Inspired by all of you and your amazing traditions, I decided that this year we would attempt a gingerbread house. I have to admit that I ended up buying the kit. I was a little intimidated of this project. They are on sale at Michaels right now for $8. Totally worth it-no tears of frustration and in the end it actually looked like a gingerbread house.
How in the world do you people do this without a kit? Even with the kit I was stuck a few times. Something to shoot for I guess.
Putting all of the candy on the house (and in our mouths).
The boys loved this activity. They got to eat and make a craft-pure heaven. Palmer even put off going to play with his friend Tevin (thank you once again Shannon for letting Palmer play at your house all of the time) to finish the house. He waits all day for Tevin to get home from school.
I am so happy I actually got this thing assembled. All of my Old Farm college roommates will know why this is a miracle as we tried to make gingerbread houses a few years ago for our Christmas party. I think I just ended up eating everything by itself in the end.
Surprising to say that I actually was getting very into the whole thing and had to make myself not tell the kids just to let me do it (okay I did say that once, but quickly caught it and let them help again).
As soon as we were done the kids wanted to eat it. I tried everything that I could think of for them to leave it alone-but in the end I couldn't think of a good reason why they couldn't eat it. I decided to take a vote. All for eating the gingerbread house right now raise your hand...I lost 3 to 1. Are you surprised?
3 comments:
The house looks amazing! The kit is really the only way to go with kids; so easy and so fun! I am glad to see you guys were able to fit it in!
I love your house! Your boys are so cute! We tried to assemble the house last year and it didn't work so well so this year we went with the pre-assembled house and it was much smoother. That said....my sister did a house like yours and she said she hot glued the house together first and it stayed together so well. I thought that was an awesome idea too!
What a fun night! I have never done gingerbread houses because I think it is complicated....well now that I've seen that the store bought ones work great, I will do them! Thanks!
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