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!