Gingerbread House

We followed the advice of a neighbor and sorted all the non-chocolate candy out of our Halloween stash and hid it in the cabinet. When Thanksgiving came around and the prepackaged gingerbread houses popped up at the stores I bought 2 boxes of graham crackers and 2 tubs of icing and we designed our own house using our Halloween candy for decorations.

By watching sales and combining coupons you could have an almost free gingerbread house.

Buy 2 boxes of graham crackers in case one has a bunch of broken crackers like ours did.

We built ours with walls in the middle to give more structure to the exterior walls and roof.

Let the children be creative. We have motorcycles (tootsie rolls and smarties) built by our daughter hidden in a garage of tootsie rolls.

When you separate out the candy(the first of November), let the children keep a few pieces in a baggie for snacks and stash the chocolate somewhere within reach of the adults.