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Gingerbread House - DT activities
This unit can be used alongside the story of Hansel and Gretel. It provides opportunities for the children to use food technology to create a food product linked to their storytelling

Included:
• Planning
• Posters – UK’s top 20 Biscuits, History of Gingerbread Houses, recipes, sensory vocabulary
• Worksheets
• Target sheet (LO)

These activities encourage children to investigate different types of biscuits and find out the origins of the gingerbread house.
They use recipes to practice how to make different biscuits. Then taste and describe the appearance, texture, smell and taste of each biscuit, and find out which one everyone liked best using a tally chart.
Children practise how to make a house paper template and how to follow a recipe to create a gingerbread house. Then they design their own gingerbread house creating a new template, illustrating how their gingerbread house will look, list ingredients and equipment, write in which order they will work, and record their evaluation.

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