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Home » Early Years Science » A bridge for The Gingerbread Man

A bridge for The Gingerbread Man

Modified: Feb 28, 2023 · Published: Jun 9, 2015 by Emma Vanstone · This post may contain affiliate links · 3 Comments

In the story of The Gingerbread Man, he gets eaten by a fox who offers to help him cross a river. We’re going to help The Gingerbread Man out by building him a bridge and testing different materials at the same time.

You’ll need

LEGO

Lolly sticks

Sticks

Straws

Paper

Card

Scales

Anything else you want to test

felt gingerbread man on a bridge made from sticks for a science experiment

Instructions

Build rests for your bridge, we used LEGO, but you could use cardboard or anything else that would work.

Place the materials you want to test on the rests and add some weight.

Add more weight until the bridge breaks.

Observe what happens.

Repeat for your next material.

The Gingerbread Man

Things to think about

Make sure you use the same weight to test each bridge.

Each bridge should be roughly the same size to make it a fair test.

Can you record the weight at which each bridge first starts to bend and the weight at which it breaks completely?

Results

We found the lolly sticks were the strongest and the cardboard the weakest.

felt gingerbread man on a lollystick bridge as a fun science experiment
felt gingerbread man on a cardboard bridge for a science experiment

Extension Activities

Can you design a table to record your results?

Can you think of any more materials to test?

Suitable for Early Learning Goal 16

Exploring and using media and materials

Bridge for The Gingerbread Man

Last Updated on February 28, 2023 by Emma Vanstone

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Comments

  1. Unlockninja

    June 26, 2015 at 12:15 pm

    Great Art i like this and thanks for posting this…

    Reply
  2. Sallie

    November 18, 2016 at 2:46 am

    where did you get the gingerbread man and is he connected to the lego or how is he standing up?

    Reply

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