The Gingerbread Boy
Digital Learning Workshop | Ages 3-8 | Online
Live, Dynamic & Interactive!
Learn about folktales and how cultures around the world tell the same story in different ways by examining the story of The Gingerbread Boy through pictures and movement exercises. Versions of the story are compared from selected books, including Jan Brett’s Gingerbread Baby, Ying Chang Compestine’s The Runaway Rice Cake, Sandi Takayama’s The Musubi Man, and more. Explore where the ingredients in gingerbread come from and how they come together to be delicious, and watch The Gingerbread Boy come to life through a brilliantly-colored shadow puppet short film.
Plus, everyone gets to learn about how shadow puppets work, see a real puppet from the Center’s collection – and build their very own Gingerbread Boy shadow puppet during the workshop!
Grade level: PreK-2nd
Capacity: 35 Students
Cost: $185
Program Length: 45-50 Minutes
Booking: Available on demand. Book whenever is convenient for you and your group.
Location: ZOOM
To book your Digital Learning program or ask questions, please contact digitallearning@puppet.org or call 404-881-5117
Puppet Activity: Gingerbread Boy Shadow Puppet
You will receive a study guide containing the puppet template to print and cut out along with a list of puppet-making materials each student will need to build the puppet during the workshop.
These materials are easy-to-find, low-cost items that can often be found in the classroom. The study guide also includes optional classroom activities you can choose to incorporate into your lesson plan either before or after seeing the program. (These optional classroom activities are different from the activities included by our instructor in the virtual program.) Additional study guide contents include suggested online and library resources regarding the program topic and a list of academic standards supported by this program.
Digital Learning FAQs
Email our team at digitallearning@puppet.org or call us at 404-881-5117 for more information.
We use the cloud-based Zoom platform to present live, interactive programming direct to your location, so anyone with access to the internet can connect with us.
We don’t charge for program cancellations due to weather; however, we do require that they be rescheduled. The full fee will be charged for cancellations made with less than 48-hour notice and for “NO SHOWS.” Foreign language programs require a 2-week cancellation notice.
Book 9 programs and your 10th program is FREE. This applies to hands-on, curriculum-based workshops ONLY (not puppet shows).
