Gingerbread+for+Liberty!+Reinforcing+Activity

Stack the Gingerbread Reinforcing Activity Objective: Stack the “gingerbread” into a pyramid by working as a team of four.

Materials: Rubber Band, Plastic Cups, Paper Gingerbread Cutouts, Glue, String, and Scissors

Set Up: To get started print off gingerbread picture, cut them out, and glue them to each cup. Take one rubber band and tie four strings to it evenly spread apart. Then spread multiple groups of 6 cups out on the ground in different areas depending on the amount of groups you have.

Procedure: Read the book to the class as a whole on the carpet. Begin to talk about how working together can help solve problems and that the baker taught us that if we believe in one another and work as a team we can solve the problem at hand even if that means working with the enemy. Separate the kids into groups of four and have them sit by the cups. Tell the children that now we want to work together to stack our own gingerbread. Demonstrate with three kids that each person pulls one string to make the rubber band stretch. Then as a team everyone moves the rubber band over one cup and lets go in order to grab it. Then we all lift the cup by the strings into its place until we have stacked all the cups into a pyramid. This teaches them to work as a team to achieve a goal.

This may also be used to teach Government and how rules apply to individuals.

Tag Words: history, government, war, revolution, liberty, gingerbread, Rockliff, baker, Washington, and America