Gingerbread Man Poem
Once there was a gingerbread man,
Baking in a gingerbread pan.
Raisin eyes and a cherry nose,
Trimmed right down to his fingers and toes.
A gingerbread man in a gingerbread pan!
Here's the old woman who made him so sweet,
A treat for her and her husband to eat,
She made him with flour and sugar and eggs,
She gave him a face and two arms and two legs.
A gingerbread man in a gingerbread pan!
Now open the oven to see if he's done,
This gingerbread man, he know how to run.
Out of the oven and onto the floor,
Now run away out the kitchen door.
The gingerbread man, he's out of the pan!
Now chase him old woman, now chase him old man
Chase him, yes chase him as fast as you can!
Through the garden and out the gate,
Catch him right now, before it's too late.
The gingerbread man, he's out of the pan!
Along came a cow who wanted a treat
And the gingerbread man, he looked good to eat
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man
I'm the gingerbread man and I'm out of the pan!
Along came a horse who wanted a snack
But the gingerbread man, he never looked back
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man
I'm the gingerbread man and I'm out of the pan!
Along came a farmer who wanted a treat
And the gingerbread man, he looked good to eat
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man
I'm the gingerbread man and I'm out of the pan!
Along came a dog who wanted a snack
But the gingerbread man, he never looked back
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man
I'm the gingerbread man and I'm out of the pan!
Along came a hog who wanted a treat
And the gingerbread man, he looked good to eat
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man
I'm the gingerbread man and I'm out of the pan!
Along came a fox who wanted a treat,
And this gingerbread man, he looked good to eat.
Jump on my back, my gingerbread pet,
And we'll cross the river, so you won't get wet
Mr. Gingerbread man, who's out of the pan!
There was no place to go, there was no place to run
And a ride on the river could be lots of fun!
So off with the fox did Gingerbread go
And what happened next, you already know
To the gingerbread man, who's out of the pan
That sly old fox had a de-lic-ious treat
And the old man and woman had nothing to eat
Not a bite was left for the cow or the dog,
The horse or the farmer or hungry old hog
There's no gingerbread man in or out of the pan!
So let us go home and get out the pan
And we'll make ourselves a new gingerbread man!
And when he is eaten, we'll make us some more
But this time we'll be certain to lock the back door!
A new gingerbread man, in a gingerbread pan!
~Use felt story pictures!
Have precut patterns above and they paste them together for the picture.
Tall about steps to make cookies
Make a book with a full size man on front cover (with red paper looks nice).
Then on page one have a man with only one arm missing with the title: Eat one leg
2nd- Eat the other leg (now a legless man cutout)
3- Eat one arm (now legless and 1 arm missing)
4- Eat the other arm (no arms or legs)
5-Eat the head (only a torso now)
6- Crunch crunch crunch (now only little pieces of paper to be crumbs.
Sew a Gingerbread Man pattern
Gingerkids
tune: Ten Little Indians
One little, two little, three little Gingerkids,
Four little, five little, six little Gingerkids,
Seven little, eight little, nine little
Gingerkids,
Ten little Gingerbread Kids.
Dear Mom and Dad,
The Gingerbread Man found me today,
but I couldn't bring him home because
I ate him! Instead I brought this little
paper one home to remind me in later
years how hard I hunted for him this
week at Bug ‘A’ Boo Child Care.
Date
Another teacher sent in these additional suggestions
for "spicing up" the Gingerbread Man hunt and using the activity
to introduce the sense of smell:
How about reading The Gingerbread Boy and then
searching for the gingerbread boy around the school?
You could talk about what kind of clues can help you
find him. Have someone spray cinnamon air freshener on
the path that leads to the Gingerbread Boy. You could
also have the gingerbread boy drop clues ~ red hots,
marshmallows, etc.
And here's one more great idea to make this activity extra fun:
Leave a trail of white flour footprints for the children to follow around the school. They can be sponged on with thinned white tempera paint that will wash or wipe off easily afterwards.
Cut out miniature Gingerbread Men from several colors of construction paper, using a handheld Pretty Punch / craft punch. Mix them in a box or bag, then give each student a small pinch of Gingerbread Men. Make individual graphs and group graphs of the different colors, and write comparitive sentences: Lisa has more red Gingerbread Men than Jose. Alison has the most red ones. Rebecca has the same number of purple and pink ones.
For Gingerbread Men, use either large Ellison diecuts or cut 9 inch tall Gingerbread Man shapes from light brown construction paper. Glue one cutout to each of ten sheets of 9 x 12 construction paper, leaving a two inch border at the bottom of the sheet. I use two different colors of paper, so my set forms an ABAB pattern when laid out on the table or floor.
In the upper left hand corner of each sheet, write one numeral in bold black marker, numbering the sheets from one to ten. Along the bottom of each sheet, place the correct number of stickers (use cute seasonal stickers if you have them) to correspond with the number written on the page. Laminate and cut out.
Make a collection of cute items for decorating your Gingerbread Men, and place them in a small plastic box with a lid, so they won't get lost. Use buttons, tiny seasonal erasers, small bits of ribbon or rickrack (for frosting squiggles), etc. You need 55 items in all to decorate the entire set. Store in a shoebox or plastic bag, and use as a math center. Children will put the cards in numerical order, then use the items to decorate each Gingerbread Man card with the number of items listed at the top (and represented for non-number-readers by the number of stickers along the bottom). If done correctly, all the items will be used.
Make Gingerbread Men from sandpaper, either with a large Ellison diecut or by tracing a pattern on the back of the sandpaper (don't use your good scissors for these). Sprinkle with cinnamon, rub with a cinnamon stick, or spray with cinnamon room freshener. Make icing from colored glue.
Sit in a circle and chant
"Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?"
Everyone gets a cookie when the game is done.
Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?
Mrs. Smith stole the cookies from the cookie jar!
Who, me?
Yes, you!
Couldn't be!
Then who?