In short, I am busy: The Gingerbread Man

Flannelboards, Manipulatives, and Storytelling

• Gingerbread Man (fractured retelling)

Rhymes, songs, and movement

Vocabulary and concepts

• Folktales in different cultures
• Animal names

Crafts and extension activities

• Decorate gingerbread men (die-cut)
• Scavenger hunt for paper gingerbread men (volunteers decorated them and staff hid them during storytime). This goes best with Catch that Cookie by Hallie Durand

Toddler listeners (*Nonfiction)

Preschool listeners (*Nonfiction)

• Senorita Gordita by Helen Ketteman
• Gingerbread boy by Beatrice Rodriguez

School-age Stories (*Nonfiction)

• Pancake boy by Lorinda Cauley
• Catch that cookie by Hallie Durand