Our neighbor/friend, Jackie across the street saw my posting on Facebook about our plans to make a gingerbread house and told me that she had recently bought the Pampered Chef molds for a gingerbread house, school/post office, and train from a resale store for $5! On Friday, with snow/ice everywhere I sent Sofia over to Jackie's house to pick up the three molds. She brought them back to the house one at a time and I washed them before I baked the gingerbread house and trains.
The next day, I put out all of our candy and made the royal icing and we got started. CK is always in charge of the engineering aspect of ensuring that the walls and roofs are going to actually stay together. Last year, we started using canned food to hold the walls together and it worked again this year. Once CK got the walls and roof on, we started decorating. CK focused on the roof while Sofia made a fish pond and a walkway from the front door to the pond. Olivia mainly snuck up to the table to steal candy and eat it and didn't help to decorate. While CK and Sofia worked on the house, I focused on the train which was fun to put together. It turned out to be a great Saturday morning project, especially on a snow-bound day and they both turned out really cute. Of course, Sofia has asked about a million times when we plan on eating it!
Candy!
Getting started
The candy tray
Sofia, with her candy necklace, ready to decorate
CK, the engineer
The house coming together
The candy thief
The decorating starts
CK focuses on the "fish roof"
Sofia and her fish pond
Working together
The train
The finished house!
The backyard
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