No-Bake Gingerbread Houses for Kids
Building a fabulous gingerbread house is as easy as 1-2-3 with No-Bake Gingerbread Houses for Kids. There's no need for the messy and time-consuming tasks of mixing dough, rolling it out, baking it, and waiting for it to harden. All the houses in this book are made from graham crackers, cookies, ice cream cones, and waffle bowls. Just assemble, frost, and decorate! No more complex and expensive store-bought kits. No more lopsided barns that were supposed to be Prince Charming's castle. Just...
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No more complex store-bought kits. No more lopsided barn that was supposed to be Prince Charming's castle. Just fun with the family while constructing fanciful gingerbread houses with graham crackers, frosting, cookies, and candies of all varietiesWith graham cracker building blocks and straightforward instructions, families can create everything from a Fire House to a Tiki Hut and a Swiss Chalet to a Mermaid Palace.
Mermaid Palace\ 1/3 batch white royal icing\ 1/3 batch purple royal icing\ 2/3 batch seafoam-green royal icing\ 29 vanilla sandwich cookies\ 3 sugar cones\ Smarties\ 1 To make the short tower, use white icing to glue seven sandwich cookies together in a stack. Place a sugar cone upside down on top. Repeat to make the middle tower, this time using ten sandwich cookies. Repeat again to make the tall tower, this time using twelve sandwich cookies.\ 2 Cover the tower tops with purple icing and the tower bottoms with seafoam-green icing. Make the windows using Smarties for the windowpanes and purple icing for the window frames.\ 3 Make sea anemones using sour gummy worms cut in half. Make a sea sponge using upside-down gumdrops. Make seaweed using green sour straws.\ Decorations\ sour gummy worms\ gumdrops\ green sour straws\ candy seashells
Getting Started 7 Easy Candy Cottage 13 Lollipop Lane 14 Sweetheart Cottage 17 Fairy Tree House 18 Easter Bunny House 21 Mermaid Palace 24 Cozy Cabin 27 Dutch Windmill 30 Tiki Hut 33 Big Red Barn 35 Caribbean Bungalow 39 Firehouse 41 The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe 45 Swiss Chalet 47 Blue Dollhouse 51 Mushroom Gnome Home 55 Igloo 56 Seven Dwarf's Cottage 59 Haunted Mansion 62 Santa's Castle 66 Dracula's Castle 71 Silly Polka-Dot House 74 Pink Castle in the Clouds 77
\ Library Journal - BookSmack!\ Not only does this book give kids a chance to play with food, but it also gives them the opportunity to learn math (namely fractions), introductory architecture, and construction skills. The designs presented cover a range of themes with lots of opportunities to focus on secular and Christian holidays. This book could have benefited from more visual step-by-step instructions, but overall the directions are simple and easy to understand.I Would Give This to Anyone working with elementary school-age children. Katie Dunneback, "Holiday Cooking and Crafting", Booksmack!, 11/4/2010\ \ \ \ \ School Library JournalGr 6 Up—Often the word "no-bake" in a title is a clue that the recipes are simple, which is not the case here. The no-bake means that the houses are made of graham crackers and similar cookies, stuck together using "glue" concocted of egg whites or meringue powder. Front matter explains how to cut graham cracker shapes carefully and how to make and use icing "glue" and offers tips for decorating with candy and more. Each of 23 recipes is accompanied by a large color photo showing the imaginative and appealing hous. The first one, for an "Easy Candy Cottage," is fairly simple, but things get progressively more complicated. Here's a typical instruction from the first sentence of step 2 for making the "Seven Dwarfs' Cottage": "'Glue'" a quarter cracker perpendicular to the front of the house, a fourth of the way in from the right side." Basic diagrams offer a bit of help, but overall these projects will require concentration, patience, and a strong set of fine-motor skills. Children younger than age 13 will definitely need an older partner. Simpler instructions for decorated edible houses can easily be found elsewhere, both in book form and online. Unless you have some serious confection construction fans, you can pass on this one.—Lauralyn Persson, Wilmette Public Library, IL\ \
