Pirate Gingerbread Man Craft for Kids
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If you are looking for a fun Christmas craft for kids to celebrate the holiday season in December, you will love this super cute Gingerbread Pirates project! The pirate gingerbread man is from one of our favorite Christmas picture book and makes a fun gingerbread craft for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. The Cinnamon Christmas Ornaments recipe is super easy to make, smells amazing, and makes really cute homemade ornaments for kids to make!
Gingerbread Man Craft
Believe it or not my kids were begging to do ‘preschool’ the week before Christmas. So even though I hadn’t planned anything I whipped something up. . . . My kids are VERY into Gingerbread! They love our Gingerbread cookies recipe (our recipe comes out super soft if you need one), gingerbread houses, and now their new favorite book: The Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup. So we whipped up some Cinnamon Dough for ornaments recipe that will keep & smells amazing. This Christmas activity is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students.
Gingerbread Crafts
We made Gingerbread pirates using our gingerbread cookie cutter. Some had missing legs, just like in the book. This is such a fun homemade Christmas ornament that will remind you and your kids about reading this really fun holiday Christmas book.
Cinnamon Christmas Ornaments
These gingerbread ornaments are super easy to make and smell so good; they will make your house smell like Christmas! Simply mix the flour, salt, water, and cinnamon until well combined. Roll out on counter and use a gingerbread man cookie cutter to make your gingerbread ornaments. We tweaked them to make them look like pirate gingerbread men by adding a hat tp the Captain, cutting off one of his legs and adding a toothpick for a peg leg.
Gingerbread Craft
Pirate gingerbread man
We let them dry and then it was time to play with our Gingerbread Pirates.
Gingerbread Pirate
Our captain gingerbread man pirate looked just like the book! Now, ten years later, we still look fondly on these ornaments on our tree! These were a HUGE hit in our house!
Gingerbread Craft Preschool
We also made a gingerbread men wreath with our leftover dough. We pinched the gingerbread men together with a little water, pressed in a raisin buttons and baked. Then we painted the gingerbread men. It was super easy & turned out so cute!
We finished out our learning this week using the Free printable Gingerbread Pirate Worksheets for Kids (Preschool-3rd grade).
This zany Grow a Candy Cane Activity is another must try Christmas activity on its own, using an Elf on the Shelf, or to give out to classmates.
Finally, don’t miss our EPIC Christmas Around the World unit! This includes free printables, and detailed posts on over 40 countries Christmas traditions along with clever activities and yummy recipes to try!
Gingerbread Worksheets
- Gingerbread Man Comprehension Questions Worksheets
- Free Gingerbread Man Worksheets
- Gingerbread Man Color by Number Printables
- Free Gingerbread Man Sequencing Activity
- Read the Gingerbread Pirates then sneak in these educational gingerbread pirates activities
- Super Cute Gingerbread Rhyming Puzzles
- Gingerbread Sight Word Coloring Sheets
- Simple Gingerbread Coloring Pages to decorate
- Free Gingerbread Man Dot to Dot
- Shape Gingerbread Math Worksheets
- GIngerbread Man Coloring Page pdf
Gingerbread Activities
- Puffy Paint gingerbread craft
- Gingerbread Letters activity for preschoolers and kindergartners
- Amazing gingerbread slime
- Gingerbread Addition Game
- Super Cute Gingerbread Rhyming Puzzles
- Gingerbread Addition Puzzles
- Christmas Patterns Activities decorating Gingerbread house with playdough
- Lots of ideas in this Gingerbread Theme for Preschoolers
- Fizzy Gingerbread Man Science Experiments
- Gingerbread Number Order Printable
- Hands-on Gingerbread man activity tracing letters
- 16 Fun-to-Read Gingerbread Books for Kids
- Best Gingerbread Cookie Recipe – they come out soft every time!
Cinnamon Christmas Ornaments
Ingredients
- 1 cups flour
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1/2 cup water
- 2-3 Tablespoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients in a mixer. No need to add flour on the counter to roll out! Roll & make gingerbread men. Cook on parchment paper lined baking sheet at 300 F for 1 hour. Immediately remove from cookie sheet and allow to cool thoroughly before painting or covering in lacquer.
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