The Gingerbread Preschool Centers packet contains 21 printable activities for use with children in Preschool, Pre-Kindergarten, Transitional Kindergarten and Kindergarten (Prep/Foundation). To download some FREE sample pages from this packet, click here. To purchase the complete 148-page packet, scroll to the end of this post for links to my online stores.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Preschool-Centers-Gingerbread-INSTA.jpg)
Gingerbread play dough mats (5 mats)
Materials needed: play dough in various colors
Children will use the play dough to decorate a gingerbread cookie.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Play Dough Gingerbread House.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-play-dough.jpg)
Gingerbread house pre-writing practice
Materials needed: erasable markers
Children will trace the pre-writing lines and curves.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Pre-Writing Tracing Cards.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-pre-writing.jpg)
Gingerbread upper and lower case letter tracing
Materials needed: erasable markers
Children will trace the upper and lower case letters.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Tracing Upper and Lower Case Alphabet Letters.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-tracing-letters.jpg)
Gingerbread upper-lower case letter matching
Children will match the lower case cards with the upper case letters on the trays.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Upper and Lower Case Gingerbread Cookie Match.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-upper-lower-case-match.jpg)
Gingerbread house beginning sounds matching
Children will match the pictures to the correct gingerbread house.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Beginning Sounds Gingerbread House.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-beginning-sounds.jpg)
Gingerbread syllables
Materials needed: clothes pegs/pins
Children will identify the number of syllables in each word and show their answer by clipping a peg on the corresponding number.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Syllables.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-syllables.jpg)
Gingerbread house rhyming words matching
Children will match the rhyming pictures from the roof to the base of the gingerbread house.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Gingerbread House Rhyming Words.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-rhyming.jpg)
Gingerbread man CVC word building
Children will use the candy letters to build the words on each gingerbread man.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Gingerbread Men CVC Words.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-CVC-words.jpg)
Gingerbread man and house sight word matching
Children will match the gingerbread man to the house with the same word.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Gingerbread Sight Words.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-sight-word-match.jpg)
Gingerbread cookie shadow matching
Children will match the pictures to their shadows.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Gingerbread Shdaow Match.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-shadow-match.jpg)
Which picture is different? cards
Children will identify the picture that is different.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Which Picture is Different?](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-different.jpg)
What Doesn’t Belong? cards
Children will identify the picture that doesn’t belong.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. What Doesn't Belong?](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-doesnt-belong.jpg)
Gingerbread cookie sorting (with and without icing)
Children will sort the different cookies to the correct pan.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Sorting gingerbread cookies.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-sorting.jpg)
Making and decorating cookies 4-part sequencing cards
Children will order the cards correctly to show the process of making and decorating cookies.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Making gingerbread cookies sequencing cards.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-sequence.jpg)
Gingerbread boy color matching
Materials needed: colored pom-poms or buttons
Children will match the colored items to the correct gingerbread man.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Sorting / Matching buttons by color to gingerbread men.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-colors.jpg)
Gingerbread cookie patterns (AB)
Children will identify the pattern on the cards and place the correct picture in the empty box to complete the pattern.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. AB Patterns.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-patterns.jpg)
Gumdrop Ten Frame Number tracing
Materials needed: erasable markers
Children will trace the numbers.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Number Tracing Cards.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-tracing-numbers.jpg)
Gingerbread cookie number sense (1-10)
Children will sort the different number representation cookies to the correct pan.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Gingerbread cookies number sense sorting activity.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-number-sense.jpg)
Gingerbread cookie counting
Children will count and place the amount out of gingerbread cookies shown on the pan.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Gingerbread cookie counting.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-counting.jpg)
Gingerbread cookie sorting by size (small, medium, large)
Children will sort the different gingerbread cookies to the correct pan.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Sorting gingerbread cookies by size.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-size-sort.jpg)
Cookie shape sorting
Children will sort the differently shaped cookies to the correct pan.
![Preschool Gingerbread Centers: 22 Printable Activities for Christmas | December. Sorting gingerbread cookies by shape.](https://www.inmyworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gingerbread-shapes.jpg)
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