Celebrate With a Gingerbread House!
Save those empty art supply containers! Transform them into a festive Gingerbread House to add flair to your holidays.
1. Use foam board to build a frame for your gingerbread house. Ask an adult to cut out the walls, windows, and other pieces. Remember the roof, chimney, and doors! Attach the pieces with Crayola School Glue so the house stands on its own. Air-dry your structure.
2. Use Crayola Color Explosion™ paper and color-reveal markers to draw holiday scenes to show through the windows. Cut them to fit with Crayola Scissors. Glue the scenes inside the windows.
3. Attach the house to a larger piece of foam board to create a sturdy base for display. Add a fence, steps, and other details if you wish. Air-dry the glue.
4. Use Crayola Model Magic® to cover the foam board house. Blend colors to make exactly what you need. Model Magic fresh from the pack sticks to itself. Be creative! Add flower boxes, doorframes, bricks or stone, sidewalks, and snowy trim to your house! Glue any dry pieces together.
5. Use empty art supply containers such as marker barrels, paint bottles, and glue sticks to create characters and embellishments for your gingerbread house. Glue them in place. Be inventive!
6. Brush on colorful highlights with Crayola Washable Kid’s Paint. Air-dry the paint.
7. Add finishing touches to snow, lights, and other places with Crayola Glitter Glue. Friends and family will be amazed at your creativity!
Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project. Observe children closely and intervene as necessary to prevent potential safety problems and ensure appropriate use of arts and crafts materials. Some craft items, particularly beads and buttons, are potential choking hazards for young children. Avoid use of such small parts with children younger than 3 years. Craft items such as scissors, push pins and chenille sticks may have sharp points or edges. Avoid use of materials with sharp points by children younger than 4 years. Read all manufacturers' safety warnings before using arts and craft supplies.
Glitter Glue—
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Small parts. Not for children under 3 years. Not for use on skin.
Adult Assistance is required for this arts & crafts project.
Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—
- Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
- Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
- Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
- The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
- Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
- Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
- Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.
Crayola Washable Paints—Not for use as body/face paint.
Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.
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