If for some reason you’re a psycho, you could do the whole graham cracker, build your own traditional gingerbread kind of thing, but again…I can’t stress enough these are 3 year olds. When I placed the houses, I made sure to glue them toward the back of the board so the kids had room to decorate the front yard. I glued the houses to 8″ cake boards that came in a cookie plate set. Then, I piped white royal icing over the seams where any glue might be showing. I bought a few different mini gingerbread house kits and assembled the houses with hot glue. And if you had the whole “build and decorate” thing, they would have either loved the building or the decorating, but doubtfully both. The kids did great but I think they would’ve really struggled to decorate full-size houses. This theory proved to be true at the party. And I think most 3 year olds only have the attention span to decorate a mini house. I went with mini gingerbread houses because most of the attendees were 3 years old. The red and white trees are ornaments I used in our kitchen last year for Christmas decorations. I added two undecorated houses to the cake plate in case a kid broke their house mid-decorating. The only time he made a peep was to ask me for more “glue”. While I decorated my gingerbread houses the other day, Owen decorated this little one– spending an hour meticulously placing all of those candy beads. I also picked up two pre-built classic gingerbread houses from Target for $5 each and decorated them.
#Gingerbread house candy windows#
I decorated the table and windows with leftover decorations from the gingerbread birthday party I helped throw for my friend’s daughter’s birthday last December. It was a tedious process, but the cuteness outweighed the quality time spent with my Xacto knife weeding iron-on vinyl and ironing the monograms onto the aprons. Child-Sized Monogrammed Apronsīecause I’m a masochist, I decided to monogram red, child-sized aprons for all the kids. But more on it (and the table and chairs later). It sat in a box in our entryway for nearly 3 months (after I waited months for it to come back in stock) because I’m obviously winning at life right now. Totally unrelated– yes, I got a new chrome light fixture for above the dining table. But the party was a lot of fun, everyone had a great time, and there was very minimal crying. I cooked up this crazy idea a month or so ago, when I clearly had a lapse in sanity. It makes for a lovely Christmas craft and just a holiday season in general. And after they’re all juiced up on simple carbohydrates, their moms drive them home, and then they sleep it off for a couple hours. Think Christmas party for adults but instead of booze, you put oodles of Christmas candy (or any candy really) and sugary cereal at their fingertips. The other day, Owen and 10 of some of his best buds and their mommas gathered at our house for a gingerbread house decorating party.
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