Cookie Maker, Cookie Baker Online Book Activities

Children love to help bake cookies. In this Twiggle Book children read about the the tools and steps that are needed to make cookies. Lily and Twiggi gather together the materials and ingredients they will need. Then, they mix, roll, cut, bake, and decorate until they have a delicious treat!

Before Reading

Ask your children if they have ever helped to make cookies. Ask: Which kind of cookies did you make? Do you like cookies? What do we need to make cookies? Explain that Lily and Twiggi want to make cookies. Say: Let's read or listen to the story Cookie Maker, Cookie Baker.

During Reading

Ask children to look at the illustrations on each page to help them understand the vocabulary and the story. Encourage children to make predictions about what happens next. Ask questions like, "What else do you think Lily and Twiggi need?" Afterwards, give children a chance to read the book together with you or aloud to you.

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After Reading

Talk about the story and list the steps Lily and Twiggi had to take to make cookies. Use words like first, next, then, and last. Let children play the Cookie Maker, Cookie Baker game to place the pictures in sequencial order. Let children color the coloring page or write and draw to expand on the story. For independent reading, print out the printable version of the booklets.

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Language / Math

Cut five round cookie shapes from brown, green, yellow, purple, and red felt, craft foam, or thick paper. Let children help decorate the cookie shapes with glitter glue to add some frosting or sprinkles. Put all the cookies on the cookie sheet and remove them one at a time as you recite the rhyme below. Use a spatula as a prop. You can also use the cookies on a felt board.

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Five Little Cookies

Five little cookies with frosting galore,
Mother (or name of a child) ate the brown one and then there were four.

Four little cookies, two and two, you see,
Father (or name of a child) ate the green one and then there were three.

Three little cookies, before I knew,
Sister (or name of a child) ate the yellow one and then there were two.

Two little cookies, yum, yum, yum,
Brother (or name of a child) ate the purple one and then there was one.

One little cookie, here I come,
I ate that red one and now there are none.

Fine Motor Skills

Make cookies together and let children decorate the cookies with icing, chocolate chips, and sprinkles.

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Movement

Pat-a-Cake
Write the names of children (or family members) on the board. Help children find the names on the board and name the first letter of their names.

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man. (Clap hands together.)
Bake me a cake as fast as you can. (Pretend to stir.)
Roll it, (Roll hands one over the other.)
And pat it, (Pat hands.)
And mark it with a (Letter example B). (Write a B in the air.)
And put it in the oven for ((Billy) Child's name(s) that begins with the letter B) (Pretend to slide cake pan in the oven.)
and me.

Repeat until all children's names have been called out.

Game

Find the Gingerbread Man.
Use our ABC Gingerbread Men printables and hide a Gingerbread Man somewhere in the room. Let children find him and tell you the name of the letter on the Gingerbread Man.