Gingerbread People & Animals

  People and Animal Pattern:  Use cookie cutters, cut figures out of coloring books, etc.  Trace pattern onto a sturdy piece of cardboard or poster board and voila, you have patterns! Place your pattern on Gingerbread dough with a sharp pointy paring knife, bake, cool, decorate.  To stand the figure around the gingerbread house, place it [...]

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One Room House

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Country Store

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Log Cabin

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Landscaping

  Trees and Bushes Large green gum drops are well trimmed bushes, a row of them becomes a hedge.  Cut them into smaller pieces to make shrubs, or stack them on top of each other for a topiary tree.  Create larger fur trees by attaching small green gum drops to ice cream cones, or pipe green icing [...]

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Dormer & Chimney

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Construction

STEP 1 Foundation... the base should be plywood or heavy cardboard to the size and shape desired.  Cover with aluminum foil or wax paper and tape together on bottom.  Frost or ice the entire base or only where the walls of the house will contac it. STEP 2 Decorate... except for the roof, most decorative icing should be [...]

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Gingerbread Chapel

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Building Materials

  Bread Sticks Logs, rafters and beams Candy Canes Pillars, beams, fence posts. light posts M&M Candies Tree decorations, Christmas lights Cheerio Cereal Chains, tiles, small wheels, flat types for shingles Fruit Loops Cereal Christmas chains Chocolate Candy Bars Doors, shutters, shingles Cinnamon Candies Red roofing tiles, paving stones, flowers Hershey Candy Kisses wrapped in foil Church bell, [...]

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