Category: Gingerbread Crafts

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Create a Gingerbread Photo Book in Minutes!

We found the cutest “Gingerbread” themed pages that you can use for an online or coffee table photobook created by you. These Gingerbread themed pages even come with red bows and darling little Gingerbread kids. If your looking for a fun and creative projective to use up all your Christmas pictures then create a coffee table photobook and just think how cool it will be to have it sitting out on your coffee table just in time for the holidays when all your friends and families come over. Visit here for details.

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Hosting a Fun Gingerbread House Decorating Party

There’s nothing quite as festive and entertaining during the Christmas season as entertaining friends and family with a fun party. Sometimes the trick to great hosting is having the unique party theme that stands out from the others. Well you have that this year thanks to a great Gingerbread House decorating party!

Grab your friends together or invite your children’s friends over to make a gingerbread house using delicious Gingerbread Cookies, colorful icing, candy buttons and other sweet treats. You might end up covered in icing and cookie dough crumbles, but it’ll create a multitude of fun and photo-worthy stories. More here.

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Clay Pot Gingerbread Pals

These Gingerbread are too cute to eat! If you are looking for an easy holiday craft, this could very well be the answer you’ve been searching for.

You will need (for each character)
2- 1 1/2″ diameter wooden balls
2- 2 1/4″ diameter clay pots
2 buttons
shiny holiday ribbons
white small rick rack
white craft or hot glue
black finetip marker
large paintbrush
acrylic paints in light brown and pink
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Gingerbread Goodie Cans

This is a fun little Gingerbread craft project ~ a Gingerbread Goodie Can. Fill your goodie can with yummy Gingerbread treats! Print out the patterns and trace around. Then cut them out with the color of construction paper shown. Lines of detail were added with the black or red markers. To add a glisten to the eyes, simply apply a dot of whiteout. Visit here for the pattern.

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Miniature Gingerbread House

This ‘mini’ craft has big flavor. Kids can decorate this Miniature Gingerbread House and enjoy as a Christmas treat, or as a decoration for years to come.
What you’ll need:

* 7 graham crackers
* Frosting for glue (recipe below)
* Assorted small candies for decorating
* Ribbon
* Pastry bag and tip or Ziploc bag and scissors
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Fantasy Gingerbread Candy House

Set aside a day or two and enlist lots of help from the kids to create a memorable piece of family architecture with this Fantasy Gingerbread Candy House. You might want to document the roof-raising with photos or a video.
WHAT YOU NEED
* Gingerbread Dough (see recipe below)
* House template
* Scissors
* Plain paper (at least 8 1/2-inches x 11-inches)
* Ruler
* Pencil
* Rolling Pin
* Tree or girl and boy cookie cutters (optional)
* Baking sheets
* Wide spatula
* Cooling racks
* Royal Icing “Glue” recipe (see below)
* Base such as a board, baking sheet, flat platter or cake stand
* Foil (if using board as base)
* Narrow spatula
* Plastic pastry bag or sandwich bag
* Colored icings in tubes (with decorating tips)
* Mini Chewy SWEETARTS
* Mini Chewy SPREE
* SPREE Candy Canes
* BABY RUTH Fun Size Bars
* NESTLÉ CRUNCH Santa Pooh
* NESTLÉ BUTTERFINGER, NESTLÉ CRUNCH Fun Size Bars or Miniatures, or NESTLÉ Milk Chocolate JINGLES
* NESTLÉ CRUNCH Medallion
* Flake coconut (optional)
* Craft hot glue gun with craft hot glue sticks (optional)
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Gingerbread Sleigh

This would make a great kid craft and a great way for you and your family to spend some “family time” on this activity. So gather the children together to help build this special Gingerbread Sleigh complete with Santa and Rudolph!
WHAT YOU NEED

* 1 piece of cardboard for base(10 inches x 13 inches)
* 1 piece of cardboard (or heavy construction paper) for templates
* Reindeer cookie cutter
* Gingerbread dough (see recipe below)
* Royal Icing (see recipe below)
* 1 bag of shredded coconut
* 2 LIBBY’S JUICY JUICE boxes
* Aluminum foil
* Craft glue gun
* 1 pastry bag with a larger circular tip and a small writing tip or a small zip lock bag with a small hole cut in one corner (pastry bags and tips can be found in cooking, craft or cake decorating stores)
* 2 Mini Chewy SWEETARTS dispensers
* 2 Mini Chewy SPREE dispensers
* 1 bag of NESTLÉ CRUNCH, BABY RUTH or BUTTERFINGER Miniatures
* 1 bag of NESTLÉ JINGLES (NESTLÉ CRUNCH, BABY RUTH, BUTTERFINGER, NESTLÉ Milk Chocolate or NESTLÉ Dark Chocolate)
* 1 box of SPREE Candy Canes
* 1 NESTLÉ Santa Pooh
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