It is tradition for us to make/decorate Gingerbread Houses sometime during the month of December. Since we won't be home for Christmas Eve (which is usually when we do them), I decided to get to them last night. Last year we did one big house and everybody decorated a side. While in theory this sounded like a good idea to promote a little teamwork, this was not a big hit! The girls really like to have their own house to design. There have been some years when we thought it would be great to make our own gingerbread, cut the pieces and so on.....well frankly that is too much work for me and the pieces NEVER fit together correctly. So although the smell of gingerbread is delicious, we have since opted for the pre-made kits. I saw this kit that said it made 5 miniature houses....... a little village......PERFECT for our clan. Well we opened up the box and they were not kidding when they said miniature:) We each got our itty bitty house and let the creativity flow....
I thought they went together very well...no glue gun this year:) Our girls prefer to not work off a design plan. Every year they just kind of put them together as they go along. A little something here and there....whatever strikes them at the moment. It is always fun to see the end result. I was a little dissapointed that Mark opted to let the girls decorate his. He is so artistic, it would have been neat to see his masterpiece.
Our Gingerbread Village......so fun to make and look at for another week .....but way to hard to ever eat.....wasteful? YES!! But a fun tradition nonetheless!!
We have bought those same ones in years past..they are very miniature aren't they? Looks like you have some artists in the family, love the village!
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