#Diy tea box cracker

You can adjust sizes based on your box size but for us and the 4×4 box, we use a 12″ by 6″ rectangle for the roof. Once you have your cardboard box base, cut out (from a cardboard box) a rectangle to create a “roof”.HERE is a link to the 4″x4″ boxes we use!

#Diy tea box cracker

We like a 4″x4″ sized box (the house won’t end up 4×4, it’ll be much larger when you add the roof, graham cracker and fluffy icing).

To begin, we use cardboard boxes as the base for our gingerbread houses.She used a giant gingerbread house as the centerpiece on her table then (and now). She hosted this party annually, starting in the late 1980s. I’m lucky to have a few shots of my mom’s past gingerbread houses at our annual tea party from years ago. We certainly love fully homemade gingerbread houses (and still make these from time to time), but this method is what works best for us when hosting gingerbread house decorating parties for lots of little ones! Photos of Past Gingerbread Houses During the first night of drying, the house gave way due to the weight of the candy and was leaning sideways by the next morning. We lived in an old Charleston single house, and my five-year-old brother wanted to make “his” house. My mom made her first big gingerbread house when we lived in Charleston, SC.

We wanted to let kids get straight to the fun part (decorating) without worrying about a roof falling off. We learned (the hard way) that trying to host a gingerbread house decorating party and begin with building the houses from scratch meant that attention spans were long gone and house walls were caving in by the time the decorating came around. They aren’t for eating later (gingerbread houses don’t taste great after the fact anyway), but they’re for enjoying throughout the season! Now, for a disclaimer about these gingerbread aka “graham cracker” houses.