The Gingerbread House
With it being the Holiday Season, most people are busy baking, shopping and wrapping presents. This year, we were running behind schedule all due to the Gingerbread House.
I will try to keep this post from being too long, but I first need to give you a little ‘backgroud’ on how this all came about. It all started about 6 years ago when my son was in pre-school. For every holiday a parent signed up to make/buy the centerpiece for the table where the children would celebrate. I picked Christmas of course.
So for a centerpiece, you would think that it would be no big deal right? Wrong. These mothers would go crazy with the centerpieces. I remember for Thanksgiving one centerpiece was a giant Mayflower. So being the competitive spirited person that I am, I told my husband ours HAD to be the best. :lol:
I remembered my mom making graham cracker houses and trains when I was growing up, so that is where the idea all started. That year I made a graham cracker house along with a train. Each child took part of the train home with them.
After that first year we started to get more detailed and larger in size.
2006 Graham Cracker House
Since it became a tradition, we started researching and found that gingerbread was actually easier to work with. We were nervous to try using something other than graham cracker. Now looking back, we wish we had used it all along!
2007 Gingerbread House
This is our 2nd year making it with gingerbread. As you can see, it has become quite the project! :shock:
Here is the youtube video of this years-
It is a time consuming project, but we always love the end result.