Homeschool Talk: Gingerbread Art

Here's a fun idea that I had never thought of before. Our local science museum hosted an "Electric Gingerbread" event today. They gave us graham crackers and art supplies and we made our own creations. Then, they gave us LED lights and batteries and we lit them up. They are on display at the museum for the next 2 weeks.

This was so much fun! We glued the graham crackers together and decorated with art supplies. It was a good lesson in engineering (You couldn't let your house fall down!) It was also a very creative art project. Claire and I build one and Chris and Nathan built one. We had only an hour so I did most of the actual building on ours, but Claire went to town decorating it!

The boys working on theirs....

Claire busy decorating...

My and Claire's finsihed product with lights! We named it North Pole Wonderland.


Chris and Nathan's finished product. They used all white lights so even though they were lit up in real life, they don't look like it in the picture. Guess I should have turned the flash off. They named their Winter Cottage, I think.

This was so much fun and totally something you could do at home on a cold winter's day when the kids are bored!