Measuring Dough for a Gingerbread House

Series Summary

Gingerbread houses and gingerbread men are an excellent example of edible art and edible crafts. Making a gingerbread house can be a fun learning experience for your kids. Kids not only learn about shapes but increase their motor skills, coordination, and learn a little bit about art. Making a gingerbread house is also a great family craft during the holidays. If you have never made a gingerbread house but would like to learn, you can learn for free from an expert.

In this free video series learn from expert Katlin Toth as she demonstrates how to make a gingerbread house after the dough is prepared. She will show you how to measure the dough for the sides and roof of a gingerbread house and how to bake the gingerbread dough in the oven. She will also demonstrate how to make homemade icing, how to color the icing, and how to use icing to decorate a gingerbread house. Have fun making your gingerbread house and enjoy eating the ginger bread too!

Video Transcript

"I'm going to show you how to make a gingerbread house. Now you need a ruler, you need to measure your dough to see how big a piece you've got and then you can judge the size it is. It's about fifteen centimeters by fifteen. So, okay, now you will need four rectangles that are the same size. So, you measure four, eight, twelve and need another four centimeters here, and now, you need to do exactly the same on the other side. So, let's draw a line, let's measure it. So, I need four, eight, twelve, and another four here. Okay, it's just the edge, and now I'm going to draw the line. Okay, so you can do it together with your children because it will help them to develop how to measure and then also, they can draw straight lines here, so they will be part of this fun, and they can use, they don't need to use a sharp knife, so they should use probably a blunt knife or maybe a toothpick, or anything that is not sharp and depending on their age. Okay, so this is going to be the basic, and now, I'm going to make the lines a little bit stronger so that I can cut out these pieces. Okay, cut the other side, you can do it without a ruler but, it's much nicer if you do it with the ruler then you have exact measurements."