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ACTIVITY
Gingerbread Boys and Girls

 
Want to have some fun with your students at Christmas time? How about making life size gingerbread cut outs (that look like giant cookie) and put your student's faces in the middle.
Curriculum Area
Fine motor skills
Before You Start
Draw out the shape of a gingerbread cookie onto a piece of poster board and have the children cut out the shape. Have brown Biocolor® paint, white Biocolor® paint, shaving cream, roller brushes, shaving style brushes, glue, red sequins and a large picture of your student's face.
Let's Begin
1. Have the students roll out the brown paint with roller brushes. The roller brush will create an effect that looks like gingerbread (similar to a sandpaper look).

2. After the brown paint dries, mix together white Biocolor® paint, shaving cream, and glue until mixture is thick and puffy like boiled icing.

3. Have the students outline their gingerbread bodies with the “icing” like paint using shaving brushes.

4. Don't forget to add the buttons on the middle of their body and to add red sequins for the sprinkles.

5. After the icing dries, take the child's face and glue it to the head of the gingerbread character and use your sweet looking students to decorate your class for the holidays.
Furthermore
I did this with my special needs pre-k students. We did the project in steps and it turned out great! I hot glued the gingerbread men to the outside of my portable and it looked like a scene out of Candy Land.

 





Poster board
BioColor® Paint
Shaving cream
Paintbrushes and foam rollers
Red sequins
Photographs of students


White Poster Board, 22" x 28" - Pack of 100
Colorations® Foam Paint Rollers - Set of 12
BioColor® Paint, 16 oz.
Assorted Grandma's Buttons - 1lb.
Plastic Flitter Flakes - 1 lb.
Colorations® No-Drip Foam Paint, 8 oz.
Colorations® Washable School Glue