Gingerbread Jokes
What does gingerbread do after it's done baking? Loaf around.
What do you call a gingerbread man with a degree? A smart cookie.
How did the gingerbread man treat his injured leg? By icing it.
How do you make a gingerbread man's bed? With a cookie sheet.
History of Gingerbread Houses
Decorated gingerbread houses were first made in Germany in the early 1800s. The largest edible gingerbread house was built in Texas in 2013. Royal icing, made from egg whites and powdered sugar, is what holds the pieces of a gingerbread house together. Learn more about gingerbread houses and read more in the Library's eSource, World Book for Kids.
Recipes and Crafts
Make your own gingerbread with these recipes. You could make an easy gingerbread house with graham crackers. If you do not want to cook gingerbread, you can still make a cardboard gingerbread house.
Books
The Library has a variety of books about gingerbread.
Gingerbread Poems and Song
Stir a bowl of gingerbread smooth and spicy brown
Roll it with a rolling pin, up and up and down
With a cookie cutter, make some little men
Put them in the oven till half past ten
I'm a little gingerbread boy
I'm a little gingerbread girl
I can jump, and I can twirl
I have raisins for my eyes
And bright red buttons just this size.
(Tune: The Muffin Man)
Oh, do you hear the Christmas bells,
The Christmas bells, the Christmas bells?
Oh, do you hear the Christmas bells
That ring out loud and clear?
Oh, can you see our Christmas tree,
Our Chrismas tree, our Christmas tree?
Oh, can you see our Christmas tree?
It fills the room with cheer.
Oh, do you smell the gingerbread,
The gingerbread, the gingerbread?
Oh, do you smell the gingerbread?
I'm glad Christmas is here.