Today the kids and I decorated a gingerbread house. I had thoughts of baking one from scratch, but honestly with my kids aged 4.5 and 2, they wouldn't have had the patience for it (and as a result neither would I!). So I purchased a ready built house kit (with a tiny amount of candy) from Target. I bought some additional nuts and candy to use to decorate it.
I wasn't too concerned with perfection, but I was hoping it would look nice. The kids actually did pretty well with it and didn't try to take candy off of the house. Daisy, 2, put on a few pieces but mostly sat there eating stuff out of the bags. Seymour, 4.5, did really well and put on lots of decorations.
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| Yogurt pretzel roof, tiny gummy bear Christmas "lights" |
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| Candy rock chimney |
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| The back door |
Seymour had the idea to make a Santa Claus, but for a while I wasn't sure what I was going to use to make him. Then I decided to just put some things together and hope for the best -- and he actually looked pretty good! I used two red candy rocks that were roundish, half a cashew for the head, a slice of small white jelly bean for the beard (and the icing just happened to make a nice little point in the middle), and a peppermint candy for a hat.
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| Santa with a ... turban? |
I'm glad we all had a good time together. Unfortunately our card making session did not go as well... Such is life with small children, no?
