Can you make ginger bread houses in thirty minutes with second graders?!
Answers: i need to know how long it could take to make four ginger bread houses at once with four second graders with the help of three fifth graders and one sixth grader
It might work if you use a quick-drying icing (like royal icing) and graham crackers instead of making the gingerbread. Let them decorate with lots of candies, and they won't really care how they look!
Have fun!
You can't do anything in 30 minutes with second graders!
Lunch size milk carton for the frames, with royal icing "glue" on graham crackers then decorate with assorted candies. Again, using royal icing to glue on the decorations.
All safe, but don't let them eat the royal icing if it's made with raw egg whites.
it's possible. maybe 30-1hour. good luck with that though!
no. I would pre-assemble them and then let them do the candy.
No way. You would need a half-day at least to make the dough and bake it, then another half day to assemble.
You are a brave soul.....can see the gingerbread on you on the floor on the walls. Its possible, but not probable
Hi Mikala,
There are complete kits sold in the store and they're very good. You can assemble the basics (like the frames) and let the kids decorate them. You might even buy extra candies and stuff to add to what's already in the kits.
I think 30 minutes is a bit short, even if the kids would lose focus after that time, you still need to clean up, etc. Allow one hour.
Have fun!
Just make chocolate crackles with rice bubbles, copha, and cocoa. You can add dried fruit or red lollies to them to make them Christmassy, but also, it's a good introduction to chemistry and changing states of matter. Show them a block of copha, then melt it so it's a liquid, then talk about how it went from being a solid to a liquid, and being opaque to clear.
As long as you do the copha, because it's hot, it will be fine. And it won't take nearly as long as gingerbread houses.
I surely can't do that. If you get an answer on how to do this, please let me know. Miracles do happen.
I remember making them in first grade. We had to save our milk cartons from lunch (not everyone remembered, so luckily Mrs. Foos had extra), used icing as paste, and stuck graham crackers on the boxes. There was also colored icing in piping bags for decorations, gum drops, and those round peppermints like sonic gives out. It was a huge mess, but somehow my mom managed to preserve that dinky little thing for almost three years for decorating!
I have made the graham cracker gingerbread houses on the small milk cartons with preschoolers. Instead of royal icing I used regular canned frosting and it worked out just fine. Have fun!