Thursday, November 27, 2014

Gingerbread Creation

This is our fifth year participating in a fundraiser for our local Boys & Girls Club.  We create a Gingerbread building, donate it and it is raffled off to the public. 
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                     The Club provides the board for the base. 
This year I remembered to paint it first which helps give it a nicer finish.
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We have been focused on farms for the past two months so it made sense to create a gingerbread farm.  The toy barn was used to make a pattern for the
                                    gingerbread.
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The children painted the sides with red frosting and decorated the roof
                                         with candies.
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We made gingerbread animals; cows, horses, chickens and a dog.  The haystacks and trees were made with melted marshmallows, corn flakes and shredded wheat.
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       Time to put it altogether.  Tootsie rolls and pretzels worked for a fence.
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                                 We added a pumpkin patch.
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   Then covered the surface with brown frosting before adding the animals.
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  It was very tempting to want to pick off the candies while we assembled.
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A bird’s eye view gives you a glimpse of all the animals and plants we saw
                                 at the farms we visited this fall.
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              A thank you to the three farms that allowed us to visit.