Christmas Memories

Photo by me - copyright © 2011 Mandy Ross

The kids and I spent our Christmas break making memories. Our oven is still broken, so I bought this Gingerbread Village kit instead of baking our own gingerbread houses. I might just do this every year. My gingerbread always turns out too puffy.

We started out by picking who was going to build which house in the village. There were 5 buildings, so we all got to make one. I think the picture I posted is actually the backside of the houses, but we decorated them all the way around. We leave no wall uncovered!

I put all the candies in a mini-muffin tin. I got this idea from Pinterest. I have no idea who came up with the idea. But, I've seen candies, beads and all kinds of other crafty stuff stored in these tins and I thought it would be a good idea to keep the kids from fighting over the bags of goodies and spilling them all over the floor.

Photo by me - copyright © 2011 Mandy Ross

I think our village turned out pretty cute. Not that I would want to eat it, but it was a fun craft project. It's hard to get all 3 kids to do one activity without screaming and fighting, so it was a success from my point of view. The cookie decorating didn't go as well, but I guess you can't expect every food craft to be drama free. :]