Yummy ABC Gingerbread Man Cookies

Run, run, as fast as you can.  You can’t catch me.  I’m the ABC Gingerbread Man.  Today we’re reading the Gingerbread Man as part of this week’s Virtual Book Club for Kids and we’re making some very yummy letter cookies.

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Gingerbread Man

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The Book

The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth is a classic version of the story.

The Activity

Materials Needed: your favorite gingerbread cookie and frosting recipe, candy eyes, and alphabet cookie cutters

1.  First, you will want to use your favorite gingerbread cookie recipe.  This is the one that we used.—>CLICK FOR RECIPE  It was super easy to prep and manipulate.  Plus, it only needed to chill in the freezer for 10 minutes before using the cookie cutters with it.
2. Roll out the dough and use alphabet cookie cutters to make your shapes.
3. When the cookies have cooled, use your favorite frosting (we used some that we had leftover from our gingerbread house making the day before this activity) and candy eyes to make details on each cookie.
4. Share and eat!

We had fun decorating some of the cookies by matching the decorations to a word for each letter. For example, T was toothy and J was joyful.

Take your gingerbread cooking making up a literacy notch with these ABC gingerbread man cookies.

Time to explore some more activities to do with The Gingerbread Man story.