Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with your little ones by letting them build and decorate their a Gingerbread House perfect for a little leprechaun! Fill the gingerbread treat boxes with leftover green mini candy sticks and chocolate coins, and let your kids share them with friends.
Select self-adhesive foam shapes to decorate the gingerbread house. Since the boxes aren’t very large, we picked a few of the smaller rainbows and shamrocks from the assortment of St. Patrick’s Day self-adhesive shapes and the front door and colorful gumdrops from the gingerbread treat box craft kit. And no leprechaun’s house would be complete without a pot of gold, of course!
Remove the paper backing from the self-adhesive foam shapes and stick onto the gingerbread treat box. I offered some suggestions to my four-year-old son, such as “The gumdrops might be a good size for the roof.” Mostly, though, I tried to let him have complete control over the artistic direction of this St. Patrick’s Day kids’ craft.
Attach candy sticks and chocolate coins to the gingerbread treat box using hot glue. (Don’t bother trying with school glue — trust me!) My son is too young to manage a hot glue gun, so I squeezed the hot glue onto the candy pieces and we worked together to adhere them to the house. If you set up the treat box on a paper plate or piece of paper, you could also use the candy pieces as landscaping for your St. Patrick’s Day gingerbread house.
Fill the gingerbread treat boxes with leftover green mini candy sticks and chocolate coins, and let your kids share them with friends!
You can check out the St. Patrick’s Day gingerbread house we made last year over on my blog, A Girl Named PJ!