Gingerbread Week

Every year I have done the 25 days of Christmas, but I always felt overwhelmed and tied down. This year, I decided to do week themes where I could be more flexible. The first week of December, we did gingerbread crafts.

Gingerbread Ornaments: Just takes glue, applesauce and cinnamon.

  We used a straw to poke a hole in the top. While I was taking care of Maverick, Lincoln poked multiple holes in every single one. We had to start all over, but I decided to save one of his creations.

For family home evening we made gingerbread cookies and one gingerbread man cookie. While reading Lincoln the book about the gingerbread man, I snuck out the gingerbread man cookie and hid him. When the oven timer went off, we went and checked in the oven and Lincoln was so excited to see that the gingerbread man was gone!! But he had left some picture clues and we began our scavenger hunt.

Lincoln was awesome at this game (cough, cough), he would find a clue and run to some other random object. Example: “Hey mom, look a picture of the toilet!” and then he would run to the kitchen table.

Finally we found the gingerbread man in the refrigerator!

Making Gingerbread houses! We have done this every Christmas since Lincoln was born. I made the gingerbread house pieces myself and then HOT-GLUED them together, seriously best idea ever.

We also played some gingerbread man learning games.

Counting Gingerbread Men 

Match the Gingerbread Gg on the Tree

Gingerbread Men Size Sorting

Painting our gingerbread Men ornaments