Book....Ginger Bread Baby

Lesson: Gingerbread Baby

Teacher: Brenda Gladwell

3rd Grade

Brief Background:
The children’s story, Gingerbread Baby, by Jan Brett, is about a gingerbread cookie that came out of the over too soon and ran off. Everyone tried to catch the baby cookie but the young boy who made him is the only one clever enough to figure out how to bring the gingerbread baby back home.

Standards:
9.1.3.A: Know and use elements and principles of art to create a 3D piece of artwork.
9.1.3.B: Recognize, use, and demonstrate a variety of elements and principles to produce an artwork.
9.1.3.H: Handle materials, equipment and tools safely at work and performance spaces.

Goal:
Students will design a 3-D Gingerbread Baby based on the children book Gingerbread Baby, by Jan Brett.

Objectives:
1. Students will listen to the story
2. Students will create their own gingerbread baby from cut paper
3. Students will research cookie decorations
4. Students will work with craypas
5. Students will sew two sides together and stuff their gingerbread baby
6. Students will create a 3-D gingerbread character

Materials:
• Hole punch

• Yarn
• Craypas
• Scissor
• Glitter glaze paint
• Newspaper
• Pencils
• pattern of gingerbread baby
• Heavy brown paper
• spring loaded cloth pins

Resource Materials/Visual Aids:
Book- Gingerbread Baby, by Jan Brett
Examples of decorated cookies.

Teacher Preparation:
Teacher will create the gingerbread baby pattern. Teacher will create an exemplar of gingerbread baby. Teacher will gather all materials and prepare for class.

Teacher:
Has anyone every made a gingerbread cookie and decorated it? What sort of things do you use as decorations? I would like to read you a story about a gingerbread cookie that was let out of the oven a little too soon and a young boy who was clever enough to catch him.
Teacher will read story Gingerbread Baby, by Jan Brett, to the class. Class will talk about the gingerbread baby and talk about the different ways he/she could be decorated.
Teacher describes to students how they will make their own gingerbread babies out of cut paper that is sewn and stuffed. Teacher will demonstrate how to use hole punch and sew the two side of the gingerbread baby together.

Directions:
1. Trace using the pattern onto two pieces of brown heavy paper and cut out at the same time.
2. Keep both cut outs together with clothes pins and use hole punch all the way around the circumference of the gingerbread baby to create holes for sewing.
3. Sew with yarn 3/4 of the way around the image with red yarn leave a section open for stuffing.
4. Use craypas to create clothes and decorations on both sides of the gingerbread baby.
5. Paint over both sides of image with a glitter glaze wash to create an icing effect.
6. Let dry.
7. Stuff gingerbread baby with torn newspaper.
8. Finish sewing up the cookie and tie in a nice bow.

* You can glue on buttons, ribbons and beads after cookie is sewn up to embellish project.