Creating Creative Creations!

Graham Cracker City!

    Yesterday we made Graham Cracker houses (a variation of Ginger Bread houses)!!  About eleven in the morning we began preparations.  Clearing the table we laid work spaces.  Tiffy and Jenny split the various candies into bowls, while I began making the frosting/glue.  Tiffy helped me finish up the 'glue' and soon we were ready to begin creating.  We started designing our house about noon.  Mom read to us from Around the World in 80 Days, as we girls carefully put up walls, gluing them together with the thick frosting.

Mom's church with open doors!

    I worked until 3:00 and finally got the structure of my house built.  Tiffy and Jenny finished earlier than me so Tiffy read and Mom could began her building.  Jenny started decorating her roof with candies.  At 3:00 we stopped and made some lunch.  After playing a game during lunch we continued our projects into the evening.  At some point Mom put on some hotdogs for those who were hungry. Then we continued designing.  Before I knew it, it was 8:00 and I hadn't eaten dinner!  We were so enthralled by our creations that we ate when we came to a stopping place, then quickly returned to stick on a few more candies.  I enjoyed building a garden with a Jelly Bean "stone" pathway, candy cane fence, and a marshmallow tree.
     Mom built a church with a real bell hanging in its belfry, a roof lined with many candies, two large candy cane hearts framing the inviting entryway, and a giant Christmas tree standing regally beside it.

Tiffy's. See the snowman!

    Tiffy made an two story house with a balcony on the second floor, and candy canes arch for the entrance to her yard.

Jenny's home!

     Jenny designed a cute one story house open to view, with a comfy looking bed, an intricately designed roof, and a garden with Skittle cabbages and carrots.

     I made a three story building, with a brick roof and chimney from Red Vines, real windows, and a shed beside the main house.

My house - it looks like it's leaning...hmm!

   It was so fun making the Graham Cracker houses that I was up past ten o'clock (late for me) designing and cleaning up.  Tiffy and Mom continued till about eleven o'clock putting on their final touches.

Me with my house!

Now our creations are sitting on a shelf in our dinning room, and we have enjoyed looking at them.  It's been seven years since we last made Graham Cracker houses, so it was a little hard to remember how to do it.  Jenny was so tiny last time that she wouldn't remember anything about it, while Tiffy was pretty little.  I'm glad I got to do it again and I'm sure the girls enjoyed the experience as much as I did!  Who knows, maybe we'll get to make Graham Cracker houses again before another seven years go by!  I hope so!! =)