Gingerbread House Ideas
Gingerbread House Ideas and Pictures
On this page you'll find many gingerbread house ideas, with many pictures and some instructional videos showing numerous examples to copy. Many people love making these delightful crafts at Christmas as part of their festive preparations. Young children will be filled with wonder as you place miniature candles inside and then dim the lights.
In this article you will also find some ideas for a Christmas gingerbread nativity and some delightful themed greeting cards.
This Christmas, why not start a new tradition that the kids will love. They are fun to make, great to look at, and even better to eat!
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How many gingerbread houses have you decorated?
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Pictures to Inspire You
Here are some fabulous ideas for your next gingerbread house decorating project. Click on any you are interested in to see them bigger.
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Techniques for Decorating - with Charlene Dy
On this video Charlene shows three different techniques to use to decorate your gingerbread house (gluing, paving, painting) and also decorates one in fast motion to give you some ideas.
More Decorating Ideas
When looking for ways to decorate your gingerbread house, take a walk down the aisles at the grocery store. Look out for colorful candies to use as roofing tiles, stepping stones, flower beds, window shutters, and more. You can use marshmallows to make snowmen, pretzels to make fences or window frames, desiccated coconut for snow, wafer icecream cones to make Christmas trees (with piped green foliage) or a steeple / chimney on the building, cereal or cookies for the rooftop.
Click on these pictures to see some of the creative decorating ideas used here.
Printable Cards
Have you made a wonderful gingerbread house to give away this Christmas? These cards would also make the perfect accompaniment. And if you have decided that you can't bear to part with the one you've just decorated, how about making one of these cards to give instead? Click on each picture to see more information or to buy the printable card.
sweet and colorful
shaped card
snow globe
tag card
two storeys / stories
pop up card with a mouse
Made With Graham Crackers
If you don't want the bother of making the gingerbread walls and roof of the house, you could always make it using graham crackers and royal icing. This is simple enough for older children to make or to be made in bulk for younger children to decorate. But you can also get very artistic and make an elaborate graham cracker gingerbread house.
instruction video
In this video Charlene Dy shows how to make a simple gingerbread house with graham crackers. But she also shows some more sophisticated houses for you to try.
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Do you prefer make your gingerbread houses from scratch or from a kit?
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More Pictures - ... for the more adventurous!
Nativity Gingerbread Scene
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Make a nativity stable from gingerbread cookie sheets or graham crackers. Also includes candy characters - baby Jesus in a manger, sheep, donkey, Mary, Joseph, and shepherd.
www.familypearls.org/nativity.html
Another nativity craft.
www.ldsfamilyfun.com/fhe/recipes/recipepages/recipes-nativity.htm
Make a stable, manger, and baby Jesus - Template included
