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Natasha’s Kitchen sponsored my son’s Sunday school Christmas activity; building gingerbread mangers. This is such a fun way to share the true meaning of Christmas with the little people in your life. Believe me, they’ll love it! I was super impressed with how creative these little engineers were in building their “gingerbread” nativity scenes. Such attention to detail! Cuteness and joy follows…
Here are the supplies/tools you’ll need to build gingerbread nativity scenes:
1. Graham crackers, or gingerbread (graham crackers were more practical)
2. Animal cookies
3. Marshmallows (large and colorful minis)
4. Frosting
5. Red and black licorice
6. Pretzel sticks
7. Peanuts for bay Jesus
8. White cardboard bases (I found these at a craft store and cut them in half). I think they were meant to be cake bases.
9. Lots of candy.
10. Ziploc bags for piping frosting
Here’s a closer look at the candy:
I made equal plates for each child to work with. I made about 15 of these plates. I also provided ziplocs for piping the frosting.
Engineers at work laying the foundations of their mangers:
There was also alot of this happening (that’s my son):
And here’s his cousin sneaking the sweeties (surprise, surprise, they are related)
The older kids came to help the younger kids since the wee ones were pretty much just eating everything.
I think they really liked this activity. The room was buzzing with cute little people making cute little mangers.
Look at the attention to detail:
They even found use for the cupcake wrappers I used to divide the candy on the plates. Angel wings. how perfect!
You know what they say about couples; they start to look alike after awhile. Check out Mary and Joseph in the next picture. Case in point. I’m sure I couldn’t have made a cuter manger.
Just look at those wisemen and their cute little hats. Aww.
The angels are holding hands (my heart!). And there’s a.. lion, protecting the baby? 🙂
The wiseman holding a present on the far left. He’s my favorite.
Here’s a two story manger with an attic and an angel on top! Nice! Look at the sugar drop eyes on that shepherd in the bottom left corner. awww.
This angel likely has karate skills. Watch out Herod!
Oh dear a leftover marshmallow. I might have to eat that.
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Gingerbread Nativity Manger Scene
Ingredients
Here are the supplies/tools you'll need to build gingerbread nativity scenes:
- 1. Graham crackers, or gingerbread (graham crackers were more practical)
- 2. Animal cookies
- 3. Marshmallows, large and colorful minis
- 4. Frosting
- 5. Red and black licorice
- 6. Pretzel sticks
- 7. Peanuts for baby Jesus
- 8. White cardboard bases, I found these at a craft store and cut them in half. I think they were meant to be cake bases.
- 9. Lots of candy.
- 10. Ziploc bags for piping frosting
Instructions
- Fill the ziplocs with frosting and cut a small hole in the corner of the bag.
- Distribute the goods and let the kids get creative.
