The BEST Gingerbread Themed Books and Activities for Preschool and Early Elementary Speech and Language Therapy

A gingerbread theme can be the perfect way to add some holiday spirit without actually talking about Christmas in your speech therapy sessions! 

Speech sessions in my room always start with a book and are followed by additional extension activities to reinforce the targets we practiced during the story read. The perfect combination for busy school-based SLPs with mixed groups!

Below is a list of THE BEST gingerbread themed books followed by easy and fun themed activities.

10 Gingerbread-Themed Books for Speech Therapy:

1. How to Catch a Gingerbread Man by: Adam Wallace & Andy Elkerton (PK-K)
2. The Ninjabread Man by: C.J. Leigh (PK-1)
3. Gingerbread Girl by: Lisa Ernst (PK-1)
4. Gingerbread Baby by: Jan Brett (PK-1)
5. Gingerbread Friends by: Jan Brett (PK-1)
6. The Gingerbread Cowboy by: Janet Squires (PK-2)
7. The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by: Laura Murray (K-4)
8. The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo by: Laura Murray (K-4)
9. The Gingerbread Man Loose on the Fire Truck by: Laura Murray (K-4)
10. The Gingerbread Man folktale (various authors)

Gingerbread-Themed Activities for Speech Therapy:

1. Retell the story and act it out. Use props or pictures if needed. Make sure to use grammatically correct sentences and all of your target speech sounds! 
2. Grab a no prep gingerbread themed activity to practice following directions with your students. Click HERE or see the end of this post for details!
3. Grab some gingerbread cookies to decorate with frosting and candy. A little too much effort/money? Cut out some gingerbread people and shapes. Decorate them by following directions or describe your gingerbread person. Make sure to use all of your good speech sounds!
4. Cut out (or print out) several gingerbread people. Hide them around the room or around the school. Answer "where" questions using spatial concepts.
5. Create gingerbread people out of modeling dough. Add beads, buttons, string, pipe cleaners, etc. to create the face and body.
6. Make gingerbread scented modeling dough. There are tons of recipes you can find online that are easy to make and smell SO good!
7. Draw a gingerbread person outline. Create different facial expressions using a marker or modeling dough. Talk about how the gingerbread person is feeling. 
8. Pretend play: Pretend to mix and bake your own gingerbread cookies. Pretend the cookie runs away when you open the oven door. What would you do?
9. Create a new ending to the gingerbread story you read. How would you change it? 
10. Cut out (or print out) several gingerbread people. Write a letter on each one. Put the letters together to spell your name or sight words.

There are so many fun books and activity ideas for a gingerbread theme. Just make sure you don’t try to do too much, because as a busy school SLP…you really don’t have a lot of time to spare! 

To save you even more time, check out this NO PREP gingerbread-themed activity below!👇🏼

The BEST No Prep Gingerbread-Themed Activities:

I LOVE using following directions activities because there are so many ways to implement and use them with mixed groups. 

✅Want to make your life easier? Use DIFFERENTIATED NO PREP activities because it requires basically no time to prep and covers so many students on your huge caseload.

✅Use no prep worksheets and activities in your session and send home unfinished activities for homework. Win-win!

✅Engage your students with themed activities and target themed vocabulary at the same time, making the vocabulary relevant for your students.

CLICK HERE to Check It Out!

➡️Includes enough activities for multiple sessions including 8 picture scene worksheets and 520 directions!

➡️Save your precious time for other tasks by using these NO PREP print and go activities.

➡️No access to a functioning printer? Use these worksheets digitally by opening an editing app and digitally drawing right on the page

➡️Homework is already prepped for you! Send home additional printed worksheets for at-home practice and carryover.

CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE NO PREP GINGERBREAD ACTIVITIES