We did this unit a couple of weeks before Christmas, to get all the
baking done and prepare some gift jars while keeping the children busy,
at the rate of a book a day.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Nemeroff
- Set up dominoes to demonstrate a chain reaction
- Have children write/narrate and illustrate “If you give ____
a ____” story
- Bake chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies
- Use chocolate chips as manipulatives for math problems
- Make cookie mix jars for gifts, having children help to measure all
the ingredients.
Arthur’s Christmas Cookies by Lillian Hoban and The Christmas
Cookies by Andy Rector
- Have child partner read story
- Bake and decorate sugar cookies
- Do cookie
baking sequencing cards
- Make cookie mix jars for gifts, having children help to measure
all the ingredients
The Gingerbread Man
- Discuss where various spices and molasses come from when making
cookies
- Make felt gingerbread ornaments
- Gingerbread
activities to download
- Complete Gingerbread
unit with printables
- Bake and decorate gingerbread cookies
- Using gingerbread patterns, have children make gift tags
Gingerbread
coloring sheet
Cranberry Christmas by Wende and Harry Devlin
- Discuss how cranberries grow in a bog
- Play Cookie
Jar facts family file folder game
- Bake Cranberry Cookies (recipe on back of book)
- Bake oatmeal raisin cookies and make jar mixes
General Cookie Ideas:
- Wonderful selection of “cookie
mix in a jar” gift recipes
Cookie
poems, songs, and book ideas
Grandmother
and girl making cookies coloring sheet
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