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Kindergarteners make gingerbread

News - Spring Hill

Written by Robin Hixson

Wednesday, 17 December 2008 09:00

Erin Simmons studies her creation and Ethan Kuker plays with his Friday afternoon as students in Claudia Wellman’s Spring Hill Elementary School kindergarten class prepare to eat the gingerbread people they made during a special holiday project. (Photo by Robin Hixson)

Kindergarten students at Spring Hill Elementary School celebrated the coming holidays the old fashioned way Friday — with creativity in the kitchen.

As part of the school’s holiday activities, kindergarten teachers Cherry Luther and Claudia Wellman guided their students on an adventure that spurred their imaginations and gave them an opportunity to practice their artistic skills.

Both morning and afternoon kindergartners made gingerbread people, just as mothers, grandmothers and children have been doing at Christmas time for generations.

After the tasty treats were cut out with special cookie cutters, they were popped into the ovens. Then, the children had to wait until they were baked and cooled before decorating them. With chocolate chips, red licorice and other bite-sized candies, they created their individual masterpieces, giving the gingerbread characters their eyes, noses, mouths, hair and even patterned clothing.

While the children were engaged in another activities, their gingerbread people disappeared, just like the gingerbread man in the old storybooks. When the “escape” was discovered, Wellman said, the hunt was on. Through the school the children went, checking high and low in likely hiding places for the errant cookie people.

With their teachers’ help, the young bakers recaptured their creations and settled into their classroom chairs with cartons of milk, where they ate the gingerbread people slowly, dancing the cookies around between bites.

“Did you see the gingerbread boys and girls after they ran away?” one youngster asked as he picked decorations off of his cookie. “We had to go catch them.”
Giggles erupted at every table as the students admired — then tasted — their own handiwork.

Who says you shouldn’t play with your food?

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