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Ingredients
Eggs (1 per person)
Milk
Pam Cooking Spray
Green Food Coloring
Whisk

Directions
Spray a frying pan or griddle with Pam Cooking Spray. Invite your child to help crack eggs into a bowl. Add a small amount of milk to the eggs. Using a whisk, allow your child to mix the eggs. Add a few drops of green food coloring. Cook over medium low heat, stirring constitantly to avoid sticking to the pan. When cooked through, pour onto plate and enjoy!

Materials
Tempera Paint in brown, tan, red, yellow
Gingerbread cookie cutters
Large piece of construction
Paper plates

Directions
Pour paint onto paper plates. Invite your child to dip the cookie cutters in to the desired paint colors and then press them onto the paper. Your child will enjoy making a beautiful printing of gingerbread men! Optional: Sprinkle glitter onto the wet paint to give it a sparkly effect.

Ingredients
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
2 Tablesppons cinnamon
1 cup water
1/16 teaspoon of brown icing food coloing (Wilton’s Cake Icing)
Buttons
Googley eyes
Beads
Ribbon
Acrylic Sealer
Gingerbread man cookie cutter

Directions
Measure dry ingredients in bowl. In a separate bowl, add icing coloring and water. Stir. Add liquid to dry ingredients and mix well. Knead until well blended. Shape dough into a ball.  Invite your child to either roll out the dough using a rolling pin or press flat with his hands. Additional flour on the work surface will help keep the dough from sticking. Using the cookie cutter, cut out a gingerbread man. Place it on a paper plate and invite your child to decorate it using the buttons, googley eyes, beads, etc. Poke a hole in the top of the head with a pencil or straw. Allow to airdry for a few days. Flip ornament to dry backside. One completely dry, spray with an acrylic sealer to preserve and give a special shine. Tie a ribbon through the top and hang on the Christmas tree.

Ingredients
1 cup of salt
Brown washable tempera paint (about 2 to 4 tablespoons)
Spices: ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves
Large zip-lock bag
Cookie sheet

Directions
Put the salt and paint into the zip-lock bag and work the paint through with your fingers. You can add more paint if you want a darker brown color. Spread the salt and paint mixture onto a foil covered cookie sheet and bake at 200 degrees Fahrenheit for 5 to 10 minutes. You can leave it in a bit longer if it still seems damp.  Warning: Your house will smell like baking paint. Do not be alarmed. Let the salt cool. It will be crispy so put it back in the zip-lock bag and work it through with your hands again to crumble it. Add the spices to your liking (just a tiny amount on the cloves). Place the mixture on a tray and invite your child to draw and move his fingers through the salt. This is a great activity for practicing letter and numeral formationl 

Materials
Sheet of sandpaper
Gingerbread Cookie Cutter
Scissors
Cinnamon sticks
Whole cloves
Whole nutmeg
Ric Rac
Googley eyes
Buttons
Glue
Scissors
Hole punch
String or yarn

Directions
Give your child a piece of sandpaper and talk about how it feels.Introduce new vocabulary words like bumpy, smooth, rough, etc. Place the cookie cutter on the sandpaper and trace around it. Invite your child to rub a cinnamon stick onto the sandpaper. Encourage her to try rubbing whole nutmeg and/or cloves. The sandpaper will smell so good! Cut out the gingerbread man shape and punch a hole at the top. Place a piece of string through the hole and tie the ends. Invite your child to decorate the gingerbread man using ric rac, buttons, yarn, googley eyes, etc. On the glue has dried, hang the sandpaper gingerbread man on your Christmas tree.

Materials
Large piece of white paper
Gingerbread Playdough
Sharpie pen

Directions
On the large piece of construction paper, draw the first letter in your child’s name using “bubble” lettering. Laminate, if possible. Invite your child to roll plaudough into snakes and place them inside the bubble letter until he has formed the whole letter shape using playdough.

Materials
Brown craft foam
Gingerbread man cookie cutter
Colorful buttons
Velcro dots
Hot glue gun
Scissors
Sharpie marker

Directions
On the brown craft foam, use a Sharpie marker to trace around the cookie cutter 5 times. Cut out the gingerbread men. Number the gingerbread men 1-5, writing one numberal on each head. Using the hot glue gun, secure the velcro dots onto the backs of the buttons and onto the tummy of the gingerbread men, corresponding the number of velcro dots to the numeral on the gingerbread man. Invite your child to place the correct number of buttons onto each gingerbread man. Count the buttons.

Materials
Construction paper gingerbread man
Scissors
Magnetic tape
Magnetic Board

Directions
Cut out and decorate a gingerbread man. Then cut the gingerbread man into 5 or 6 pieces and place a piece of magnetic tape on the back of each piece. Place the piece onto a magnetic board and invite your child to put the gingerbread man puzzle together. 

Materials
Foam gingerbread men
A spatula
A cookie sheet
A large tray
Game cube (or two!)

Directions

Materials
Construction paper in brown
Basic small shapes cut in various colors 
Glue stick
Ruler
Scissors
Large white construction paper to glue the shapes onto
Foam shapes or foam shape stickers (alternate option)

Directions
Draw a large square or rectangle and a large triangle on the brown paper. Add a small rectangle for the chimney. Place the large sheet of white construction paper on the table and help your child see how he can combine the rectangle and the triangle to make a house. Invite your child to glue the rectangle and triange down on the paper. The small rectangle can be glued to make a chimney. Then invite your child to decorate the house by gluing the various colored shapes onto it. This makes a lovely colorful house and is great fine motor practice, too.