DIY Gingerbread Houses

I admit I never eat the ACTUAL gingerbread house my children make.  I usually end up throwing it away..after my children have picked all the candy off of it.  It really looks kinda sad.  I also would like to save the expense, silly I know, but all of these dollars do add up when you are saving for a cochlear.

So I found a great tutorial about DIY Gingerbread Houses from Bella Dia: Cereal Box Houses.  So thank you to her and her great idea.

Think of all the possibilities! Stickers, glitter, buttons (maybe not if you have small children), water bottle caps!  So if you are saving for something like my family (and who isn't saving for something?!) Then try this with your boxes, save money, and the planet.

Thank you and more to come!
Kim and Family =)

What to do with Cereal Boxes?

What would you do with mini cereal boxes? And a two year old at the same time? It also might be raining outside or just to stink'in hot to tolerate.

I would continue my endless fascination with coloring, doll houses, and blocks. Ta da I get to draw whatever I want on 'blocks' and play with my daughter. My baby is having a difficult time today. She can't express all the time what she wants so that means she just cries. This means I have to ask lots and lots of questions to get to the problem, and sometimes that means I just have to change the conversation. So let's just create some masterpieces.
You will need:
mini cereal boxes, or whatever size you have
newspaper
tape
black sharpie
crayons or markers

step 1 : wrap the boxes like presents with newspaper

step 2: draw what you like, trees, houses, people with the black sharpie marker. I also included words like "tree" and "house" to work on sight words.

step 3: hand over the crayons, color with your babies, have fun with the colors!

step 4: play time! make silly combinations like fishies or houses on top of trees. Play doll house with the people

What would you like to see me make a craft out of? Comment and I will give it a shot =)