Thursday, December 4, 2014

Our Finished Gingerbread House

            Yesterday we painted tubes to look like candy canes.
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Today we used the candy cane tubes to make a ball run on the side of the
                                 gingerbread house.
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I first used double sided tape to place the tubes then secured them with
                                        packing tape.
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                                          It was a hit!

Sometimes they had to wiggle the tubes to make the ball continue it’s path
                                   through all the tubes.

          Today we made wreaths to hang on the doors of the house.
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            We started by painting our hands to make two wreaths.     
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It didn’t take long to finish the two wreaths so I added bingo dabbers
            and as you can see we now have a lot of wreaths.
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Our completed gingerbread house from the front.  Part way through this morning two children were playing inside and when I opened the door they told me the coffee shop was closed.  Hmmm another possible transformation idea for the new year?