Gingerbread Houses

We have made gingerbread houses for years. I first made them at MOPS about 10 years ago. It was a Christmas craft for the moms! While the children were happily playing in their Moppet classrooms, the moms chatted, decorated and ate candy. After awhile MOPS didn't fit into my schedule, but these gingerbread houses made with grahm crackers and royal frosting did! We've made these houses every Christmas season. The last several years we've made the houses with our family friends. They moved to Kansas and we moved to MN. While we have plans to get together this winter we needed to make houses now! We decided to invite our homeschool group over to decorate houses. We made 23 houses-6 grownups and 17 children. The two babies just grazed on dropped candy : ) I think decorating houses with our homeschool group will be a new tradition. Remember, in my home if you do it once, it is a tradition. We have heard that our family friends will also be decorating gingerbread houses with their homeschool group.