Our holiday baking, theme center is now closed. However, we had a lot of fun learning our new vocabulary words while playing in it. Over the course of the month, we made cookie dough, we rolled it out so that we could make cut-out cookies and even baked many batches of gingerbread cookies. (And we did these with both real and pretend dough!)
The preschoolers even boxed up their cookies & sent them to friends and family members. Of course, they had to dress up like mailmen & deliver the cookies as well. Then, some days, we sold the cookies that we made to our friends. The bakers were even nice enough to bag them up so that we could take them home. The language in this unit was so fun we "ate" it up all month!
We even used play dough that smelled like gingerbread to make ornaments for our family members. Then we cut out our letters and many other cool shapes. The flour sensory table was the perfect place to practice measuring, scooping and pouring our ingredients. It was messy, but worth it!
But, our favorite thing each day was to find the gingerbread man. He kept hiding all around the room. One day, he even got loose in the school and we had to track him down.
We'll miss all of the fun in the bakery, but we can't wait to see what's coming up next month.
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