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Gingerbread Man coding activity
What imaginative Gingerbread Man story will your student create and bring to life using the accessible Octo-Studio app for emerging coders?
Students and teachers love Gingerbread Man activities because they bring together nostalgia, learning opportunities and the festive joy of the season! These activities are often literacy- or math-based, but here’s an exciting twist for emerging coders: Use the free OctoStudio app (an accessible block-based coding platform) to create an animated Gingerbread Man running and jumping across the screen!
Example tasks:
- Make the gingerbread man move across the screen.
- Add sound effects like footsteps or a “catch me if you can” voice clip.
- Teacher Hint: I added a picture of my Gingerbread Man to my photos app and used that image for my “sprite” in the Octo-Studio app.
Using the OctoStudio app, what adventures will your student’s Gingerbread Man embark on? What imaginative story will your student create and bring to life?
Image 1: Screenshot of the coding screen in the Octo-Studio app, displaying my Gingerbread Man picture and the first several lines of code that makes the Gingerbread Man move forward, jump and move forward (each movement has a unique associated sound).
Resources
Not familiar with the Octo-Studio app which is available for Android and iOS devices? Check out these resources:
- Announcing Octo-Studio: A block-based programming app (information and video tutorial)
- OctoStudio in the App Store (iPhone or iPad)
- OctoStudio in the Google Play Store (Android phones or tablets)
- OctoStudio website
For more coding and coding concepts activities, see the Coding summary post.
More gingerbread-related posts
- Gingerbread man: Sequence, copy and paste activities (tech skills)
- Gingerbread man activities: Tactile skills
- My Gingerbread House poem: Days of the week (sequencing the days of the week, select, cut and paste)
By Diane Brauner
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