This Winter Gingerbread Craft and Writing Center Resource is a fun way for your students to display their writing skills. The are differentiated writing pages for you to choose what is suitable for your students.

Pairing this Gingerbread craft with a writing task is a multi-step project. Students will be excited to display their writing about gingerbread. This Craft and Writing resource is a great way for your students to build skills such as following directions, hand eye coordination, fine motor skills, and writing.

These Gingerbread Directed Drawings are perfect for a winter themed activity and will make it so easy for you and your students to create a fun drawing of a gingerbread kids and a gingerbread house. Directed drawings are a great way to build skills such as following directions, hand eye coordination, and drawing. Directed drawings are a fun way to build a students' confidence in their ability to create.

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What's Included:

1.Anchor Chart Headers and Pictures; "All About Gingerbreads", "Label the Gingerbread" "How to make a gingerbread cookie/man...". Full page color Gingerbread Kids, great for decorating a bulletin board, or to use on the anchor charts.

2.Writing Header (Topper) Page Black and white; have students color it then attach it to a writing page.

3.Craft pieces; Print on colored paper, cut, assemble, and attach to the writing pages

4.Writing Center Words: "My Gingerbread Words" "How to make a Gingerbread Cookie", "Label the Gingerbread" color, and black/white

5.Labeling worksheets; "My Ginger bread Words", "How to make a Gingerbread Cookie", "Label the Gingerbread"

6.Differentiated Writing Pages: All writing pages come with or without primary lines.

•Full page with sentence starters and a space for coloring or drawing.

•Full page without sentence starters and space for coloring or drawing.

•Full page with lines only.

•Half page with sentence starters

•Half page without sentence starters:

What's Included (Directed Drawings): for each set Gingerbread boy/girl, Gingerbread House

1.Multiple Page pdf, which can be displayed on the board. Each Page adds one more step to the drawing.

2.One Page pdf, which has all of the steps on one page and can be used as an independent student activity

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This resource is great for:

•Winter Activity

•Writing Center

•Art Center

•Bulletin Board display

•Follow up activity after a Read Aloud

Suggested breakdown for project completion;

•Day 1; teach your students any background information they may need to write about the topic and use the Anchor Chart pieces

•Day 2; help your students complete the writing and/or drawing/coloring portions of the project.

•Day 3; give your students the pieces to cut, glue and assemble. They can also attach the writing page to their craft. Your students will be so proud of their work!

•OR Day 3/4; you can have the craft part of this project set up in an art center and have your students put together the craft and writing pages together the following day.

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Check out these other craft and writing activities:

Fall Autumn Craft Writing Anchor Chart and Directed Drawings MEGA BUNDLE

Scarecrow Craft and Writing Activity

Bat Craft and Writing Activity

Check out the Directed Drawing Monthly Bundles:

Directed Drawing August BUNDLE Art Center

Directed Drawing September BUNDLE

Directed Drawing October BUNDLE

Happy Drawing!