You can have a sweet gingerbread village like this without the mess. These houses and trees are made out of brown paper boxes and shopping bags, decorated with a chalk marker to look like white icing! Clever you. And you can keep them for years to come.
Don’t blink or you’ll miss the directions!
For the houses, start with the Original Mac&Cheese House or the Universal House Maker and decorate with chalk marker. Ideas below.
For trees you’ll make Holiday Trees, substituting a same-size piece of brown paper bag for the catalog cover. Then decorate - ideas below.
Put trees and houses together to make your very own better-than-baked holiday village.
Bonus: Trees and houses both make great ornaments. The tree can also be a super-special gift tag!
make a house today, a tree tomorrow, and your village will grow in no time
all you need is a chalk marker and empty boxes or paper shopping bags
fun to make
endless ways to decorate
low mess
and try this:
Ornaments
Punch a hole at the top of a tree or a small house (use the Universal House Maker to make a small enough house). Thread a piece of string, twine, yarn, or ribbon through the hole and tie to form a hanging loop.
Gift Tag
Turn a tree ornament, above, into a gift tag. Just leave enough open space when decorating with the chalk marker to write your message inside. You have lots of pages to use, if you want!
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