How to Make a Perpetual Gingerbread House

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By Jane Smith
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Keep It Forever!

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

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

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

Step 1

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.
Step 2

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.
Step 3

Cut craft foam, cardboard, cork board, and construction paper into various shapes: circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles.
Step 4

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.

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