First up was making a gift for daddy. I will write about that in a future post because I know my husband will probably read this and I don't want to give away the kid's surprise!
Second was a gingerbread house. All my boys wanted to help with this so we waited for a day when Russell didn't have to work and everyone would be home. I decided it would be best not to try baking my own so I bought a pre-fab house!
I pulled out the instructions and got the icing mixed up. According to the instructions when assembling the house you need to join the walls together with icing and wait and hour for it to set. Then you attach the roof and wait an additional 2-3 hours before decorating!
Well, let me tell you, this is not what happened in my house. We (but if you ask my kids they will say it was all me) were eager to get the decorating going. So we decided it wasn't really necessary to wait the full time for the sides and roof to set.
With Russell's help, I joined the sides together first. After waiting what seemed an eternity...maybe 15 minutes....I set the roof on. So far, so good.
Then we waited some more.
But we got a little too eager and decided to try and start the decorating...
I guess there is a very good reason why the instructions state to wait 2-3 hours. Unfortunately, since we didn't, our house came tumbling down!
Trying to make the best out of the situation, we all took a side of the house and decorated it.
Even though we didn't get our gingerbread house, we had a lot of fun and we all got our own giant gingerbread cookie!
We still have another Christmas craft to get done. I think with this one, I'll we'll need to be a bit more patient with the process!!!!!
Great advice!
ReplyDeleteThat IS a long time to have to wait for icing to set up.