{"id":3903,"date":"2015-12-08T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/newsletters\/2015-12-08\/3903\/"},"modified":"2015-12-08T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T18:37:10","slug":"surfnetkids-gingerbread-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/newsletters\/2015-12-08\/3903\/","title":{"rendered":"[Surfnetkids] Gingerbread Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Reader,<\/p>\n

Happy Hanukkah<\/a> and a very Merry Christmas<\/a> to all who choose to celebrate! I’m going to make some latkes.<\/p>\n

\"Most<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

See ya on the Net,
Barbara J. Feldman
“Surfing the Net with Kids”
https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Gingerbread Houses<\/b>
https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/resources\/gingerbread-houses\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Gingerbread Houses Printable(** for Premium Members only)
https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/printables\/files\/printables-club\/gingerbread-houses.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Gingerbread is a baked treat that dates back to the Middle Ages. It is thought to have first appeared in the U.S. in the nineteenth century, when the Swiss monks of St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana baked gingerbread on holidays, and gave it to the sick. Over the years, baking gingerbread cookies and building gingerbread houses developed into a popular American Christmas tradition.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Christmas: Gingerbread House 101

“From very simple designs for busy moms and dads to challenging art projects for those artists among us, we’ve got it all.\u2026 Let the decorating begin!!!” Celebrating Christmas offers a potpourri of gingerbread house advice, from how to plan a gingerbread party to recipes for gingerbread tree ornaments. Highlights are six gingerbread house blueprints (including a log cabin, chapel, country store and Victorian) although you will need to enlarge the patterns before using them.<\/p>\n

Highlights Kids: Design Your Own Gingerbread House

To add a little computer fun to today’s topic, this pick is an online game. Decorate your virtual gingerbread house with the usual Candy and Icing, or go crazy with silly Food and Stuff such as a whole fish, a tennis ball, or alphabet blocks to spell out your name. Move items onto the house by clicking once to pick up, then again to release onto your house. Controls include Rotate, Resize, Flip, Start Over, and Print (so you can hang your finished creation on the refrigerator door.)<\/p>\n

King Arthur Flour: Building a Gingerbread House

This fourteen-page PDF from King Arthur Flour offers the most detailed gingerbread house building instructions I found online. It includes a printable pattern, oodles of photos, and tips you won’t find anywhere else. For example, to create multi-colored stained glass panels, try melting hard candies in the oven. Or to create the look of window panes, paint diagonal muntins on gelatin sheets. And to help your gingerbread people keep their balance, attach mini-marshmallow kick-stands to their backs.<\/p>\n

… Click to continue to Gingerbread Houses<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Printables Club Members Also Get … <\/b> <\/p>\n

Surfnetkids Printables Club Members also get the following printables to use in the classroom, the computer lab, the school library, or to send home with students:<\/p>\n

Gingerbread Houses Printable
Gingerbread Houses Wikipedia Printable
Christmas Songs Printable
Christmas Crafts Printable
*** Are you curious? Get your own ten-day trial membership:
https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/printables-club.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Related Games<\/b><\/p>\n

Gingerbread House Deco<\/a>
Gingerbread Man Dress Up<\/a>
Pony Gingerbread Decoration<\/a>
Super Gingerbread Man<\/a><\/p>\n

Quote of the Week<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.\u201d ~~ Albert Einstein ~~ (March 14, 1879 \u2013 April 18, 1955) was a German-born American theoretical physicist. Click here to discover more Albert Einstein quotes.<\/a><\/p>\n

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