- Talk about the story and consider why he kept running away
- Look at alternative stories e.g The Gingerbread Girl
- Decorate the large Gingerbread Man on the playground
- Make a Gingerbread Man and decorate
- Put buttons on Gingerbread Man using tweezers
- Write numbers in flour
- Gingerbread Man tuff spot story
- Make a bridge from construction resources
- Scented ginger/cinnamon play dough
- Order the Gingerbread Men by size
- Hunt for numbered Gingermen using positional clues
- Use gutters to make streams and boats
- Have races using different ways of moving
- Draw Gingerbread Men in the sand
- Play a game with scents
- Bakery/kitchen role play area
