Building a gingerbread house is a great family tradition. Assembling and decorating a house made of cookies and candy is a fun project to do with children during the holiday season. It’s something your children will look forward to each year. While you could bake your own from scratch, pre-made kits are widely available and cost efficient. The kit pictured here from Williams-Sonoma contains a building tray, gingerbread pieces for house, tree and snowman, green and white icing “glue” and candy decorations including gummy trees, red and green pearls, multicolored gumdrops, large red, green and white jelly beans, mini candy canes and starlight mints. Purchasing each of these items individually and baking from scratch would be very time consuming and likely cost far more than the price of a kit.
The holidays are a very busy time for everyone but it’s important to carve out some time to slow down and enjoy the season with your children. Having a gingerbread kit makes it easy to pull out and get to work on your masterpiece when you have a few spare moments.
My kids are still very little but we’ve already made a tradition out of building a gingerbread house each holiday season. As they get older I hope it will be something they look forward to!
Williams-Sonoma Gingerbread Kits retail for $19.95 and are available exclusively online.
We received complimentary gingerbread kits in exchange for sharing the information in this post with our readers.
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That house looks identical to the Wilton ones that are between $5.99 and $9.99.