Cookie Cutters & Playdough--Set out cookie cutters and scented playdough (coca, ginger and cinnamon or vanilla). Show them how to roll out the dough and stamp with cookie cutters.
Gingerbread Cookie Rhyme
Gingerbread cookies, yum, yum, yum.
I think that I will bake me some.
Gingerbread cookies, one, two, three.
One for you and two for me!
Build an obstacle course with tables, chairs, pillows, lines of masking tape on the floor, etc. and have the kids pretend they're going on a long journey through a desert like Abraham and Sarah.
THURSDAY
Make a Cookie by painting a paper plate with brown paint mixed with white glue. Use hole punches of different colors for the sprinkles.
Read If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
FRIDAY
Bake Cookies for snack. Either have the children help you with a roll of premade cookie dough or try a recipe from Astray.com.
Play Red Light, Green Light.
SNACKS & ALTERNATE ACTIVITIES
Snack Foods:
Vanilla Waffers
Oreos
Animal Cookies
Chips Ahoy
Cookie Crisp Cereal
This Month's Shape: Square
** Make a Square Collage
** Go on a Square Hunt around the house or classroom.
Play What is a Square?
March around a masking tape square on the floor singing:
Tune: Farmer In the Dell
We walk along the square
We walk along the square
Four straight lines
All the same size
We walk along the square
Sing C Is For Cookie
Make Sugar Cookies (or use graham crackers) and have the children decorate them with frosting and sprinkles.
