Make spooky gingerbread houses with your kids
by Laura Falin posted in Life & Home
We're indulging our Halloween sweet tooth once more around here. Because candy corn. And frosting. And chocolate, amen.
The beauty of these Halloween houses is that haunted houses are supposed to be crooked and tipsy and sketchy-looking. So off-center candy and wonky frosting and walls that aren't straight are a-ok around here. This is good, because often when I do projects with my kids, I have an idea of how I want it to turn out and they have an idea of how they want it to turn out and neither of our ideas match. And then I have to remember who I'm really doing all this for and back off a little.
Which is why we have candy corn in a perfectly good and spooky graveyard. Must...let...that...go. This parenting thing is hard sometimes.
To make your own Halloween house, or graveyard (with or without candy corn), or pumpkin patch, here's what you'll need:
Supplies:
1 box chocolate graham crackers
1 box square cookies (for the tombstones -- we used Keebler Delux Grahams, but anything square will work)
candy corn and candy pumpkins
orange frosting
green frosting
orange icing (you can buy in the cake decorating aisle, or spoon some frosting into a plastic baggie, cut one corner off, and squeeze frosting out)
white icing
Instructions:
So pick and choose which parts of this you want to do -- you can do all...or just one.
For the graveyard:
Place two whole chocolate graham crackers together and cover with green frosting. Outline your squar...
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