Making a Gingerbread House

Winter, especially if you live in a colder, snowy region, is an excellent time to make gingerbread houses with your kids.  There are all sorts of gingerbread house kits you can buy at stores, or you can do a web search to build one from scratch.  Either way, they provide a fun activity for you and your kids when you're all cooped up inside the house.  Our family tradition is to build gingerbread houses with my daughter's cousins who are about the same age.  We visit them around Christmas every year and for the last 3 or 4 years the 4 kids build gingerbread houses together.  Here are this year's "masterpieces".

There you go.  If you're kids are bored and it's too cold to go outside.  Try making a gingerbread house.  It creates a mess, but your kids will love it!