Digital Gingerbread House Art Project
Christmas activities for elementary are easy with my engaging, digital art project to build a gingerbread house on Google Slides™. Students will practice technology skills with my gingerbread house template and step by step art lesson. Then, pick a writing prompt to draft a creative story about their gingerbread home.
Need fun, fast finisher activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders? Digital art projects are paperless, take up no space, and don’t use art materials. Simply assign the gingerbread project using your LMS, and stop worrying about early finishers!
Overview of How to Build a Gingerbread House on Google Slides
First, your students will pick a background. Then, they’ll choose a house. From there, they’ll add windows, a door, snow, chimney, trees, a wreath, etc. Lastly, your students will add candy to their gingerbread house.
Technology Skills
- Copy & paste
- Drag & drop
- Rotating
- Ordering
- Resizing
What’s Included
- 11 Student Direction Slides, with step by step tutorial so kids can create their digital ugly sweater project independently
- Digital Moveable Pieces, so kids can either copy and paste or drag and drop to create their ugly Christmas sweater from the templates
- 7 Background Slides, where students will paste or drag their project pieces onto
- 2 Christmas Writing Prompts, for kids to complete after making their ugly sweater
- 4 Teacher Examples, fully completed, which you can use to demonstrate
You Will Receive
- 1 Non-Editable PDF (with access link & teacher directions)
- 1 Google Slides Doc (Digital Gingerbread House Activity & Writing Prompts)
Why You’ll Love It
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If I could give this more stars, I would! My students and I LOVED this! They had such a blast creating their gingerbread home. We turned it into a virtual class project and made a digital “book” of everyone’s creations – plus a small write up for each one. Thank you so much! I will be buying more!
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My students loved this activity. I used it just before winter break & it was a hit! As a matter of fact, this was one of the most enjoyed class activities that the students recalled at the end of the school year. I can’t wait to use it again next year!
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My class loved this resource! I had them build their gingerbread houses and write about it the day before leaving for the holiday break. They were engaged the whole time and I was amazed at the descriptive language they used to write about their gingerbread house. Thank you!
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Great way to get students to write descriptively!
My students absolutely loved this resource. We used it along with a persuasive writing unit to convince readers to buy their gingerbread houses. It was amazing.. thank you!
My 8th graders loved this activity and then we voted on our favorite house.
My students love to do these! Such a fun way to work on Google Slides!
Super cute. Kids loved it! They loved making it a competition!