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Gingerbread Art
Contact_FullName: Mandi Contact_Email: Mandibk@cs.com Area: Christmas-Gingerbread People Idea: Gingerbread Man Rubbings: Cut large gingerbread boy/girl shapes out of sandpaper. Use double stick tape to attach to a clipboard. Clip a piece of copier paper onto clipboard. Rub over the paper with the side of a paperless brown crayon! Add details if desired. Contact_FullName: Miss Michelle Contact_Email: mburzynski23@yahoo.com Idea: Trace some cookie cutters for cookie shapes. Allow the children to cut them out or cut for them. Use condensed milk to" frost" by mixing with food coloring for different colors. Paint the cookie shapes with the colored condensed milk and it will get a pretty shiny look. Finish with sprinkles and chocolate chips for a realistic look. Gingerbread men are a fun one for this! Have some extra chocolate chips as a treat at snack time! Contact_FullName: Windy Contact_Email: wkford@yahoo.com Area: Gingerbread Men Idea: precut or trace and have children cut gingerbread man. Sponge paint brown then glue on candy pieces. How cute! Contact_FullName: alma Contact_Email: almablodgett@sbcglobal.net date:: 10/03/06 Idea: For week of the young child we have cut out gingerbread shapes out. About the size of a piece of construction paper and given to each child in the center to decorate as themselves. they are given what ever they want. when ready we have taped them to dowels and stapled the one to the other as if they were holding hands and displayed outside our daycare center. If we have bad weather them we tape them to the hallway walls with them stapled together as if they were holding hands. ontact_FullName: Kristen Contact_Email: KristenBlisten82@Yahoo.com Area: Gingerbread-Art Idea: Give every child in the class a gingerbread shaped person cut from medium brown construction paper. Use google eyes for "eyes", paint for "frosting", glitter for 'sprinkles." Etc. Contact_FullName: Donna Contact_Email: d.grzywacz@worldnet.att.net Area: Gingerbread Art Idea: I bought a roll of brown Kraft paper (brown paper used for wrapping packages) which was less than $3.00. I rolled it out on the floor and traced each child. I gave the girls a choice of being traced as they were, or having a skirt added to look like the gingerbread girl cookie cutters we had been using. I cut out the tracings. ( Usually I let them cut their own tracings out when we do these life-sized self portraits, but since I wanted them to look like they had been cut with a cookie cutter, I did it myself for a clean line.) The children decorated their "cookies" with art materials. Some did "self-portraits", other were abstract, and some talked about art materials as representing candy, remembering the gingerbread house we had decorated together. They all looked great on the wall! We also talked about the biggest and smallest cookies, etc. and other ways of sorting and classifying after they were all up on the wall. Contact_FullName: Lori Contact_Email: jal003wilson@aol.com Area: gingerbread art Idea: Cut out a large gingerbread person - we used brown paper bags. Make a mixture of flour, salt and water, (the salt makes it sparkly). The mixture should have a frosting like consistency, but not too thick. Gather as many squeeze bottles as you have children. (Old bottles from perm solution, washed out well of course, work great. And local salons are more that happy to save them for you.) Put some of the flour mixture into the bottles, and, using it like a frosting, let the children decorate their gingerbread man. We gave them gum drops, licorice - the real thin kind, chocolate chips, raisins M&M's candy kisses and stars. They had a great time and got to eat a few of the treats too 12-12-00Gingerbread people Using brown paper grocery bags, cut out gingerbread people using zigzag scissors. (cut 2 for each gingerbread person) Lay cotton or other material on one cutout and then glue or staple other cutout on top. When dry you have a fat gingerbread person the children can decorate. Use buttons for eyes and nose, and red yard for mouth. Use paint or glitter glue to write child's name down front of gingerbread person. These make great gifts for parents and look great on a class tree.
11-4-00Applesauce and Cinnamon Gingerbread: My kids and their parents loved these! Mix a large container of cinnamon with enough applesauce to make a dough. Roll out and cut with cookie cutters. (We didn't roll ours out; I gave each child a hunk of dough and they patted it out, then used the cutters). Don't forget to make a hole for hanging. Dry the ornaments until dry; ours took more than overnight. Very cute and really spices up your room!!
11-4-00This is very simple, but my class really liked doing it. I gave each child a large tag board gingerbread person shape. They squirted on glue, then sprinkled on cinnamon. Very festive!
Date: 10-23-00Great December nametags: cut boy/girl gingerbread shapes from craft brown craft foam; children decorate with collage material (glitter, rickrack, buttons, glitter glue, etc); program with child's name. We make a craft paper cookie jar cut out and hang the nametags on push pins. Each one is different - each is special.
Date: 10-23-00Five Senses Art: Pre-cut a gingerbread man shape from rough sandpaper. Draw on facial features and buttons using marker (or allow older children to do their own). Children glue this onto construction paper of their choice. Then they "color" their gingerbread man with a cinnamon stick. They can taste the cinnamon if they wish before coloring with it. They can smell the cinnamon, and hear the way it scratches on the sandpaper. They can see the difference in color when they rub the cinnamon stick on the sandpaper, and they can feel the difference between the smooth construction paper and the rough sandpaper. All five senses are covered in this little project, and it is a great discussion starter. (Bonus: it makes your room smell heavenly!)
Date: 10-23-00When I was in high school, I did this with my teacher and our pre-school class, it was so fun! Gingerbread Houses You need per child: A small sq. of cardboard and a lunch size milk carton. For them to share: white frosting with decorator bags and tips (frosting must be stiff), white coconut (flake), graham crackers, gum drops, licorice, m&m minis, any other fun candies! First, fill you bags w/frosting. Glue your milk carton, bottom on cardboard, with frosting. Then, glue on all sides of house with graham crackers and frosting to milk carton. Add two grahams at the top, angled, for a roof, and glue with frosting. Then let the kids have fun! They can use the frosting to glue candies on their house or card board to make a scene! If you want, this works well with a fairy tale unit, just after the story Hansel and Gretel. Or you can make a winter house, and add mini or jumbo marshmallows for snowmen, and pretzel sticks for arms. Best of all, the whole thing is edible!
Date: 10-23-00You'll need construction paper, glue, glitter and cheerio's. Cut 2 sheets of construction paper into the shape of gingerbread boys. Then glue the 2 sheets back to back for support. Glue the cheerio's all around the gingerbread boys body add eyes a nose, mouth and button. Finally use the glitter on it's eyes, nose, mouth and buttons. Holly hollyrose@hotmail.com Date: 10-23-00I copied a picture of a gingerbread man out of a book that I had. Then I made out of construction paper hats, pants, shirt and shoes all different colors. I put a little glue in a container for each child and then gave them a paint brush and let them dress their gingerbread man. They brushed the glue on where they thought the shirt would go and pasted it and so on. Then I let them paste on eyes that I had gotten from the craft store which made it look really good. After that I noticed many of them had continued to spread glue on top of the pants and shirts etc. (these are 2 year olds) so we decided to put glitter there which gave it a great look!! Cheryl E-Mail: C5Joy@aol.com Date: 10-23-00My daycare children made these for their parents: Gingerbread people-These are less likely to break than other recipes which is perfect for the young children to work with & get home in one piece. 1 c plus 2 T. flour 3/4 c. cinnamon (I add a teaspoon of ground clove too) 1 c salt 1 c water Mix this well. Roll about 1/2" thick and cut with gingerbread man/woman cookie cutter (or any other shape that you may wish to use). Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for approximately 20-25 minutes, depending upon size of the ornaments. Place a hole in each ornament before baking for hanging (I used a straw). These smell really wonderful--& make the house smell great when they are baking. If they start to lose their fragrance just rub an emery board on the back of them. They may be decorated with puffy paint, tempera paint or left as they are. Tie a ribbon through the the hole made by the straw to hang them up. The children loved making these and the parents loved receiving them!
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