Faux Gingerbread House
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This festive corkboard cottage has a great selling point: while it's every bit as sweet as the classic cookie-and-candy model, it'll never get stale.
| Prep Time: Afternoon or Evening | |
| What you need: | |
| 2 (12-inch square) cork panels (available at office supply
stores)
Ruler and pen Craft knife Hot glue Pencils Hole punch Craft foam in various colors White puffy fabric paint and and paintbrush Craft glue FOAM TREES: Wooden skewers Green marker Green craft foam | |
| Seasons: Christmas | |
| Materials: corkboard | |
| Instructions: | |
| 1. |  Draw the house shapes on the cork panels as shown. |
| 2. |  Cut them out, using a ruler and a craft knife for the
windows and door (a parent's job). Cut the window squares in half
for shutters. |
| 3. |  Hot-glue the shutters and door in place, using pencils to
prop them at an angle while the glue sets. Cut or punch out foam
circles to resemble NICO wafers and candy dots. You can even
paint some like starlight mints. |
| 4. |  Hot-glue the walls together. Add the roof pieces, then let
the glue set. Cut out foam roof tile strips and glue them in
place starting at the lower edge and slightly overlapping the
layers. |
| 5. |  Use craft glue to attach the candy circles. Paint the seams
of the house, the roof peak, the shutters, and the eaves with
white puffy fabric paint to look like they're covered with
icing. |
| 6. |  To make foam trees, color a wooden skewer with a green
marker. Next, cut out squares of green craft foam (ours ranged
from 1/2 inch to 2 3/4 inches) and trim them as shown. Push the
skewer point through a cork circle, then through the center of
each foam piece. To finish, glue together 2 small stars,
sandwiching the skewer point. |
| 7. | Set out your finished house with our foam trees. To complete the scene, we added cork stepping-stones, fake snow, and a battery-operated tea light (available at craft stores). |
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