Gingerbread Man Hunt
Speech and Language Lesson Plan Activities
Activities
Goal
Ideas for home:
We have been reading
The Gingerbread Man
story at school. We have
talked about various body
parts, and played a fun
game to build our own
gingerbread man. This
week in language group,
we made our own
gingerbread cookies.
Unfortunately somehow
the oven door was opened
and they escaped. Luckily,
they left clues for us
around the school. Using
our receptive language
skills and vocabulary we
had to decipher the clues
to track them down. Next,
we used our expressive
language skills to make
guesses as to where they
went.
Finally we sequenced the
various places putting
them in order when we
finally found them back in
the classroom.
A. Label vocabulary:
-Nouns: man, cookie, oven,
basket, library, office, gym,
nurse, classroom.
-Verbs: ran, catch/caught, go,
find.
Watch the Gingerbread Sing a long
Reading on You Tube or read this
book together.
B. Have your child identify
various places the gingerbread
man could hide in given clues
( i.e. I may be hiding where
you check out a book, its down
the hall so go take a look) For
home this could be something
like( I may be hiding in the
place where you sleep. It’s up
the stairs you must creep.).
Either make a list of ingredients or go
to the store and purchase pre-made
gingerbread dough. Make and roll out
your cookies and place in oven. Talk
about what you are doing as you do it
(i.e. I am rolling the dough etc). Next
announce that the gingerbread cookies
have escaped from the oven and you
found a clue telling where they have
gone. Start your house hunt to find
them.
PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE NO
PRE-MADE MATERIALS FOR
THIS ACTIVITY
You can either make up your own
clues or print out suggested clues from
this website:
C. Expressive Language: Have
your child answer where
questions (i.e. Where do you
sleep?) Next, have your child
tell you all the places the
http://www.playdoughtoplato.com/wpgingerbread man/men went.
content/uploads/2012/12/Microsoft(i.e. First, he hid in the bedroom Word-Gingerbread-Man.docx.pdf
etc..)
Have fun and enjoy this magical time
of the year together 
Miss Kim