Our Graham Cracker House & T.A.R.D.I.S.s!

Originally posted on our homeschool blog, Benoit Academy

Since we have all been battling colds & even bronchitis (M6), we haven’t been feeling up to doing many Christmas-y things. The hubs made the trip to the store for me to buy our goodies for our graham cracker houses. He came home with white frosting so after a bit of searching I found a recipe that says to use 1/4 teaspoon of Cream of Tartar to 1 Cup frosting & it should stiffen it up. I didn’t really see a difference &, as you can see, the hard candy didn’t stick all that great to L8’s & slid down.  *Update – the recipe DID work but it took a while for it to dry hard.*

Our Graham Cracker House & T.A.R.D.I.S.s!

L8 still isn’t feeling all that great so it took a bit of nudging to get him to join in. He did as much as he could before having enough. Here is his masterpiece:

The girls decided to make T.A.R.D.I.S.s (from Doctor Who) instead & Christmasfied them up. I just added blue food coloring to the frosting. Because I snipped the hole too big on the ends of the baggies for the frosting, it came out too thick for the windows…oops. But they were still happy with the end results.

J12

M6

(btw – we cheated & used a black Sharpie for the Police Box sign but it is NOT edible so we aren’t planning on eating that piece.) Add some confectioners sugar & you have instant snow!I had it planned to do a large gingerbread T.A.R.D.I.S myself but like I said, the sickness took over & that idea was scrapped. There’s always next year….at least we have mini ones!Next up….Doctor Who cookies!Happy Holidays!