35 Gingerbread Videos for Kindergarten in December
A gingerbread theme in December is a great way to harness Christmas excitement with tie-ins to literature, science, and math. I’ve put together a collection of gingerbread videos that are perfect for kindergarten students. These will help fill in the gaps in your gingerbread day (or gingerbread week)!
Like my other video roundups, this one is divided into categories to help you choose gingerbread videos that make it easy to integrate your theme across the curriculum. You’ll find gingerbread videos for teaching science, math, literacy, and art concepts (and some that are just for fun)!
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Ready to sweeten your days with some gingerbread fun? Here’s a roundup of school-appropriate videos to choose from!
Gingerbread Videos for Your Literacy Lessons
Here are several gingerbread videos you can use to support your reading instruction in kindergarten.
From Gigglebox, this four-and-a-half-minute animated video tells the classic The Gingerbread Man tale. Knowledge of this story is important background knowledge for many other gingerbread stories and activities. If you don’t have a book of the traditional story, this is a great place to start!
The traditional gingerbread story has spawned many spin-offs. These fractured fairy tales cross many fun themes! This version, read-aloud by Ms. Michelle’s Storytime, takes place in a school and is a great lead-in to your own class gingerbread hunt! You can find The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School on Amazon if you’d like a copy for your library.
The Gingerbread Cowboy, read here by Miss Jill from Toadstools and Fairy Dust, is a cute take on the traditional tale with a cowboy theme. Books like this one are great for comparing and contrasting similar stories. You can find a physical copy of this book on Amazon at this link.
While you’re working on comparing and contrasting, pull out your copy of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (or watch a read-aloud here), and compare it to this fun gingerbread version by Bubbabop. This video is just under three minutes long.
Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett is a great one to share after you’ve read the original story and a spin-off or two. This original tale borrows themes from the original, but has a theme of friendship. This read-aloud video by Kindergarten Kat is just under five minutes long. You can grab the book for your classroom library at this link.
The pirate theme of this gingerbread tale makes it particularly engaging! Read aloud by Early Learning Adventures with Mrs. T, much of this Christmas adventure story takes place after bedtime on Christmas Eve. In that way, it could be compared to The Nutcracker, if that’s something your students are familiar with. You can grab the physical book here on Amazon.
Part of a popular series, How to Catch a Gingerbread Man is a fun holiday read-aloud that takes place in a bookstore and references characters from well-known storybooks. This read-aloud video, created by Reading Rockets, is about 3.5 minutes long. You can add the book to your classroom library here.
This catchy gingerbread house song by Super Simple Songs is perfect for reinforcing rhyming with your kindergartners! The lyrics to the song are in the description, making it easy to prepare a little phonemic awareness lesson to use with this gingerbread video. I’d start by reading verses of the song aloud, like a poem, but having students call out the missing rhymes. Then, when they listen later, their attention will be drawn to the rhyming words!
This gingerbread fingerplay, shared here by Learning with Miss Bethany, is just begging to be written on a sheet of chart paper for a shared reading experience! You can draw attention to alliteration and rhyming words, in addition to beginning sounds and word chunks.
Gingerbread Videos that Support Math Instruction
Here are some fun gingerbread videos to integrate into your kindergarten math lessons!
Perfect for introducing subtraction concepts, “Five Little Gingerbread Men” can also be used to generate missing-addend equations and to relate addition to subtraction. This Kiboomers video is just under three minutes long.
From TinyStoryland this short gingerbread counting song offers a fun review of the numbers through ten. Consider using it as a transition into your math lesson.
Familiarize your kindergartners with addition equations using this festive gingerbread math video from William’s Planet & Family Story Book Time. With pictures to accompany each math problem, this video includes addition facts with sums within ten.
This slow-paced video reviews rote counting by tens with silly gingerbread animation. From Shooting Stars, this video is under two minutes in length.
K5 Hidden Peak Education created a simple, wordless subitizing video with gingerbread men. Use this as a “quick images” number sense review at transition times or to kick off your math lesson.
Looking for more gingerbread subitizing? This bingo game is perfect for your class party or any time during your gingerbread theme! You can find it on TPT or here in the My Happy Place website shop.
Gingerbread Subitizing Bingo
Perfect for Christmas or any time in December, this gingerbread subitizing bingo game is a great way to build number sense!
Gingerbread Videos for Science and Social Studies
Here are a few gingerbread videos that incorporate STEM and social studies concepts!
From SciShow Kids, Jessi and squeaks plan to build a gingerbread house in this Next Generation Science Standards aligned gingerbread video. This video is just under six minute long.
Ths Cool School gingerbread video also connects science to building a gingerbread house, this time with an introduction to the chemistry of cooking!
A young boy from Viaans Workshop models a simple science experiement in this 2-minute video. After asking, “Why was the legendary gingerbread man afraid to cross the river?” the narrator models testing various liquids to see what happens when a cookie is submerged. This is a great, age-appropriate gingerbread science experiement to try in your classroom!
From Twinkl Teaching Resources, this video gives a short (2-minute) history of gingerbread.
Here’s another video about the history of gingerbread. This one, from Interactive History KC, is about three minutes long and features narration over a video of someone making gingersnaps (and then gingerbread men). There is a recipe in the description.
Gingerbread Videos with Art Ideas
This section includes gingerbread videos to guide and inspire young artists.
Art for Kids Hub has a few gingerbread directed drawings. This one is simple and very appropriate for young students.
This gingerbread directed drawing video from Mister Brush doesn’t include verbal instructions, just a video of a hand drawing a simple (and cute) gingerbread cookie.
Here’s another video from Art for Kids Hub. This one is of a gingerbread house and though it’s a little more complicated, the instructions are clear and the hosts are encouraging and fun.
In this decorating video by SweetAmbsCookies, kids can be inspired by a cookie artist as she creates beautiful gingerbread houses. This video, which is 9.5 minutes long, is a good one to play in the background during a quiet time or free play period.
From Imagine It, this decorating video gives how-to instructions. This 4.5-minute video would be helpful to show your young cookie artists before they decorate their own gingerbread cookies.
This GIngerbread Fun set that I have available on TPT and in the My Happy Place website shop includes a directed drawing page to give your kids extra practice with drawing a gingerbread man. It also includes templates for students to practice decorating their own cookies and houses!
Gingerbread Activities for Winter and Christmas
Perfect for those hectic days before your holiday break, this Gingerbread Activities set includes a variety of engaging gingerbread games and tasks.
Gingerbread Videos for Fun
Great for brain breaks, transitions, and indoor recess, these last several gingerbread resources are just for fun!
This Gingerbread Man Freeze Dance video from Coach Corey Martin makes a great brain break and movement activity! It’s 4.5 minutes long.
Here’s another one by Coach Corey Martin that will be great for getting out that pent up energy! “The Gingerbread Run” offers about five minutes of exercise interspersed with winter trivia.
If you have Danny Go fans in your class, they will love this “Gingerbread Cookie Dance!” Copy these dance moves is a great way to get exercise while improving spatial awareness.
This video is a song version of the gingerbread fingerplay I shared up above in the literacy section. This Kiboomers version is fun and peppy!
I’m including this VERY short video for the sake of nostalgia and cuteness. This “run, run, as fast as you can” gingerbread man song comes from a read-along book and record set from 1940!
Here’s Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel with “Gingerbread Dance and Freeze.” This song and dance will get kids up and moving—and crossing the midline.
The Cool School reimagining of the gingerbread man story will get some giggles! It’s three minutes long and pretty silly!
If you need the kind of brain break that calms little bodies back down, try this “Gingerbread Mindful Breathing” video from NamasteInSchool. At under two minutes, this video gives opportunities for exercise and calming breaths.
This 5-minute gingerbread video from Yogapalooza with Bari Koral combines music, movement, and yoga for the full brain-break package!
Also from Yogapalooza, this gingerbread video is calmining and meditative. Perfect for calming down after recess!
This final just-for-fun video is a time lapse of workers building a life-size gingerbread house at a Walt Disney World resort.
More Gingerbread Resources
I hope you found something useful in this gingerbread videos roundup! Let me know in the comments if I missed any good ones!
