Gingerbread Man Story Time

We invited friends over to play again today. 

But our numbers were fewer due to the fact that it is the end of the school year.

We started out singing the song

The Gingerbread Man (Tune: The Muffin Man)

and wearing the Imagination Fun Mask.

Oh, do you know the Gingerbread Man,

The Gingerbread Man, the Gingerbread Man?

Oh, do you know the Gingerbread Man,

Who ran and ran and ran?

He said, "Catch me if you can,

Catch me if you can, Catch me if you can."

He said, "Catch me if you can,"

Then ran and ran and ran.

I can run like the Gingerbread Man.

The Gingerbread Man, the Gingerbread Man.

I can run like the Gingerbread Man,

Now catch me if you can.

(Author unknown)

Next we moved on to the

5 Little Gingerbread Men

5 Little gingerbread men lying on a tray,

One jumped up and ran away.

Shouting, "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can . . .

I run really fast, I'm a gingerbread man!"

4 little gingerbread men lying on a tray,

One jumped up and ran away.

Shouting, "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can . . .

I run really fast, I'm a gingerbread man!"

3 little gingerbread men lying on a tray,

One jumped up and ran away.

Shouting, "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can . . .

I run really fast, I'm a gingerbread man!"

2 little gingerbread men lying on a tray,

One jumped up and ran away.

Shouting, "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can . . .

I run really fast, I'm a gingerbread man!"

1 little gingerbread man lying on a tray,

One jumped up and ran away.

Shouting, "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can . . .

I run really fast, I'm a gingerbread man!"

No more gingerbread men lying on a tray,

They all jumped up and ran away.

Oh, how I wish they had stayed with me to play.

Next time I'll eat them before they run away. 

Now it was time to move onto Story Time

I told the story of The Gingerbread Man

using Grandma's Favorites Set

and the Cottage Classic Set background.

Here we are rolling out the dough to 

make our gingerbread cookies.

Here are all the animals chasing 

the Gingerbread Man

while I am saying "mow".

The Gingerbread Man has a problem and he 

can't get across the river.

I am working on teaching Nevaeh

that she has to sit and listen to me when we have friends

over for story time. She is use to telling the story to me.

Now it was time to act out the story

And chase each other around.

Movement is an important part of any story time!

I used the Nursery Rhymes Set

to teach the group 

Hey Diddle Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddler

One Two Buckle My Shoe

and Mary had a Little Lamb.

Now it was time to make our own Gingerbread Man.

It helps to stick out your tongue while getting the glue to come out.

We used the pattern from Homeschool Creations

Ginerbread Baby Packet.

Nevaeh worked on her cutting skills again 

And her ABC Pattern Skills.

And then we moved onto arranging 

Gingerbread Man from 

Smallest to Largest.

Pointing to the smallest

Showing me which one is the Biggest

This packet can be made into a lapbook 

but I did not want to work with Nevaeh on 

everything in the book so we just did it this way.

I love the sites where I get these printouts from.

These women spend so much time making them so cute 

and do not charge anything for them :)

Then we pulled out our Kool Aid Playdough,

a rolling pin and the Gingerbread Man Cookie Cutter.

She is getting better at manipulating the dough. 

We tried to play Reader Rabbit Kindergarten but
it was a little too advanced for her.
I need to go order the Reader Rabbit Preschool for her.




This is a rhyming game from the Kindergarten one, where you click on
the basketball if the word rhymes with the word in the rectangle.

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