- Read the original tale and look at alternative stories e.g Gingerbread Girl
- Practice nativity songs
- Re-enact story, taking on roles and remembering repeated refrains
- Put the correct amount of buttons on the Gingerbread
- Order Gingerbread men by size
- Make bridge out of large construction
- Manipulate junk modelling for a purpose
- Ginger scented playdough
- Make clay Gingerbread people
- Use tweezers to decorate gingerbread people
- Make maps of Gingerbread Man’s journey
- Practice cutting out gingerbread men
- Play senses game with different smells
- Make a stream from gutters
- Numbered Gingerbread man hunt outside
