Since making gingerbread houses is a holiday activity that you can do with kids, it might be nice to be able to mail one to a Grandparent or another relative as a gift. The problem is that gingerbread houses can be fragile, but if you plan carefully, you should be able to mail a gingerbread […]

EBT or food stamps/SNAP are supplemental programs for buying food for low-income families. There are a lot of restrictions on what you can and can’t buy with your EBT card, but are gingerbread house kits included? Gingerbread house kits are generally included as something that you can buy with an EBT card or food stamps

Making clear windows for a gingerbread house is a cute detail, and it also allows you to put things inside the house or to add lights to illuminate the windows. There are a couple of ways to make clear windows, but the one that’s the least humidity-sensitive is sheet gelatin. Sheet gelatin has a few

A lot of gingerbread houses have transparent windows that are made from sugar, but that can require melting hot sugar or isomalt, and that isn’t a kid-friendly activity. Hot sugar can cause severe burns, so if you have little kids around you shouldn’t do anything with melted sugar if they’re in the kitchen! For little

Gingerbread house kits weren’t around when I was a kid, but they’re all over the place now. I hadn’t used them before I started this website, and I learned pretty quickly that they can be improved. And sometimes they need to be improved! So, how do you make a gingerbread house kit better? It would

Decorating gingerbread houses is usually done with candy, but it’s hard to decide how much to buy. The size of the house is going to play a part, as will the size of the candy itself and the ages of the people doing the decorating. So how much candy do you need to plan on

Just because Christmas is over doesn’t mean that you should put the gingerbread decorations away. There are a lot of holidays that would make a good excuse to decorate a gingerbread or cookie house, and Valentine’s Day is one of the best. Valentine’s Day gingerbread houses can be decorated with piped designs, or with the

Making a gingerbread house can be more fun when you design your own template, and it’s not that difficult to do. If you keep a few things in mind you should be able to make a house that looks like anything you want it to. Start with a design idea. To design your own gingerbread

When you bake your own gingerbread houses, you can add notches to the side so that they fit together in an interlocking pattern. This is helpful to keep the houses from falling apart as the icing dries, and it’s especially useful in humid climates. I adapted a couple of basic patterns that I’ve used before

When I make a gingerbread house or other item for the first time, I’ll make a mockup of it in cardboard first to make sure that the pieces all fit together. This gingerbread sleigh is a pattern that I got from my mother years ago, and it makes an easy-to-assemble and sturdy gingerbread sleigh that