Inspired by our trip to the George Eastman house last week for the gingerbread house display we set out to make our own creations with our friends the Maxfields. Mrs. Maxfield worked hard to create 7 individual salt dough houses that promptly warped. She then made 7 individual houses out of cardboard. She has a lot of time on her hands, I guess. 
With a tableful of candy and seven tubes of frosting we set out to destroy the family room decorate houses fit for royalty. Then the boys decided their houses were just fine and set out to play football. The girls were serious about using up their tubes of frosting and as many pieces of candy as possible. It really was a lot of fun. And it cleaned up rather quickly. {I know some of you will have chest pains just looking at the mess!}
And Tabitha walked by her house over and over again in the evening… swiping tastes of her house, despite the fact that some of the candy was years old! ♥
Dayspring Disciples 
Tabs trully is a candy-holic from the get go. Nan
Tabs trully is a candy-holic from the get go. Nan
Nice job! We've never been able to get ours to stay up (always caves in!)
Nice job! We've never been able to get ours to stay up (always caves in!)
Martha has done this with gram-cracker houses.
Martha has done this with gram-cracker houses.
We assembled our graham cracker buildings the night before. When it came time to decorate the structures held up much better under the weight of the candy and the pressure of little (or not so little) hands. A bonus was the boys weren't able to fill the empty house cavity with extra candy.I never used Royal Icing, just milk and sugar, so I never had to worry about the kids picking their houses apart to eat the candy, which they couldn't keep their hands off of.
We assembled our graham cracker buildings the night before. When it came time to decorate the structures held up much better under the weight of the candy and the pressure of little (or not so little) hands. A bonus was the boys weren't able to fill the empty house cavity with extra candy.I never used Royal Icing, just milk and sugar, so I never had to worry about the kids picking their houses apart to eat the candy, which they couldn't keep their hands off of.
I'm very impressed! Looks like tons of fun…wish I could have joined in. 🙂
I'm very impressed! Looks like tons of fun…wish I could have joined in. 🙂