This takes concentration

We made Gingerbread houses last night with Andrew's preschool. This is our second year getting the chance to go and the kids just love it. The school provides the graham crackers and the frosting with the milk cartons to help with structure and the foam trays to build it on. Each family is responsible for their own decoration items. We loaded up at Winco in the bulk section so the kids had several items to choose from in decorating their houses.

Andrew loved playing in the frosting. He had it all over him but didn't even care. He loves to get in and get messy. I think building the house was just as much fun for him as decorating it. He was concentrating so hard that I couldn't ever get him to look at the camera and smile. He wanted his candies placed in just the right spot. A few times he pushed so hard to place the candies that his house began to fall apart. Jeff was there to save the day and help fix any structural damage :}

Megan got a bit frustrated when it came to making the house. The frosting was too messy and when I told her to lick her fingers she said "yuck." She didn't like getting messy at all. As she was trying to put frosting on the house to cover it things kept falling off. Once again Dad had to come to the rescue for structural help. After the outside was done and she got to decorate it she loved it. She thought long and hard about where she wanted to place things and how she wanted a garden outside. I think she enjoyed the decoration part the best, especially the eating of them.

At the end we let the kids pick up their house and tried to get them to stand next to each other for a picture but Andrew of course didn't want to cooperate. It was a bit scary as Andrew was walking I thought for sure it was going to end up on the ground. We had to settle for putting them back on the table where all Andrew wanted to do was admire his work.

We had a blast!! I'll be sad for next year when Andrew will not be at that preschool. We might have to brave it and make our own at home. It will be crazy but probably just as much fun.