Friday afternoon the kids and I tried our hand at gingerbread house decorating. I put the gingerbread house together while the kids ate lunch. The kids were ready to decorate as soon as lunch was finished.
I felt pretty certain that our masterpiece would be at least as good as the one on the box. **wink**
Grace put her gum drops in a zigzag pattern on one side of the roof.
Gabriel was in charge of the front of the house and the other side of the roof.
Uhm . . . Grace . . . those decorations are supposed to go on the gingerbread house.
Gabriel . . . that was supposed to be a bush next to the front door. Geez!
The kids decided that the icing was good enough to eat, so why should it be used for decorating?
Grace had more icing on her face than there was on the gingerbread house. I wish I could have video taped their laughter as they ate squirts of icing from the piping bag. They were hysterical.
The is our completed gingerbread house. Notice that there are no bushes around the outside of the house. Only about a third of the candy from the kit actually made it onto the house. The rest of the candy was eaten by two silly kids. Even though the gingerbread house is not exactly beautiful, we had a ton of fun acting silly while we decorated it. AND it was better than last year's because this one stayed together. All in all, I figure it was a successful project.
I felt pretty certain that our masterpiece would be at least as good as the one on the box. **wink**
Grace put her gum drops in a zigzag pattern on one side of the roof.
Gabriel was in charge of the front of the house and the other side of the roof.
Uhm . . . Grace . . . those decorations are supposed to go on the gingerbread house.
Gabriel . . . that was supposed to be a bush next to the front door. Geez!
The kids decided that the icing was good enough to eat, so why should it be used for decorating?
Grace had more icing on her face than there was on the gingerbread house. I wish I could have video taped their laughter as they ate squirts of icing from the piping bag. They were hysterical.
The is our completed gingerbread house. Notice that there are no bushes around the outside of the house. Only about a third of the candy from the kit actually made it onto the house. The rest of the candy was eaten by two silly kids. Even though the gingerbread house is not exactly beautiful, we had a ton of fun acting silly while we decorated it. AND it was better than last year's because this one stayed together. All in all, I figure it was a successful project.
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