Gingerbread man season is upon us. This holiday season, I’ve been looking at numerous ways to encourage name writing, crafting for fine motor AND inspiring children to read. These Gingerbread bulletin board ideas will be a hit! Looking for some super cute winter bulletin boards? These make the perfect addition to your preschool or kindergarten classroom.
See more bulletin board ideas here.
Easy bulletin boards gingerbread men
With preschool kids, we want to make sure they can actually make the craft. So the simpler the shapes, the better.
I love when they also make their own gingerbread house pictures each year. That is definitely one of our favorite crafts.
Themed bulletin boards are always a great idea to inspire creativity in your students.
There are different ways in doing this, but it’s pretty simple get the kids to create the craft using simple shapes and crafting materials like construction paper, then hang the crafts on the bulletin board.
Free Christmas printable binder. See more examples and ideas here.
Gingerbread bulletin boards
The best bulletin boards often come from showcasing student work.
They will love these hung on the classroom door during the winter season, and what’s more, encourage them to read more by adding more book titles to the template throughout the month! This is a favorite December bulletin board idea in our classroom.
I usually start it early however, towards the end of November so that we could get the most out of our Gingerbread unit.
It’s a fun way to get them excited about the season and a great way to kick off the holiday spirit!
Gingerbread color match printable activity for toddlers and preschoolers.
Gingerbread Name Craft
Children’s names are a common theme in pre-k and kindergarten for me. We can’t get enough name writing activities and printables for this time of year.
And adding name printables to the Gingerbread theme activities is a no brainer.
This printable is a great addition to your small group name literacy crafts and centers.
If you don’t want to use it as a Bulletin board, you could also use it just as a craft (it’s optional to add the template of the book), but I think it’s so much fun seeing the kids faces light up when they add a book title to their ‘read books’.
This super cute Gingerbread name craft is in my TPT store, see the link here or below.
Good books for Gingerbread theme
Below I have found some of the best titles for a gingerbread classroom theme, these are below.
Holiday bulletin board
This board is easy to set up, just print out the letters to the sentence “Read, read as much as you can!” and hang it on the board along with the kids finished gingerbreadman craft.
They can come back to the craft and add more book titles as they go
. I love doing crafts and I also love incorporating a learning aspect to these crafts like fine motor skills, literacy, counting and more.
Fun Name Arts and Crafts printable activities
Gingerbread craft
This craft can’t be simpler to make, just print the templates shown, have the kids color the template, then add the eyes, the mouth etc.
There are options for these in the file. So choose whichever templates work best for you.
I’ve added options with color and blacklines.
Older students can also enjoy this winter wonderland craft by adding the books they have read onto it throughout the month of November and December.
It will make a cut display and it can easily be differentiated.
More Christmas printables you might like:
- Ugly Christmas Sweater Craft Name Printable for Kids
- Christmas Maths Games Number Sense in Kindergarten Crafts
- Printable Name Tracing Reindeer Christmas Craft
- Christmas Nativity Scene Printable Busy Book Binder Pages
Gingerbread Bulletin Board Ideas
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