This year i decided to make a play house for our reading center. We had been advised by Project Star (an awesome resource in our area for behavioral and developmental screening) to have a quite zone for a few of our more "rowdy" boys to go when they need some alone time.
I decided that a gingerbread house was a perfect idea and we could keep it up all winter.
I pre- cut a door hole in the box and put a roof on the top using extra box pieces. (i left the front of the roof open so that i could see inside easily)
The children painted the box brown on the first day
Then on the second day they decorated candies to add to the house. I let them glue them wherever they wanted.
We also made frosting out of white paper and i added a white table cloth (bunched and stapled) to the roof to look like snow.
The candy cane is made from a wrapping paper tube.
It turned out great and the children love to go inside and read stories. It's been 2 months and the house is still in great shape :)
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