Free Preschool Activities

I love making gingerbread houses! Over the years, we’ve made several different kinds. Some were a lot of work, but the results were beautiful. Others were a lot of work, and the results were disastrous! (They still tasted good, though.)

After all this trial and error, here is my favorite way to make gingerbread houses with young kids. They can even do a lot of the work on their own.

What You Need:

500 mL empty milk cartons, with the top taped shut to form a roof.

Graham wafers

Icing

Candies to decorate

What You Do:

Using the icing as glue, cover each side of the milk carton with a graham wafer. Attach graham wafers to the top for the roof.

Decorate as you like, using the icing to make the candies stick. Your preschooler can easily create an entire village of these.

If you’re more daring than I , and want to spend more time building your gingerbread house, a gingerbread house cookie pan can be a lot of fun too. All the pieces of your gingerbread house will come out perfectly shaped… and you can even make a gingerbread man and gingerbread tree to go along with it. (Much better than rolling out a big sheet of cookie dough, and cutting the shapes out by hand… which we have also done!)

Whatever method you choose, building gingerbread houses with preschoolers is a blast, and tasty too.

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