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December 16, 2012

Gingerbread Man Patterning Activity

Simple Gingerbread Patterning Activity

I have a love of gingerbread men. They look adorable as crafts and taste yummy as cookies. Nothing makes a house more like Christmas than a batch of homemade gingerbread men baking in the oven. With that said, I love this fun gingerbread man patterning activity that we did the other day.

Simple Gingerbread patterning activity

All you need to create your own gingerbread man patterning activity is:

  • 2 gingerbread men cut outs
  • Jewels, buttons, colorful paper or fabric scraps, etc.

Gingerbread Man Patterning Activity

I was able to reuse gingerbread men that I created for Bree’s gingerbread birthday party.  However, you can easily print off a gingerbread man coloring page or create your own gingerbread man outline for this activity.

Simply place a bowl of brightly colored jewels and your gingerbread men next to each other on the table. Invite your toddler to create fun patterns with the buttons on the gingerbread men.  Patterning is a great way to introduce math to your little one.  Plus when working with tiny objects like these jewels, you will be helping to developed their fine motor skills as well.

Gingerbread Man Patterning Activity

Here are a few different ways to use this simple patterning activity:

  1. Create a colorful pattern on one gingerbread man and have your toddler copy it on the other gingerbread man.
  2. Invite your toddler to create a pattern and then recreate it yourself.  Kids love to have you mimic them:)
  3. Work on color recognition and listening skills.  Ask them to find a ________(color) jewel and place it ______(below, above, beside, etc) the ________(color) jewel.
  4. Work on simple math skills.  Add 4 buttons, 2 eyes, etc.
  5. Our jewels are 2 different sizes.  Add an extra patterning challenge by adding different size of jewels.  Color, size and number can make for an exciting challenge.

We had fun playing with our gingerbread men.  I would love to hear what you and your little ones are creating and learning together:)

Looking for more fun Gingerbread Man Activities?  Check out our:

Gingerbread Play Dough

Gingerbread Ornaments

Gingerbread Party

Gingerbread House Decorating Party

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6 thoughts on “Gingerbread Man Patterning Activity”

  1. pauline@lessonslearntjournal.com on December 16, 2012 at 10:05 pm said:

    What a delightfully cute learning activity. Your gingerbread men are adorable and the embellishments are so attractive. Thank you for the inspiration. xoxo P

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    • Tammy on December 17, 2012 at 12:21 pm said:

      Thanks for your sweet comments! We had so much fun playing with these little gingerbread men.

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  2. Jill on December 20, 2012 at 8:28 am said:

    This is so cute! I’m such a big fan of gingerbread men and this would make a lovely decoration or card that I could make with my son.

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    • Tammy on December 20, 2012 at 8:31 am said:

      An interactive card would be so fun!

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  3. Julie Locke on December 20, 2012 at 8:37 pm said:

    I love these gingerbread men, and the preschoolers I teach would love the patterning. I think using the “gems” makes it so much more fun.

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