Wouldn’t it be great if you could make gingerbread houses without all the messy clean-up? Well, you can with the Gingerbread House activity, in either the Annie’s Books Online or the IntelliTools Classroom Suite® versions.

Gingerbread House Online Versions
The Annie’s Books Online version takes you step by step through building a gingerbread house and decorating it. The many decoration choices produce 27 different beautiful gingerbread house scenes. The final image shows off your house in the snow with a gingerbread family wishing you “Happy Holidays!”

You can print the final image as a holiday card, too! The link is at the foot of this page. There is also a link to an online Gingerbread House Puzzle. Both online activities are simple enough for young children, but will bring a smile to any age.

Classroom Suite Gingerbread House
In the ICS version, the first part of the activity takes you through the steps to build a gingerbread house, frost the roof, and decorate the windows and door. At that point, it takes a different route from the online version.

Students get a chance to decorate the roof any way they choose by adding colorful clip art candy from toolbars. When they click All Done, they see their creation in a snow scene. They also are rewarded by an animated gingerbread family waving at them!

At that point, students can save or print the picture. But they also have the option to go one step further and turn their picture into a holiday card. They can personalize the card by filling in the To: and From: text boxes directly, with IntelliKeys®, or by using the onscreen keyboard.

In addition to the main activity, there is a simple six piece gingerbread house puzzle. There are original overlays attached for students using IntelliKeys®, and a Dynavox® package version of the overlays to run the activities from Dynavox AAC devices. See the Special Needs Access section on the System Reqs page for information on controlling the Classroom Suite version activities from PRC devices.

Bonus: Gingerbread House Clip Art
The clip art collection you can download from this page includes all the button art and all 27 fancy gingerbread houses. These can be used in many ways for off-computer games and for communication. And, if you attempt a real gingerbread house, there are great decorating ideas right there in the clip art collection!

Application needed: Browser, IntelliTools Classroom Suite.
Subject area: Holiday, Reading, Life Skills.
Level: K-Grade 3.

Online Links-Activities

Gingerbread House link: gingerbread/index.html Gingerbread House activity to read and complete online. For details on using Annie’s Books Online, click here.

Puzzles

Gingerbread House link: CLICK HERE. Gingerbread House online puzzle. Image is a scene from the Gingerbread House activity.

Downloads-Activities

Classroom Suite

GingerbreadSuite.zip (26.6 MB) Gingerbread House interactive activities in Classroom Suite v.3 or later. Includes the main Gingerbread House activity and a simple puzzle. Custom IntelliKeys overlays attached.

GingerbreadDynavox.zip (458 KB) Gingerbread House activity overlays saved as Dynavox package files.

Downloads-Resources

GingerbreadClipArt.zip (7.6 MB) Collection of original clip art including 27 finished gingerbread house designs in JPEG format.