Our Gingerbread House Project
Jesper had a design and templates printed but we still needed some fine tuning. So as our engineer, he had to do a few test batches to get things right. It was fun brainstorming ideas and watching all of the kids giving their input.
I think it is funny a year ago, Megan would just look at Conary and scream, "NO!" when he tried to talk to her, but since then she adores him. It was great seeing them playing together and just being buddies.
Grandma-great was just in awe of the Gingerbread House plans. She couldn't believe how big this project was going to be. It was great having her here to see how Megan plays with her cousins.
Tough job, we had to force the kids (and my mom) to make candy canes smaller to support the roof. If you cut them they break so there was no choice but to lick them to get them to the right size.
Kids are made a rubber! This was the easiest way for Crystal to help cut out the pieces. It looked very painful to me.
Caila and Lisa turning sugar into glue. It was super hot, super sticky and worked great!
Conary has a lot of patience. He glued each ju-ju to the licorice to make lights. It looked great...until we picked it up. All of his work crumbled but we regrouped and still got the lights on the house.
Kelsey was decorating trees for the back of the truck and Tracie was putting the many, many pieces of the truck together.
Tah-dah! It's perfect and it won 1st place for the family category at the Gingerbread House contest. Plus it was so much fun for all of us, I can see it being a tradition!
Caila, Megan, Crystal, Kelsey and Conary posing with their masterpiece. I love these kids and I loved that they all had fun with this project. Good times!
Jesper had a design and templates printed but we still needed some fine tuning. So as our engineer, he had to do a few test batches to get things right. It was fun brainstorming ideas and watching all of the kids giving their input.
I think it is funny a year ago, Megan would just look at Conary and scream, "NO!" when he tried to talk to her, but since then she adores him. It was great seeing them playing together and just being buddies.
Grandma-great was just in awe of the Gingerbread House plans. She couldn't believe how big this project was going to be. It was great having her here to see how Megan plays with her cousins.
Tough job, we had to force the kids (and my mom) to make candy canes smaller to support the roof. If you cut them they break so there was no choice but to lick them to get them to the right size.
Kids are made a rubber! This was the easiest way for Crystal to help cut out the pieces. It looked very painful to me.
Caila and Lisa turning sugar into glue. It was super hot, super sticky and worked great!
Conary has a lot of patience. He glued each ju-ju to the licorice to make lights. It looked great...until we picked it up. All of his work crumbled but we regrouped and still got the lights on the house.
Kelsey was decorating trees for the back of the truck and Tracie was putting the many, many pieces of the truck together.
Tah-dah! It's perfect and it won 1st place for the family category at the Gingerbread House contest. Plus it was so much fun for all of us, I can see it being a tradition!
Caila, Megan, Crystal, Kelsey and Conary posing with their masterpiece. I love these kids and I loved that they all had fun with this project. Good times!
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