Thursday, December 17, 2009

Gingerbread Houses

Our local Library has great activities for kids every month and this month was no exception-- Gingerbread Houses!! Last Saturday, they provided all the candies and frosting and pre-made gingerbread houses (actually graham crackers) for the kiddos to decorate. How I wish I was a kid so I could have decorated one, too!



The girls hard at work on their houses. The place was packed and I consider us lucky we were able to find 3 seats at the same table. They had so much fun and their only disappointment is that they cannot eat their houses. I have them up on a shelf, safely away from sneaky hands and a forever-hungry dog.

Youngest with her house. She had very, very little help from me and I am amazed at how well she put it all together. I gotta give her more credit for her creativity!

Middle and her house. She said the gummy bears are playing 'ring around the rosie' all around the house.


Oldest and her house. She had several lollipop chimneys which were eaten before I could put the house away. Sneaky thing!


All in all, a very fun project for them to do. I'd love to make my own one day, but I can't get past the fact that it's such a waste of food! For now, I'll just admire the ones I see out there.


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2 comments:

Carol said...

They are fabulous!! What a talented lot you have!! (which is not surprising really...they have a talented Mum!)

C x

DJ Kirkby said...

I would love to do this with N3S, our library does nothing of the sort. We cant buy graham crackers over here though so I guess I'll have to make some gignerbread cookies for him to use.