How to Make a Perpetual Gingerbread House

By Jane Smith

Keep It Forever! Keep It Forever!

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Make a perpetual gingerbread house from craft foam and keep it forever.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

  • 6 (8 x 10-inch) sheets of brown craft foam
  • Additional sheets of craft foam in various colors, cork board, cardboard and construction paper
  • Markers, crayons
  • Glue stick or tacky craft glue
  • Beads, buttons, feathers, rhinestones, bottle caps, small toys
  • Regular scissors and pinking shears or scrap booking scissors with scalloped edges

Some Assembly Required...

Step1
Use the web pages provided or find your own pages for a gingerbread house template. Cut the shapes and sizes needed to assemble your gingerbread house. You will need one rectangle, one square, one triangle and one parallelogram.
Step2
P= Parallellogram R=Rectangle S=Square T=triangle Place as shown. Using one whole sheet of any color craft foam as your background, glue the cut out pieces in place on it to form a house. The parallelogram will be your roof, the triangle will be the peak of the roof. See image for placement of shapes.
Step3
Cut craft foam, cardboard, cork board, and construction paper into various shapes: circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles.
Step4
Glue the various shapes onto the house. Use circles for shingles on the roof. Use markers or crayons if needed to make each piece look like your favorite candy. Use buttons, beads, feathers, and small toys to decorate the house.

Tips & Warnings

  • Wait for the glue to dry on the house pieces before decorating.
  • Use safety scissors or precut the foam and construction paper for very young children.

Photo/Video Credit

Jane M. Smith, 2007

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