I am really excited to read this book to Channing this year! I've had it for a few weeks now and am waiting just a few more days.........
The book is about a little boy named Jim who make Gingerbread pirate cookies for Santa. When Jim goes to bed, "Captain Cookie" goes on a rescue mission to find his "crew" and runs into a hungry Santa Clause..........When Jim wakes up on Christmas morning, something wonderful has happened to his little pirate friend and crew!
After we read it, I plan on making Gingerbread Men (and maybe a pirate or two) with Channing for our Christmas tree.
I got my copy from Scholastic.........and the good news is that I got TWO copies......so that means, I'm giving one away to one of my super readers.
As this is my first giveaway (I'm pretty excited)...........here is how this will work.
1. The giveaway is only open to those of you in the USA (sorry you other lovely readers - maybe next time I'll have one for you!).
2. Please leave a link to your blog or an email address so I can get in contact with you if you win. You don't have t have a blog to enter - just make sure I can let you know.
3. The giveaway will end on December 10th at 8PM and I will use an online random pick website to choose my winner.
Here's how you can enter:
Mandatory entry: Tell me a gingerbread activity you'd do after reading this story.
Additional entry: Follow my blog .
Additional entry: Tell me your favorite Christmas printable available on my blog.
Additional entry: Blog about this giveaway and link back to me.
Please make sure you leave a separate comment for each entry!
Good luck everyone..........it'll be a really cute addition to your Christmas library!
70 comments:
i think i would add a treasure hunt for the cookies with an X marks the spot. Or just a treasure hunt to be a pre reading activity to get him in pirate mode. i created a treasure map for my boys with a large X on paper over the treasure when we studied the letter X and they loved it.
i think it would be safe to say i love all your christmas printables. we just did your elf ones and enjoyed those. but, i have printed many more in hopes of getting to them soon.
oh, and i follow your blog via email. thank you for sharing your amazing printables and all your fantastic ideas.
I would decorate gingerbread after we read this story. B
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I think I might make gingerbread play dough. I've been wanting to do that with my boys and this would be a great tie in.
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Super cute!
I'd love to do like paper dolls - only magnetic. Do the generic gingerbread men, and add interchangeable pirate outfits!
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We've been reading lots of gingerbread stories around here because it's our theme this month. Two things we are doing with every book and would do with this one is act the story out and add the story to our graph. We have a graph with which stories had which characters, setting, plot, etc.
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My favorite Christmas printable so far, is the whole gingerbread pack. It is just so stinking cute.
Oh, and I just read Kristalyn's idea in comment number 1...how cute and creative! My sons would love that!
I would tie it in with my two week Gingerbread unit and read it many times than do things like do our gingerbread rhymes, do a mataching game with gingerbread men, and, of course, make some cookies!!
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And finally, like others I love all of your printables but recently, I am loving all of your advent ideas and your idea for "The Tale of Christmas". Looking forward to using all of those ideas with my little ones!
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i think we'd make gingerbread cookies and decorate them!
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favorite Christmas printable? LOL! um, i think i've used all of them! my favorite has to be the thanksgiving table game..SOO CUTE! and we used the same printables to put on a thanksgiving puppet show!
I think I would make gingerbread cookies also..my kids are 3 and 4. And i think they would have a blast.
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We just made giant traced gingerbread boys and girls by tracing our kids! We still need to make GB kids for our GB house though!
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Your gingerbread and nativity printables were awesome!
I think we would attempt to make pirate gingerbread cookies. jillianbowman@sbcglobal.net
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I think we'd make gingerbread playdough, as I've been wanting to do that anyway :)
I'd also like to make gingerbread men cookies this year.
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I think we would make our own gingerbread pirates using construction paper and make a list of other stories (adventures) they could go on together.
I think we would make our own construction paper gingerbread pirates and brainstorm other adventures they could go on. apple4mommy.blogspot.com
I now follow your blog and I love your nativity printables. Sorry about the dual posting above.
hmm I have plans to make a gingerbread house.. but I think I would make some gingerbread pirate ornaments :-)
We would probably make gingerbread cookies. Not very new and exciting but my girls love doing it! I have never read this book and I think my girls would love it!
My girls have loved all of your printables but their favorite has been measuring the gingerbread men with cubes.
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We would make gingerbread cookies for sure!! Looks like a fun book!!!
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I just found your blog a few weeks ago. I printed out all the fun Thanksgiving stuff and Christmas and Gingerbread stuff. I really like your word strips with the ABC discs or milk caps!!
Thanks for sharing!!
we would make gingerbread paint and paint our own gingerbread pirates
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I love them all but don't have color ink :( but I love them all!!!
I am planning on making a gingerbread house with my daughter- she loves building things!
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I love the cookie counting sheet- so cute!
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I'd make gingerbread pirates! :)
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We would probably make gingerbread playdough. The book looks cute!
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We would make gingerbread pirates! I'm so happy I found your awesome blog today via your comment on Jolanthe's blog!
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I love all of your gingerbread printables, but I will be sure to use see, trace and make color words year round!
Your site is so cute. Thanks. I would make gingerbread men with my kids. s.jenkinson@att.net
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So far my favorite is the Christmas game with the stable. Love all your stuff. s.jenkinson@att.net
We would dress up in our pirate attire and re-enact the story!
I think I would want to make gingerbread cookies. We haven't done that for a couple years.
I would teach my kids the gingerbread song
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we would decorate foam gingerbread with puffy paints... (my boys wpuld love this book...they are into pirates right now!) thanks...
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i would love to make pirate cookies and have a pirate day! it could be so much fun to make a pirate treasure map out of gingerbread too!
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We always make gingerbread cookies and make a new gingerbread man ornament after our christmas books so thats what i would plan to do once we read this one!! xoxo contact kevinkaylaarrowood @ yahoo .com
Instead of a gingerbread house it would be fun to try and construct and decorate a gingerbread pirate ship for the pirates! That would certainly be a challenging project.
I love the Christmas Game you made. It looks like a nice, simple game for young children to play, and I love that it reminds them about the true meaning behind Christmas.
We had a Gingerbread party once, and I still have some of the leftover craft kits that I purchased from Oriental Trading Company.
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I was just checking out some of your printables! :) I like the Christmas numbered bulbs.
If we had this book I would do this cute little gingerbread ornament activity. I had bought some foam gingerbread ornaments from Oriental Trading for us to make and put on the tree. We haven't done it yet. But I am saving them for the right moment as my daughter is just a tad small for it.
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I think I would like to make gingerbread playdooh with my kids!
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