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Holiday Project - Make a Delightful Gingerbread House Using
Graham Crackers
By Jay Marie P
This Christmas make a Graham Cracker House.
Needed items:
1) A box of Graham crackers.
2) White canned frosting or make your own. The frosting will be used for
gluing Graham crackers together, gluing candy to roof/sides/plate, and
for snow.
3) Gum drops. Use: Colorful fence.
4) Shoestring red licorice. Use: Door and window frames.
5) Large marshmallows. Use: Snowmen.
6) Tiny marshmallows. Use: Kid snowmen.
7) M&M's or Skittles. Use: Decorative siding.
8) Starburst Candy. Use: Stack up for a chimney. Put candy on its side
and make a fence around house. Can also be roof tiles or pavers to
house.
9) Snack size candy bar. Use: Chimney.
10) Cake sprinkles.
11) Other candy. Have your child use their imagination for what it can
be used for on house or in yard.
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. You will use Graham
crackers as the walls. Frost bottom of crackers first. You might need to
help your child by holding up the Graham crackers as they glue them
together with the frosting. Let dry a bit. Then do the roof. Make an A
frame roof using two crackers on their sides. Use frosting at top to
keep A frame up. Hold and let dry. You can also make a flat roof.
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 start
with the sides. Using a thin rubber spatula gently frost the sides.
Outline a doorway in front using shoestring licorice. Do the same for
any windows you want. Place M&M's and/or Skittles all over wall siding.
When done, frost the roof. Either use Starbursts for roof tiles or
decorate the roof using M&M's, Skittles and tiny marshmallows. For a
festive look put cake sprinkles on top. On a flat roof your child can
stack up five Starbursts for a chimney. Or they can use a snack size
candy bar on an A frame roof for a chimney. Once house is decorated to
your child's satisfaction they can do the yard. Spread frosting around
house. Stack up three marshmallows to make a snowman. Dab a bit of
frosting in-between marshmallows to keep snowman up. Use sprinkles to
make a face on snowperson. You can stack tiny marshmallows to make kid
snowperson. Make a walkway to front door using Starbursts. Place gum
drops all around house as a colorful fence.
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