Tuesday, December 1, 2009

3rd Grade Gingerbread Houses

Every year at Marissa's school the third grade makes Gingerbread Houses. I'm not sure who was more excited about this me or Marissa!

We went out last week to buy assorted candies & I had to make the frosting, while the teacher supplied the "gingerbread" (graham crackers). We were given instructions on how to build it & got busy. We had to wait 5 mins in between adding the next wall so we goofed around playing "thumb wars" & taking pics.

Once the house passed inspection, we went to town! We both love this sort of thing, where there's no wrong way of doing things & no grading, just FUN!! When we were done our hands were sticky, the floor was a mess & we made a SWEET house...not to mention a wonderful memory!!

Notice the mess.....

Close up of our masterpiece...
All 3 third grade classes have their work displayed--that's A LOT of SUGAR!!! Here's Marissa posing with her work of art!

4 comments:

Carla said...

that is a really cool project for school! Wish we had something like that!!

{Susan...Seriously.} said...

how fun is that? i am thinking i'm going to forgo the making of the gingerbread house this year unless the kids specifically ask for it. it's such a pain and i end up doing most of the work and it takes for.ev.er. however, i think if they did it in school, they'd be all into it. i'll opt for homemade cookies instead.

hope that you had a wonderful thanksgiving!

Kerry McKibbins said...

We used to do this at my son's old school. Miss it. House looks great!

Lydia said...

so wonderful, I can't wait to work on ours