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No
Gingerbread available?
Then make a Graham Cracker House instead.
Needed items:
1) A box of Graham crackers.
2) White canned frosting or make your own.
The frosting will be used in this project as
cement and snow.
3) Gum drops. This makes a colorful fence.
4) Red licorice. For door and window frames.
5) Hard candy. Makes a stone wall.
6) Tiny marshmallows. For Snowman. Roof
tiles.
7) M&M's or Skittles. To decorate sides and
for roof tiles.
8) Starburst Candy. This can be used to make
a chimney stack. Or use on sides as fence.
Can be roof tiles. Or create a walkway to
house with them.
9) Snack size candy bar. For a chimney.
10) Cake sprinkles.
11) Other candy you think you can use for
something on the house. Have your child use
their imagination.
12) Stiff paper plate.
You will build the house on the paper plate.
Start with the walls of the house as if you
were building a house of cards. The Graham
crackers will be the walls. Frost three
edges of each cracker. Place bottom of
frosted cracker upright on plate. Frost
walls together. Let dry a bit. Then build an
A frame roof (at an angle place two sides
of Graham crackers together). Frost walls
tops to roof to keep frame up.
Hold and let
dry. Now 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 do it all at the beginning.
If you are going to do the whole house start
with the sides. Gently frost it with a
rubber spatula. When done, do roof. When
done, outline a doorway using the string
licorice. Do the same for windows. Place
M&M's and/or Skittles all over wall siding
or make a design on wall. Decorate the roof
using M&M's, Skittles, and tiny
marshmallows. Sprinkle cake sprinkles on
roof for festive look. Your child can stack
up five Starbursts for a chimney. Or they
can use the snack size candy bar for this.
Once house is decorated to your child's
satisfaction they can do the yard. Spread
frosting around house on the plate. Stack up
three marshmallows to make a snowman. Use a
dab of frosting in-between marshmallows to
keep snowman up. Using finger put a teeny
dab of frosting on the side of the top
marshmallow. Using sprinkles make a face.
Place in two eyes, nose and mouth on
marshmallow. You can make a walkway to front
door using Starbursts. Place gum drop all
around house or just in front as a fence.
For a stone wall stack hard candy, using
frosting as cement to keep them in place. Found this
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