The Gingerbread Man (Picture Books)

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For a paired book(or books!) you have a few fun choices: Gingerbread Man Superhero! by Dotti Enderle Maybe you have the need for some energy consuming gingerbread movement! So many gingerbread books provide action words that can easily be utilized for movement exercises. Try substituting these actions with various movements you need your child to practice.

Meanwhile – and the best part of this book is the ‘meanwhile’– the boy is constructing a gingerbread house that the gingerbread baby takes refuge in. The Ninjabread Man by C.J. Leigh Maybe a collage art gingerbread man is more what your kiddos would enjoy. Providing a tray of decorating goodies can give a child the opportunity for creativity and independence. But if you’re looking for more therapeutic benefits, you can incorporate body awareness and multiple fine motor skills.Ten Tiny Gingerbread Men is a cute one for younger kids to practice counting when reading it to them. You can easily print it and immediately have it as a cute writing activity to go along with your gingerbread unit. This Gingerbread Manbook activity from Fun-A-Day pairs well with these books. GINGERBREAD MAN CRAFTS This version is otherwise very much the classic one, with a farmyard chase and a cumulative refrain. Try Gingerbread Passing to work on core strength, coordination, motor planning, and social skills. It’s a great team work activity or it can be simplified to have one child work on passing a gingerbread man from one place to another.

The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo is another from the wonderful series I talked about at the beginning of this list. It’s full of riddles and zoo animals and fun! Inside: This list of Gingerbread Man books is organized by grade and listed in pairs or groups of stories that are great to teach side by side. You can also try these fun Gingerbread Man Gross Motor Dice printables to further incorporate movements related to the book. Read and move together! The various endings means that it’s also fun to use these stories for making predictions. Will the gingerbread man get eaten or not?Okay, last one in the list! I wanted to end this list with a super cute and clever book – Catch that Cookie! SUCH a fun one! This friendly, down-to-earth Little Golden Book features some familiar-looking Richard Scarry characters, including a bear and a fox wearing clothes. Leigh’s version is completely different than the one above with the same title. This story takes place in a “hidden dojo” where the sensei bakes a ninjabread man. The title cookie then bests a bear, snake, and mouse with his superior ninja skills. We are left wondering whether the fox eats him or not – all that is left is a covering of powdered sugar, so I think he does. Gingerbread Man Books for Elementary

The Library Gingerbread Man is a really cute story to add to your Gingerbread Man bookshelf! Especially because he lives on library bookshelves 🙂 Sorry, I’m so cheesy and I couldn’t help it. If your school’s (or your child’s school’s) librarian doesn’t have this book, it’d be such a lovely surprise to give to them! It’s fun for everyone to read though. I’ve put together pairs and groups of books for you by grade level, to make it easy for you to plan the perfect Gingerbread Man unit. There’s no river to cross in this rendition. In the end, the fox captures the Gingerbread Man by asking him to walk closer so the fox can hear his taunt.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. Love this adorable cowboy and desert themed Gingerbread Man book. The Gingerbread Cowboy is so engaging and has amazing vocabulary! It’s such a fun one and your kids will probably ask you to read it again and again. Use these Gingerbread Man gross motor activities as a brain breaks for a physical break in the classroom, at home, or during a transition. Brain break movement activities can involve so many different body moves with a wonderfully festive theme! We’re a little gingerbread crazy here. Every year we like to make gingerbread playdough in December. I also love that there are so many Gingerbread Man stories out there – with a variety of characters and endings. They are so much fun to compare and contrast with each other!

These are meant for mid-year kindergarteners and they’re best used after you’ve read aloud one of the traditional picture books.The Gingerbread Boy is a cute story about a New York couple that don’t have children yet so they bake a gingerbread boy who escapes and runs through the city. Really fun illustrations! Oh, and there’s one more little set of books I want to share with you. I have a printable, differentiated set of Gingerbread Man Emergent Readers in my store. If you have kindergartners who can sit for, and follow, a longer story, this section has a few more options for you.