Gingerbread Alphabet Tracing – Christmas Activity for Preschoolers

If you are looking for a fun, engaging idea for your christmas lesson plans for preschoolers, you will love this Gingerbread alphabet tracing activity! This hands-on gingerbread activities for preschool is a sensory Christmas activity for preschool, pre-k, toddler, and kindergartten age students is a fun holiday activity for December.

Christmas Activity for Preschoolers

This christmas alphabet activity is a great addition to your Christmas lesson plans for your Preschool Christmas Theme in December! All you need are a few simple materails and our free printable Gingerbread letter cards to try this Christmas activity! Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love this free gingerbread printable activities to practice writing upper and lowercase letters with a fun holiday twist!

Gingerbread Printables

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____<<. The Christmas printalbes pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

Christmas Lesson Plans for Preschoolers

All you need for this fun December writing center are a few simple materials:

• pan or tray with raised edges
• free gingerbread printable letter tracing cards (at the bottom of the post)
• candy canes (as pencils)
• 1-2 cups dark brown sugar
• ½ cup flour
• 1-2 Tablespoons cinnamon

Gingerbread activities for preschool

Put all ingredients in pan and mix together. Smooth. Now print your gingerbread alphabet cards and laminate for durability if you like. Set out with a candy cane or use your finger.

Christmas Alphabet Activity

Their are two ways to complete this fun letter tracing activity. The first option is you can put the cards under the clear glass pan or burry them in the sensory materials. Children will look for the letters then trace them with their candy cane.

Christmas letter tracing

The second option is to use the gingerbread letter cards as task cards, guiding students to write the alphabet letter in the gingerbread material with a candy cane or their finger.

Christmas Sensory Activities

We’ve included both the uppercase and lowercase gingerbread letter cards.

HINT: You can use the cards themselves to practice writing letters without the sensory element if you prefer. Start tracing at the gingerbread man and end when you get to the gingerbread house!

Christmas Science Experiments for Kids

Looking for more fun Christmas science ideas? Check these out!

• Fizzy Ornaments Christmas Science Experiments
• Magic Melting Peppermint Candy Christmas Science Experiment
• Fizzy Gingerbread Man Christmas Science Experiment
• Lots of Christmas Science Experiments Kids will love!
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• Melting Christmas Tree Science Experiment for December
• Rudolph Christmas Science Experiments
• Christmas Magic Milk Experiment
• Gumdrops Ornaments Made with Christmas Science Experiment
• Gingerbread Puffy Paint Recipe
• Christmas Fluffy Slime Recipe
• Easy Candy Cane Science Experiment
• Simple Oil and Water Christmas Science Experiment
• Frost in a Can Winter Science Experiment
• Snow Volcano Science Experiment
• Dissolving Holiday Peeps Christmas Science Experiment

Christmas Alphabet

Looking for more fun ways for kids to practice alphabet letters during December? You will love these FREE Christmas alphabet printables:

• Christmas Tree ABC Game
• Letter Tracing Christmas Strips
• Grinch Christmas Alphabet Activity
• Christmas Alphabet Worksheets
• Christmas Colour by Code Activity
• Christmas Printables
• Christmas 2D Shape Puzzles
• ABC Printable Ornaments Trace & Erase

Free Christmas Worksheets

Looking for more fun Christmas themed, FREE printables for preschoolers in December? You will love these choices:

• Christmas Worksheets for Preschoolers
• Easy-to-Make Hat Christmas Craft for Kids
• Fun to make Christmas Playdough Mats
• These Christmas sight Word Games help kids work on reading fluency.
• Kids will have fun practicing patterns with this Free Christmas Patterns Activity
• Help kids work on color recognition with these Stockings Christmas Color Game
• Practice Counting to 20 with these Christmas Tree Playdough Mats

Christmas Literacy Activity

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