Holiday Project - Make a Delightful Gingerbread House Using Graham Crackers
This Christmas make a Graham Cracker House.
Needed items
1) a box of Graham crackers.
2) White canned frosting or make your own. The frosting will be used for gluing Graham crackers together, gluing candy to roof/sides/plate, and for snow.
3) Gum drops. use Colorful fence.
4) Shoestring red licorice. use Door and window frames.
5) Large marshmallows. use Snowmen.
6) Tiny marshmallows. use Kid snowmen.
7) M&M's or Skittles. use Decorative siding.
8) Starburst Candy. use Stack up for a chimney. Put candy on its side and make a fence around house. Can also be roof tiles or pavers to house.
9) Snack size candy bar. use Chimney.
10) Cake sprinkles.
11) other candy. have your child use their imagination for what it can be used for on house or in yard.
12) Stiff paper plate.
You will build the house on the paper plate. start with walls of the house as if you were building a house of cards. The Graham crackers will be the walls. You might need to hold the crackers steady as your child glues them together with frosting. Frost three edges of each cracker. place bottom of frosted cracker upright on plate. let dry a bit. then build an a frame roof (at an angle place two sides of Graham crackers together). Frost wall tops and ends of roof together to keep frame up. Hold and let dry. You can also make a flat roof.
At this point make a decision. will you be frosting the whole house or just the roof? if you want to do the whole house I suggest you start with the sides. Using a thin rubber spatula gently frost the sides. Outline a doorway in front using shoestring licorice. Do the same for any windows you want. place M&M's and/or Skittles all over wall siding. when done, frost the roof. Either use Starbursts for roof tiles or decorate the roof using M&M's, Skittles and tiny marshmallows. for a festive look put cake sprinkles on top. on a flat roof your child can stack up five Starbursts for a chimney. or they can use a snack size candy bar on an a frame roof for a chimney. Once house is decorated to your child's satisfaction they can do the yard. Spread frosting around house. Stack up three marshmallows to make a snowman. Dab a bit of frosting in-between marshmallows to keep snowman up. use sprinkles to make a face on snowperson. You can stack tiny marshmallows to make kid snowperson. make a walkway to front door using Starbursts. place gum drops all around house as a colorful fence.
Holiday Project - Make a Delightful Gingerbread House Using Graham Crackers
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