Cookies!! - Submitted by Wende
K-2nd
Library List:
If
You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Nemeroff
Arthur’s
Christmas Cookies by Lillian Hoban
The
Christmas Cookies by Andy Rector
The Gingerbread Man
Cranberry
Christmas by Wende and Harry Devlin
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
- Complete Gingerbread
unit with printables
- Bake and decorate gingerbread cookies
- Using gingerbread patterns, have children make gift tags
Cranberry Christmas by Wende and Harry Devlin
- Discuss how cranberries grow in a bog
- 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