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Gingerbread House

Page history last edited by Jane McManus 12 years, 8 months ago

Here are some suggestions from our colleagues. Please add any of your own ideas.


(see also: Storytimes-Recipes-Gingerbread House Cookies)

 

For gingerbread houses, use plain sugar, heated until it begins to caramelize (turn brown) as the cement for the graham crackers.  You dip the side you want to stick in the caramelized sugar, hold the pieces together for 5 seconds while the sugar hardens.  It works, and looks like hard candy is holding the pieces together and it is completely edible.  To make the roof, stick to the walls or glue the two right angle pieces together, you just hold the top angle and dip the two free ends at the same time.  Then you can use store bought icing to cover the "candy" seams, if you want an authentic look without having to mix your own icing.  PUBYAC 12-22-2006

  

  • Get some school milk pint containers - well washed out (I had a very supportive connection at school 22) to "glue" the graham crackers to - this makes everything MUCH easier.
  • I asked Tops on Upper Falls for some assistance, and they gave me a gift card! I got all sorts of strange bulk candy and provided homemade decorating frosting.
  • Let me know if you have questions about cake decorating...I've been doing it for ages, and have done lots of programs that involve food prep
  • It was pretty fun, we played Christmas music and cartoons and stuff.
  • We had about 20 kids per session, and mostly I asked some of the older kids to give the munchkins a hand...
  • I did ask that children younger than 4 years old be accompanied by an adult.
  • I gave out the candy in cycles, so that they could use some, eat some, and then ask for special needs items. We even had Swedish Fish!

                                       --Xandi DiMatteo

 

  • I made the houses out of graham crackers.
  • Then I brought them in with frosting and individual bags of candy, so each kid could decorate his "gingerbread" house.
  • We did gingerbread stories before decorating the houses.
  • It was a lot of prep time at home, but the families really enjoyed it.
  • I put the houses on individual pieces of cardboard covered with aluminum foil.
  • Of course, this was a "must register" program. I limited it to 15 kids and made a couple of extra houses for those families that just can't seem to realize that register means register.

                                       --Nancy LaHaye

 

Material ideas: 

  • SLED:  Use 2 small candy canes and a small graham cracker section or other small cookie.
  • TREES:  Use pointy ice cream cones with flat bottoms.
  • GREEN GUM DROPS can be bushes.
  • PRETZEL STICKS can be used to build fences, or stacked to become bundles of firewood.
  • HERSHEY BAR SECTIONS make good doors and shutters.
  • SHREDDED COCONUT looks like snowflakes on roofs and yards.
  • HERSHEY KISSES make rooftops pointy.  Use chocolate chips, licorice whips, crackers, cookies--just about anything!

                                        --PUBYAC 7-27-2011 

 

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