When my children were little I used to have them each make gingerbread house on the 1st of December. I would notice that each day after we made the gingerbread house that some of the gum drops would be missing. This happened each day until Christmas day when all the candy and some of the walls on the gingerbread house was gone!
I think this was fine, it even makes me chuckle a bit thinking about how sneaky they thought they were – it was fun for them to eat the gingerbread house slowly over the month of December. This is part of the wonders of childhood! How could I deny them?! I only wish I would have taken the photos of the gingerbread house being eaten over time! Gingerbread houses remind me of childhood and the Christmas Season!
So you can probably guess how surprised I was when my grown children showed up for Christmas and wanted to make a gingerbread house too! My daughter and her husband really had fun assembling a gingerbread house kit that I had bought at Costco. It turned out to be a nice activity that filled the house with festive fun even though we didn’t have any small children around. And this time all the treats on the Gingerbread House stayed put – no sneaking eating the house and the decorations!
I think building a gingerbread house is fun for both young children and those young at heart too! If you haven’t ever built a gingerbread house for the holiday’s it never is to late to start.
Then of course taking photos and digitally scrapbooking the memory is a great way to preserve those special events!
It is so fun to look back on the all the holiday activities through your scrapbooking albums and pages.
Just take your digital photos and combine them with Digital Scrapbooking Supplies or Kits then send them to online printing companies to make into an album or print them on your home printer or even email the images to friends and family!
When you turn your photos into digital scrapbooking pages you have lots of options for keeping your memories. You can even burn the scrapbooking pages onto a CD and give a copy to your family as a Christmas Gift too!
Here are some Scrapbooking resources:
- If you want to learn how to take your photos and turn them into digital scrapbooking pages, and then send them to online printing companies then buy the Getting Started Series in Digital Scrapbooking for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements because this training covers making your scrapbooking pages and sending them to online printers.
- If you want to burn your Digital Scrapbooking Pages to onto a CD then buy the Organizer Training that explains how to do this – “Get Organized in the Organizer Using Organizing Advanced Features in Elements 7, Lesson 3.”
- If you want to turn your scrap page into a PDF file and email to family or friends read this article: Turn your Digital Scrapbooking Pages into a Scrapbooking Photo Album and a PDF File Too!
- If you want Digital Scrapbooking Kits and Supplies to scrap your gingerbread house memories check out the Scrap Shop.
Need Gingerbread House Resources? See These:
Want to make your Gingerbread House from scratch?
- Gingerbread Cottage Recipe (Martha Stewart) – with how to instructions and Gingerbread cut-out Templates
- Swedish Gingerbread House Recipe (Martha Stewart) – with how to instructions and Gingerbread cut-out Templates
Want to get a Gingerbread House Kit?
- Wilton Petite Prebaked House at Amazon.com for around
$10. Includes pre-baked house pieces, icing mix, assorted candies, decorating bag and tip, cardboard base and complete instructions and decorating ideas - Costco’s Gingerbread house – at Costco stores during the holidays – includes everything needed to make a gingerbread house
Want to Make a Gingerbread House from items around your House?
No-Bake Gingerbread Houses – I used to let the kids make graham cracker houses with graham crackers, can frosting, and holiday candy. It was easy and cheap. I like to use this method when my house filled up with children and then each could take their creation home.
However you make your gingerbread house it will be a lot of holiday fun for both young and young at heart. Take lots of photos and remember after the holidays settle down to scrap your memories!
Have a wonderful holiday season!
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Start off with your Gingerbread House Scrapbooking page with a nice Digital Scrapbooking Kit.
For example, in this blog article we used the Christmas Elegance Kit.
The great thing about using a digital scrapbooking kit like the Christmas Elegance Kit is that you can either use the scrapbooking papers and supplies to design
n your own special scrapbooking pages.
Or this kit also comes with Quick Pages for fast digital scrapbooking where you only have to add your photos and you are good to go!
If you would like to get more digital scrapbooking kits and supplies for your holiday scrapbooking projects visit the Scrap Shop today!
