Who belongs to the Gingerbread Family? What are they wearing? What are their clothes made of? And, most importantly, what yummy ingredients can we use to decorate them?
Let's create our very own Gingerbread Family Tree and have fun describing people, clothes, colours and food in English!
🎯 Subject Areas
Food and sweetsBody parts
Clothes
Family members and family tree
🗣️ Language Focus
Let's describe our gingerbread characters!
GINGER DADDY
He's wearing a pair of striped trousers.He's got a white belt made of pink icing.
His buttons are made of chocolate.
GINGER MUMMY
She's wearing a long, colourful dress.She's got two purple chocolate buttons.
She's wearing a white icing belt.
GINGER DAUGHTER & GINGER SON
What is Ginger Daughter wearing?What colour is her skirt?
Is Ginger Son wearing a pair of shorts or trousers?
What is his mouth made of?
Are their buttons made of sweets or chocolate?
Encourage children to use their imagination and come up with their own delicious designs!
💬 Communication Goals
By the end of the activity, children will be able to:
Describe people and their appearance.Ask and answer questions about clothes and colours.
Name different sweets, candies and food ingredients.
Talk about family members.
Listen to and understand the story of The Gingerbread Man.
🎨 Let's Make a Gingerbread Family Tree!
Ready for some sweet creativity? Here's how to set up the activity!
1. Meet the Gingerbread Family
Give each child paper templates of gingerbread men, women and children. Explain that they are going to create their very own Gingerbread Family Tree!
2. Choose your ingredients!
Prepare a list of ingredients and sweets that can be used to decorate the gingerbread characters. Think icing, chocolate buttons, colourful candies, sprinkles, jelly beans and much more!
3. Let's decorate!
Draw the different ingredients on the blackboard so children can copy them and use them to decorate their gingerbread characters.
4. Time to talk!
Invite children to show their Gingerbread Family Tree to the class. Ask each child to describe one or two family members.
You can ask questions such as:
Who is this?What is he/she wearing?
What colour is his/her skirt?
What are his/her buttons made of?
Has he/she got a chocolate mouth?
Let the children ask questions, too!
❤️ A sweet little challenge!
Can your pupils introduce their whole Gingerbread Family in English?
Let's see how creative (and delicious!) their families can be!
Body parts Cootie Catcher
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