We had a awesome, crazy, eventful, and messy week studying gingerbread this week! We started off the week making some gingerbread ornaments. Every kid got to be part of the cooking process, some added ingredients, while others got to mix the ingredients together.
After the dough was all made, the kids got to roll out the dough and pick a shape for their gingerbread ornament. Then we placed them on a cookie sheet to dry.
The next morning we got the cookie sheets out to decorate our ornaments, and the ornaments were gone! The kids looked everywhere for them. They were using all their senses. They ran around the room looking everywhere and smelling everything trying to find clues as to where they may have went.
They were gone! The kids then decided to make some traps to catch their gingerbread men. They made some gingerbread friends,
and a gingerbread book.
Then they made many, many traps to catch the gingerbread man!
We ended up leaving this trap out all night by the library and the new book we made them.
We came in the next morning, and IT WORKED! We caught 4 of our gingerbread ornaments. They even bound our book and left us a letter!
The kids were so excited about their success they started brainstorming how to make an even better trap and what materials they might need to make them. Then it was game on. We got out tape, glue, string, baggies, boxes, and envelopes and made a TON of traps. They were bound and determine to catch all of them.
Then they made letters to hide the trap so when the gingerbread man came to read them, they would fall in and get trapped.
Then we left all our traps out, put Christmas music on, and went outside to play.
It worked! We caught all of our gingerbread ornaments!
Excitement filled the room when the kids came in an discovered how well their traps worked!
It was PURE JOY!
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