Gingerbread Movement Book & Cards | Brain Breaks Gross Motor | SPED Autism OT

"Run, run, run as fast as you can!" This Gingerbread Movement Book (and Cards!) gets students running, skipping, and hopping like the Gingerbread Man — building gross motor, motor planning, following directions, and imitation skills. Use it for movement breaks, brain breaks, circle time, or those wiggly in-between moments. The teacher reads and models while students imitate — or students pick a movement card and act it out!

📦 What's Included

• A gingerbread movement book with action prompts
• A set of gingerbread movement cards
• Print, laminate, and bind/cut for repeated use

📚 How to Use

• The teacher reads the book and models the movements while students imitate
• Students can choose a movement card and practice each movement
• Use during circle time, as a warm-up, or as a small group language activity
• Use as a movement break or brain break before/after transitions or to fill a few minutes
• Great for whole group, small group, 1:1, or therapy sessions

📖 Excerpt from the Book

"Run, run, run, as fast as you can!

Run, run, run like a gingerbread man!

Skip, skip, skip, as fast as you can!

Skip, skip, skip like a gingerbread man.

Hop, hop, hop, as fast as you can!

Hop, hop, hop like a gingerbread man!"

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Gross motor development and movement
• Motor planning
• Motor imitation
• Following directions
• Self-regulation (movement and brain breaks)
• Gingerbread and winter vocabulary
• Listening and attending

💛 Perfect For

• Special education and autism support classrooms
• Occupational therapy, physical therapy, and adaptive PE
• ABA programs (imitation skills)
• Speech-language therapy (following directions, vocabulary)
• Preschool, PreK, and early elementary
• Movement breaks, brain breaks, and circle time
• Gingerbread, Christmas, and winter units, early childhood, ECSE, and homeschool

🌟 Why Teachers Love This Resource

• A book PLUS movement cards — flexible, two ways to use it
• Builds gross motor, motor planning, and imitation skills
• A ready-to-go movement break and circle-time activity for December
• Keeps students engaged and gets the wiggles out
• Fun gingerbread theme kids love
• Reusable year after year once laminated

🎄 Want music AND movement? Pair it with the I Had a Little Gingerbread Adapted Song Book, or get the best-value Adapted Song Books Bundle.

🍪 More hands-on gingerbread, Christmas, and winter activities:

• Hands-On Gingerbread Activities
• Hands-On Christmas Activities
• Hands-On Winter Activities