Gingerbread man

We had a gingerbread man day.  We read 3 different versions of the gingerbread man story through out the day. 

At the art table we decorated cardboard gingerbread men and houses with some puffy flour paint.   I set our some examples, and also we talked about doing lines and dots to decorate them.  I just kind of wanted them to be intentional with their art today.

Well, I did a horrible job at documenting our work.  Some of the kids did a great job at being intentional with their decorations - while others just wanted to fill the whole thing with paint.  I brought down my microwave and once the kiddos were done with their house/man we popped them in the microwave for 30 seconds to a minute.  This puffed up the paint and made it hard.  Every time we opened the microwave we hoped our gingerbread man would not jump out and run away.  I am happy to report we had no such escapes!