Design a Gingerbread House | Christmas Math Activity

Explore three-dimensional nets and objects with this activity that encourages creativity and math combined into a fun Christmas-themed activity. Students will learn about, create and construct nets as part of a house design and then will use their art skills to convert it into a gingerbread house.

This hands-on product includes:

• a complete lesson plan for teachers explaining each step of creating this project with tips for differentiation or modifications.
• papier mâché recipe and tips for making it manageable.
• student planning pages.
• student checklists.
• assessment rubrics.
• photograph examples of the finished projects.
• student reflection pages.
• net pattern templates.
• Ninja Note: This activity can be done with NO REFERENCE TO CHRISTMAS for your students that don't celebrate or observe Christmas. Houses can be decorated with anything and there is a complete set of pages that don't reference a gingerbread house.

This activity has been tested with five different groups of grade five students and is a HUGE hit. Please review the PREVIEW to get an idea of what comes in the package.

This task aligns with:

• Alberta Program of Studies for Grade 4 Math Shape & Space

This task supports:

• any lesson covering three-dimensional objects

We use this product with:

• Representing Numbers Interactive Math Notebook Bundle Grade 4/5

Need more practice?

• Nets Boom Cards Grade 4-6 (digital task cards)
• Nets Task Cards Grade 4/5 (paper, Google Slides and Google Forms task cards)

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Thank you for your consideration! Happy math-making from the Brain Ninjas!