Gingerbread Songs and           Finger Plays

My Gingerbread House

I made a house of gingerbread.

It was so sugary sweet.

It took me all day long to make,

But lasted just a week!

Monday - I ate the ceiling.

Tuesday - I ate the door.

Wednesday - I ate the windows.

Thursday - I ate the floor.                        

Friday - I ate all four walls.                       

Saturday - I ate the lawn.

Sunday - I licked up the crumbs.

My gingerbread house is gone!

 by Dotti Enderle 

Gingerbread Men Finger Play & Chant

Five little gingerbread men lying on a tray,     
One jumped up and ran away.

Shouting "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can ...
I run really fast, I'm a gingerbread man!"

Four little gingerbread men lying on a tray,
One jumped up and ran away.
Shouting "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can ...
I run really fast, I'm a gingerbread man!"

Three little gingerbread men lying on a tray,
One jumped up and ran away.
Shouting "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can ...
I run really fast, I'm a gingerbread man!"

Two little gingerbread men lying on a tray,
One jumped up and ran away.
Shouting "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can ...
I run really fast, I'm a gingerbread man!"

One little gingerbread man lying on a tray,
He jumped up and ran away.
Shouting "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can ...
I run really fast, I'm a gingerbread man!"

No more gingerbread men lying on a tray,
They all jumped up and ran away.
Oh, how I wish they had stayed with me to play.
Next time I'll eat them before they run away.

Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?

Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?
_____________stole the cookies from the cookie jar!
Who, me?
Yes, you!
Couldn't be!
Then who?  ____________stole the cookies from the cookie jar!

Gingerbread

tune:  “Frere Jacques” (From:  More Piggyback Songs)

Gingerbread, Gingerbread,
Yum, yum, yum,
Yum, yum, yum.                               
I like gingerbread,
I like gingerbread,
In my tum,
In my tum,

My Gingerbread Man

tune: “Beautiful Dreamer”
Words:  B. Sarah Froehlich

My gingerbread man
Where have you gone?Out of the oven
before you were done.                  
With two little legs you
ran and you ran.
Please come back to me
little gingerbread man.

ABC GINGERBREAD MAN

borrowed from Mrs. Sirois' Farm

A-B-C-D-E
A Gingerbread Man is looking at me!
F-G-H-I-J
I think he has something to say!
K-L-M-N-O
"I want to run away, you know."
P-Q-R-S-T
"Will you run away and play with me?"
U-V-W-X-Y
"If you don't I will surely cry!"
Z-Z-Z-Z-Z
The Gingerbread Man will stay and play with me!

Where is my Gingerbread Man?
tune of "Oh where has my little dog gone?"
from Ms. Pieczko's Kinderhive

Oh where, oh where is my Gingerbread Man?
Oh where, oh where can he be?
He popped out of the oven and ran out the door.
Oh where, oh where can he be?

Ten Little Gingerbread Friends

taken from:  Kinderthemes

1 Little, 2 Little,
3 Little Gingerbread,
4 little, 5 Little,
6 Little Gingerbread,
7 Little, 8 Little,
9 Little Gingerbread,
10 Little Gingerbread Friends!

11 Little, 12 Little,
13 Little Gingerbread,
14 Little, 15 Little,
16 Little Gingerbread,
17 Little, 18 Little,
19 Little Gingerbread,
20 Little Gingerbread Friends!

Gingerbread
Stir a bowl of gingerbread
(make stirring motion)

Smooth and spicy brown

Roll it with a rolling pin
(pretend to roll dough)

Up and up and down

With a cookie cutter
(pretend to cut cookies with cutter)

Make some little men,

Put them in the oven
(put tray in the oven)

Until half past ten.