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They come in lots of sizes, circles or squares, and even silver-coated with scalloped edges if you want to get fancy. They’re sturdy cardboard that’s coated in a nice coating that won’t absorb moisture. You can find these near that meringue powder in all the same places. This no-bake method of making gingerbread houses cuts the prep time tremendously allowing you time to spend more time on the flourishes and details on your house.
Graham Cracker Gingerbread House
Attach a jimmy for each eye and the leaf for the nose. Take a toothpick and stab in the sides of the center marshmallow. Stick in the two longest brown jimmies you can find. You could use a Bugle covered in green or white icing, a piece of candy corn with icing, or even those triangle pieces of graham cracker you cut off with icing on them.
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Here you will find easy family-friendly recipes for every occasion. While you’re waiting for the house to dry, set up a DIY decorating station. Add everything to little bowls, perfect for little hands, and have the kids decorate it themselves. Grab a cake board or glue 2 full sheets of graham crackers together to use as a base. One of our favorite things we used to decorate our houses were cute icing figures I found at Walmart. To cut the graham cracker pieces, you will use the serrated knife and use a gentle sawing motion to lightly cut.
Royal Icing for Graham Cracker Houses
We also used Wilton melting chocolates this year to add some extra decoration to the graham houses. The kids loved creating patterns with the melted white chocolate. You are going to cut two identical pieces for the front and back of the house. You are making two cuts to create a peak at the top of each cracker. I typically like to do this part on my own (but your kids can certainly help too). While I watch The Great British Baking Show (holiday edition, of course), I mix, cut and assemble at my leisure.
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The actual house construction is very simple for an adult or older child (8+). However, it requires about ten minutes of patience, which most younger kids just don’t have when they are anxious to start stuffing candy on a house. Prebuilding 8 houses was a LOT of work, but the kids LOVED them!
We have done this a few times, and it is always a blast! Each family works together decorating their house. Before you start decorating, you designate someone to be the judge, and they are banished to a different room during the decorating process.
Now, you need a way for your little graham cracker men and women to get in and out. So I put in a door using two of my chocolate squares. You could also use other pieces of graham cracker or Hershey pieces. I used a leaf from my leaf sprinkles for the doorknob and outlined the door in icing. Later on you will see that I drew window panes on the windows.I lined my roof with Twizzlers.
Cute icing decorations
Crafting a “gingerbread house” with graham crackers is a joyful and festive activity that brings families and friends together during the holiday season. Using icing looks more like a traditional gingerbread house. However, a hot glue gun is the quickest way to assemble the house. I do not recommend this method if you have younger kids that may eat the house.
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You’ll also need some white chocolate chips or candy melts to use as glue, and a couple of small ziplock bags to put it in. Finally, you’ll also use a cutting board and a serrated knife. If your kids are a little older (8+), they may need a bit of help cutting the front and back pieces but should be able to glue the house together all on their own. We waited until party time to cover the roofs completely in icing so that the kids could add their candies directly into the wet icing.
We are twin sisters Sara and Melissa, sharing our DIY projects, easy recipes, home and everything that will help you celebrate the good in life. We love using colorful candy in many different shapes. This year we loved using Swedish Fish, Sour Patch Kids and then made the cutest little teddy bear sculptures with Teddy Grahams. I’m Heidi, the sometimes scatterbrained, but always creative mind behind One Creative Mommy. I'm a retired teacher, wife, and mom of three beautiful teenage girls and one adorable fur baby.
If you do this on a small cutting board, you can pop the house in the fridge to help the white chocolate set up very quickly. Cut the other two graham crackers in half so you have four graham cracker halves and two graham cracker halves with triangle shapes on top (they will support the roof). And they have cried during holiday house making before. If you will be decorating houses with a young child (or if you are outnumbered by children), save yourself a lot of hassle and ASSEMBLE THE HOUSES IN ADVANCE.
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