Making your Gingerbread House light up automatically when the room gets dark

We found the kit months ago, a ‘learning electronics’ available from the folks at Make. The ‘kit’ was a little paper cut out house that instead of having wires, had a pen that you used to draw circuits. The kits came with a little chip that ‘sees’ when the lights in the room are on, a couple little lights (LEDs), and a couple bits to power and control how the lights work. We of course got a kit (includes two houses) and painted them with color markers to look like little Gingerbread houses. A recent visit to the Bare Conductive site that makes the kit for Make looks to have had a similar idea:

The two house kit is available on Maker Shed’s site.

If you want to see what you will be doing with the kit before buying, here is the Bare Conductive Kit Instructions Page. This evening, we pulled apart one of our houses and are playing with putting the lights inside of one of the Gingerbread Men we built from our previous Cube print and fold craft post.

Gingerbread House Kits at Bed Bath & Beyond

Here is a great EZ build Gingerbread House project for you and your family. The 6-step kit that contains all you will need to create your candy and cookie centerpiece. The “EZ Build” tray and bag of premade icing (which will be your ‘glue’) make constructing your candy holiday home a snap. Also included in your kit are colorful candies for decorating. These kits do sell out so hurry and get yours while they last. Kits are available at Bed Bath & Beyond.

2011 Gingerbread House Kits Arrive at Costco

 

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you all know that the 2011 Pre-Made Gingerbread House Kits have arrived at Costco!! I know there are so many of us that anticipate the arrival of these pre-made Gingerbread House kits and the prices are always so great at only $9.99. Hurry and go get yours as you know these won’t last. Send us pics of your creations and we will be happy to post them up here on Gingerbreadfun.com

 

Christmas Arrives at Costco!

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This past weekend we were at Costco and found that they are already displaying Christmas and Holiday items. We spotted this Gingerbread House kit. Better get yours soon as we know what its like when they are all sold out!

Gingerbread House Kit with Holiday Tree $9.89. Easy to assemble.
Kit Includes:
Two Gingerbread Men Cookies
Gingerbread Tree
Gingerbread House
House Dimensions 7 1/4″ x 5 7/8″ x 7″

Old-Time Candy Shoppe Gingerbread House


Old-Time Candy Shoppe Gingerbread House

Isn’t this one darling! It is made from a pre-baked Gingerbread house kit. The pre-baked kits usually include the pre-baked Gingerbread pieces, decorating icing, assorted candies, decorating bags and tips, cardboard base and instructions. This particular Gingerbread house is decorated with: Assorted Colored Candy Sticks, White Gum Balls, Pastel Candy Wafers, Pastel Nonpareils Candies, Mini Tart Disc Candies, Marshmallows, Jelly Spearmint Leaves, Striped Gum Sticks, and Sugar Cones.  If this sounds sweet and yummy to you, visit here for instructions! Have fun, this one really is super adorable.