• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

My Obstacle Course: Engage, Encourage and Empower

A fun, structured, systematic way to work on your child's strengths and weaknesses at home!

  • Welcome to My Obstacle Course!
  • What is My Obstacle Course?
  • Developmental Timelines
    • What Is My Child Ready For?
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Information

Gingerbread Man Activity- No Baking Required!

This past week, with the holiday season upon us, I have noticed things related to gingerbread men and gingerbread houses all around me.  It reminded me of an activity I did with Andrew in one of My Obstacle Courses.

One of my favorite websites to get thematic ideas and printable materials is www.enchantedlearning.com.  I don’t usually use the print outs as they are unless I am working on a specific skill but I do like the literacy and math skills that they help build.  To make it more kid-friendly and interactive, I like to use thematic shapes and/or colored index cards, cutting and pasting the words and/or pictures on to create a matching activity.

Gingerbread Man Story- Matching Words with Clues

Words cut and pasted onto index cards cut in half.
Word clues cut and pasted onto precut gingerbread men.
My Obstacle Course station idea: Clothesline Clipping words with their clues

I used this as a clothesline clipping activity to incorporate fine motor skills with a literacy skill but it could also be used along with “Crawl and Match” or “Climb and Match” to combine literacy and gross motor skills.

Primary Sidebar

Obstacle Course Mom’s Blog

  • When People Stare, Mind Your Own Business
  • ABC’s of Peaceful Parenting Tele-class
  • What’s Perfect About This?
  • Exciting News!
  • Halloween

Categories

  • Blog
  • Cool Tool
  • Fine Motor
  • Getting Started
  • Gross Motor
  • Literacy
  • Math
  • My Obstacle Course Station Ideas
  • Oral Motor
  • Problem Solving
  • Sensory
  • Social Skills
  • Uncategorized

Archives

  • July 2012 (1)
  • May 2012 (1)
  • January 2012 (1)
  • November 2011 (2)
  • October 2011 (12)
  • September 2011 (14)
  • August 2011 (15)
  • July 2011 (19)
  • June 2011 (18)
  • May 2011 (21)
  • April 2011 (20)
  • March 2011 (22)
  • February 2011 (19)
  • January 2011 (21)
  • December 2010 (22)
  • November 2010 (6)

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org