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Cognitive development
Cognitive development
STORY TIME!
Listen to one of these fabulous stories featuring COOKIES!
(Follow along with your own book if you have a copy at home!) Then try one of the learning activities to go along with it!
The Gingerbread Man
See if you can find another version of this story. Then, think about how they are alike and how they are different!
You retell the story? Which animals did the gingerbread man meet?
Create your own crafty gingerbread man by cutting out a cookie shape or printing one out. Then, use paint, pom poms, glitter, and whatever art supplies you have at home to design your own gingerbread man.
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Create these cookie counting cards! Put the correct number of chocolate chips on each cookie.
Pretend play with cookies is so much fun!! Use felt and craft supplies or even playdoh to make clever cookies. Then create a store where you pretend to sell your cookies! Don’t forget the milk!
The Duckling Gets a Cookie
Tear some brown construction paper into pieces then glue them down into a circle shape. Then dip your finger into black paint and add some chocolate chips to your sweet treat!
Print a few copies of these cookies (included in your packet). Then, create a matching game by writing capital letters (two A, two B, two C, etc), lower case letters (two a, two b, two c, etc), or one of each (Aa, Bb, Cc, etc.). Spread the cookies out on a table with the letters facing down. Have fun taking turns with someone in your family to see who can find the most matches!
Social Emotional development
Social Emotional development
Watch this video then play Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar with your family!
Communication development
Communication development
Practice following simple directions using a cookie, pretend cookie, cookie cereal, or even a picture of a cookie. For example:
Put the cookie on the table.
Put the cookie under the chair.
Put the cookie behind your back.
Tap the cookie 3 times.
Put the cookie next to the cup
What sound does cookie start with? Find 3 more things that start with the same sound!
Have a cookie snack with someone in your family. Practice having a conversation with them by telling them what you did last weekend and asking them questions! Talk about your favorite book or tv show!
Adaptive development
Adaptive development
Let’s Get Dressed!
The gingerbread man in the story wore a fancy suit of clothes. Can you help dress your dolls or stuffed animals by putting on a shirt and pants or a dress? Try making the zipper go up and down all by yourself. Can you close the snaps or do the buttons, too?
Fun in the Kitchen!
Find your FAVORITE cookie recipe and have fun baking some delicious goodies together!
Motor development
Motor development
FINE MOTOR
Cut a large circle out of brown construction paper and if you want to, make it look like a chocolate chip cookie or a frosted sugar cookie! Then, using a paper punch, make holes all around the perimeter. Using yarn or string, practice lacing by following an up and down pattern. For an added challenge, make your cookie a GINGERBREAD man!
GROSS MOTOR
Think about the rhyme: “Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man!”
Substitute the words “run, run” with other motor movements (jump, skip, stomp, leap, clap) and have fun acting them out!
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