Last night for Family Home Evening, I thought it would be a fun night to do our gingerbread village. I had grabbed the box weeks ago, immediately put it away when I got home, and never gave it another thought.
A few days ago I remembered that I had this fun thing, and yesterday went to the store to get decorations for our village. In my mind, these were going to be normal sized gingerbread houses, so I went a little crazy buying goodies to adorn the houses.
They really should put a coin or something next to these houses on the box so you have an idea of scale.
 |
| here's what they say it will look like |
I was more than a little shocked when I opened the box and found 2x2 inch squares, and 4x3 roofs... Clearly, I bought too much candy, and much too LARGE candy for these teeny tiny buildings. I would have been better off using graham crackers. But - live and learn, right?
Luckily, the kids didn't care too much, and got into the spirit of the evening.
We had a blast trying to decorate these things. Poor Max's house fell completely apart. And then the madness began:
Bryson's house turned into the scene of a grizzly gingerbread man attack, with a snowman defending the house - victoriously holding aloft the head of a defeated gingerbread attacker.
Seriously, one of the funniest things ever.
Here are all of the "houses" completed, and one of the aftermath:
 |
| top left: Bryson and Megan's houses; top right: Sophie's (which actually turned out really cute) bottom left: Max's caved in disaster; bottom right: the aftermath |
All in all, it ended up being a fun evening with a lot of laughter, only a few tears, and {i hope} a memory to treasure.
Comments
Yes, we fell for the same thing. I figured they'd be bigger, but was lured in by the thought that each kid could get their own. They turned out cute, but only because I cheat and hot glue them together. Yours are so fun!