Gingerbread Mini Village

The kids really wanted to do a gingerbread house this year. It's been a few years since we tackled the project, and this year I didn't get any sudden burst of free time. So I bought a Wilton mini village kit.


 

I was very pleasantly surprised by how easy this kit was to put together. 

I assembled the houses and the kids did all the decorating. 

They turned out amazing.

This was a great family project that I will most definitely do again next year. 

Holiday Pomander

Cinnamon Ornament "Cookies"

I really love to make these with the kids. They smell so yummy.



Ingredients:
1 Cup Apple Sauce
1 Cup Cinnamon (2-2.37 oz bottles were close enough to a full measuring cup)
1 TBSP Ground Cloves
1 TBSP Allspice
2 TBSP craft glue

Mix in dry ingredients and then add apple sauce and glue. Easy Peasy.


Dust surface with cinnamon and roll dough out to a 1/4" thickness.


I put them in a sunny spot to dry. It takes a few days and you need to flip them. I think this way preserves more of the yummy smell. You can bake them in a low temperature oven if you are short on time.

I hung the kids on the tree and decided I wanted to make a string of them to hang over the "window" in the dining room/kitchen.