How sweet it is...

Last week I got to spend the afternoon with Bubby at kindergarten. We practiced making word webs, read Gingerbred Baby and learned about vocabulary-building skills, read and performed The Three Bears, and then we made this:

We started out with a milk carton. Then we slathered it with icing (which I do not recommend eating 'cause it seems pretty nasty to me). We added more icing to our graham cracker squares and used them for the siding and roof of our house. The eaves we filled with Froot Loops. Chex Mix for the windows and a sugar wafer for a door makes for a pretty sweet house.

 

Then we decided to spruce things up:

• Pretzel sticks at the seams to improve insulation
• Pretzel twists & Skittles on the roof for a little texture and color
• Pretzel twists for a porch rails coming out of the front door
• A licorice & miniature marshmallow sidewalk
• A lovely marshmallow pine tree
• Some marshmallow shrubbery around the entrance 
• A gumdrop chimney
• And of course, 2 little gingerbread boys

 And did you notice our gingerbread boys are having fun? They are riding on a sugar wafer sled with candy cane runners. I mean, why should we  be the only ones having fun?

Now Bubby's teacher says she still has her daughter's gingerbread house that she made with this project....7 years ago. But I'm pretty sure I'm not up to keeping this one that long!