December 18, 2018

Gingerbread House Decorating Party

My sweet niece just turned six, so, of course we had to invite a few friends over for a little party. My house is generally the party house, and my niece is a-ok with that. She wanted to have a party that was festive and set in front of our fireplace, next to our “twinkling” tree.

I have been diligently creating new SVG files, and I really wanted to try to make a 3D file. So, I decided to try making a 3D Gingerbread House SVG. It is absolutely darling, and the kids loved making the houses their own with stickers and markers at the party. I felt slightly guilty about the kids not using candies and icing to decorate a traditional Gingerbread House, so I bought some pre-made gingerbread man cookies, and the kids had a BLAST decorating those and snacking on the candies.

The Party:

We only served snacks and milk during the party. Milk was poured into small glass bottles embellished with felt gingerbread men on them. I needed to keep the decorating table relatively open to allow the kiddos more room to decorate. So, we placed the snacks on another table.

The decorating table was topped with a festive red gingham table cloth. I had my son decorate traditional gingerbread houses and we put them on a cake plate in the middle of the table. A cookie jar full of ornaments was placed behind the cake plate. Each place setting had a simple round red felt placemat adorned with a cute felt and Iron On gingerbread boy or girl. I placed a Kraft Board gingerbread house on each placemat, and markers next to the placemats. Decorating gingerbread houses will work up a quite a thirst, so I hot glued a small felt gingerbread person to glass milk bottles. I filled a vintage family pitcher with candy canes for the kids, and added gingerbread man cookies to a tray with small candy canes, candies, and royal icing for the kids to decorate after they finished their houses.