Gingerbread Week

 

We are reading LOTS of variations of The Gingerbread Man and enjoying gingerbread activities this week. 

 

We made gingerbread play dough (it smells sooo good!!).  The Busy Bees asked me to post the recipe, so here's the one we used:

Gingerbread Play Dough

2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 tbsp. ground ginger
1 tbsp. ground cinnamon
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 cup water

Mix together and knead until smooth.

We found that this recipe made very sticky dough, so we added cream of tarter until we got the texture that we wanted. 

 

 

 

By the way, this was our first day of outside recess since before Thanksgiving break!!  It has been raining for SO long!  Man, it was cold, but the Busy Bees sure were happy to be outside together.  Jack Frost must have painted our slide last night, because we found sheets of ice on that thing! 

 

 



Reindeer Week

We had so much fun last week learning all about reindeer.  Only the magical reindeer can fly, but ALL reindeer can do lots of other cool things!  Did you know....

 

Reindeer are excellent swimmers.

They can run at 40 mph!

Their broad hooves allow them to walk in ice and snow (like snowshoes!).

Male AND female reindeer have antlers.

They dig through snow to find lichen and moss to eat. 

 

We made reindeer snacks, sang Rudolph (a LOT), made antlers to wear, and lots of other fun stuff.  Just a little peek into our week:

 

 

 

And I HAD to post this cuties pie who lost her two front teeth during reindeer week!!  Everybody sing, "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth....."