Around my house its just a source of anxiety. Trying to get all the walls together, a roof on top and make it all look straight, yikes! Then to decorate it with the kids and not let my perfectionist, controlling nature take over (gees don't put all the red candies together! Space those gum drops evenly!) is not an easy task!
But today at our Mini Chefs play group one of our mamas suggested we do Gingerbread houses. What a great idea! But wait... build gingerbread houses with a room full of toddlers and preschoolers? Am I nuts? Maybe, but it's not about me right?
So I set out to find a simple gingerbread house for us to decorate. I managed to find pre-assembled houses, how genius! Half the stress removed!! So I bought 2!
The kids had a great time decorating the houses. We put them into 2 groups, boys and girls. They were so intense decorating their houses while sneaking nibbles of the candies.
The moms helped put the icing on and the kids were amazing to watch as they set out to create houses of candy!
While some candy trees were eaten and didn't make it on the houses, and gum drops devoured, candy balls rolling away, the kids managed to create bright and cheery Gingerbread houses to be proud of!
We raffled off the houses to see what lucky families would get to take them home.
This was a super fun event and super easy with the pre-assembled houses! One we will do next year again for sure!
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