{"id":90717,"date":"2009-12-20T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=136353"},"modified":"2009-12-20T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T06:00:13","slug":"the-wonderful-world-of-gingerbread-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/90717","title":{"rendered":"The Wonderful World of Gingerbread Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gingerbread houses fascinate youngsters<\/strong>, whether the cookie type with frosting and candy decorations or nonedible, made from other materials.\u00a0 Yesterday, when I substute taught in second grade, we made gingerbread houses from brown paper bags.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_136363\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136363\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/1208835_gingerbread_house1.jpg\" alt=\"Gingerbread house image: sxc.hu\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gingerbread house image: sxc.hu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What fun the youngsters had!<\/p>\n<p>They colored decorative motifs the teacher had copied for them.\u00a0 Then I stuffed brown paper bags with crumpled newspaper, folded down the top (after cutting off a strip so it wouldn&#8217;t be so bulky), and stapling it shut.\u00a0 The youngsters glued on their decorations (doors, windows, snowflakes, border strips, etc.).\u00a0 Some cut the doors so they would open and decorated inside, too, after pushing some of the crumpled paper aside.\u00a0 Others added decorations to the bags with colored markers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For making cookie type gingerbread houses<\/strong>, you can purchase kits, as my daughter often has for her children.\u00a0 What fun they had putting these together and decorating them, creating Christmas memories in the process.<\/p>\n<p>To make gingerbread houses &#8220;from scratch,&#8221; you may want to see if you can find a copy of\u00a0<em>Gingerbread Houses for Kids<\/em> by\u00a0<a title=\"Jennifer Ericsson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Jennifer%20A.%20Ericsson&amp;tag=stateunive-20&amp;index=blended&amp;link_code=qs\">Jennifer\u00a0Ericsson<\/a>\u00a0, a\u00a0wonderful how-to book for making these creations, with easy instructions for youngsters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your gingerbread house memories?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/the-wonderful-world-of-gingerbread-houses\/\">The Wonderful World of Gingerbread Houses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gingerbread houses fascinate youngsters, whether the cookie type with frosting and candy decorations or nonedible, made from other materials.\u00a0 Yesterday, when I substute taught in second grade, we made gingerbread houses from brown paper bags.\u00a0 Gingerbread house image: sxc.hu What fun the youngsters had! They colored decorative motifs the teacher had copied for them.\u00a0 Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}