Seasons and holidays
Fall Leaf Portrait
Find a real fall leaf, look closely and draw its portrait: the veins, the edges and every color.
Thinking sheet · Seasons and holidays
Gingerbread House Architect
Design the sweetest gingerbread house: candy roof, frosting windows, a gumdrop path. Then write its shopping list.
- Grades
- K–5
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Seasons and holidays
- Kids practice
- design, pattern and decoration, planning
What kids do
“You’re the gingerbread architect! Design a house good enough to eat.”
- Decorate your gingerbread house
- Candy shopping list
- Who lives here?
- The best part of my design:
How to run it
- Show pictures of real gingerbread houses for ideas.
- Patterns on the roof make it look great: candy, candy, gap.
- Build one from graham crackers if you can.
Talk about it
- What would be hardest to build for real?
- Which candy makes the best door?
- Would you eat your house?
Take it further
Design a gingerbread castle or a gingerbread rocket.
Pairs well with
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