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Make Your Own Life Size Gingerbread House for Kids

Making a life sized Gingerbread House can be so much fun for kids!  We’re sharing our secret tips to build your own Gingerbread house that can be used over and over again with kids.  

Life Size Gingerbread House for Kids for  Holiday Play

  

Let’s make a Gingerbread House!  

We can make one with Candy and Graham Crackers with Friends!

 

Or maybe two with wood at Lowe’s Build and Grow Workshop!



Or three when we add our Foam Gingerbread House that get’s built every year



Confession….Our four and five are houses planned for this week while we have some extra time at home.  Thank you JoAnn’s and Target for always having fun things for my kids. 


Ok so we’ve made a Gingerbread Village! Did I mentioned we love Gingerbread Houses at our house!  I don’t think my daughter can get enough of them.  Which brings me to her list to Santa. 

We were so lucky this week to spend time with friends making Gingerbread houses, a custom that we have shared together for many years. Have you ever wondered as you’re making a Gingerbread House what it would be like to live in one?  Check out that smile, I have a feeling she’s thinking about it. 

 

When my daughter got home and she wrote down her Christmas list to Santa one of her requests was to be able to create a Gingerbread house whenever she wanted to.  How would you respond to that?  I had to think a bit and I came up with this adorable idea.  


Here’s how to make your very own Life Sized Gingerbread House!   




We are all about reusing things to make something new at The Educators’ Spin On It. This holiday season we decided to tranform our outdoor play area into a Life Size Gingerbread House.  We simply grabbed a few pieces of colorful scrapbook paper and started to create!  We made candy circles, which my daughter calls gumdrops.  You could also used leftover wrapping papper.  We made curvy lines for the frosting details.  We even cut a few straight lines to create icing windows.  



Then we took the pieces and laminted them with clear contact paper so that they would last during many days of playtime.  Now it was time for the fun to begin!  Both of my daughters had so much fun hanging up the pretend candy and frosting all over their House. 



Then they played like they were real Gingerbread Cookies. Run Run as fast as you can !    Of course she’s already asking for Gingerbread Costumes. 

This Gingerbread House post was inspired by Jan Brett’s Gingerbread Baby for the December Virtual Book Club for Kids.  Come join us with your own ideas with her books!  You can find a printable of the Gingerbaby’s house here. 

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About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. tricia says

    December 21, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    Crazy cute idea! We'd have to decorate the outdoor swingset, I think! 🙂

    Reply
  2. Kim @ The Educators Spin On It says

    December 21, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    We've had so much fun with this activity! Hope you do too!

    Reply
  3. Ticia says

    December 22, 2012 at 11:12 am

    I love the lifesize gingerbread house!

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  4. Raising a Happy Child says

    December 22, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    Cute idea! I would have to thoroughly wash our outdoor playhouse before it can be transformed into anything 🙂

    Reply
  5. Lovingmama says

    December 22, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    LOL I was thinking the same thing!!!!

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  6. Lovingmama says

    December 22, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    OOOOh – how creative. I so want to do this!

    Reply
  7. Coombe Mill says

    January 6, 2013 at 12:15 pm

    What a great way to take indoor fun to outdoors!

    Reply
  8. Leila - Mud Mud Marvellous Mud says

    December 13, 2013 at 3:24 pm

    Yummy! I love gingerbread, and what great ideas for taking the Christmas theme outdoors. Thanks for sharing at the Outdoor Play Party 🙂

    Reply

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