Gingerbread Candy Corn

If you are looking for unique candies for your gingerbread house decorating, then don't miss this unique option: Gingerbread flavored candy corn. It sounds delicious, and will be one of the more unusual, hard to find items to incorporate into your project. Image links to current product details.

Disney Gingerbread Castle Kit

If your daughter loves the Disney Princess theme, then this pre-baked gingerbread castle set is a fun way to spend time decorating, creating, and imagining! Click image for current costs and availability.

Gingerbread Wall Decals

Wall decals are a fun way to decorate an area temporarily in a given theme, and if gingerbread is your favorite theme of the holidays, then you'll really love these decal choices. Put up a gingerbread mural, of sorts, and stow it away when the season is done! ***Images link to current cost and availability details.





Find these, and many more baking and gingerbread themed wall mural and removable decals for decorating and decking your kitchen and dining walls!

Gingerbread House Perfection?

I've found that perfection is in the eye of the gingerbread artist, consistent with personal goals and vision, when it comes to making a gingerbread house from scratch.  When you are working with kids, to assemble and decorate gingerbread houses, you'll find that a greater number of hands leads to a time intensive project, and attention to detail varies.

Every year, we learn new ways to get better results, but every year, I become less stressed about the appearance of the final products.  First, as the kids get older, their personal touches become more personalized and unique, and they become capable of perfecting their creations according to their own vision.  Small children will put a few candies here and there, and one shouldn't expect a gingerbread house worthy of feature by the Martha Stewart's of the world.  Older children are interesting to watch, though, as you see the variation in modalities displayed in their final results.  My analytical, visual learning children often have very defined decoration patterns, while my more artistic, auditory, and creative children find unique ways to work a theme into their gingerbread art. 

In preparing, I've found that organization is important for sanity's sake.  I've also found some different baking and cutting techniques that provide a more standard outcome in the gingerbread panels.  I don't worry so much about the assembly, in terms of perfectly placed icing, because this often gets covered in the decorating process.

You'll find my cutting techniques here, and a guide to my gingerbread house how to's here.

Personalized Gingerbread House Tin

Personalize a Gingerbread House Themed Tin

One of my favorite Christmas gifts to send to far away family or friends, especially those we've previously enjoyed sharing a gingerbread house party with, is to make and send gingerbread house pieces that I've made from scratch, along with some of our favorite candies.

If you are going to be baking gingerbread houses, your nieces and nephews, or granchildren, will be thrilled with the prospect of receiving a set of pieces long distance.  Include that set in a tin, padded with marshmallows to avoid breakage...whether you use this personalized gingerbread tin, or a simple tin or box from your big box retailer, you'll be making a special moment for the recipient!  You can find coordinating mini tins, as well.

Wilton Gingerbread House Kit: Prebaked Gingerbread Activities

Prebaked Gingerbread House Kits provide
the opportunity for the busy household to enjoy the fun
of gingerbread house decoration, in spite of the busy-ness of the season.

If you are in a hectic household, the holidays can seem difficult to navigate.  In our busiest years, it's tough to find time to bake, and making a gingerbread house from scratch may be too much to handle.  This Wilton pre-baked kit is an example of a means to the end:  the kids can decorate a gingerbread house, but Mom doesn't have to figure out where to fit all the steps of from scratch gingerbread baking into the schedule.  The kids won't mind the shortcut...the decorating is the highlight for the youngsters.

Non Edible Gingerbread House Craft Kits

Gingerbread House Crafts

If you are incorporating a gingerbread house theme into your holiday season, then you may find this set of gingerbread style craft houses a fun diversion for the kids.  Whether you plan a 12 days of Gingerbread theme, or whether you just need a few projects on hand to distract the kids while you bake, wrap, or shop, this is a gingerbread themed set that has the materials prepared, and included.

Gingerbread Playhouse/Gingerbread House Cottage

Build a Beautiful Gingerbread Playhouse for the Kiddos!

There are playhouses, and then, there are Gingerbread Playhouses!  This pretty gingerbread cottage is a DIY playhouse, a fun addition to any yard, and a fantastic alternative to a fort.  A little more complicated than an edible gingerbread house, the kit includes hardware and pre-cut panels, trusses, etc.  The ambitious mom or dad who decides to take this project on will have to provide a few additional building materials, along with tools.  Read more about this fun gingerbread house project.