Gingerbread Exchange for Teachers

Gingerbread Exchange for teachers is here! Join the Simply Kinder community by participating in the gingerbread exchange! Learn about other classrooms, create a fun craft, and build community together. Don’t forget to grab the free printable to make your participation in the gingerbread exchange even easier!

It’s that time of year, the Simply Kinder Gingerbread Exchange. In a nutshell, your class will make gingerbread people and write letters or stories about them. You will package them up and mail them to a partner teacher as a class set. Your partner classroom will do the same. So you will both receive a classroom set of gingerbread people and letters from the other class!

Here is how the Gingerbread Exchange will work:

NEW THIS YEAR: Partnering will be done in our exclusive Facebook Group. Please read the pinned post and find your partner there.
Connect with your partner classroom teacher via email. You can customize your project with your partner teacher directly if you wish! YOU MUST CONTACT THEM before your mail out your projects. Be sure they are participating and verify address are correct. Simply Kinder is not able to send you backup gingerbread people if your partner class does not pull through.
Make your gingerbread people. Get creative and make them amazing! Glitter, spices, and bows – the possibilities are endless! Please make the number to gingerbread people requested so that each student in your partner classroom will get a gingerbread person to keep! Because of this, you may need to make some extras. Grab the free printable down below!
Have your students write letters or stories to match their gingerbread people. Or you can do a class letter/story. If you get a class letter, I would suggest copying it so each student can take a gingerbread and letter home to keep!
Mail your gingerbread people to your partner classroom by December 1st. I like to do class sets so you can put all the gingerbread people and letters/stories in one envelope to save on shipping.
Receive your gingerbread people and letters for your class. The goal is for each student to keep a letter and a gingerbread person! Be sure to post pictures and use the hashtag #SIMPLYKINDER and share them in the Simply Kinder Facebook Group!

Want to see some examples? Click here to check out last year’s exchange photos.

Free Printable Gingerbread Here:

Get your FREE gingerbread printable in Simply Kinder + printable membership here. It’s simple to create a free account to unlock the freebie library here or upgrade to Unlimited to access ALL Simply Kinder resources in one place for one price here.

Are you ready to sign up for the 2021 exchange? Click here to join our exclusive Facebook group for partnering. (Please give us some time to approve you!)

If you have any questions, please comment below and we can answer them for you!

The Simply Kinder Facebook Group has several community projects each year, so if you are an early childhood teacher please join us. Sign up below and we will email you when our next project launches.

Free Gingerbread Man templates from Simply Kinder.

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