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!”
Clicker 5 Gingerbread House
In Clicker 5 you can create all 27 gingerbread house scenes, just like in Annie’s Books Online. The final scene has the gingerbread family and falling snow. Special thanks to Janet Beyersdorfer for requesting a Clicker version of the Gingerbread House. She’s now tried it out in Clicker 6, and it works beautifully there!
The falling snow animation is a multi-image gif graphic, and it plays when a cell has Speak text in cell active. If you didn’t know you could run animations in Clicker 5, take a look at the settings.
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 Annie’s Books Online and Clicker 5 versions.
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!
Applications needed: Browser, IntelliTools Classroom Suite, Clicker 5.
Subject areas: 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.
For details on using Annie’s Puzzles Online, click here.
Downloads-Activities
Classroom Suite
GingerbreadSuite.zip (26.6 MB) Gingerbread House 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.
Clicker 5
GingerbreadHouse.clkt.zip (14.2 MB) Gingerbread House for Clicker 5 or later.
Downloads-Resources
GingerbreadClipArt.zip (7.6 MB) Collection of original clip art including 27 finished gingerbread house designs in JPEG format. To preview the collection, click here.
Annie–
I would love to use your Gingerbread House activity with my special ed classes. However, the online books load very slowly on our usually very fast iMacs with OS 10.6. Do you have or would you consider making this in Clicker 5 or 6?
Janet
November 20, 2012 @ 3:53 pmJanet, you have inspired me. I’ve been working on Clicker 5 and HyperStudio 5 versions of Holiday Tree, and some holiday lotto games for Classroom Suite. But I had all the artwork for a Clicker 5 version of Gingerbread House ready to go…so your wish is my command! There is now a Clicker 5 version on this page to download, and I’m sure others will benefit from your request.
About using the online version: Unfortunately, no matter how fast your computer is, anything online depends on the bandwidth of your connection and the traffic level at the time you try to access the materials. That’s both the traffic level on your connection, which could be quite high on a school network, and the traffic level on the web in general. I actually composed the online version on an iMac, and it runs instantaneously there. It’s a teeny bit slower on my server with my online connection. But there is only one other user on my connection, plus I live in Utah, which has a relatively small population. You are in a more urban environment, so you are just getting a slow trickle.
November 23, 2012 @ 5:53 pmThanks again for your request!