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If you love the idea of making gingerbread houses with your kids, then a little planning can turn it into a fun 12 Days of Christmas activity. Of course, you will need to think about how you are going to accomplish this, whether by baking your own gingerbread houses, or by finding pre-baked kits, and deciding on whether you will create individual small houses for each child, or whether you will all work together to make one big house.Given the fact that Christmas Eve and Christmas Day can be very hectic, already, you may not want the gingerbread house decorating to be on those days, so you will need to evaluate your schedule, and then plan. Our household tradition is that gingerbread houses are allowed to be eaten on Christmas night...so that 12th day of Gingerbread might be as follows: on the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, permission to eat my gingerbread house.
Day 11, being another hectic day, might wind up with gingerbread cookies, and cocoa.
Days 10 through 1 can be planned accordingly. I spend at least 3 days on gingerbread house baking, assembly, and decoration with my children, usually in that week before Christmas. If those are days 10, 9, and 8, then the preceding 7 days can include preparations: candy purchases, plans, browsing gingerbread house picture collections, checking out library books, and so forth.
If you are thinking about 12 days of Gingerbread, you can read my article on Gingerbread House creation for more ideas.
