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Activity: Catch That Cookie

In Catch That Cookie! the classroom kids outwit the wily gingerbread men who

leave successive mischievous clues throughout the school.

Step 1:

Prepare students by reading your favorite gingerbread man stories.

Step 2:

Choose your final hiding spot for the actual G-men cookies; this can

be as simple as the snack table or as complicated as the doll corner. From

there work backward and choose the other places where you’ll hide the clues,

remembering that one clue will lead to another. We suggest three to four other

spots for clues.

Step 3:

Using the stencil in this kit for a pattern, make up your clues—you can rhyme them or write simple prose

clues. You can also leave a word to be filled in as in Catch That Cookie! for extra laughs. For example, in Catch That

Cookie! one clue is hidden in the sand table, so the clue reads:

Too bad you didn’t catch us,

’Cause we taste like candy.

Now we’re on vacation

On a beach that’s _ _ _ _ _.

Store your clues in a safe place.

Step 4:

Mix your gingerbread dough in class, or have it prepared beforehand, and

let the kids roll out and create their own G-men. Put them in the oven to bake,

and emphasize that the oven door is “locked, ” then return to the classroom.

(Watch the clock. The cookies only take 10 minutes to cook.)

Step 5:

Read another gingerbread man story . . . meanwhile have

another teacher/helper place all of the clues in the designated locations,

remembering that one clue must lead to the next. When the cookies are

finished baking, your helping teacher can put them in

a safe place.

(Additional ideas for extra fun: small powder footprints, parts of gingerbread men left along path on floor (as if they

had fallen off when the gingerbread men ran), a raisin here or there, etc.)

Step 6:

Take the kids to the kitchen, and open the oven. Nothing is there! Pick up the first clue

and follow them to the end. Important note: Make sure the helping teacher puts the G-men in

the end location while the kids are hunting for clues.

“In Small’s spirited illustrations, the children, their teacher, and the

“G-men” all burst with spice and verve.”

—New York Times Book Review

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Kids Activity Sheet: Catch That Cookie