rudolf said, "________________________"
- Santa's elves were very worried because __________________________________
- "Oh, no!" Santa said. "I can't believe that ______________________________!"
Use this format to teach your students letter writing conventions. Have them use the paper to write their annual Christmas letter to Santa. When I taught second grade, I had students write letters to Santa that were not only printed in the little local paper, some were reproduced because of the quality of the product. You can bet those kids and their parents (and grandparents, and distant relatives) were proud of those letters!
Provide your students with both models and prompts.
A Story
- Santa gets the flu. Who will deliver the presents?
- Santa get his naughty and nice lists mixed up. What happens? How do the good children feel when they get coal in their stockings?
- You catch Santa Claus in your living room unpacking your presents. You convince him to let you go along. Where do you go? What do you do? Do you have any close calls?
- Santa has a contest among the elves to see who can make the cleverest toy. Who wins? What is their toy?
This simple writing format with Santa at the top can be used for any number of writing activities:
Models: Students with disabilities may have both weak handwriting skills and weak fine motor skills. Providing them with models will help them get started. Perhaps these sentence starters will get your emerging writers going. Put them on the board or on chart paper and create a "Word Bank" at the bottom. It might include: reindeer, presents, packages, bag, magic, flying, sick.
Of course Christmas means presents from Santa. For your emerging writers, how about just helping them make a list? It will encourage them to copy words carefully, recognize initial and final letters, as well as develop some familiarity with print in a way that is highly motivating.
Now that our muscles are all warmed up from the fine motor activity and the cutting activity, it is time for the last of our gingerbread activities!
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Our first printable in the Gingerbread Activities Pack is a hole punch activity! 2 Hole Punching Cards are provided. Hole punching helps develop and work on several skills. For example:
In this post, we will first look at the gingerbread man fine motor activity, then the cutting activity, and finally the writing activity!
FINALLY, GINGERBREAD WRITING ACTIVITY:
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- Bilateral Hand Skills: Two handed activities help both sides of our bodies to work together while completing different tasks. For instance, one hand will hold the paper, while the other hand uses the hole punch.
- Eye-Hand Coordination: The child will have to visually line up the hole punch to the holes on the paper prior to punching.
- Hand Strength: Squeezing the hole punch works on grip strength, finger strength, coordination, AND most importantly, separation of 2 sides of the hands. One side of the hand is activating the hole punch (thumb, index, and middle finger) while the other side is stabilizing (ring and little finger). This is an important skill for kids to manipulate tools like scissors and pencils. In other words, this gingerbread hole punching activity can help with cutting and writing skills! For little hands, I like to use these mini punchers! They are perfect for working on a 3 point chuck and lateral pinch.
Our second printable in the FREE Gingerbread Activities Pack is a Cut and Paste Activity! In addition to cutting, a bonus fine motor activity is included as well!
Spacing between words, letter size, and placing the letters on the lines are all skills kids work on as their handwriting progresses. This handwriting printable provides visual guidance to enhance and improve these handwriting skills! Kids practice keeping their tall letters tall and their short letters short while using the 3 lines on the paper. A 4 word sentence to copy is provided. Then, the child can further their fine motor development (grasp and finger movement) by using a brown crayon to color the gingerbread man!
Now my gingerbread houses stand up and I can make a cute little village. I think that taping the houses to blocks would be a great idea too. You don’t have to use all of the gingerbread houses and gingerbread people at once. Use an appropriate quantity of gingerbread houses and gingerbread boys and girls for your kids. Using too many can overwhelm young kiddos.
To help kids work on letter identification, I like to set up 3-5 houses at a time and hide something behind one of the houses when they aren’t looking. I used a small little gift ornament, but you can really use any small item (a gumdrop, peppermint, little candy cane, eraser, etc.)
Today I want to share a little gingerbread alphabet activity with you. I am also going to give you a couple of ideas for using the free gingerbread man printable.
Another fun way to play with the gingerbread alphabet activity is to pretend that the little gingerbread people are lost and have to walk around searching for their homes. I pretend that the little gingerbread girl knocks on the door and the only way that the door will open is if she says the correct sound for that letter. She then goes inside the house to go to sleep.
Little Lost Gingerbread Girl- Letter Sound Practice
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Kids will enjoy this free gingerbread man printable alphabet activity. Several ideas for hands-on alphabet and beginning sound activities are included.
Want more of a challenge? You can also ask kids to tell you a word that begins with that letter. If you hide a little gift like me, you can pretend that something that starts with the featured letter is inside the package. For example, when I hid the gift behind the letter D house, we decided that a dinosaur was inside the package.
Our second printable in the FREE Gingerbread Activities Pack is a Cut and Paste Activity! In addition to cutting, a bonus fine motor activity is included as well!
Run Run as fast as you can and grab this FREE Mini Gingerbread Printable Pack! There are 3 Gingerbread Activities included in this printable pack!
Now that our muscles are all warmed up from the fine motor activity and the cutting activity, it is time for the last of our gingerbread activities!
3 shapes are provided for the child to cut and paste! They include a circle, square, and triangle. The child cuts the shapes, visually finds where they go on the Gingerbread Man Picture, and pastes them in place. On the sheet, you will also find 10 circles. You can have the child place pennies, poms using tongs, or stickers on the circles. The stickers I like to use are here and here. The reinforcement stickers add an extra challenge. Have the child draw on the reinforcement sticker trying to stay on the path. Using crayons or markers to color in the circles is another idea! My kiddos LOVE to use these scented markers because they add olfactory input! If you need smaller markers for smaller hands, these pip squeak markers work well!
NEXT, GINGERBREAD CUTTING ACTIVITY:
This is a FREE 5 Page Downloadable PDF. Click HERE to access the FREEBIE LIBRARY!
In this post, we will first look at the gingerbread man fine motor activity, then the cutting activity, and finally the writing activity!
Our first printable in the Gingerbread Activities Pack is a hole punch activity! 2 Hole Punching Cards are provided. Hole punching helps develop and work on several skills. For example:
- Bilateral Hand Skills: Two handed activities help both sides of our bodies to work together while completing different tasks. For instance, one hand will hold the paper, while the other hand uses the hole punch.
- Eye-Hand Coordination: The child will have to visually line up the hole punch to the holes on the paper prior to punching.
- Hand Strength: Squeezing the hole punch works on grip strength, finger strength, coordination, AND most importantly, separation of 2 sides of the hands. One side of the hand is activating the hole punch (thumb, index, and middle finger) while the other side is stabilizing (ring and little finger). This is an important skill for kids to manipulate tools like scissors and pencils. In other words, this gingerbread hole punching activity can help with cutting and writing skills! For little hands, I like to use these mini punchers! They are perfect for working on a 3 point chuck and lateral pinch.
Crafts can work on scissor cutting, drawing, coloring, tool grasp, glue management, direction following, and sequencing. Now, let’s craft some gingerbread goodies.
Provide a fun gingerbread man lacing craft that automatically incorporates fine motor precision, pincer grasp, motor planning, eye-hand coordination and bilateral hand use.
Here’s an activity that you can try called, Gingerbread Man Gross Motor Activity. It combines the simple idea of gross motor skills and literacy skills.
Do you have visions of colorfully decorated gingerbread houses or some icing covered gingerbread men? Crafts are the supreme skill builder for kiddos and highly motivating.
GINGERBREAD MAN BOOKS
Maybe simple Gingerbread Theme Play Dough Mats are all you are looking for to have kiddos work on fine motor hand skills.
Included below are gingerbread man books that you can pair with hands-on activities. The gingerbread man ideas below build fine motor skills, gross motor skills, motor planning, direction-following, and sensory exploration. Let’s get started with the holiday activities!
Looking for gingerbread man activities? We’ve got you covered. From gingerbread men to gingerbread houses to gingerbread cookies, it’s the theme of gingerbread for this festive season! Can you smell the ginger? Ah, it’s so cozy and the theme of gingerbread is so classic and fun! Browse an old blog post from The OT Toolbox to find gingerbread activities for kids by kids. Lots of fun ideas in that post as well as some new ideas in this post! You can also find a Cardboard Gingerbread House idea.