A few weeks ago Y started asking if she could build a gingerbread house, so finally last week I decided that we would do it...soon! I just had to decide between buying one of the kits which range from $8-$10 or use graham crackers and make my own icing and buy all the candy. Finally after considering it I figured that it'd be cheaper to buy the kit than spend the money on buying all different types of candy - especially since we only wanted to make one house. So we decided that building the gingerbread house would be our FHE (Family Home Evening for my non-LDS readers) activity on Sunday.
Y was excited and so she rushed through dinner and the FHE lesson and was ready to build her house. I did all the structural work and then we put on all the candy and icing. As for the icing she told me what she wanted and where she wanted it and I went to work. For the most part she stuck to the design of the picture which was on the box.
Here are some pictures, I think it turned out pretty well!
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| I love that it comes with a tray with indentions for "structural support." It was 100 times easier than building with graham crackers! |
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| The hardest part of the whole thing was getting the tree and gingerbread boy to stand up straight...don't let the picture fool you, it was quite difficult! |
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| Yep...her face is covered in sugar and icing. I'm surprised we managed to get her in bed so easily. |
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| The finished product |
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| Aerial view |
