You have to get them early (think September/October) or they're gone, but IKEA sells gingerbread house kits. They come with their (in)famously nonverbal directions.
We've completed our fair share of IKEA projects so I wasn't worried. Plus, it's a gingerbread house...how difficult could this be?
For starters, the recipe for frosting may work well using the metric version, but the American version creates a kind of sludge that resists, well, change.Kind of like me, no?
We did manage to use it to assemble the house, but Ben and I now have much stronger hands.
This is Ben's "Christmas Cheer" face.
Lesson learned: IKEA has some great stuff, but when it comes to gingerbread houses, Costco wins.
It would be extremely charitable to describe the pieces of this kit as "flat" and the chimney did not appear to be designed for the angle of the roof.
We got it all together and luckily Isaac was around to help remind Ben and I that, architectural issues notwithstanding, you can still find joy in a wonky gingerbread house.
Gingerbread crew: Ben is construction, Isaac exterior design
Long after the rest of us lost interest, Isaac plugged on.
Of course, his motivation wasn't strictly altruistic, there was a fair amount of sampling of the sprinkles.
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