Gingerbread Houses

So I had this brilliant idea to make gingerbread houses with Tessa this Christmas season. Granted, I haven't done one of these in years, but I remembered it being a fun and relatively easy activity. Hhhhmmmm, fun and easy is defined differently when a toddler is involved.


I love the kit I bought, it came with five mini houses for my mini person to decorate. I assembled and iced the houses and divided the candy into little bowls. Then I let Tessa decorate the houses. (OK, honestly I totally helped.) It was very cute to watch her alternate between eating the candy and mushing it into the icing. I believe she has a mouthful of mini M&Ms in this picture.

By the time we were done the kitchen was a disaster, the floor was covered with candy and crumbs, Tessa looked like she had been tie dyed and I was a little stressed out. But it was fun and the finished houses are pretty cute.