Monday, December 20, 2010

gingerbread houses

we had two extra kiddos for a slumber party the other night.

after watching a christmas video

it was time to get rid of all that extra old halloween candy (thank goodness...yuck)! this turned out to be a great use of that stuff. next year i think i'll slowly stash it so it runs out faster, but we still have some for this activity!
I was impressed with the creativity and they were fairly clean about it! it just took some graham crackers, royal icing, and junk candy! perfect!!
caleb's house... he asked me to cut the tootsie roll up and then he put them in lines to make bricks and then he bent the other tootsie roll into a candy cane! it was all his idea and i was quite surprised by his precession!
allie's won the most candy award... check out that chimney! she also was the leader in everyone having pink and purple snow made out of nerds and pixie stixs!

here are the final houses... super cute! fun had by all!
i've got some thoughts to help this week go quickly... i'll post them tomorrow! FIVE days till christmas!!! where did this month go?????

2 comments:

  1. Bring on the thoughts of stuff to do this week! We're making pine cone bird feeders (with bird seed and peanut butter) mixing food coloring into cookie dough to see what colors they can make and playing with cookie cutters and play dough! Wish we could be crafty with our kids together!

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  2. What a fun time! All the children did a great job on their houses. I love all the creativity!

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