Celebrate Christmas with Cookies Unit Study

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Come Celebrate Christmas with picture books and cookies in Celebrate Christmas with Cookies Unit Study!

Everyone loves to snuggle up and read picture books together–what a perfect way to spend the morning each day of the unit study, along with devotions, lessons related to the picture books, and crafts. Made with love, Celebrate Christmas with Cookies Unit Study is jam-packed with mouth-watering recipes to make and bake for Christmas. You will bake and freeze cookies and make cookies mixes in a jar to give as gifts. Like all our unit studies, you will prepare for Christmas–it’s part of learning!

Of course, the focus is on cookies, so you will learn the difference between baking soda and baking powder, as well as why cookies made with butter spread thinner. And by the way, how did cookies come to be part of our world?

You will …

• Read Christmas picture books together
• Enjoy Christmas devotions each day
• Bake Christmas cookies
• Freeze some of your cookies
• Make Jar Cookies Mixes
• Create a fruitcake  limerick
• Make a Christmas scrapbook page
• Sign Christmas cards (handwriting)
• Mapping
• Decorate a gingerbread house
• Write a Name poem
• Write a Sense poem
• Create paper snowflakes
• Write a story
• Make puppets
• Create Gift Tags
• make Nativity Gift Tags
• Play touch football
• Christmas shop
• Wrap presents
• Make gift tags for jars
• Create a basket of food for a needy family
• Go Christmas caroling
• Host a Christmas caroling party

We will learn about …

• Property lines
• Snow
• Milk
• Estimation
• Choirs & Christmas Carols
• Football
• Babies
• King Wenceslas
• Candy
• Jesus

We will sing …

• “Angels We Have Heard on High”
• “Away in the Manger”
• “Deck the Hall”
• “Do You Hear What I Hear?”
• “Feliz Navidad”
• “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
• “Go Tell it on the Mountain”
• “Good King Wenceslas”
• “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”
• “Here We Come a’Caroling”
• “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”
• “Jingle Bells”
• “Joy to the World”
• “Little Drummer Boy”
• “O Christmas Tree”
• “O Come All Ye Faithful”
• “O Holy Night”
• “O Little Town of Bethlehem”
• “Silent Night”
• “The First Noel”
• “We Three Kings of Orient Are”
• “What Child is This?”
• “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”

Here are the picture books you will need to check out from the library or purchase at your favorite bookstore:

• A Fruitcake Christmas (Hermie and Friends Series #5) by Max Lucado
• The Gingerbread Man (Grimm’s Fairy Tale)
• Cranberry Christmas by Wende and Harry Devlin
• Hansel and Gretel (Grimm’s Fairy Tale)
• Arthur’s Christmas Cookies by Lillian Hoban
• The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomy by Susan Wojciechowski
• One Wintry Night by Ruth Bell Graham
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
• The Christmas Cookie Sprinkle Snitcher by Robert Kraus
• Can’t Wait til Christmas by Mike Huckabee
• The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado
• The Legend of St. Nicholas by Dandi Daley Mackall
• Legend of the Candy Cane by Lori Walenburg
• The Gift of the Christmas Cookie: Sharing the True Meaning of Jesus’ Birth by Dandi Daley Mackall
• Humphrey’s First Christmas by Carol Heyer

Students will make the following Christmas cookies:

• Cherry Almond Coconut Fruitcake Bars
• Honey Butter Fruitcake Cookies
• Cranberry Pecan Bar Cookies
• Craisin Cookies
• Gingerbread Man Cookies
• Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough with Different Add-Ins
• Oatmeal Raisin
• Thumbprint Cookies
• Chocolate Crinkles
• Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles
• Orange Poppy Seed Cookies
• Candy Cane Coookies
• M&M Cookie Mix in a Jar
• Viennese Coffee Balls Cookie Mix in a Jar
• ​Brownie Mix in a Jar

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