Easy Gingerbread House

Eight years ago, we hosted an "easy" Gingerbread House-making day for our homeschool support group. I provided the home and Kelly F. provided the instructions. It is still one of our favorite Christmas time projects ever. Tiffani was 5.


I wrap it carefully each year and hope that when I unwrap it each December that it is still intact. The fact that it has stayed together all these years is a testimony to Wilton's Royal Icing! A few candies have turn colors and a few are missing where Tyler Kitty had a taste, but all-in-all it's as good as the day Tiffani made it.

This project was so easy...and very fun for the kids! You can eat and create at the same time!

The "gingerbread house" is actually graham crackers adhered to the top half of a half-gallon milk carton.

The "glue" is Royal Icing ~ the Wilton recipe.

The "base" is heavy cardboard or a thin wood panel wrapped in foil. We added the festive snoman and Santa bear candles a couple years ago.

Each family brought fun candies/pretzels/other to share for decoration and munching. Licorice makes a fun pathway! And inspecting it this year, it is definitely one of the candies that looks as good as the day it was glued.